Data Usage
Your health data, your choices.
Read the Privacy PolicyWhat about live workout notifications?
Live sharing is optional and visible only to accepted, unblocked friends. Shared workouts show confirmed sets and estimated calories, not location or heart rate. Enabling live alerts stores this device’s Firebase registration token privately with your account. Firebase receives a generic notification and device token, not exercise details or private health readings. Turn alerts off in Community → Active now; signing out removes this device registration and account deletion removes account tokens. Notification delivery depends on device permissions and connectivity. Existing workout and meal reminders remain separate on-device notifications.
What health data does Intake read?
With permission, Android Health Connect and Apple Health supply supported steps, activity calories, workout records and workout heart readings. The expanded Android connection can also supply resting/recent heart rate, sleep, HRV, distance, total burn estimates and floors. Availability depends on other apps sharing each reading. Intake does not read watches or scales directly over Bluetooth. Separately, Review scale readings requests Weight, Body Fat and Lean Body Mass from the phone health service for the last 30 days. Missing or unsupported categories stay absent.
What happens to smart scale imports?
You review the date and measurements and explicitly select Import before anything is saved. Selected weight and body-fat entries, plus available same-source/session lean mass estimates, are stored privately with your signed-in Intake account. Original source details are retained privately to avoid duplicates. Repeat imports skip existing readings; an existing body-fat entry for a date is preserved. Imported weight history supports progress and the existing 14-day food/weight-based TDEE estimate. Goal suggestions use weight, not smart-scale metabolism or body-fat estimates, and require explicit application. Body composition estimates can vary with hydration. On Android, scale readings must actually reach Health Connect; Google Fit alone is not a guarantee.
Where is Health Connect data stored?
Intake stores today’s summary, up to 14 synced daily summaries and a connection flag on this device. It does not backfill a complete history or build a cloud health history. This Health Connect summary is not uploaded to Intake’s cloud, sent to Coach, sold or used for advertising. On-device guidance uses your goal, recorded sleep and recent resting-heart-rate baseline to suggest consistency or gentler recovery; these are non-medical signals. It displays watch activity alongside your day; it does not automatically increase calorie targets or create workout diary entries.
What about Strava and my diary?
Strava is a separate, optional connection. Imported activities and available route, distance, elevation, calorie and heart-rate details are saved privately with your account in Lovable Cloud, along with your signed-in food, workout, weight and profile records. These support history, progress and requested coaching. Guest diary records stay on this device and do not merge into another account. Offline copies can also remain on this device.
What does my coach see if I connect one?
Coach sharing is optional and off by default. Accepting an invite shares nothing by itself. Weekly summaries: you choose per week whether to include nutrition, training and/or weight, built from records you logged or confirmed. What you submit: check-in notes, experiment responses and feedback reach the coach only when you send them. Raw Health Connect readings stay on this device and are never sent to a coach. After disconnecting: the active summary is cleared, and the coach can no longer open that connection’s notes, check-ins, proposals or experiments, and open proposals and experiments are marked “canceled because the connection ended.” Coach notes are always visible to you; there are no hidden coach-only notes. You keep your own past coaching history under Past coaching history; those records stay with your account until you delete your account or email us to request deletion. Information the coach already viewed or copied cannot be recalled. Your own diary, training and weight records are unaffected.
When does data go to another service?
Requested meal-photo estimates and Coach chats send the submitted photo, message and relevant coaching context to our AI service. Nutrition-label reading happens on your device. Food searches and barcode lookups send the search term or barcode to food providers. Community content you choose to post can be seen by its selected audience; your private diary is not automatically posted. See the Privacy Policy for providers and other disclosures.
How do I stop Health Connect access or delete its summary?
Open Profile → Settings → Connected apps → Health Connect → Disconnect. This removes Intake’s cached summary, local wearable history and connection flag and stops future syncs in Intake. Also revoke Intake’s access in Android Health Connect settings. Disconnecting does not delete source records in Health Connect, Garmin, Fitbit or another provider; manage those in the source app.
How do I delete diary and account data?
Remove individual food or workout entries in Intake. For account deletion, open Profile → Account & settings → Account → Delete account and type DELETE. This requests permanent removal of account records and sign-in; cancel Google Play subscriptions separately. Account deletion does not clear every on-device cache or source-provider record. Disconnect Health Connect, then clear Intake’s app storage or browser site data to remove local plans, guest records and caches. Clearing storage also loses unsynced entries.
How long is data kept and who can see it?
The current Health Connect summary is replaced when you sync; local wearable history is limited to 14 synced days. Both can be removed by disconnecting. Local records and caches remain until removed or device/site storage is cleared. Account records are retained to provide the app, subject to deletion requests and any necessary legal retention. Private account records use account-based access controls. No system can guarantee absolute security.
Can I request access, correction or deletion?
Email intakemacro@gmail.com for access, correction or deletion help. We may need to verify account ownership. Do not send passwords or full health records in your initial message. Wearable calories and heart-rate figures can be incomplete or inaccurate; Intake is not medical advice or an emergency service.
Who runs Intake and which law applies?
Intake is operated by A&C Labs LLC, doing business as Intake Macro Tracker. Consistent with our Terms and Privacy Policy, these practices are governed by the laws of the United States and the State of Alabama, where A&C Labs LLC is organized, without removing privacy or consumer protections that apply where you live. Legal contact: intakemacro@gmail.com.