Privacy policy
Draft: to be reviewed before launch. Highlighted text is a placeholder.
The short version
- Your records stay on your iPhone. We don’t have an account for you, and we can’t see, collect or recover what you log.
- There are no analytics, ads or trackers in Wheekly or on this website.
- The only thing Wheekly sends over the internet is a brand-name food search or a barcode, and only when you ask. It carries nothing about you, and it isn’t kept.
- Anything else leaves your phone only when you choose: a backup, a report, a shared card, or Apple Health.
Who we are
Wheekly is made by WheekWorks LLC (“we” or “us”), 3601 Saline Cir, Lincoln, NE 68504. This policy covers the Wheekly app for iPhone, its food lookup service, and this website, wheekly.app.
What stays on your iPhone
Everything you enter in Wheekly is saved in the app’s private storage on your iPhone. That includes:
- your medication schedules, doses, injection sites, skipped doses and side effects
- weigh-ins, body measurements and your starting and goal weights
- water, protein, fiber, activity, meals and the foods you save
- notes, milestones and progress photos
- your goals and settings
We don’t operate any server that receives or stores these records, and Wheekly has no account or sign-in. We can’t see them, and we can’t recover them if they’re lost, so we suggest making backups (see below).
Your iPhone’s own backups, such as iCloud Backup or a backup to your computer, include Wheekly’s data according to your iPhone settings. Those backups are handled by Apple or stored on your computer, not by us.
Food lookup
Most foods come from a food list built into the app and are found without an internet connection. Two things do use the internet, and only when you ask for them:
- Searching for a brand-name food. Wheekly sends the words you typed.
- Scanning a barcode. Wheekly reads the barcode on your phone and sends only its number. Products you’ve found before are saved in My foods, and for those nothing is sent.
These requests go to Wheekly’s food lookup service at food.wheekly.app, which asks the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s FoodData Central database and sends back what it finds. The service:
- sends USDA only the search, without your IP address or any other information about you or your phone
- keeps no logs of requests
- uses your IP address only in the moment, to limit each address to 30 searches a minute so the service stays available, and doesn’t store it
- keeps USDA’s answers for up to a week so repeated searches are faster, filed under a scrambled form of the search rather than its words, with nothing that says who asked
On your phone, Wheekly remembers answers for an hour so the same search isn’t sent twice. A product you choose is copied into My foods, so logging it again works offline.
The food lookup service runs on Cloudflare, which carries the request across the internet and, like any network, sees your IP address while doing so. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
When information leaves your phone because you choose
- Backups. Settings > Data & privacy > Back up data saves a file with all your records and photos. You choose where it goes, through the iPhone share sheet. Anyone with the file can read it, so keep it somewhere you trust.
- Doctor report. A PDF summary you can share with your care team, or anyone else you choose.
- Milestone cards. Pictures you can share to mark a milestone. They never include medication names or doses, and they show your weight only if you turn on “Show my numbers” for that card.
- Apple Health. If you allow it, Wheekly reads your weight, water, protein, fiber, steps, active energy and workouts, and saves the weight, water, protein and fiber you log to Apple Health. Wheekly never writes your medication to Apple Health. What you read or share is controlled in the Health app, and Apple Health data is handled under Apple’s terms.
Camera, photos, reminders, Siri and widgets
- Camera and photo library. Used only when you take or choose a progress photo or scan a barcode. Progress photos are copied into Wheekly’s private storage; photos taken in Wheekly aren’t added to your photo library.
- Reminders. Dose, refill and “OK to eat” reminders are scheduled on your iPhone; nothing is sent to us. They include your medication’s name, and your iPhone shows them on the lock screen according to your notification settings. To hide their text on the lock screen, change Show Previews in your iPhone’s notification settings.
- Siri and Shortcuts. When you log something by voice or with a shortcut, Siri is handled by Apple under Apple’s privacy policy, and Wheekly receives only what to log, such as an amount of water. Logging a dose this way only opens the dose sheet; you save it yourself.
- Widgets. Widgets show what’s on Today, worked out on your phone. They never name your medication.
- Ratings. Wheekly may ask once if you’d like to rate it, using Apple’s standard prompt. Apple handles your answer.
What Apple tells us
Apple gives app makers App Store figures such as downloads. If you’ve chosen in your iPhone settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple may also share crash reports and usage statistics. Apple doesn’t tell us who you are, and none of this includes what you log in Wheekly.
If you buy Wheekly Plus, Apple takes the payment. We see sales figures, such as how many were sold in each country, but not who bought it or how they paid. Wheekly asks Apple on your iPhone whether your Apple Account owns Plus; nothing you log is part of that.
When you contact us
If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you write. When you use Contact support in the app, the draft email includes the app’s version number, which you can remove. We use your message only to reply and help you, and we keep it for one year after the conversation ends, then delete it. Our email is provided by Cloudflare, which forwards messages to our inbox at Apple iCloud Mail.
This website
wheekly.app uses no cookies, analytics or tracking scripts, and loads nothing from other companies. It’s hosted on Cloudflare, which handles standard request information, such as your IP address, to deliver the site and protect it from abuse. We don’t keep logs of visits.
What we don’t do
- We don’t sell or rent information, and we don’t share it for advertising.
- We don’t track you across other apps or websites.
- We don’t use analytics or advertising tools in the app.
- We don’t combine information about you from other sources.
Deleting your information
Because your records are on your iPhone, you’re in control of them:
- Settings > Data & privacy > Erase all data deletes your goals, logs, medication history, notes and photos from your phone.
- Deleting the app also deletes its data from your phone.
- Copies may remain in backups of your iPhone and in backup files or reports you’ve saved or shared, until you delete them.
To ask us to delete an email you sent, contact us at the address below.
Children
Wheekly is meant for adults and isn’t directed to children under 18. We don’t knowingly receive information from children.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we’ll post the new version here with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about privacy: privacy@wheekly.app
WheekWorks LLC, 3601 Saline Cir, Lincoln, NE 68504