AccliMate

AccliMate estimates how acclimated you are to heat and to altitude from the training you already do. This policy explains, in plain language, what the app reads, what — if anything — leaves your device, and what never does. The short version: your raw health records stay on your device, there is no account, and we sell nothing. The only data that ever reaches us is a feedback report you choose to send, plus — only if you opt in — small usage and crash reports tied to a random per-install ID.

Health data from Health Connect

With your permission, AccliMate reads four kinds of data from Health Connect: your exercise sessions, the routes recorded with those sessions, your heart rate, and your resting heart rate. The app uses them to work out the conditions each session was done in and to convert every session into an estimated heat or altitude dose.

AccliMate also reads this data in the background. That background reading is what keeps your estimates current between app opens, when new workouts sync to your phone. The raw records themselves are processed and stored on your device only, and are never uploaded to us or to anyone else. Values derived from them — your acclimation percentages and summaries of individual sessions — leave the device only in the cases described under “Feedback, analytics, and crash reports” below: a feedback report you choose to send, and optional analytics you have turned on.

Workout routes and weather lookups

A route is the GPS track recorded with a workout — the path you actually ran or rode. AccliMate uses routes to know where and when a session happened, so it can look up the weather and ground elevation for that session.

For that lookup, only the workout's starting coordinates — first rounded to about 11 km (0.1°), so they can never pinpoint where you were — and the workout's day are sent to Open-Meteo, a weather and elevation service, which returns the conditions for that place and day. The same kind of rounded lookup finds the elevation of your usual training area (your inferred home elevation). The route itself — the full GPS track — never leaves your device, and nothing else about the workout is sent.

Travel altitude (background location)

Altitude adaptation mostly comes from the hours you live at altitude, not just from workouts. AccliMate offers an optional setting that credits the altitude of where you are staying when you travel. It is off by default, and the app explains exactly what it does before asking for permission.

If you turn it on, the app samples your current location in the background during its regular syncs. That location is first rounded to about 11 km (0.1°), then sent briefly to Open-Meteo's elevation service to work out the ground elevation; only the resulting elevation is kept, stored on your device, and used as your current residence altitude until a fresher sample replaces it.

You can turn the setting off at any time. Turning it off stops the sampling immediately and deletes the stored sample.

Your watch

If you use the Wear OS app, your current estimates are sent from your phone to your paired watch over the Wear Data Layer, so the tile and watch-face complications can show them. That transfer is device-to-device, between your own phone and watch, as part of the same app.

Feedback, analytics, and crash reports

If you choose to send feedback from inside the app, you can first review the diagnostic bundle that would go with it — it is shown in full on the feedback screen before anything is sent. The report contains the category you pick, the message you write, and, only if you enter one, an email address for a reply. The bundle contains derived values describing the app's state: your current acclimation percentages and their components, summaries of up to five recent qualifying sessions (date, temperature, humidity, duration, average heart rate, estimated gain), sync counters and diagnostics (workout counts, permission state, the last sync error if there was one), the settings that affect your estimates, your residence and home elevations, and the app version. It never contains raw Health Connect records, workout routes or workout IDs, or any location. Nothing is sent unless you tap send; if a send fails, the report waits on your device and retries on the next launch. Sent reports are stored on our own intake server at api.uptimeventuresllc.com.

Usage analytics are opt-in and off by default: they run only if you turn the switch on in Settings, and turning it off drops anything queued, unsent. The reports are small: after each sync, a set of counters (workouts found, how many had GPS, how many matched weather, how many qualified) and your two acclimation estimates rounded into 10-point bands — plus an event when you confirm or cancel a full resync, or toggle the travel-altitude setting. Analytics contain no location and no raw health records.

Every feedback report and analytics batch carries a random per-install ID — a UUID the app creates the first time you send feedback or opt in, and keeps for that install. It makes reports from the same install linkable to each other, but it is not your name, it is not tied to any account, and it is not an advertising identifier; there is no cross-app identity. Clearing the app's data or uninstalling destroys it.

Crash reports ride on the same opt-in. If the app crashes, it saves a report on your device — the error type and stack trace, your device model, OS and app version, and when it happened. On the next launch that report is sent to our intake only if you have opted in; if you never opt in, it simply stays on your device. The saved report is deleted after a successful send.

Who receives data

We do not sell your data, we do not share it for advertising, and there is no account to attach it to. Only two parties ever receive anything:

• Uptime Ventures (us) — our own intake server at api.uptimeventuresllc.com receives only what you send or opt into above: feedback reports you tap send on, opt-in analytics events, and opt-in crash reports. They carry the random per-install ID and derived values — never raw health records, never routes, and no location at all.
• Open-Meteo (a service provider) — receives coordinates rounded to about 11 km and a workout's day, or (only if you enable travel altitude) a rounded current-location sample, to return weather and elevation. It receives nothing that identifies you.

No server of ours ever receives your location or your raw health records.

Security

Every network request the app makes — the weather and elevation lookups, feedback you choose to send, and any analytics or crash reports you have opted into — is encrypted in transit over HTTPS.

Storage, retention, and deletion

Your estimates, history, and settings live on your device and your paired watch; no server-side copy of them exists, and no server ever holds your location or your raw health records. The reports described above are different: feedback, analytics, and crash records you sent or opted into are stored on our intake server. You can have them deleted — email us at [email protected] and ask, and we will delete the intake records tied to your install. To remove everything the app holds on your device, clear the app's data or uninstall it. The same address reaches us with any question about your data.

Estimates, not medical measurements

AccliMate's numbers are estimated from your workouts and local weather. They are not a medical measurement — individual heat response varies widely.

Changes to this policy

If we change how the app handles data, we will update this page and change the effective date above before the change ships.