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Privacy Policy

Last updated: December 12, 2025

This Privacy Policy applies to GLANS, an early-stage fitness analytics application developed and operated from Sweden. GLANS is currently operated by its founder under the GLANS name and is in pre-launch development.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your data when you use our fitness application and connected services.

Your privacy, transparency, and control over your data are core principles of this application.

1. Overview

This application is a fitness activity visualization and analytics platform that allows users to review, analyze, and optionally share their training activities. The app integrates with third-party fitness platforms (such as Garmin, and potentially Apple and Polar in the future) to import user-authorized activity data.

All data is collected and processed solely to provide user-requested features. Personal data is never sold, rented, or used for advertising.

2. Data We Collect

2.1 Activity Data

With your explicit consent, we may collect activity data from connected fitness platforms, including:

  • Activity type (e.g. running, cycling, swimming)
  • Date and time
  • Duration, distance, pace, or speed
  • Elevation data
  • GPS location points (used to render activity maps)
  • Heart rate data (required for core personalized analysis features)

Heart rate data is essential for calculating personalized training effort, efficiency, and related insights.

If heart rate data is not available for a given activity or device, or if the user chooses to disable heart rate processing, some personalized analysis features may be limited or unavailable.

2.2 Basic Profile Data

To support personalization and display features, we may collect limited profile information provided by connected platforms, such as:

  • Age
  • Gender

This information is used solely within the application and is not shared externally.

2.3 Derived Metrics

The application generates derived metrics based on activity and heart rate data, including:

  • Training effort and efficiency indicators
  • Activity summaries and trends
  • Visual representations and automated insights

Derived data exists only within the application and is not shared with third parties.

3. How We Use Your Data

Your data is used exclusively to:

  • Display activity summaries and visual maps
  • Generate personalized fitness metrics and insights
  • Analyze training patterns and trends over time
  • Power optional social and feed-based features selected by the user
  • Improve application reliability and performance

We do not use your data for advertising, behavioral marketing, or commercial resale.

4. Heart Rate Data & User Controls

Heart rate data plays a central role in the application's personalized analysis features. Users retain full control over how heart rate data is used:

  • Users may disable heart rate processing for personalized metrics, in which case efficiency and effort-based insights may be reduced or unavailable.
  • Users may control whether heart rate data is displayed or used in social feed features, independent of core analysis settings.
  • Changes to heart rate preferences take effect only within the application and do not affect the original data stored by connected platforms.

All heart rate usage is transparent and directly related to user-selected features.

5. Social & Feed-Based Features

The application may include a feed where users can view or optionally share activity summaries.

Feed content may include:

  • Activity statistics
  • Visual maps generated from GPS data
  • Selected derived metrics

Users control what data appears in the feed, including whether heart rate-related metrics are included or excluded for specific activities or features.

Additional privacy controls may be introduced over time to give users greater flexibility.

6. User Control & Opt-In

Users remain in full control of their data at all times and may:

  • Grant or revoke access to connected fitness platforms
  • Enable or disable heart rate processing for personalized metrics
  • Manage visibility of heart rate data in feed-based features
  • Disconnect integrations at any time

Future integrations will follow the same opt-in and transparency principles.

7. Data Storage & Processing

  • Data is stored securely in a private database
  • All processing is performed server-side using application logic
  • No data is processed through advertising or tracking networks
  • Access to data is restricted using authentication and authorization controls

8. Data Sharing

  • Personal data is not sold or shared with third parties
  • Data is not used for advertising or resale
  • Aggregated, anonymized data may be used internally to improve the application, without identifying individual users

9. Data Retention & Deletion

  • Users may disconnect any integrated platform at any time
  • Once disconnected, no new data is collected from that platform
  • Users may request deletion of their account and stored data
  • Deleted data is permanently removed within a reasonable timeframe, unless retention is required for legal or security purposes.

10. Security

We apply industry-standard security practices, including:

  • Secure HTTPS communication
  • Restricted access to production systems
  • Role-based access controls
  • Ongoing monitoring and maintenance

11. Compliance

This application is designed to comply with:

  • Garmin Developer Program privacy requirements
  • Apple Health / HealthKit data usage guidelines
  • Polar platform data usage guidelines
  • GDPR-aligned data protection principles

12. Platform Disclosure

This application accesses fitness platform data solely to provide user-requested fitness visualization and personalized analysis features and does not use such data for advertising or commercial resale.

13. Contact Information

For privacy questions or data deletion requests: