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Voxetta Labs · Gear-Life
Effective: April 26, 2026 · Applies to: Gear-Life iOS app and Voxetta Labs company
This policy covers two things: how Voxetta Labs operates as a company, and how the Gear-Life app handles your data. We have written it as a single document because Voxetta Labs is a one-product company. When the product grows, so will this policy.
The short version: your health data stays on your device. Gear-Life is built from the ground up to process everything locally. We do not collect, transmit, store, or sell your personal information or health data to any server, third party, or advertiser.
Voxetta Labs is an independent iOS app developer. We build health and fitness applications for the Apple Health ecosystem.
Voxetta Labs does not operate any server infrastructure that collects personal data from users. We have no user accounts, no analytics backend, no marketing database, and no customer data platform. The only contact information we hold is what you voluntarily send to us by emailing [email protected].
Voxetta Labs does not run advertising in any of its products and does not work with advertising networks or data brokers. We do not receive payment to promote products or services within the app.
Privacy questions: [email protected]
Website: www.voxettalabs.com
Data deletion requests: email [email protected] with the subject line "Data Deletion Request." Because we hold no server-side data about you, deletion means removing any email correspondence you have sent us.
Gear-Life requests read-only access to Apple HealthKit to calculate the Cumulative Stress Score (CSS) for your shoes. We read the following data types:
All HealthKit data is processed locally on your device. Gear-Life never writes to Apple Health. We never transmit HealthKit data to any external server. Per Apple's requirements and our own policy, HealthKit data is never used for advertising, user profiling, or sold to data brokers.
Gear-Life stores the following data locally on your device:
Shoe data and activity history are synced across your Apple devices via CloudKit, Apple's iCloud sync service. This sync is governed by Apple's iCloud privacy policy. Voxetta Labs has no access to your CloudKit data — we cannot read, modify, or delete it from our end. If you delete the app, your CloudKit data is removed on your next iCloud sync.
Preferences and Zaiya settings are stored in UserDefaults, which is local-only and included in your device's standard encrypted backup if iCloud backup is enabled.
Zaiya is Gear-Life's on-device AI companion. How Zaiya works depends on which tier you use:
Core Free — Apple Intelligence:
On supported devices (iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and all iPhone 16 and later models running iOS 18 or later with Apple Intelligence enabled in Settings), Zaiya uses Apple's FoundationModels framework. This processes your gear questions entirely on your device. No data is sent to Apple's servers for AI inference. Apple Intelligence is private by design — your conversations with Zaiya never leave your device and are never stored between sessions.
Pro — Claude by Anthropic (coming with Pro launch):
When Zaiya Pro launches, Pro subscribers will have the option to use Claude, Anthropic's AI model, for deeper gear advisory intelligence. When you send a message to Zaiya Pro, the following data is transmitted to Anthropic's API:
No raw HealthKit data, no personally identifiable information, no location data, and no Apple Health identifiers are transmitted. The gear context is a summarized, non-identifiable snapshot of your closet state. Conversation history is session-only and is never persisted or sent to Anthropic between sessions. Anthropic's data handling for API usage is governed by Anthropic's Privacy Policy at anthropic.com/privacy.
In both tiers, Zaiya conversations are held in memory for the duration of the session only. When you close the Zaiya overlay, the conversation is discarded. Nothing is logged.
Gear-Life sends local notifications for the following events:
All notifications are generated locally using Apple's UserNotifications framework. Actionable lock screen notifications (such as shoe assignment after a workout) are handled entirely on-device. Tapping a shoe button on the lock screen triggers a local action — no network request is made.
Home screen and lock screen widgets display foam health data using Apple's WidgetKit framework via an on-device App Group (group.com.wyche.gearlife). No data leaves your device through the widget system.
Gear-Life contains no third-party analytics SDKs, no advertising networks, no tracking pixels, no crash reporting services that transmit personal data, and no A/B testing frameworks. We do not track how you use the app. We do not receive aggregated usage statistics from Apple beyond what Apple provides to all developers in App Store Connect (install counts, crash rates with no user identifiers).
When shoe replacement recommendations are shown, tapping a Shop link opens an external retailer website. These are standard affiliate links. The retailer may set cookies on your device per their own privacy policy. Gear-Life does not receive any personal data from these interactions.
Gear-Life reads workout data from Apple Health that has been written by third-party apps such as Strava, Garmin Connect, Peloton, Nike Training Club, Strong, Hevy, Ultrahuman, Oura, and others. Gear-Life does not connect directly to these apps, does not hold accounts with them, and does not receive data from them outside of what they have already written to Apple Health on your device. The privacy policies of those apps govern how they handle your data.
Gear-Life is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has used the app in a way that raises a privacy concern, contact us at [email protected].
If this privacy policy changes materially, we will notify you via an in-app notice on next launch and update the effective date below. The current version is always available at the URL in the App Store listing.
| Section | Summary |
|---|---|
| Overview | Your health data stays on your device. Voxetta Labs collects no server-side personal data. |
| HealthKit data read | Workouts (all types), distance, duration, power, GCT, oscillation, heart rate, energy, sleep, HRV, resting HR. Read-only. Never transmitted. |
| Local storage | Shoe closet, activity history, insole library, runner profile, and preferences stored in UserDefaults and CloudKit. Voxetta Labs has no access. |
| Zaiya Core (Free) | Apple Intelligence on-device. No data leaves the phone. Session-only conversations. iPhone 15 Pro+ / iOS 18+ required. |
| Zaiya Pro (Coming) | Claude API. Gear context summary + message text sent to Anthropic. No raw health data transmitted. Session-only. Anthropic privacy policy applies. |
| Notifications | Local only. Shoe assignment, foam warnings, gait alerts, briefings, advisor check-ins. No network request on tap. |
| Widgets | On-device App Group via WidgetKit. No data leaves device. |
| Analytics | None. No SDKs, no tracking, no advertising networks. |
| Affiliate links | Retailer may set cookies. Gear-Life receives no personal data. |
| Third-party apps | Data read via Apple Health only. No direct connections. |
| Children | Not directed at under-13. No knowing collection. |
| Your rights | Control HealthKit permissions in iOS Settings. Manage all data in-app. Delete anytime. |
| Contact | [email protected] — privacy questions and data deletion requests |
| Effective date | April 26, 2026 |
Voxetta Labs · [email protected] · www.voxettalabs.com
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