Privacy Policy

Autonomic is a private, offline journal for logging autonomic-nervous-system recovery. This policy is short because the honest answer to "what does the app do with my data?" is: nothing, we never receive it. The one exception is this marketing website, which uses basic analytics, described under The website below.

What the app collects

Nothing. The Autonomic app has no user accounts, no sign-in, no servers, and no backend. We do not collect, receive, store, sell, or share any personal information or health data from the app. The app itself contains no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporters, and no third-party tracking of any kind. Everything below about your health data applies to the app; the separate website is covered at the end.

Where your data lives

Everything you log, journal entries, HRV readings, sleep, symptoms, medications, profile details such as sex, birthday, height, and weight, is stored locally on your device in the app's private storage. The journal database is encrypted at rest with a key held in your device's Keychain. It never leaves your device unless you deliberately export or share it.

• Local backups. The app keeps a small rotation of automatic JSON snapshots of your journal inside its own Documents folder on your device, so your data can survive reinstalls via a device restore. Unlike the journal database, these snapshots are plain readable JSON, so you can always recover your data yourself from the Files app. They are part of your device storage and, if you have iCloud Backup enabled, are included in your device's iCloud backup under Apple's terms and encryption (end-to-end encrypted only if you enable Advanced Data Protection), not on any server of ours.
• Apple Health. If you connect Apple Health, readings are exchanged with the Health app on your device using permissions you grant and can revoke at any time. Health data is processed entirely on-device.
• Bluetooth heart-rate straps. If you pair a chest strap, beat-to-beat data streams directly from the strap to your phone and is processed on-device.

Exports, sharing, and AI prompts

Autonomic can package your logged data into a JSON export or an analysis prompt that you can copy or share. This only happens when you explicitly trigger it. If you paste a prompt into a third-party AI service (such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini), that data is then handled under that provider's privacy policy and terms, choose a provider you trust. We have no relationship with, and receive nothing from, any AI provider.

Permissions the app requests

• Bluetooth, to connect a heart-rate strap for live HRV readings.
• Apple Health, to read and write the health metrics you approve.

Both are optional; the app works without them.

The website

The guarantees above are absolute for the app. This public marketing and blog website at autonomic.care is a separate, ordinary website, and it uses Google Analytics to understand aggregate traffic, such as which articles are read and roughly where visitors come from, so we can improve the site. Google Analytics sets cookies and processes information like your IP address, device, and browser under Google's own privacy policy.

You can opt out at any time. On your first visit the site shows a cookie banner; choose Block cookies and Google Analytics is disabled immediately and never loads again on future visits, we don't track you at all. Your choice is saved in your browser, and you can change your mind by clearing this site's data. You can also block analytics with a content or cookie blocker or your browser's tracking controls. This applies only to your visits to the website, never to anything you do inside the app, and Google Analytics never sees what you type into the waitlist form.

The website also has an Android waitlist form. If you join it, we collect your email address and, optionally, your first name. We ask nothing about your health or medical conditions. The submission is delivered to our email by FlowForm, a third-party form-forwarding service that transmits it under its own privacy practices. We use your submission only to send your early-access invite and launch updates, we never sell or share it, and you can ask us to delete it at any time using the contact below.

Children

Autonomic is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly handle their data, which, given that no app data ever reaches us, it structurally cannot.

Changes to this policy

If the app's data practices ever change, we will update this page and the "last updated" date above before those changes take effect.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be raised through the app's App Store listing or by emailing austin@discoverymark.com.