Privacy policy

Gym Partner · Last updated 18 October 2026

Gym Partner is an app for finding training partners, sharing your training and tracking your workouts and food. This policy explains what information the app collects, why, who it is shared with and the choices you have. Gym Partner is for people aged 16 and over.

Information you give us

• Account: your email address and password, or your Google account if you sign in with Google.
• Profile: name, photos, bio, training style and goals, sex, gym, city and country. Your date of birth is kept private; other people only see your age.
• Posts and comments: photos, videos, text and workouts you share to the feed.
• Messages: chats, photos, videos and voice notes you send to your training partners.
• Training and food: workouts, routines, plans, personal records, body measurements and food diary entries. These stay private unless you turn on sharing for records, training time or body stats in your profile.
• Safety: people you block and reports you make.

Apple Health and Health Connect

These connections are off until you turn them on in Profile → Connected apps, and you can turn them off at any time.

• Apple Health (iPhone) and Health Connect (Android): with your permission, the app reads your workouts (type, start and end time, active calories and distance) and adds them to your private training log. If you allow it, it also saves workouts you log in Gym Partner back to Apple Health or Health Connect. We don't read any other health data, and health data is never used for advertising, sold, or shared with other users.

Information collected automatically

• Location: with your permission, your location is used to show people and gyms near you. It is stored rounded to about 1 km, and others only see a rough distance.
• Device and notifications: a push notification token for your device, and your notification settings.
• Advertising: on the iPhone and Android apps, our ad partners (Start.io and Google AdMob) show ads and may collect device identifiers (such as the advertising ID), IP address, and information about the ads you see and tap. On iPhone, the advertising identifier is only used if you allow tracking when asked. In the UK, EEA and Switzerland you are asked for consent before personalised ads are shown.

How we use it

• To run the app: show your profile, match you with training partners, deliver messages, posts and notifications, and save your training and food logs.
• To keep people safe: enforce the community guidelines, act on reports and hide blocked people.
• To show ads that keep the app free.

Who we share it with

We don't sell your personal information. It is shared only with:

• Other users, as the app describes: your public profile, posts and anything you choose to share. Messages are visible only to the partners in the chat.
• Google Firebase (Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, Hosting), which stores the app's data. See Firebase privacy.
• Start.io, for ads (see Start.io's privacy policy at start.io).
• Google AdMob, for ads, and for asking for consent in the UK and EEA. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services.
• Expo, which delivers push notifications and app updates. See Expo's privacy policy.
• OpenStreetMap (Overpass API), which receives an approximate location to find nearby gyms, and Open Food Facts, which receives food searches and scanned barcodes. Neither receives your account details.
• Authorities, if the law requires it.

How long we keep it

We keep your information while your account exists. When you delete your account in the app (Profile → Delete account), your profile, photos, posts, comments, chats, workouts, food diary and other personal data are deleted. Reports you made are kept so moderators can act on them.

Your choices and rights

• Edit your profile, turn sharing on or off, and change notification settings in the app.
• Turn off location, camera, microphone, photos, notifications or tracking in your phone's settings.
• Reset or limit your advertising ID in your phone's settings.
• Delete your account at any time in the app.
• Depending on where you live (for example under UK or EU GDPR), you can ask to access, correct, delete or export your data, or object to how it is used, and complain to your data protection authority (in the UK, the ICO).

Security

Data is sent over encrypted connections and protected by access rules so that private data is only readable by you. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a strong password.

Children

Gym Partner is not for anyone under 16. If we learn an account belongs to someone younger, we remove it.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update the date above and tell you in the app when the change is significant.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact the Gym Partner developer through the contact details on the app's store listing.