Privacy Policy

Last updated: 6 October 2026

Bout IQ ("we", "our", or "us") is operated by Apex-Corner Apps Ltd. This policy explains what data we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding your personal information.

1. Who We Are

Apex-Corner Apps Ltd operates the Bout IQ mobile application. Contact us at hello@apex-corner.com with any privacy questions.

2. Data We Collect

When you create an account and use Bout IQ, we collect:

• Account information — your full name and email address
• Training data — sessions you log (sparring, conditioning, running, nutrition, recovery)
• Heart rate — if you pair a chest strap or watch, we record your heart rate about once a second for the length of a session, and work out zones, averages and calories from it
• Precise location — if you use the GPS run tracker, your route is recorded while the run is in progress, including when the app is in the background, and is stored only if you save the session
• Nutrition and body data — meal logs, body weight, body measurements and macro tracking you enter
• Messages — messages between you and the coaches at your gym
• Gym information — the gym you belong to and your role (coach or fighter)
• Subscription status — which plan you are on, and whether it is active
• Crash and diagnostic reports — if the app fails, so we can fix it

We do not hold your card details. Payments are taken by Apple or by Stripe and we never see the card number.

3. Health and Fitness Data

Bout IQ is a training app, so most of what it holds about you is health and fitness information: your heart rate second by second, your weight and body measurements, what you eat, how you slept and how recovered you feel, the sessions you train and the routes you run.

Under UK data protection law, health data is special category data and gets extra protection. Our lawful basis for holding yours is your explicit consent, which you give by entering the information, pairing a heart-rate strap, turning on the Apple Health connection, or allowing Health Connect on Android. You can withdraw it at any time by deleting the data, disconnecting the strap, Apple Health or Health Connect, or deleting your account (Section 7). Withdrawing does not affect anything we did before you withdrew.

Who can see it. You can. So can the coaches at the gym you belong to — that is the point of the app, and it is what a coach needs to train you safely. Nobody at another gym can see it. Other fighters cannot see it. If you train on your own, without a gym, nobody but you can see it.

Apple Health. If you allow it, Bout IQ writes your completed workouts and the calories you burned into Apple Health, and can read information you have already recorded there. This only happens with the permission you grant on your iPhone, and you can withdraw it at any time in the iPhone’s own Health settings.

⛔ Health data is never used for advertising. Information read from or written to Apple Health is never used for advertising or marketing, never sold, never given to a data broker, and never shared with anyone for those purposes. The non-personalised ads on the free tier are not chosen using any of it.

It is not medical advice. Bout IQ is a training log. The numbers it shows — calories, zones, recovery, make-weight — are estimates to train with, not medical measurements, and no part of the app is a diagnosis. Talk to a doctor about anything medical, and never cut weight on the strength of a figure in an app alone.

4. Claude AI — Meal Photo Analysis

Bout IQ includes an optional feature that uses Claude AI (by Anthropic) to analyse photos of meals. This feature:

• Shares the meal photo with Anthropic, via our secure server, so that Claude can analyse the meal — we do not store the photo ourselves
• Is entirely optional — the app works fully without it
• Only activates when you choose to photograph a meal

Anthropic's privacy policy governs how they handle data sent to their API.

Voice logging (Undisputed plan). When you speak a session on the Undisputed plan, your phone records what you say. After you tap Done, the recording goes through our secure server to OpenAI, which turns it into text so the log is more accurate. We do not keep the recording: it is deleted from your phone once it has been sent, and we never store it on our server. OpenAI does not use it to train its models and does not keep it after returning the text. If you would rather it never left your phone, type your session instead. On other plans, voice is turned into text by your phone’s own speech service and no recording is sent.

5. How We Use Your Data

• To provide and improve the Bout IQ service
• To allow coaches to monitor and support their fighters' training
• To send password reset emails when requested

We do not sell your data, and we do not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

Why we are allowed to. We hold your account details and training log because we need them to give you the service you asked for (performance of a contract). We hold health and fitness data on your explicit consent — see Section 3. We keep crash reports and take basic security measures because we have a legitimate interest in the app working and staying safe. Where we rely on consent, you can take it back at any time.

The free tier of Bout IQ shows advertising, supplied by Google AdMob. We ask AdMob for non-personalised ads only, which means the ads you see are not chosen using your training data or a profile of you. AdMob still processes basic device information in order to serve and count an ad. Paid plans carry no advertising at all.

6. Data Storage

Your data is stored securely using Supabase (hosted on AWS). All data is encrypted in transit using TLS.

How long we keep it. We keep your training log for as long as your account is open, because the value of a training log is its history. If you delete your account it goes immediately and cannot be recovered (Section 7). If you simply stop using Bout IQ, we will delete an account that has been inactive for three years. Crash reports are kept for 90 days. Records we have to keep for tax and accounting — the fact that a payment happened, not your training — are kept for six years, as UK law requires.

6a. The companies that process data for us

We use a small number of suppliers to run Bout IQ. Each only receives what it needs to do its job:

• Supabase (on AWS) — stores your account and your training log
• Anthropic — analyses a meal photo, only when you take one
• OpenAI — turns a spoken session into text, on the Undisputed plan only, when you use voice logging
• Apple and RevenueCat — take and record subscription payments made in the app
• Stripe — takes gym and coach payments made on this website
• Sentry — receives crash reports so we can fix faults
• Google AdMob — serves the non-personalised ads on the free tier
• Google — on Android: Google Play Billing takes subscription payments, Google Maps shows your run and walk routes, and Android’s speech service turns your voice into text when you dictate

Where your data goes. Your account and training log are stored in the UK/EU. Some of the suppliers above are based in the United States — Anthropic, OpenAI, Sentry and Google AdMob — so some data reaches them there. Those transfers are covered by the UK International Data Transfer Addendum and the standard contractual clauses, which oblige them to protect it to the same standard as if it had stayed here.

We are the data controller. Apex-Corner Apps Ltd is registered in England and Wales.

7. Account Deletion

You can permanently delete your account and all associated data at any time from within the app:

• Go to Settings → Delete Account
• Confirm the two-step deletion prompt
• All your training data, profile, and account credentials will be permanently erased

This action is immediate and cannot be undone. You can also ask us to delete your account without opening the app: see apex-corner.com/delete-account.html, or email hello@apex-corner.com from the address you signed up with, and we will complete the deletion within 30 days.

7a. Bout IQ on Android (Google Play)

Bout IQ is also available on Android through Google Play. Everything in this policy applies on Android too. These are the parts that work differently:

• Subscriptions — on Android, subscriptions are taken by Google Play Billing, and recorded through RevenueCat. We never see your card details.
• Maps — run, walk and ride routes are shown on Google Maps. The map tiles are fetched from Google, so Google sees your IP address when a map is displayed.
• Location — precise GPS is used only during a run, walk or ride that you start. It keeps recording while the screen is locked (background location) so that the route is complete. The route is saved only if you save the session.
• Bluetooth — heart-rate straps connect directly to your phone over Bluetooth.
• Notifications — a live session card is shown on your lock screen while a session is running.
• Voice input — if you dictate, your phone’s speech service (on Android, Google’s) converts your voice to text. Only the text reaches us, except on the Undisputed plan, where the recording is turned into text by OpenAI as described above.
• Ads — free-tier users see ads from Google AdMob. They are non-personalised. In the UK, the EEA and Switzerland we ask for your consent first, with a Do not consent option, and you can change your choice at any time in Settings → Ad Privacy Choices. AdMob may use your device’s advertising ID, and coarse location worked out from your IP address, to serve and count ads.

7b. Health Connect (Android)

On Android, Bout IQ can connect to Health Connect, Android’s place for keeping health and fitness data from your apps and devices. This only happens with the permission you grant on your phone, and you choose each type of data separately.

What Bout IQ reads, with your permission: heart rate, resting heart rate, heart rate variability (RMSSD), VO2 max, sleep, steps, active calories burned, distance and exercise sessions.

What Bout IQ writes, with your permission: exercise sessions, active calories burned and distance from your own Bout IQ training sessions.

Why. We read this data to show your training effort, your recovery and readiness, your sleep and your daily activity, and to bring in runs, walks and rides recorded on your watch. We write your Bout IQ sessions back so that your other health apps can see them. Sleep is imported from the day you connect onwards only; we never fill in sleep from before your first entry.

Where it is kept. Data read from Health Connect is stored with your Bout IQ account, in the UK/EU (Section 6), and protected in the same way as the rest of your health data (Section 3).

⛔ Health Connect data is never sold, never used for advertising, never shared with advertisers or data brokers, and never used for anything other than the features described above. The non-personalised ads on the free tier are not chosen using any of it.

Use of information received from Health Connect will adhere to the Health Connect Permissions policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Turning it off. You can withdraw access at any time in Health Connect’s own settings, or in Android Settings → Apps → Bout IQ → Permissions. Deleting your Bout IQ account deletes the Health Connect data we have stored (see Section 7 and apex-corner.com/delete-account.html).

Bout IQ is not a medical device and does not give medical advice.

8. Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate data
• Request deletion of your data (see Section 7)
• Object to processing of your data

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at hello@apex-corner.com.

9. Children

Bout IQ is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child under 13 has given us personal data, contact us immediately and we will remove it.

Boxing gyms train young people, and fighters aged 13 to 17 do use Bout IQ. If you are under 18, please make sure a parent or guardian knows you are using it, knows that your gym’s coaches can see your training, weight and heart rate, and is happy with that. A parent or guardian can contact us at any time to see what we hold about their child, correct it, or have it deleted.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will notify you of significant changes via the app or email. Continued use of the app after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact

For any privacy questions or requests, contact us at:
hello@apex-corner.com

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