Privacy Policy

01 — Who we are

About ATHA

ATHA: Breathing Exercises (“ATHA”, “the App”, “we”, “us”) is developed and operated by Gül Eda Aydemir, an independent iOS developer (“Gul Eda Aydemir” on the App Store). This policy explains how ATHA handles information when you use the App and this website.

02 — What we do not do

No collection, no account, no tracking

• We do not collect, receive or store any data about you or how you use ATHA.
• We do not operate an account system or a cloud database. ATHA does not use iCloud sync.
• We do not include analytics, advertising, tracking or other third-party SDKs.
• We do not sell, rent or share breathing, mood, reflection or health data, because we never receive it.
• We do not require Apple Health access for any core feature.

03 — Data stored on your device

Your ATHA data stays on your device

ATHA stores the following locally, using Apple’s on-device storage (shared with ATHA’s own widgets on the same device):

• Session history: dates, length, practice and completion.
• Custom breathing patterns you create.
• Routines and reminder settings.
• Favourites and recent practices.
• Progress: streaks, streak freezes, goals, Garden stage, milestones and statistics derived from your sessions.
• Check-ins, mood ratings, notes and reflections you choose to record.
• Preferences such as theme, sound, voice, haptics, visual, language and accessibility settings.

Insights and recommendations are calculated on your device from this data. The Apple Watch app exchanges your practices and sessions with your paired iPhone directly, using Apple’s Watch Connectivity; nothing passes through a server of ours.

04 — Analytics

No analytics

ATHA does not send analytics or usage data anywhere. The App contains no analytics or advertising SDK and makes no network requests of its own; events used during development are discarded in the App Store build. ATHA 1.0 showed an “Anonymous usage data” switch in Settings › Data. It had no effect: the App Store build has no analytics destination, so nothing was sent whether it was on or off. The current version no longer shows it.

If this ever changes, this policy and the App Store privacy label will be updated before the release that changes it.

05 — Apple Health

Optional, write-only HealthKit integration

ATHA connects to Apple Health only if you switch it on in Settings › Apple Health and grant permission in iOS.

• Save sessions: completed session time is written as Mindful Minutes (Mindful Sessions).
• Share reflections: on supported iOS versions, reflections you choose to share are written as State of Mind entries.

ATHA does not read any data from Apple Health. Health data is stored and managed by Apple according to your device and Health settings, and you can revoke ATHA’s access at any time in the Health app or iOS Settings. ATHA never uses Health data for advertising or profiling.

06 — Notifications

Local reminders only

If you allow notifications, ATHA schedules reminders on your device: a daily reminder, routine reminders, a gentle streak reminder (on by default once notifications are allowed), a welcome-back note after a break and a weekly recap. They are not sent from a server. Turn them off in ATHA’s Settings › Notifications or in iOS Settings.

07 — Purchases

No purchases

ATHA is free and contains no subscriptions or in-app purchases, so no purchase data exists. If paid features were ever added, Apple would process any payment through the App Store; we would not receive your payment details, and this policy would be updated first.

08 — Apple

Information Apple may provide

Apple gives developers aggregated App Store statistics, such as download counts. If you have turned on Share with App Developers in iOS Settings, Apple may also share crash reports and anonymous usage statistics with us. This comes from Apple under Apple’s privacy policy, not from ATHA, and is used only to fix bugs and understand overall usage.

09 — Privacy manifest

What ATHA declares to Apple

ATHA includes a privacy manifest (PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy) that declares no tracking and no collected data types and lists only Apple’s required-reason APIs that ATHA uses on device: UserDefaults (to save your settings) and system boot time (to time sessions accurately). Apple’s App Store privacy label for ATHA reads “Data Not Collected”.

10 — Links you open

Pages outside the App

When you tap a link in ATHA (this website, the App Store, the developer’s other apps or email), it opens in your browser, the App Store or Mail. Those services have their own privacy practices.

11 — Website

This website

This is a static website hosted on GitHub Pages. It sets no cookies and has no forms. To count visits it uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which stores nothing in your browser and doesn’t follow you across other sites or build a profile of you. When a page loads, a small script from Cloudflare reports the page address, the page that linked to it, your browser, operating system and device type, your country (worked out from your IP address) and how quickly the page loaded; we see only totals, never individual visitors. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy. GitHub, as the host, may process technical data such as IP addresses in its server logs under GitHub’s privacy statement. If forms or a newsletter are ever added, this policy will be updated before they are switched on.

12 — Your choices

Control and deletion

• Delete your ATHA history: Settings › Data › Reset progress. This removes your sessions, streak and history from the device and cannot be undone.
• Delete the App: removes ATHA’s local data from the device, subject to your backups.
• Apple Health: turn the options off in ATHA, revoke access in the Health app, and delete entries already written there.
• Notifications: switch them off in ATHA or in iOS Settings.
• Email: if you email us, we use your message only to reply. Ask us to delete the conversation at any time.

13 — Children

Age considerations

ATHA is rated 4+ and collects no personal information from anyone, including children. Where local law sets additional age or consent rules, those rules apply to your use of the App.

14 — Security

Device-level protection

Because your data stays on your device, it is protected by iOS security. Keep iOS up to date and use a passcode, Face ID or Touch ID.

15 — Changes

Updates to this policy

We may update this policy as ATHA changes or as laws and platform rules change. The “Last updated” date above shows the current version, and material changes are noted below.

• 1 November 2026: updated the No analytics and Privacy manifest sections for the current App version: the “Anonymous usage data” switch is gone and the privacy manifest now ships in the App. What ATHA collects has not changed: nothing.
• 28 October 2026: the website now counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics (cookieless, no cross-site tracking); see This website. Nothing changed in the App.
• 15 October 2026: corrected the Analytics, Privacy manifest and Your choices sections. ATHA does not collect analytics; earlier text describing anonymous analytics and a Settings › Privacy switch did not match the App. The only related control in ATHA 1.0 is the “Anonymous usage data” switch in Settings › Data, which has no effect (see No analytics). Added the website and email sections and the new contact address.
• 12 September 2026: previous version.