Privacy policy for Aluneli

At a glance

• No account. Aluneli has no sign-up and no user account.
• No ads, no tracking, no third-party analytics, no servers. Aluneli contains no advertising, analytics or other third-party code, and we run no servers for it. On the App Store, Aluneli’s privacy label says “Data Not Collected.”
• Your data stays with you. What you enter is stored on your iPhone and, if you use it, on your Apple Watch. If you back up your devices, it is also in your own iCloud or computer backups. We never receive a copy.
• Your consent comes first. Aluneli asks for your explicit consent before you enter any health information, and you can withdraw it at any time in the app.
• Apple Health is optional and free. If you allow it, Aluneli reads your weight, body-fat percentage and waist circumference. It never writes anything to Apple Health.
• You decide. Aluneli calculates its suggestions on your device. They are wellness suggestions, not medical decisions.
• For adults 18 and over.
• As a rule, we only receive personal data when you send us an email.

This privacy policy applies to the app “Aluneli” for iPhone and Apple Watch. Our general privacy policy applies when you visit our website. Below, we explain which data is processed and when, on which legal basis, and what rights you have. This is how we meet our information obligations under Art. 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Controller

The controller responsible for data processing in connection with the app “Aluneli” within the meaning of the GDPR is:

We are not legally required to appoint a data protection officer. For any questions about privacy, you can reach us directly at info@aploapps.com.

What the app processes

Aluneli helps you plan and follow intermittent fasts. To do that, it uses the information you enter. Everything in this table is processed only on your devices. We have no access to any of it, and it is not sent to us or to anyone else.

• Profile: name or nickname, month and year of birth, sex (or “prefer not to say”), fasting experience, goal, units, language

  What Aluneli uses it for

  Wording in the app, default settings, suggested fasting windows, the age check

  Health information?

  No

  Where it is stored

  iPhone

• Body measurements: height, weight and, if you add them, waist circumference and body-fat percentage, typed in or read from Apple Health

  What Aluneli uses it for

  Suggested fasting windows and Aluneli’s safety limits

  Health information?

  Yes

  Where it is stored

  iPhone

• Your answers to the health questions: diabetes, low blood sugar, pregnancy, breastfeeding, a history of disordered eating, medication that must be taken with food

  What Aluneli uses it for

  Deciding whether Aluneli plans fasts for you, and how long they may be

  Health information?

  Yes

  Where it is stored

  iPhone

• Cycle-aware fasting (if you turn it on)

  What Aluneli uses it for

  Keeping fasts shorter

  Health information?

  Yes

  Where it is stored

  iPhone

• Fasts: planned and actual start and end times, extensions, breaks, safety stops

  What Aluneli uses it for

  Timer, suggestions, recovery guidance, your history

  Health information?

  Yes (Aluneli reads them together with your health information)

  Where it is stored

  iPhone; the current fast also on Apple Watch

• Daily logs: water, electrolytes, symptoms, mood, hunger, energy, sleep, clarity, activity, check-ins after a fast

  What Aluneli uses it for

  Suggestions, warnings, recovery guidance, your history and, with Aluneli Premium, pattern insights

  Health information?

  Yes

  Where it is stored

  iPhone

• Settings: reminders, units, language

  What Aluneli uses it for

  Running the app

  Health information?

  No

  Where it is stored

  iPhone

• Aluneli Premium status (from Apple)

  What Aluneli uses it for

  Unlocking Aluneli Premium

  Health information?

  No

  Where it is stored

  iPhone

• Your consent record: version of the consent text, date and time, app version, language

  What Aluneli uses it for

  Showing that you gave your consent, and when

  Health information?

  No

  Where it is stored

  iPhone

Legal bases

• Health information (the rows marked “Yes”): your explicit consent (Art. 9(2)(a) in conjunction with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). How you give and withdraw it is explained under Your consent to health information.
• Other app data: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. The processing is necessary to provide the app’s features to you under the license agreement for the app. This also covers the reminders you set up and checking through StoreKit whether a purchase is valid.
• Consent record: Art. 6(1)(c) in conjunction with Art. 7(1) GDPR.
• Storage on your device: storing this information on your device, and the app reading it, is permitted without consent under Section 25(2) no. 2 of the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG), because it is strictly necessary for us to provide the app you explicitly want to use.

All of this happens only on your devices, and we never receive the data. To the extent we are the controller of this processing within the meaning of the GDPR, the legal bases above apply.

Who receives data

• Nobody receives your app data. We don’t, and Aluneli shares no data with third parties. Aluneli contains no analytics, advertising or other third-party code. We do not sell data, and we do not use your data to train AI models.
• Apple handles some things under its own terms and privacy policy, not on our behalf: your iCloud and computer backups (if you turn them on), the connection between your iPhone and Apple Watch, Siri, purchases and, if you agree, crash statistics. The sections below explain each one.
• No transfers outside the EU by us. For app data we make no transfers to countries outside the EU or EEA, because we receive none. For emails, see Our mailbox.

Your consent to health information

Before you enter your weight or answer the health questions, Aluneli shows a screen called “Your health information.” It explains which health information Aluneli uses and why, that it stays on your devices and in your own backups, and how you can withdraw your consent. You can agree, or choose “Not now.” Your consent is separate from everything else: it is not linked to the Aluneli Terms, to notifications or to Aluneli Premium.

• If you choose “Not now,” Aluneli doesn’t ask for or use any health information. Without it, Aluneli can’t plan or guide fasts, because its suggestions and safety limits depend on it. You can agree later in Settings.
• Withdrawing your consent: at any time in Aluneli under Settings → Privacy → Health information → Withdraw consent. Aluneli then stops using your health information and deletes it from your iPhone and Apple Watch, including your fasting history, and it stops reading Apple Health. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal (Art. 7(3) GDPR). Copies in older backups remain until you delete those backups (see How long data is kept).
• Withdrawing your consent does not cancel Aluneli Premium. You manage subscriptions in your Apple Account settings (see Downloads and purchases).
• Proof of consent: Aluneli keeps a small record of your consent on your device: the version of the consent text, the date and time, the app version and the language. We don’t receive it.
• Changes: if Aluneli ever uses new types of health information, or uses them for a new purpose, it asks for your consent again first.

Apple Health

Aluneli reads data from Apple Health only if you explicitly allow it. Apple Health is optional and part of the free app. In Aluneli, open Settings → Apple Health → Connect Apple Health. Aluneli first explains what it will read; then iOS asks you to allow each data type separately: weight, body-fat percentage and waist circumference. Without your permission, Aluneli reads nothing from Apple Health.

• Aluneli uses these values to keep your profile and safety limits up to date. It processes them only on your device, and it reads only the types you allow.
• Aluneli writes nothing to Apple Health.
• Aluneli never uses or shares data from Apple Health for advertising, marketing or data mining, and never sends it to us or to anyone else.
• Body measurements are health information, a special category of personal data (Art. 9 GDPR). The legal basis is your explicit consent (Art. 9(2)(a) in conjunction with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR): the consent you give in Aluneli (see Your consent to health information) together with the permission you grant in the iOS prompt. The source of these values is Apple Health, with your permission.
• Backups: Like all app data, these values can be included in your own iCloud or computer backups.
• Revoking access: at any time in the Health app (tap your profile picture → Apps → Aluneli) or in your iPhone’s Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Aluneli. Aluneli then reads nothing more from Apple Health. Values it has already read stay in Aluneli until you delete them (Settings → Privacy → Delete all data) or withdraw your consent in Aluneli. You can also type your measurements in yourself. Exact labels may vary between iOS versions.

How Aluneli makes its suggestions

Aluneli suggests whether to hold, extend or break a fast, shows warnings, keeps fasts within its limits and, based on your answers to the health questions, decides whether it plans fasts for you. It does this automatically, on your device, with fixed rules based on:

• the time since your fast started, and your plan;
• your profile and body measurements;
• your answers to the health questions;
• what you log, such as water, symptoms and how you feel;
• Aluneli’s cautious limits for how long a fast may be.

Aluneli uses no artificial intelligence and does not measure your body. Its suggestions are wellness suggestions, not medical decisions, and they have no legal effect: you decide what to do. We don’t see the results. If you think a result is wrong, you can review and change your answers in Settings at any time, or email us at info@aploapps.com. Each suggestion shows its main reason.

In our view, these suggestions are not decisions that produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR. To the extent they are, they are based on your explicit consent (Art. 22(2)(c) and (4) GDPR), and you can express your point of view and contest a result by changing your answers or writing to us.

On Apple Watch

If you install Aluneli on your Apple Watch, your iPhone and Apple Watch exchange the current fast, its status and commands such as “extend” or “end” through Apple’s WatchConnectivity. Apple’s system handles the transfer between your own devices; we don’t receive this data. What the Watch shows is stored on the Watch until you remove Aluneli from it or delete all data in Aluneli on your iPhone; the Watch then clears its copy the next time it connects to your iPhone.

Siri and Shortcuts

Aluneli offers Shortcuts actions to start a quick fast and to end your fast. If you use them with Siri, Apple processes your spoken request under its own terms and privacy policy; Aluneli only receives the action. Shortcuts you build yourself stay in the Shortcuts app until you delete them.

Permissions on your device

For some features, Aluneli asks for access to parts of your device:

• Notifications—for reminders about your fast: start, progress, finish and safety check-ins. Aluneli schedules them on your device; there is no push server. They are never advertising. Aluneli keeps working if you don’t allow them. Notification previews can appear on your Lock Screen, where people near your phone may see them. Aluneli keeps them neutral, and you can hide previews or turn notifications off in Settings → Notifications → Aluneli. The Live Activity and the “Current fast” widget show your current fast and its planned finish on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, on the Home Screen and in StandBy, where people near your phone may see them too; Aluneli updates them on your device, with no push server, and you can turn off Live Activities for Aluneli in your iPhone’s Settings or remove the widget.
• Apple Health—to read the three body measurements described above.

These permissions are granted through the operating system’s standard prompt. You decide whether to allow them and can revoke them at any time in your device’s Settings. Aluneli uses any access you grant only for the feature concerned. Aluneli does not use your location, camera, microphone or contacts, and it does not track you.

Adults only

Aluneli is for adults 18 and over. It is not directed at children, and its App Store age rating is 18+. During setup, Aluneli asks for your month and year of birth and does not let anyone under 18 finish setup.

On iOS 26 and later, Aluneli also asks iOS for your age range (Apple’s Declared Age Range): on iOS 26.2 and later only where Apple’s eligibility check says it applies, and on iOS 26.0 and 26.1 for every user. iOS shares only an age range, not your date of birth. If you choose not to share it, setup continues; if the range shows that you are under 18, setup stops. Aluneli uses the answer only for this age check and does not store it.

Downloads and purchases

You download Aluneli from Apple’s App Store. Apple is responsible for downloads, your Apple Account and payment. Aluneli is free to download. It offers Aluneli Premium, an optional subscription (monthly or yearly) that renews automatically.

Purchase, payment, renewal, cancellation and refunds are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never receive payment details such as card or bank information, nor the names or contact details of buyers. Aluneli merely checks, on your device, through Apple’s purchase interface (StoreKit) whether a purchase is valid in order to unlock Aluneli Premium. Apple provides us with aggregated sales and subscription reports that do not identify you to us.

Apple’s terms and Privacy Policy⁠ (opens in a new tab) apply to processing by Apple.

Crash reports and statistics from Apple

If you have agreed on your device to share analytics with app developers, Apple provides us with crash reports and usage statistics for Aluneli. This data is collected and processed by Apple; according to Apple, the data developers receive does not identify you personally (Device Analytics & Privacy⁠ (opens in a new tab)). We cannot link it to any individual ourselves and use it solely to fix bugs and improve the stability of the app. You decide in your device’s analytics settings whether to share data with developers and can change this at any time.

Support by email

When you email us at info@aploapps.com—for example with a question about Aluneli or a privacy request⁠—we process your email address, your name (if provided) and the content of your message, including any details you choose to share, such as your device model, system version or screenshots. We use this data only to handle your request and reply to you.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your request relates to the use of Aluneli or a purchase, and otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest is answering inquiries. We handle requests concerning your data protection rights to meet our legal obligations (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR).

Please don’t send us health details by email. We can’t give medical advice by email, and we don’t need your health information to help you with the app. If you include health details anyway, we use them only to answer you and delete them once your request is closed, unless we must keep the email by law.

We keep your message only for as long as we need it to handle your request and any follow-up questions, or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. If an email becomes part of the records we must keep under tax law, the statutory retention periods apply, in particular under Section 147 of the German Fiscal Code (Abgabenordnung, AO): six years for business letters received and copies of those sent, eight years for accounting vouchers such as invoices, and ten years for books and records. The legal basis for this retention is Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR. While only a statutory retention obligation remains, we block the data from any other use. Once neither a purpose nor a legal obligation remains, we delete it.

Launch notifications

You can ask us by email to let you know when Aluneli is released. For this, we store your email address and the name of the app solely for this purpose and write to you once at launch. We do not send newsletters. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you give by sending the email. You can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future, for example with a short email to info@aploapps.com. We delete your address once we have notified you, after you withdraw your consent, or if it becomes clear that the app will not be released.

Our mailbox

Emails to info@aploapps.com arrive in our Microsoft 365 mailbox. The provider is Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland (“Microsoft”). Microsoft stores and transmits your messages and our replies on our behalf (data processing under Art. 28 GDPR), under the Microsoft Customer Agreement and Microsoft’s Data Protection Addendum. We buy the service through GoDaddy; under GoDaddy’s terms, it is subject to the Microsoft Customer Agreement, including its data protection terms. The legal bases are the same as for handling your request.

Under its Data Protection Addendum, Microsoft also processes certain data for its own business operations incident to providing the service, such as billing and account management, internal reporting and financial reporting. Microsoft is an independent controller for this processing; according to Microsoft, it does not access the content of the mailbox for these purposes and does not use the data for profiling or advertising.

GoDaddy provides the authoritative DNS services for our domain aploapps.com, which among other things route email sent to our address to Microsoft, and is involved in provisioning and administering our Microsoft 365 account. Which data GoDaddy processes in this context, and in which data protection role, depends on the services booked and the account configuration.

Microsoft stores the contents of our mailbox (messages and attachments) only in data centers in the EU. Even so, personal data may also be transferred to the United States and to other countries outside the EU and EEA in which Microsoft or its subprocessors operate. Under Microsoft’s Data Protection Addendum, such transfers are subject to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses between Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited and Microsoft Corporation (Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR). In addition, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond (USA), is certified under the EU-⁠U.S. Data Privacy Framework, so transfers to it are also covered by the European Commission’s adequacy decision (Art. 45 GDPR). For more information, see Microsoft’s privacy statement.

Testing pre-release versions (TestFlight)

If you test pre-release versions of Aluneli through Apple’s TestFlight, Apple shares with us what we need to run the test. Depending on how you joined, this is your name and email address; it also includes the feedback, screenshots and crash reports you choose to send, and technical details such as your device model and system version. We use this data only to run the test and improve Aluneli. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (your participation in the test) or, where you joined through a public link, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (our legitimate interest in testing the app before release). We delete this data when the test ends, at the latest 6 months after your last feedback, unless we must keep it by law. A test version handles your app data in the same way as the released app. TestFlight itself is governed by Apple’s terms and privacy policy.

Data security

Data in Aluneli is protected by your device’s built-in encryption when your device is protected with a passcode. We do not run a server that stores app data.

We hold personal data ourselves only in the emails you send us and, if you test Aluneli, in TestFlight. We access our mailbox only over encrypted connections.

How long data is kept

• Data in the app: stays on your iPhone until you delete it in Aluneli (Settings → Privacy → Delete all data) or delete the app. If you withdraw your consent, Aluneli deletes your health information straight away.
• Apple Watch: what the Watch shows stays there until you remove Aluneli from the Watch or delete all data in Aluneli.
• Reminders: scheduled reminders are removed when you delete all data or delete the app.
• Device backups: if you back up your iPhone, for example with iCloud Backup or to a computer, those backups can also contain copies of Aluneli’s data (for iCloud Backup, see Apple’s information⁠ (opens in a new tab)). Like all app data, the values Aluneli reads from Apple Health can be included in them. These copies remain until the backup concerned is replaced or deleted. You manage your backups yourself; we have no access to them (see Delete your data: Aluneli).
• Consent record: stays on your iPhone until you delete all data or delete the app.
• Apple Health: your measurements stay in the Health app; you decide there how long they are kept.
• Emails: we keep them only for as long as your request requires; where statutory retention obligations apply, until the relevant period ends (see Support by email). Health details you send unasked: deleted when your request is closed.
• TestFlight: see Testing pre-release versions.
• Launch notifications: we delete your address once we have notified you, after you withdraw your consent, or if it becomes clear that the app will not be released.
• App Store data: Apple decides how long it keeps data about downloads and purchases.

Deleting your data

In Aluneli, Settings → Privacy → Delete all data removes everything Aluneli has stored on your iPhone and Apple Watch. We explain step by step how to delete Aluneli’s data on your devices and in your backups, and how to ask us to delete any data we hold, on the page Delete your data: Aluneli.

Your rights

Where we process personal data about you, the GDPR gives you the right to:

• access the data we process about you (Art. 15 GDPR)
• rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data (Art. 16 GDPR)
• erasure of your data (Art. 17 GDPR)
• restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
• data portability—receiving your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (Art. 20 GDPR)
• withdraw any consent you have given, with effect for the future (Art. 7(3) GDPR)

How your rights work in Aluneli

Because Aluneli’s data lives only on your devices and in your own backups, you can exercise most of these rights yourself, directly in the app:

• See and correct: everything Aluneli stores is visible in the app, and you can change it there: your profile and measurements, your answers to the health questions (in Settings) and your logs.
• Delete: Settings → Privacy → Delete all data, or delete the app. Withdrawing your consent deletes your health information.
• Take your data with you: Aluneli doesn’t offer an export. We hold no Aluneli data, so we can’t export it for you either.
• Emails and everything else: write to info@aploapps.com. If you ask what Aluneli data we hold, we’ll confirm that we hold none, apart from any emails you sent us.

Right to lodge a complaint

If you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR)⁠—in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. The authority responsible for us is:

If you live in the United Kingdom, you can complain to us first, by email to info@aploapps.com. We confirm receipt within 30 days and reply without undue delay. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), ico.org.uk⁠ (opens in a new tab).

Consumer health data in the United States

If you live in Washington, Nevada, Connecticut or another US state with a consumer health data law, please also read our Consumer health data notice. In short: Aluneli processes this data only on your devices and in your own backups, for the purposes you agree to in the app. We do not receive, share or sell it.

Further information

No obligation to provide data

You are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide personal data. Without your answers to the health questions and your body measurements, however, Aluneli can’t plan or guide fasts. Without Apple Health, you can type your measurements in yourself. Without your email address, we cannot reply to you.

Automated decisions

Aluneli makes automated suggestions on your device; see How Aluneli makes its suggestions. We do not use profiling for advertising or any other purpose, and we ourselves make no decisions about you.

Changes to this privacy policy

We update this privacy policy whenever Aluneli, the App Store or the legal requirements change. The version currently published on this website applies; you can see when it was last changed under “Last updated” at the top. If a change affects how Aluneli uses your health information, Aluneli tells you in the app and asks for your consent again before the change applies. This privacy policy is available in English, German, Greek, French, Italian and Spanish; all versions have the same content.