Last updated: 16 October 2026
This policy explains what the Local Athletics app (“the app”) collects, why, who it is shared with and the choices you have. It covers the app only. Our online shop has its own privacy policy.
Who we are
The app is provided by Local Athletics Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 16510001, registered office 157 Choumert Road, Peckham Rye, London SE15 4AW, trading as Local Athletics (“we”, “us”). We are the controller of your personal data. Contact us at info@localathletics.co.uk.
What we collect and why
Your account
- Your email address and, if you sign in with Apple or Google, the name and email they share with us. Apple may give us a private relay address instead of your real email.
- If you sign up with email, your password. It is stored only in hashed form by our sign-in provider; we never see it.
- If you sign in with Apple, a token from Apple that lets us remove the app from your Apple ID when you delete your account.
Why: to create your account, sign you in and keep it secure.
Your profile
- Goals, sport, training days, app theme and, if you set them, a display name and a public feed name.
- An optional profile photo. It is stored privately and shown only to you.
Why: to personalise the app.
Training and nutrition
- Training plans you create, choose or edit, and the days you mark as done or skipped.
- Sets, weights, reps, times and distances you log, which we use to show your history, bests and charts.
- Nutrition targets and the food you log.
- Optional progress photos. They are stored privately, shown only to you, never shared with other users and never sent to the AI provider.
Why: these are the app’s main features.
Apple Health and Health Connect
With your permission, the app reads today’s steps, active energy and workouts from Apple Health (iPhone) or Health Connect (Android) to show your activity on the Home screen. It only reads; it never writes to them. This data stays on your phone unless you choose to share a workout post, which includes that day’s steps, workout count and workout minutes. We do not use Health data for advertising or marketing, and we never sell it.
AI features
The plan designer and nutrition target designer use an AI service. The app asks your permission before it sends anything for the first time, and you can withdraw it at any time with Profile → Withdraw AI permission.
- Plan and nutrition designers: the answers you give (for example goals, experience, training days, equipment, sport, age, sex, height, weight, activity level, and any injuries or notes you type) are sent to our server and then to Anthropic to produce a plan or targets. We save the plan or targets you get back.
Feed and circles
- Feed: posts you choose to share (a caption plus a workout summary), likes, comments, reposts, follows and follow requests. Feed posts are visible only to you and to followers you have approved.
- Circles: open groups anyone with a feed name can find and join. Posts and comments in a circle are visible to its members. The person who created a circle can remove posts, comments and members.
- Circle challenges: members can set a challenge in a circle (for example, most sessions or most distance between two dates). If you choose to join one, the circle’s members see your name and your total for that challenge, worked out from your logged workouts in those dates. They do not see the workouts or logs behind it. You can leave a challenge at any time, and leaving the circle takes you out of its challenges.
- Blocks and reports you make, so we can keep the community safe.
Nobody can find you or see your posts until you choose a feed name. Other users see your feed name, never your email address or account name.
Calendar
If you turn on calendar sync, the app adds your workout days to a calendar on your phone and notices if you delete them there. This stays on your device; we don’t receive your calendar.
Support
If you email us, we keep the conversation to help you and to improve the app.
What we don’t do
No advertising, no tracking across other apps or websites, no analytics SDKs, and we never sell your data.
Our legal basis (UK GDPR)
- Contract: to provide the features you use, including your account, plans, logs, feed and circles.
- Explicit consent: some of what you can enter counts as health data, such as injuries, body measurements, Health app data, nutrition and progress photos. We process it only because you choose to enter or connect it. You can withdraw consent by deleting that data, turning off Health access in your phone’s settings, withdrawing AI permission or deleting your account.
- Legitimate interests: to keep the app secure, prevent abuse (for example rate limits, reports and blocks) and answer support requests.
Who we share it with
We share data only with the service providers that run the app, and only what each one needs:
- Supabase: our database, file storage and sign-in. Your data is stored in the EU (Frankfurt, Germany).
- Anthropic: processes AI requests (see “AI features” above) in the United States. Under its commercial terms it does not use this data to train its models.
- Resend: sends account emails such as sign-up confirmation (your email address only).
- Apple and Google: if you use their sign-in, and Apple Health or Health Connect on your phone.
Where data goes outside the UK, we rely on adequacy regulations or appropriate safeguards such as the UK International Data Transfer Addendum. We may also disclose data if the law requires it.
How long we keep it
We keep your data while your account exists. You can delete your account at any time in the app with Profile → Delete account. This permanently deletes your account, profile, plans, logs, nutrition, photos, posts, comments, likes, follows, circle activity (including challenges) and the reports you made. If you signed in with Apple, we also ask Apple to remove the app from your Apple ID. Copies may remain in our provider’s backups for up to 30 days before they are overwritten.
Security
Data is encrypted in transit. Every table in our database has access rules so that people can only read what they are allowed to, and photos are kept in private storage. Your sign-in session is stored securely on your phone.
Your rights
You have the right to access, correct, delete or receive a copy of your data, to restrict or object to how we use it, and to withdraw consent at any time. You can delete most data yourself in the app, or delete your whole account. For anything else, email info@localathletics.co.uk and we will reply within one month.
If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, please tell us first. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
Children
The app is not for anyone under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13. If you think a child has signed up, email us and we will delete the account.
Not medical advice
Plans, nutrition targets and form feedback are general guidance, partly generated by AI, and are not medical advice. Talk to a qualified professional before starting an exercise or nutrition programme, especially if you have an injury or a health condition.
Changes
We will update this page when the app changes and change the date at the top. If a change is significant, we will tell you in the app.