Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-10-09 · applies to version 1.2.2 on the App Store.

This policy describes what Canelada reads, writes, and keeps on iPhone and Apple Watch. It was checked against the code of that version. When the app changes, this page changes too.

Summary

Canelada has no account, login, own server, advertising, tracking, or third-party analytics.
Your health data stays in the Health app and on this device. Nothing is sent to the developer unless you send a support message yourself.
Your game notes are included in your iPhone backup, so they come back on a new iPhone.
Canelada does not sell data, does not make medical diagnoses, and does not replace professional health advice.

What Canelada reads from the Health app

Only with your permission, which you control in the Health app:

workouts and workout routes, including walks and runs recorded by the Workout app or by other apps;
heart rate, resting heart rate, and 1-minute heart rate recovery;
active and resting energy, distance, and running speed;
steps, added up only within each walk or run;
running form measured by the Apple Watch: stride length, vertical oscillation, ground contact time, and power;
estimated cardio fitness (VO2 max) and low cardio fitness notifications;
physical effort (MET) and workout effort scores, both the ones you gave and the ones estimated by the watch;
weight, body fat percentage, and lean body mass, which are optional;
date of birth, used to adjust the heart rate zone reference;
sleep (hours slept per night), used in the Rest part of the Nota Canelada;
the sex recorded in Health, used only to choose the reference table for cardio fitness and body fat in the Nota Canelada.

This data is used to show your sessions, heart rate charts, how your practice evolves, your body measurements, and the Nota Canelada, the wellbeing score on the Home screen. Steps and running form only appear in the details of each walk or run, to show cadence and form, and are not used in the Nota Canelada or in Evolução. Walks and runs count as movement in the score, like other activities. The score is calculated on the iPhone, never leaves it, is not written to Health, and is not a diagnosis.

What Canelada writes to the Health app

Apple Watch: the workouts you record, with active energy, distance and, for outdoor sports, the route. Força (strength) is saved as Cross Training, Apple's type for workouts that mix cardio and strength, without distance or route. Each workout carries technical Canelada information, such as sport, environment, and app version. On watchOS 11 or later, after saving the workout, you can rate your effort by tapping the scale or turning the Digital Crown. It is optional and saved as the effort for that workout.
iPhone: the effort rating you give a workout, on iOS 18 or later. The iPhone asks for your permission once; after that, every rating you give goes to Health with the workout, until you turn off "Enviar nota de esforço ao Saúde" in Canelada's Settings. With sending turned off, the rating stays only in Canelada. If you change the rating, Canelada replaces the one it saved; if you remove it, the iPhone deletes the one it saved. A rating saved by the Watch stops counting in Canelada and can be deleted in the Health app. To link the rating to the workout, Health also asks for permission to write workouts. The iPhone does not create or change workouts.

Canelada never writes made-up data to Health.

Location

Only the Apple Watch uses location, and only during outdoor workouts: Society (including Fut7), Campo, and Condicionamento. The route and distance go to Health. In Futsal, Basquete Street, and Força, the app does not use GPS. The iPhone does not use your location: it only declares the purpose, because the Watch app depends on it to receive location permission.

The map of a walk or run comes from the route that the app that recorded it saved in Health. Canelada reads that route when you open the activity and does not save it to a file.

Motion sensors

Canelada does not use or request access to the motion sensors of the iPhone or Apple Watch.

What is kept on this iPhone

To open quickly and work offline, Canelada keeps a copy of what it read from Health on the iPhone:

football, basketball, and conditioning sessions, including heart rate, speed, and route series;
for walks and runs, a summary of each one: date, duration, type, whether it was outdoors, source app, distance, energy, average and maximum heart rate, elevation gain, running form averages, effort ratings read from Health, and time in each heart rate zone;
cardio fitness readings, low cardio fitness notifications, resting heart rate, 1-minute heart rate recovery, body measurements, strength workouts with their effort scores, other activities, and date of birth.

Sleep and recorded sex are not part of this copy: Canelada reads them again from Health when the Home screen appears. Neither are the steps and route of walks and runs: they are read again when you open the activity.

This copy stays inside the app, protected by the device's encryption, and is not included in the iPhone backup: on a new device, it is rebuilt from Health.

Canelada also keeps what only you can provide:

your game notes, which the app calls reports: goals, notes, effort rating, how you finished, whether you could keep going, and matches played;
your answers to the Nota Canelada questions ("Como você tem se sentido nesta semana?" and, when Health does not have enough nights of sleep, "Como você tem dormido nesta semana?"), with the week and time of the answer, and the version of the score's calculation you have already seen, to let you know when the calculation changes;
a technical record of the effort rating, with the workout, the value, the state of sending to Health, and the ratings you removed.

These files are also protected by the device's encryption, and are included in the iPhone backup:

iCloud Backup: they come back when you restore a new iPhone from that backup. In the iPhone's Settings, under iCloud, you can take Canelada out of the backup.
Computer backup: if you back up the iPhone to a computer, they go along. Without the option to encrypt the backup, they are readable on that computer.

In Settings, "Backup dos relatos" explains this. An effort rating that went to Health also stays there and follows Health synced in iCloud.

In Canelada's Settings, "Apagar relatos e cópia esportiva" deletes your game notes, the Nota Canelada answers, the effort rating record, and the local copy of football, basketball, and conditioning sessions; nothing that was pending is sent to Health after that. A backup already made only changes with the next backup. Other Health readings, including the walk and run summaries, stay on the device, and the session copy is rebuilt from Health on the next reading. Deleting the app removes all these files from the device. Workouts and ratings saved to Health stay there and are managed by the Health app.

Export and import

In Settings you can create a CSV spreadsheet with your sessions.

In Settings, "Backup dos relatos", you can also export a file with your reports, to take them to another iPhone without a backup. The file carries only the reports, with the dates of the answers and each workout's Health identifier; it does not carry heart rate, routes, other Health readings, or the Nota Canelada answers. When importing, Canelada only adds the reports that are missing: nothing already on the iPhone is replaced, and nothing is sent to Health.

The spreadsheet and the reports file are created on the device and only leave it if you share them.

Between the iPhone and the Apple Watch

In Canelada's Settings, "Ordem no Watch" sets the order of the sports on the Watch. By default, the ones you recorded most come first. To do this, the iPhone counts how many workouts of each Watch sport you recorded in the last 8 weeks and sends your paired Apple Watch that count and, if you changed the order, the order you chose. It is sent through the system's own connection between the iPhone and the Watch, without going through any Canelada server. The iPhone keeps only the order you chose; the Watch keeps the latest count and order it received.

Diagnostics and support

Technical diagnostics are optional, off by default, and live in Support, for when you report a problem.

If you allow it, the app keeps on this iPhone:

recent technical events, such as app launch, errors, and the result of Health readings;
a technical summary of the last Health reading: time, state of the permission request, and how many workouts and sports sessions were read; for the most recent workout of any type, its type, source (name of the app or device that recorded it, which may include your name), start, and duration; for the most recent sports session, its identifier, average and maximum heart rate, effort rating, how many heart rate, route, and speed samples it has, and GPS and motion confidence; and the error message, if any.

This summary is never attached to a support message and is not included in the iPhone backup.

A support message only leaves the device when you send it, by email or through the system share sheet. If you attach the technical report, it includes the app version, system version, device model, language and region, your diagnostics choice, and up to 30 recent technical events. It does not include GPS routes, heart rate series, personal notes, or detailed Health data. If you write personal information in the message, it goes along.

Turning diagnostics off or using "Limpar relatórios locais" deletes these files.

Your controls

Health app: choose what Canelada can read and write.
iOS and watchOS Settings: the Watch's location permission and, under iCloud, whether Canelada is included in the backup.
Canelada Settings: sending the effort rating to Health, reports backup (export and import), CSV export, the order of sports on the Watch, diagnostics in Support, and removal of game notes and the local copy.

Contact

For support, bugs, improvements, or privacy questions:

vitorcmagalhaes@gmail.com