Privacy Policy
Form is built around a simple privacy promise: your health data never leaves your iPhone. Your subscription is billed by Apple, and Form never sees your payment details.
This policy describes what data the app reads, where it goes, what it does with that data, and what — explicitly — it does not do.
What data does Form access?
Form reads health and workout data from Apple HealthKit on your iPhone. Specifically:
- Workouts — type, duration, and the heart rate samples recorded during each session
- Heart rate metrics — resting heart rate, heart rate variability (SDNN), walking heart rate average, heart rate recovery (1-minute)
- Cardio fitness — VO₂ max as estimated by Apple
- Sleep — sleep analysis, including stages on watches that support them
- Respiratory rate — overnight breathing rate (Apple Watch Series 8 and later), used to detect early illness signals
- Activity — steps, active energy burned, and walking speed
- Body composition — body mass, only if you sync a connected scale to Apple Health
- Profile characteristics — date of birth and biological sex, used solely to compute heart rate zone boundaries and to label fitness norms (e.g., "above average for age 40–49 M")
You grant access through the standard iOS HealthKit permission prompt the first time you open the app. You can revoke any individual permission at any time from iPhone Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Form, or from within the app at Settings → Health Permissions. The app degrades gracefully when permissions are partial — tiles that depend on missing data are clearly marked.
Form does not access your contacts, calendar, photos, location, microphone, camera, medical records, prescriptions, lab results, or any other apps installed on your iPhone.
Form is read-only. It never writes data back to HealthKit.
Where does the data go?
Your health data stays on your iPhone. Form processes it on-device.
- We do not operate any servers for your health data.
- There is no account to create.
- Form does not initiate any cloud sync. Your underlying Apple Health database may be backed up to your personal iCloud per your iPhone's iCloud settings — that's Apple's behaviour and is governed by Apple's privacy policy, not Form's. Form simply reads from HealthKit on-device.
- We do not transmit your HealthKit data to Apple, to us, or to any third party.
The only network requests Form makes are to Apple's StoreKit servers, to verify your subscription status (see Subscriptions and payments below). These requests do not include any of your HealthKit data — they contain only the anonymous transaction information Apple's StoreKit framework requires by default.
Subscriptions and payments
Form is free for 30 days. After the trial, continued use requires a subscription, billed monthly ($2.99/mo) or annually ($29.99/yr).
What this means for your privacy:
- We never see your credit card number, billing address, billing zip code, or any payment information. Apple handles all of that under their terms and the Apple Privacy Policy.
- Form communicates with Apple's StoreKit servers on launch and occasionally in the background to verify your subscription is active. No HealthKit data, no personally identifying information, and no usage data is sent in these requests beyond what Apple's StoreKit framework includes by default.
- We do not maintain a server to validate subscription receipts. If Apple says your subscription is active, the app trusts that.
- Apple may share an anonymized subscription status indicator with us through App Store Connect's standard reporting (e.g., aggregated counts of active subscribers, trial conversions). We cannot link those aggregates to any individual user.
To manage or cancel your subscription, go to Settings → [Your Name] → Subscriptions on your iPhone. You will keep access through the end of your current billing period; we do not add friction to cancellation.
Do you use analytics or tracking?
No. Form contains no analytics SDKs, no tracking pixels, no advertising identifiers, no third-party services of any kind. We have no way of knowing who you are, how often you use the app, or what you do inside it. The only data we ever see is the aggregated, anonymized reporting Apple provides for any App Store app (counts of installs, active subscribers, etc.).
Do you share or sell data?
No. We have nothing to share or sell. Even if we wanted to, we would have to ask you for the data first — we do not have it.
What about derived data — baselines, recent recommendations, computed metrics?
Form computes baselines and rolling averages from your HealthKit data — for example, your 60-day average HRV, your 30-day Zone 2 minutes, your last 4 sessions' heart rate recovery. These computed values are stored locally on your iPhone in the app's sandboxed storage. They never leave the device. If you uninstall Form, this storage is deleted by iOS along with the app.
Your original HealthKit data is unaffected by anything Form does. It remains in your Health app, controlled by Apple and governed by Apple's HealthKit privacy policy.
Children's privacy
Form is not designed for users under 13 and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect or process any data from users under 13. Because there is no account system, the most effective action if a user under 13 has access to Form is to uninstall the app from that device.
Changes to this policy
If we ever introduce features that change how data is handled, we will update this policy and the version number above before shipping the release that introduces the change. Material changes will be highlighted in the app's release notes on the App Store.
We do not maintain a mailing list. If you want to be notified of material privacy changes, please bookmark this page and check the version number at the top.
Your rights
Because Form does not collect or store your health data outside your device, the rights typically described in privacy policies (data access, deletion, portability) are exercised directly through your iPhone:
- To see what Form has access to, open Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices → Form.
- To delete data Form has computed, uninstall the app.
- To restrict access, revoke specific HealthKit permissions in Settings.
- To manage your subscription, go to Settings → [Your Name] → Subscriptions.
You do not need to email us to exercise any of these rights. iOS gives you direct control.
Contact
Questions about this policy?
Email: [contact@faadutech.com]
We aim to respond within five business days. There is no support phone line.
This policy is intended to be readable, not lawyerly. Plain language prevails over legalese.