WHIPSAW LIFT Privacy Policy

About this policy

WHIPSAW LIFT is a strength-training and workout-tracking application published by WHIPSAW Apps.

We respect your privacy and aim to keep your personal fitness information under your control. This Privacy Policy explains how WHIPSAW LIFT accesses, uses, stores, and shares information. This revision describes version 1.0, build 107.

1. Workout and Fitness Information

WHIPSAW LIFT stores information you provide or generate while using the app, including:

Workout programs, exercises, weights, repetitions, and completed sets.

Workout history, progress, and training preferences.

Body-weight measurements you enter or import.

Workout duration and available heart-rate and calorie summaries.

This information is primarily stored locally on your device. WHIPSAW LIFT does not currently operate a cloud service for storing or synchronizing workout history.

2. Apple Health and Apple Watch

With your permission, WHIPSAW LIFT can read workouts, heart rate, active energy and body-weight measurements from Apple Health on iPhone. Body-weight access is requested separately and can support updates when measurements change. The Apple Watch companion requests permission to record workouts and associated heart-rate, active-energy and resting-energy information in Apple Health, and to read heart-rate and energy information during workouts.

LIFT uses Apple's WatchConnectivity framework to exchange workout state, exercise information, rest settings, relevant Health workout results and membership-access status between your paired iPhone and Apple Watch. Pending commands, workout results and transfer files may be retained locally so synchronization can finish or recover after a disconnection. This does not create a WHIPSAW-operated cloud workout account.

You control Health permissions in Apple's privacy settings and can revoke them at any time. Revoking permission stops the corresponding permitted access but does not automatically erase information already imported into LIFT or previously saved in Apple Health. LIFT does not send Apple Health information to WHIPSAW-operated servers or advertising services.

3. Purchases and Memberships

WHIPSAW LIFT offers optional paid memberships and lifetime access through Apple's in-app purchase system. Apple handles payment processing and Apple Account information. LIFT does not receive or store your payment-card information.

LIFT uses verified Apple product and transaction information, including membership type, expiration, renewal, grace-period and revocation status, to determine membership eligibility. The paired Watch receives a membership-status summary so it can apply the same access rules.

LIFT also offers a complimentary calendar month of workout access that you activate in the app without authorizing an Apple subscription or payment. To administer this access, LIFT stores its start date, end date, last-observed time and ended status in a device-only Keychain record on the iPhone. This record is separate from workout history and workout backup exports. The complimentary month does not renew or charge automatically, and it is separate from Bird Dog Rewards.

4. Sharing and External Services

WHIPSAW LIFT allows you to generate workout summaries, share cards, progress reports and workout backups. These may contain personal fitness or Health-derived information.

Sharing is initiated by you through Apple's sharing controls. If you save content or share it with another application or service, that destination may process and retain the information under its own privacy practices.

Optional Calendar features let you add workout events. LIFT requests Calendar write permission when needed, or presents Apple's event editor for you to review and save an event. Existing Calendar events are not automatically erased when you change your workout program or remove LIFT.

Optional music links open external music applications or websites. Apple and other services you choose have their own privacy practices.

Optional rest notifications and Live Activities may display exercise names, rest timers and upcoming-set details on your iPhone Lock Screen or Dynamic Island, or on your Apple Watch. Their visibility depends on your device settings. These rest alerts and Live Activities are created locally; LIFT does not use a WHIPSAW remote-push service for them. You can manage their visibility through Apple's notification and Live Activity settings.

5. Advertising and Analytics

The current version of WHIPSAW LIFT does not integrate third-party advertising or analytics SDKs.

We do not use Apple Health information for advertising.

If our data practices change in future versions, we will update this policy and applicable privacy disclosures.

6. Referrals and Feedback

Bird Dog Rewards is a proposed program and is not available in WHIPSAW LIFT version 1.0, build 107. This release does not enroll referrals, generate referral codes, operate leaderboards or award referral memberships.

Version 1.0, build 107 does not operate an in-app feedback collection or referral service. App Store ratings and reviews are voluntary and separate from any proposed referral reward. A review is never required or rewarded.

If you contact support@whipsawapps.com or info@whipsawapps.com, Namecheap forwards incoming messages to our designated Gmail inbox. Namecheap processes messages for forwarding; Google processes and stores the correspondence in Gmail. We use your email address and the information you choose to send to respond to your request. Please do not send passwords, payment-card details, medical records or other sensitive personal information.

We keep an internal support register to track case identifiers, resolution dates, deletion deadlines and completed deletions. We use a scheduled reminder through OpenAI's Codex desktop app to check case identifiers and retention dates. For these reminders, we provide only case identifiers and dates, not support correspondence, attachments or the separate mapping to customer identities. Reminders do not delete messages.

7. Data Storage, Retention, and Deletion

Workout information is stored locally on your device. You may export or import workout backups using the app's available tools. Restoring a workout backup can preserve a local recovery copy of the previous workout file.

User-exported backups and copies in destinations you choose have their own retention and deletion controls. Removing the application may delete locally stored workout information, but does not necessarily remove exported copies, information already saved in Apple Health, Calendar events, or operating-system backups. You manage those copies through the relevant device or service controls.

Apple purchases may be restored using the purchasing Apple Account, but purchase restoration does not restore locally deleted workout history. Operating-system backups, including iCloud backups where enabled, are managed according to your device settings and Apple's applicable policies.

The complimentary-month Keychain record may remain after the app is removed. Reinstalling is not guaranteed to reset eligibility. Workout import and Apple purchase restoration do not transfer or restore this device-only complimentary-month record, and this release does not provide a control to reset it. LIFT does not use a WHIPSAW account or server to synchronize complimentary-month eligibility across devices.

WHIPSAW Apps deletes customer support correspondence and associated personal information from its active support records 12 months after the support issue is resolved, unless a longer retention period is required by law. This is a manually administered policy; automatic deletion is not configured. Deletion includes support messages, attachments and related working copies under our control. Our email and storage providers may retain residual copies under their own backup, security or legal retention processes.

The 12-month support-retention rule applies to support correspondence and associated support records. It does not impose a 12-month deletion schedule on your local workout history, Apple Health records, Apple purchase records or the complimentary-month Keychain record. Deadline reminders do not automatically delete support mail.

8. Children's Privacy

WHIPSAW LIFT is a general fitness application and is not specifically designed or marketed to children under 13.

9. Security

WHIPSAW LIFT uses Apple platform security features to help protect locally stored information. However, no device or electronic storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when WHIPSAW LIFT's features, services, or data practices change. The current version will be published on this page with an updated effective date.

11. Contact

For privacy questions, support requests, or questions about WHIPSAW LIFT's data practices, please contact WHIPSAW Apps at support@whipsawapps.com.