APOGEE

Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 24, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains what information Apogee Athlete LLC ("Apogee," "we," "us") collects when you use the Apogee app and related services (the "Service"), how we use and share it, and the choices you have. It's part of our Terms of Service. Our separate Verification Data & Privacy notice, available in Settings, gives more detail on ID and military verification.

The short version: we collect what we need to run a fair, verified fitness community. We don't sell your personal information, and we don't use it for targeted advertising.

1. Information You Give Us

• Account details: email address, password (stored securely by our authentication provider, never readable by us), username, first and last name, and Apple ID if you sign in with Apple.
• Profile and athlete details: date of birth, sex, weight and weight class, Natural Oath (if you took it: the date, the full legal name you typed, and the oath's version), main gym, school, home county and state, favorite exercises, profile photo, and bio.
• Content: videos, photos, captions, check-ins (including productivity check-ins), stories, comments, likes, reposts, saved and uploaded sounds, and lift values you submit.
• Messages: direct and group messages, group names and photos, and attachments you send.
• Verification submissions:

- ID verification: handled by our identity provider (currently Didit). Your ID images and selfie go directly to the provider; Apogee receives only the result, your confirmed date of birth and sex (when your ID shows it), and the name on your ID (to check the name on your Natural Oath). We ask Didit to delete your ID images and selfie as soon as the result is saved.

- Military PRT/PFT (optional): photos of an official score document, redacted as instructed, and the scores you enter.

- Competition results and weigh-in photos you submit as proof.

• Reports and support: reports you file, the reason you give, any details or attachments, and messages you send to support.
• Community activity: votes you cast on comments and the scroll time involved.

2. Information Collected Automatically

• Scroll time: how long you spend viewing other people's content, your current balance, and productivity check-in confirmations.
• Usage and analytics: actions like views, likes, shares, follows, and searches, used to run features like rankings, notifications, and post insights.
• Device and log information: device type, operating system, app version, IP address, crash and error logs, and similar technical data.
• Local storage: settings and preferences saved on your device so the app remembers them between launches.

3. Permissions You Control

• Camera and microphone: to record proof and posts, only when you use those features.
• Photo library: to pick photos and videos to post or submit. The system photo picker shares only what you select.
• Location (optional): to suggest nearby gyms when you ask. We don't track your location in the background.
• Notifications: to alert you to reviews, likes, comments, messages, and votes.

You can change these permissions in your device settings at any time.

4. How We Use Information

• To run Apogee: create your account, show your profile and posts, place verified results on leaderboards by sex, age, weight class, track, gym, school, county, state, and country, and calculate your Apogee Rating.
• To verify results and keep competition fair: review submissions, confirm age, sex, and weight class, and detect cheating, multiple accounts, and vote manipulation.
• To run scroll time and community votes, including moving time between accounts when votes are cast and removing comments the community votes down.
• To deliver messages and notifications.
• To keep people safe: review reports, moderate content, enforce our Terms and Community Guidelines, and prevent banned users from returning.
• To support you, fix problems, and improve the Service.
• To comply with the law and respond to valid legal requests.

5. What Other Users Can See

• Public by default: your username, profile photo, name, bio, posts, comments, approved lifts and leaderboard rankings, badges and stamps, follower counts, and any profile fields you choose to show (such as home gym, weight, sex, and age).
• Your controls: you can make your account private, hide individual profile fields, hide your verification badges, hide yourself from public leaderboards (you'll still see your own ranking), choose who can message you, and block people.
• Votes: if you vote up a comment, its author sees your username. Down votes are anonymous.
• Messages are visible to the people in that conversation.
• If you ask to message a teen, their parent or guardian sees your username, profile picture, whether your ID is verified, and your note.

Anything you make public can be seen, saved, or shared by others, including people outside Apogee.

6. How We Share Information

We don't sell your personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We share it only:

• With service providers who help us run Apogee, under contracts that limit their use of it, including:

- Supabase: our database, sign-in, and file storage. It holds your account, profile, content, messages, and verification results and documents.

- Didit: ID verification. It receives your ID images and a short selfie video directly from your phone, and sends us only the result, your confirmed date of birth and sex, and the name on your ID. We delete each check at Didit once its result is saved.

- Resend: sends our account emails (sign-up confirmation, password reset, email change). It receives your email address and the email's contents.

- PostHog: product analytics (which features are used and how), linked to your account so we can improve the app. We don't use it for advertising.

- Sentry: crash and error reports (device type, OS and app version, the error, and your user ID) so we can fix bugs.

- Apple: Sign in with Apple (we receive your Apple ID and, if you choose, your name and email or a private relay email), push notifications, and app distribution.

- Google: Sign in with Google (we receive your name, email, and Google account ID), and Google Places to search for gyms and schools (it receives your search text and, if you allow location, your approximate location at that moment).

- Vercel: hosts our websites and staff review tools.

• With other users, as described in Section 5.
• For legal and safety reasons: to comply with law or legal process, protect the rights and safety of users, Apogee, or the public, investigate fraud or abuse, or report child exploitation to the appropriate authorities.
• In a business transfer: if Apogee is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred, subject to this policy.
• With your consent or at your direction.

7. Sensitive Information

Some information we handle is sensitive, including your date of birth, sex, government ID verification results, and health-related details like weight. We use it only to provide verification, fair competition, and the features you choose. Depending on where you live, some of this may be "consumer health data"; we collect it only to provide the Service you request and never sell it.

8. How Long We Keep Information

• Account and content: while your account is active. When you delete content, we remove it from the Service. When you delete your account, it's hidden from everyone right away and permanently deleted 30 days later (log back in before then to restore it). Copies may remain in backups for a limited time.
• Verification: we delete your ID images and selfie at our identity provider (Didit) as soon as the result is saved; anything left is removed within its shortest retention period. Military photos are kept in private storage as described in our Verification Data & Privacy notice; we keep verification outcomes and dates.
• Votes and community removals: kept so balances, notifications, and history stay accurate.
• Banned accounts: we keep the email address and Apple ID linked to a banned account, even after deletion, only to prevent the same person from returning.
• Legal needs: we may keep information longer when required by law or to resolve disputes and enforce our Terms.

9. Security

We use reasonable safeguards, including encrypted connections, access controls, and private storage for verification documents restricted to our review team. No system is perfectly secure, so we can't guarantee absolute security. Keep your password private and tell us right away if you think your account was compromised.

10. Young Users

Apogee is not for anyone under 14, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you're 14 to 17, you need a parent or guardian's permission to use Apogee. If you're 14 or 15, we ask for their email, send them a page explaining what Apogee is and what we collect, and they approve it there. We keep the parent's email, when they approved, and the version of the page they agreed to, along with basic details of the approval (the device's IP address and browser). Until a parent approves, a 14- or 15-year-old can browse but can't post, comment, message, be found in search, or verify their ID. If you're 16 or 17, there's no approval step in the app. All teen accounts (14 to 17) are private by default, appear only on country and world leaderboards by username only (never on gym or local boards), can message other teens only if they follow each other, can message adults (and be messaged by them) only after a parent or guardian approves that adult, aren't suggested to adults, can take the Natural Oath but are never drug tested while under 18 (from 18 they can be selected like any adult), can boost their profile only to other teens (never to adults; posts can't be boosted), and get no push notifications from 10pm to 7am local time (we store the phone's time zone for this). If we learn that someone under 14 has an account, we'll delete it; if you think one does, tell us at safety@apogeeathlete.com. Parents or guardians can ask questions, review their teen's information, or have the account deleted at privacy@apogeeathlete.com.

To approve who can message a teen, we email the parent or guardian. For 14- and 15-year-olds we use the email from account approval; 16- and 17-year-olds give us a parent's email the first time it's needed, and it counts only after the parent confirms it from a link we email them (it can't be the teen's own email; once confirmed, only support can change it). We keep that email, each request (who asked, their note, when), the parent's decision with the device's IP address and browser, and any report the parent makes. A message waiting for approval is kept until the parent decides, and deleted within 30 days if they don't approve. Parents can see and remove approved people at any time from the link in our emails.

11. Your Choices and Rights

• In the app, you can edit your profile, change privacy settings, hide profile fields and badges, hide from leaderboards, block users, manage notifications, and delete posts, comments, or your entire account.
• Depending on where you live (for example, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and other U.S. states), you may have the right to: know and access the personal information we hold about you; correct it; delete it; get a copy in a portable format; limit the use of sensitive personal information; and opt out of sale, sharing for targeted advertising, or profiling (we don't do these).
• To make a request, email privacy@apogeeathlete.com. We'll verify your identity before responding, and you can use an authorized agent where the law allows. If we deny your request, you may appeal by replying to our decision. We won't discriminate against you for exercising your rights.
• California "Shine the Light": we don't share personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing.

12. Where Information Is Processed

Apogee is operated from the United States and intended for users in the United States. Your information is stored and processed in the United States. The Service is currently offered only in the United States, and this Privacy Policy is written for users in the United States and under United States law.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we'll notify you in the app or by email before they take effect. The "Last updated" date shows when it last changed.

14. Contact Us

Questions or requests about your privacy? Email privacy@apogeeathlete.com.