Legal
Pod is a health and fitness app that helps small groups (“pods”) track training and readiness and take part in shared challenges. This policy explains what personal data we collect, why, how we handle it, and the choices you have. We designed Pod to collect only what the features need.
a. Account & identity data. Email address and authentication credentials (managed through our authentication provider), and a display name you choose. Used to create and secure your account and to identify you to other members of pods you join.
b. Health & fitness data. With your explicit permission, Pod reads health and activity metrics from Apple Health (HealthKit) and — where you connect them — supported wearable services (see the separate vendor authorizations). These may include: steps, active/exercise minutes and workouts, resting heart rate, heart-rate variability (HRV), and sleep duration/stages. We use these to compute in-app metrics such as training load, heart-rate zones, and a daily readiness score, and to show your progress over time.
c. Group & challenge data. Pods you belong to, your role in them, and your participation and results in challenges and leaderboards.
d. Technical & diagnostic data. Basic device and app-operation data needed to sync and run reliably (e.g., sync timestamps, error diagnostics), and — if you enable notifications — a push notification token identifying your device, used solely to deliver those notifications. We do not use this data for advertising.
We do not knowingly collect precise location, contacts, or financial account information, and we do not use tracking for cross-app advertising.
We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it with third parties for their advertising, marketing, or data-mining.
In line with Apple's requirements:
Where you choose to connect a wearable account, we receive the specific data categories you authorize during that service's sign-in, and use them only for the in-app features described above. You can disconnect a service at any time in Pod and/or in the provider's account settings; disconnecting stops future data retrieval. See our vendor authorization descriptions for the exact scopes requested per provider.
Pod produces a short weekly reflection on your training. To generate it, we send weekly averages of your activity metrics — steps, exercise minutes, active energy, sleep duration, heart-rate variability, and readiness — for the week being summarized to a third-party AI provider (Anthropic).
We keep your data while your account is active.
You can delete your account at any time from within the app, under Delete account. Deletion is immediate and permanent: your profile, health and activity data, challenge history, and insights are erased. Pods you created pass to their longest-standing member so that other members keep their own data; a pod with no other members is deleted with your account. We cannot recover deleted data.
You can also request access to, correction of, or deletion of your data by contacting privacy@pettingellsoftwarecompany.com; we will delete your account data within 30 days of a verified request, except where we must retain it to meet legal obligations.
Depending on where you live (e.g., EEA/UK under GDPR, California under CCPA/CPRA), you may have rights to access, correct, delete, port, or restrict processing of your data, and to withdraw consent. Health data is treated as sensitive/special-category data; we process it only on the basis of your explicit consent. To exercise any right, contact privacy@pettingellsoftwarecompany.com.
Pod is not directed to children and is not intended for anyone under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children under that age.
We use industry-standard safeguards (encryption in transit, access controls) to protect your data. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure.
Pod is currently offered only in the United States, and our service providers process data in the United States. If we begin offering Pod in other regions, we will update this section to describe the applicable transfer mechanism.
We will post any changes here and update the “Last updated” date; material changes will be communicated in-app.
Pettingell Software Company LLC — privacy@pettingellsoftwarecompany.com.