Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

Athle ("Athle", "we", "us", or "our") is a fitness and rewards platform operated by:

For the purposes of applicable data protection law, Diego Ugolini is responsible for the processing of personal data described in this Privacy Policy.

2. Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to the Athle mobile application, getathle.com and related Athle services.

It explains what personal data we collect, why we process it, how it may be shared and what rights you have.

3. Minimum Age

Athle is intended for users aged 16 years or older.

You may not create or use an Athle account if you are under 16.

4. Information We Collect

Account Information
When you create an Athle account, we may process:

• Email address
• Username
• Authentication identifiers
• Account settings
• Country or region where required

Accounts may be created using email, Sign in with Apple or Google Sign-In.

When using a third-party sign-in provider, we receive only information made available to Athle in accordance with your settings and permissions.

Fitness and Health Information
If you choose to connect Apple Health/HealthKit, Athle may request permission to access specific categories of health and fitness information, including:

• Step count
• Walking and running distance
• Active calories
• Exercise minutes
• Workout information
• Heart-rate information (used to recognise qualifying workout intensity)
• Sleep information - only the time you went to bed, for the optional early-sleep missions (no sleep stages, no wake-up times)

Health and fitness data is used to provide Athle's fitness functionality, including activity tracking, progress, challenges, seasons and eligible competitive features.

Athle requests HealthKit permissions on a data-type basis. You can decline individual permissions or revoke previously granted permissions through Apple's system settings. Apple itself requires HealthKit apps to request fine-grained permission for individual data types.

Location Information
Athle does not currently access your device location. Running and walking distances are read from Apple Health. If a future feature requires location, Athle will ask for permission first and this Policy will be updated.

Camera (Strength Challenges and QR Codes)
Strength challenges count your repetitions using your iPhone camera. The video is analysed on your device in real time with Apple's on-device body-pose detection. No video or images are recorded, stored or uploaded; only the result of a set (for example the number of repetitions and its duration) is sent to Athle. The camera is also used to scan QR codes, for example gym or invitation codes.

Profile Content
You can personalise your profile. This may include:

• Username and player tag (for example Name#12345)
• A short bio
• Avatar outfit and other cosmetic items you own or equip
• A profile picture you choose from your photo library

Athle only accesses the single photo you select. It is reduced in size and uploaded to our database, and it is reviewed by Athle before other users can see it (see section 7a). You can remove or replace it at any time in your profile.

Social Features and Crews
When you use social features we process your friend list and friend requests, players you have blocked, your crew membership and role, crew challenge contributions, and messages you send in crew chats. Crew chat messages are visible to the members of that crew.

Reports and Support
If you report a player or a match, or contact support in the app, we process the content of your report or message, the users or matches it concerns and related account information, so that we can review it and respond.

Push Notifications
If you allow notifications, we process a device token issued by Apple/Firebase Cloud Messaging to send you notifications, for example about matches, friend requests, rewards or crew chats. You can turn notifications off at any time in the iOS settings or, for crew chats, inside the app.

Athle Activity
We process information generated through your use of Athle, including:

• Season Points (SP)
• SHP
• Levels
• Achievements
• Season progress
• Rankings
• Streaks
• Daily and weekly challenge progress
• Matchfinder participation
• Match results and the SHP staked in matches
• Strength challenge results, streaks and program progress
• SHP balance, purchases of virtual items (such as outfits and loot packs) and the related transaction history
• Reward eligibility and redemptions

SP, XP and SHP are virtual points without monetary value. They cannot be bought with real money or exchanged for cash.

Technical Data
Athle uses Firebase services provided by Google (Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Functions and Cloud Messaging). When you use the app, these services necessarily process technical information such as your user ID, device and app information, IP address and server logs, for security, abuse prevention and to operate the service. Google states that Firebase services can process information using global infrastructure, while Firebase Authentication is operated from US data centres.

5. Why We Process Your Information

We process information as necessary to:

• Create and authenticate your account
• Provide Athle's fitness functionality
• Track activity and progress
• Calculate SP and SHP
• Operate seasons and levels
• Provide achievements and streaks
• Operate rankings and leaderboards
• Provide daily and weekly challenges
• Operate Matchfinder
• Determine challenge and match results
• Provide rewards
• Detect manipulation, cheating and fraud
• Maintain security
• Diagnose crashes
• Understand and improve the performance and use of Athle
• Show your profile, avatar and profile picture to other users
• Operate friends, crews, crew chats and notifications
• Review profile pictures and reports, and enforce our Terms
• Provide support
• Comply with legal obligations

Where required under applicable law, sensitive information such as health data is processed based on your explicit consent or another applicable legal basis. Health data receives special protection under the GDPR.

6. Apple HealthKit

Athle treats HealthKit information as sensitive.

Athle does not sell HealthKit information.

Athle does not use HealthKit information for advertising, marketing or advertising profiling.

Athle does not provide brands with access to your HealthKit data.

Apple expressly prohibits using HealthKit-derived information for advertising, marketing or similar data mining.

We only request HealthKit information necessary for functionality that Athle actually provides.

7. Public Information

Athle includes competitive and social functionality.

The following information may be publicly visible to other Athle users:

• Username and player tag
• Approved profile picture
• Avatar outfit and equipped cosmetic items
• Rank, season points and leaderboard position
• Level and lifetime XP
• Streak and check-in count
• Crew membership and crew contributions
• Achievements and selected challenge or competition results

Your underlying health information, such as sleep history, heart-rate history or GPS history, is not publicly displayed by default.

Matchfinder
When you voluntarily participate in Matchfinder, information required to display and determine the relevant competition may be visible to your opponent.

This can include the applicable challenge metric, your progress and the final result.

Participation in a Matchfinder challenge does not give another user general access to your HealthKit data.

7a. Profile Pictures and Moderation

Profile pictures are user content. Every new picture is first visible only to you and is reviewed by Athle before other users can see it. We reject or remove pictures that break our photo rules or Terms (for example nudity, violence, hate symbols, images of other people without consent, children, advertising or content you have no right to use). Other users can report a picture at any time.

A rejected or removed picture is deleted from public view; you can delete your own picture yourself at any time. We only use your profile picture to display it inside Athle.

8. Rewards and Partners

Athle may offer rewards provided by Athle or independent brands, gyms and other partners.

Rewards may include:

• Discounts
• Coupons
• Products
• Experiences
• SP
• SHP
• Other benefits

We may share information necessary to validate or fulfil a reward with the relevant provider where necessary and legally permitted.

HealthKit data is not shared with brands for advertising or marketing purposes.

9. Service Providers

Athle currently uses or plans to use the following infrastructure:

Google Firebase — authentication, database, server functions, push notifications and storage of profile pictures.
Vercel — website hosting and infrastructure.
Zoho — business email.
Apple — Sign in with Apple and HealthKit integration.
Google — Google authentication and Firebase services.

These providers may process limited information necessary to provide their respective services.

Vercel, for example, provides contractual data-processing terms addressing security, subprocessors and international processing.

10. International Data Transfers

Athle is operated from Switzerland but uses technology providers operating internationally.

Your information may therefore be processed outside Switzerland or the European Economic Area.

Where required, appropriate safeguards are used for international transfers.

11. Analytics

The Athle app does not contain third-party analytics, advertising or tracking SDKs, and Athle does not track you across apps or websites owned by other companies.

HealthKit information will never be used for advertising or marketing analytics.

Website Analytics
getathle.com logs aggregate pageview counts to understand how the site is used, broken down only by the page visited and the visiting country (derived from network-routing information, not stored individually). We do not use cookies, IP addresses, or any third-party analytics or advertising service for this, and no individual visitor can be identified from this data.

Waitlist
If you submit your email address through a "Join Waitlist" form on getathle.com, we store that email address solely to notify you about Athle's launch. You can ask us to remove it at any time by contacting us below.

12. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy or as required by law.

Retention periods may vary depending on the category and purpose of the information.

As a guide:

• Account, profile, activity and social data are kept while your account exists.
• A replaced or removed profile picture is deleted immediately.
• Crew chat messages are kept while the crew exists.
• Reports and support conversations are kept for up to 24 months to handle disputes and repeated abuse.

When an account is deleted, associated personal information will be deleted or anonymised within a reasonable period unless continued retention is required for legal, security, fraud-prevention or other legitimate reasons.

13. Account and Data Deletion

You may request deletion of your Athle account and associated personal information.

You can delete your account directly in the app under Profile → Settings → Delete Account. This immediately deletes your account, profile, profile picture, activity history and sign-in identity. Open matches are cancelled and stakes are refunded to the other player. Deletion requests can also be sent to:

partners@getathle.com

Apple requires apps collecting user data to explain their retention/deletion policy and how users can revoke consent or request deletion.

14. Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to:

• Access your personal information
• Correct inaccurate information
• Request deletion
• Restrict certain processing
• Object to certain processing
• Withdraw consent
• Receive certain information in portable form
• Lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority

Consent can be withdrawn for future processing without affecting processing that lawfully occurred before withdrawal.

The Swiss FADP also provides rights relating to access, correction and deletion of personal data.

Requests can be submitted to partners@getathle.com.

15. Security

We implement reasonable technical and organisational safeguards designed to protect personal information.

However, no electronic storage or transmission system can guarantee absolute security.

16. Future Integrations

Athle may later support additional fitness platforms, wearables or applications.

If these integrations materially change how personal information is collected, processed or shared, this Privacy Policy will be updated before or when those features become available, as required.

17. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as Athle develops or legal requirements change.

Material changes will be communicated through appropriate means.

18. Contact

For privacy questions or requests: