Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

AKURA is an adaptive endurance coaching platform operated by Kura Sathyamoorthy Balendar, trading as AKURA INFRA ("AKURA", "we", "us", or "our"). Our data representative is Kura Sathyamoorthy Balendar. Contact us at contact@akura.in.

AKURA receives your activity and health data only from the AKURA watch app, the AKURA phone apps, the files you upload and the services you choose to connect. AKURA uses it to coach you (your plan, paces, training load and readiness) and for the community features described below, such as the feed, challenges and leaderboards.

2. Data we collect

AKURA only ever reads data from the wearable and activity services you explicitly connect. We never post, write, or modify anything on those accounts, except that AKURA uploads your own workouts to your Strava account when you have allowed that, and sends a workout to your Suunto account when you ask it to (see "Strava" below).

Garmin watches

AKURA does not use the Garmin Health API yet, and no Garmin data comes through that API today. Garmin data reaches AKURA only in the ways below, or through a service you connect, such as Strava, each set up by you:

Outdoor workouts from any source, such as the AKURA phone apps, FIT files, Strava, Health Connect or Apple Health, can include their GPS route. AKURA stores the route and shows it to you on a map (map tiles from OpenStreetMap and CARTO; the feed shows a small route image from Google Static Maps). Other members see your route only when you have set your activity visibility to public or shared that workout with everyone; otherwise they see the summary without the route, with the start time cut to the day. To stop, remove the AKURA app from your watch in Garmin Connect IQ and stop uploading files. Data already received is kept until you delete your account (see section 5).

Strava

When you connect your Strava account, AKURA asks to read your activities and profile (the read, activity:read_all and profile:read_all scopes) to import:

AKURA reads your Strava activities and never edits or deletes them. If your Strava connection also allows uploads (the activity:write permission), AKURA uploads to your Strava account the runs you record in the AKURA app while Strava is connected and, on Android, the workouts you bring in from Health Connect when "Also send to Strava" is on, and nothing else. Your Strava privacy settings decide who sees them there. You can revoke AKURA's access at any time from Strava → Settings → My Apps.

COROS and Suunto

When you connect COROS or Suunto, AKURA reads your activities from your account (distance, time, pace and heart rate where your watch recorded them). For Suunto, AKURA also sends a workout to your Suunto account when you ask it to. AKURA does not write anything else to those accounts.

Apple Health data (iPhone)

If you use the AKURA iPhone app, you can choose to bring in your past runs from Apple Health. This only happens after you tap Connect Apple Health and allow access in iOS. AKURA only reads from Apple Health. It never writes anything to Apple Health.

With your permission, AKURA reads:

What is sent to our servers. For each run, the app sends over HTTPS a run summary: distance, moving and elapsed time, start time, average and max heart rate, cadence, elevation gain, whether it was indoors, and the GPS route of each outdoor run (reduced to about 1,000 points; indoor runs have no route). It also sends the workout's Health ID and the name of the app that recorded it (for example Strava). Second-by-second heart rate is not sent to or stored on our servers.

Who sees it. You and your coach. Imported workouts stay private: they are not shown to other members, club feeds or leaderboards. If you join a challenge, they count toward your challenge total, and other people see only the total. The AI coach chat does not read them. If the same workout also comes from your watch, the watch copy decides (see "Health Connect workouts" below).

How it is used. To build your training plan and to work out your training load and personal bests. We do not use your Apple Health data for advertising, we do not sell it, and we do not share it with third parties for their own purposes (see section 4 for the hosting providers that process data on our behalf).

Stopping and deleting. You can stop at any time. To turn off access, open iPhone Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices → AKURA. You can also tap Disconnect Apple Health in the app, which stops AKURA reading Apple Health. Runs already imported stay in AKURA. Apple Health runs are kept until you delete your account. To delete, use Delete Account in the app (You tab), which closes your account at once, or email contact@akura.in and we close it within 30 days. Your data, including imported runs, is then kept for a 1-year recovery window so the account can be restored, and then deleted, as described in section 5.

Health Connect workouts (Android)

If you use the AKURA Android app, you can choose to bring in your workouts from Health Connect. This only happens after you allow access in Health Connect. AKURA only reads from Health Connect. It never writes anything to Health Connect.

Private. Workouts that AKURA brings in from Health Connect are private, like workouts from Apple Health. Other members do not see them. They do not appear in feeds, club pages, leaderboards, rankings or best-performer lists. Other members cannot give kudos or comment on them.

Who sees them. You and your coach. They count in your own totals in the app, such as your weekly and monthly distance. AKURA uses them to build your plan, paces, personal bests and training load.

If you turn on "Also send to Strava" and your Strava connection allows uploads, AKURA also uploads these workouts to your Strava account, where your Strava privacy settings decide who sees them.

Challenges. If you join a challenge, your private workouts count toward your challenge total. Other people in the challenge see only your total, never the workouts.

AI coach chat. The AI coach chat does not read your private workouts.

The same workout from your watch. Sometimes the same workout also comes into AKURA straight from your watch (COROS, Suunto or the AKURA watch app). Then the watch copy decides: the workout is shown like your other watch workouts, following your activity visibility setting.

Workouts brought in before 9:00 am India time on 21 October 2026. Health Connect workouts that reached AKURA before then were saved without a Health Connect label. AKURA cannot tell them apart from workouts you recorded in the AKURA app. So they stay as they were: they are shown like your recorded workouts, following your activity visibility setting. Only Health Connect workouts brought in from then are private. If you want any of them removed, email contact@akura.in.

Stopping. You can stop at any time by removing AKURA's access in Health Connect's settings. Workouts already brought in stay in AKURA until you delete your account (see section 5).

Daily health from your phone (Health Connect)

If you allow it, the AKURA app reads a few daily health numbers from your phone: sleep, resting heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), steps, walking and running distance, and calories burned through activity (active energy). On Android they come from Health Connect. You choose which ones to allow on your phone's own permission screen.

With sleep, we also read how long you spent in each sleep stage (deep, light or core, REM and awake). On Android, we also read your average heart rate for the whole day.

When. The app reads these numbers when you open it (at most once every 30 minutes) and in the background. On Android, the background read runs about every 6 hours, and only if you allow Health Connect to share with AKURA while the app is closed.

What is sent. Each time, the app sends AKURA one summary per day for the last 7 days, over HTTPS. If your phone does not have a number, it is left out. AKURA never fills in a missing number.

How it is used. Sleep and resting heart rate help work out your daily Readiness. On Android, HRV from Health Connect does too. AKURA stores steps, distance, calories, sleep stages and the day's average heart rate with your daily health. They are not part of Readiness.

If a watch connected to AKURA, or your own check-in, gives a number for the same morning, AKURA uses that number instead of the phone's.

AI. If your Readiness for a day uses sleep, resting heart rate or HRV from your phone, AKURA does not send that Readiness (its score, band or explanation) to an AI model. The numbers you see in the app stay the same.

Who sees it. You and your coach. AKURA does not show your daily health to other members.

AKURA only reads. AKURA never writes anything to Apple Health or Health Connect.

Stopping. You can stop at any time by removing AKURA's access in Health Connect's settings.

Keeping and deleting. Days already sent stay in AKURA after you stop, until you delete your account (see section 5).

Your account and profile

What we store. To create your account, AKURA stores your email address and your password. We keep only a one-way hash of your password, never the password itself. If you sign up with Google, AKURA takes your email address and the name on your Google account from Google.

Your profile can hold a display name, age, sex, height, weight, city, country, a short "about me" text and a profile photo, as well as your race goal and your training days and preferences. The runner intake asks about your running history, any injuries (with notes you write), your leg alignment and foot strike, and your medical clearance. In Settings you can add your full name, mobile number, postal address and an emergency contact (name and phone number). If you link Telegram or WhatsApp, AKURA stores your Telegram chat ID and username, or your WhatsApp number. AKURA also stores your language and privacy choices.

Who sees it. You and the AKURA admin (see section 6). Only you and the admin see your street address and pincode. Your coach can see details used to coach you, such as your age, and your contact card: your full name, mobile number, email address, city, state and emergency contact. AKURA's trainer and doctor cannot see your contact card. Other members can see your display name and profile photo. Depending on your profile visibility setting, they can also see your city and country on your profile, and your sex, age group and country in rankings.

How long. Until you delete your account (see section 5). When your account is closed, AKURA removes at once your full name, mobile number, street address, state, pincode and emergency contact, and your Strava, Suunto and COROS connections. The rest is kept for the 1-year recovery window and then deleted.

Photos

AKURA stores a photo only when you, or your coach, add one. Photos are stored in AKURA's database.

• Profile photo. Other members can see it next to your name, for example in the feed and in challenges. It still shows on your profile when your profile is set to private. You can change it at any time. It is kept until you delete your account.
• Run photos. When you share a workout, you can add up to 10 photos and a caption. They are stored with that workout. Other members who can see the workout in the feed also see its photos. Your activity visibility setting decides who that is. The photos are deleted when you delete that workout.
• Feed posts. A post can have one photo. Members of your clubs and people who follow you can see it, subject to your activity visibility setting. Posts are kept until you delete your account.
• Standing photos in the runner intake. You can add a front and a side photo of how you stand. AKURA stores them with your intake. After you save them, no screen in AKURA shows them again, to you, your coach or anyone else. They are kept until you delete your account.
• Body scan. A body scan checks how you stand from a standing photo. The joints are marked on the photo in the web browser. AKURA stores the joint positions, the angles worked out from them and the findings. The photo itself is stored only if the box to keep it for a before-and-after comparison is ticked. You, your coach and the AKURA admin can see the results and a kept photo. They are kept until you delete your account.

3. How we use your data

The activity and health data AKURA receives is used to:

• Calculate your daily training readiness score (0–100)
• Build your training-load and readiness summaries
• Generate your daily training recommendation (train / reduce / rest)
• Track your adherence to training decisions over time
• Produce analytics for your coach or for your own review

AI. Automatic chat replies (in the app, on Telegram and on WhatsApp) and some explanations in the app are written by Anthropic's Claude API, for inference only. AKURA sends only a short summary: your first name (and, on Telegram and WhatsApp, your stated race goal), your last logged workout (its name, distance, time, average heart rate and date), a readiness score for the day, and, for your coach's weekly planning tool, your 28-day average weekly km and the week's planned sessions, together with the messages you typed in that chat (in the app, the last few, with the AI's earlier replies; on Telegram and WhatsApp, only the message you just sent). It never sends raw samples (heart-rate streams, GPS routes or splits), workouts from Strava, Apple Health or Health Connect, or a readiness built from your phone's health data. Anthropic's commercial terms state that API inputs are not used to train its models.

We do not use your data for advertising, profiling for marketing purposes, or any automated decision-making with legal or similarly significant effects.

4. Data sharing and disclosure

We do not sell your personal data. We do not share your data with third parties for their own marketing or commercial purposes.

Limited data sharing occurs only in these circumstances:

• Your coach — if you are enrolled with a human coach on the platform, they can see your readiness scores and training decisions, your workouts (including private workouts from Apple Health and Health Connect) and your daily health numbers.
• Service providers — these services process data on our behalf under their own terms and are not permitted to use your data for their own purposes: Render (hosting and database, in Oregon, USA), Vercel (hosting of the akura.in website), Anthropic (the Claude API, see section 3), Resend (email), Telegram and, for the messages you opted into, Meta's WhatsApp or Twilio, Razorpay (payment processing) and Open-Meteo (weather for your outdoor runs, using their location). The akura.in pages also load files from these services, which see your device's IP address (see section 7): Google Maps and Google Static Maps (route maps), CARTO and OpenStreetMap (map tiles), unpkg and jsDelivr (map, icon and pose-detection code), Google Fonts, Google Sign-In, Google's TensorFlow Hub (the body-scan pose model) and YouTube (help videos).
• Legal requirements — if required by applicable law, court order, or governmental authority.

5. Data retention and deletion

Your activity and health data is kept until you delete your account.

You can delete your account at any time with Delete Account in the app (You tab), which closes it at once, or by emailing contact@akura.in, and we close it within 30 days. Your data is then kept for a 1-year recovery window so the account can be restored, and then deleted.

You can stop new data arriving at any time: remove the AKURA app from your Garmin watch, stop uploading files, or disconnect a service in the app's settings (Strava, Suunto, COROS or Apple Health). You stop Health Connect in Health Connect's own settings, as described in section 2. Data already received is kept until you delete your account.

6. Data security

Data sent between your device and AKURA is protected with HTTPS. Access to personal data is restricted to authorised personnel who require it to operate the platform. Admin access to personal data is limited to the authorised AKURA admin (the founder). AKURA's doctor, Dr Durai, can see the medical-clearance list (your name, whether you have finished your intake and whether it mentions an injury) and the injury-watch list (your name, the injury tags from your intake, and whether you are returning from injury, meaning you were cleared while an injury is still on your intake) for all athletes, and records your medical clearance. Each clearance also writes a note to your inbox in the app. This does not depend on any sharing choice you make in the app.

7. What we keep in your browser

AKURA stores a few small items on your device: your sign-in token, your theme and language choice, and, if you use the "Find your plan" quiz, your quiz answers for 7 days (you can clear them on that page at any time). We do not use advertising cookies or analytics trackers. Fonts and icons load from Google Fonts and jsDelivr, so those services see your device's IP address when a page loads.

If you then set up your profile on akura.in on the same device, we offer those answers in the setup form. They reach AKURA only when you save that form, and the copy on your device is deleted when setup is finished.

Route maps load from Google Maps, or from OpenStreetMap or CARTO map tiles with map code from unpkg. In the activity feed, a route picture may come from Google Static Maps, which receives the route line to draw it. The sign-in and sign-up pages load Google's script for "Sign in with Google". On the body-scan page, finding the joints automatically loads code from jsDelivr and a pose model from Google's TensorFlow Hub; the photo stays in your browser for this step. Help videos load from YouTube only when you press play. These services see your device's IP address when they load.

8. Your rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Correct inaccurate or incomplete data
• Request deletion of your data ("right to erasure")
• Restrict or object to certain processing
• Receive your data in a portable format

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at contact@akura.in. We will respond within 30 days.

9. Children

AKURA does not check age today. Before the Garmin connection is offered, AKURA will add an age check, and it will not be offered to anyone under 18. If you believe a child has provided us with data, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the effective date at the top of this page and notify active users by email at least 14 days before the changes take effect. Continued use of AKURA after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

11. Contact

For any privacy-related questions or requests, contact us at: