FogBow Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 9, 2026 · Takes effect when FogBow 1.0 for iPhone and Apple Watch is released on the App Store

Summary

• FogBow has no accounts, no ads and no tracking.
• Your records are stored on your iPhone (and your Apple Watch for workouts). FogBow has no server and receives none of your data.
• The only data that leaves your device on FogBow's behalf is a food search term or barcode number, sent to Open Food Facts when you look up a packaged food.

What is stored on your device

FogBow stores the following in the app's private storage on your iPhone:

• workouts, routines, programs and rest-timer settings
• meals, saved meals, recipes you use and your grocery list, including a label for how each meal was logged (for example "Barcode" or "Recipe"); this label stays on your device like the rest of the meal
• weight and body measurements
• progress photos you import (a copy is kept in the app; the original in your photo library is not changed)
• medication plans, doses, symptoms and reminder settings you enter
• food preferences: allergens you choose to avoid and your diet preference (none, vegetarian or pescatarian)
• your setup answers and app settings
• backups and exports you create in the app

Food preferences are used on your iPhone to filter dinner ideas and flag recipes that do not match. They are not sent to Open Food Facts, FogBow or anyone else. They leave the app only if you choose to share an export containing them.

If a saved file is damaged, FogBow keeps a local copy with a .damaged-… suffix for recovery before resetting the affected store. These copies stay on the device and are removed by Delete all my data.

Progress photos and medication records are excluded from iPhone backups to iCloud or a computer. Workouts recorded on Apple Watch are stored on the watch and synced directly to your paired iPhone by Apple's Watch connection.

Apple Health

Apple Health access is optional and you choose it in the app and in the Health permissions screen.

• iPhone: FogBow can save workouts and weight to Apple Health, read its own workouts to avoid duplicates, and read your weight if you turn on weight import.
• Apple Watch: when you turn on recording with Apple Health, FogBow saves workouts, active energy and distance, and reads heart rate, active energy and distance during a workout to show your progress.

When you delete a weight entry in FogBow, FogBow also deletes the copy of that entry it wrote to Apple Health. It never deletes data written by other apps or devices.

Health data is never used for advertising or marketing, is never sold, and is never sent to FogBow or any third party. You can change these permissions at any time in the Health app or in iPhone Settings.

Other device permissions

• Location (optional): used only during an outdoor walk or run to measure distance and pace, including while the screen is locked. FogBow stores the distance, not your route or location points.
• Camera (optional): used only to scan food barcodes. Camera images are not saved.
• Photos: you pick the photos to import; FogBow does not read the rest of your library.
• Notifications (optional): medication reminders are scheduled on your iPhone only.

Food search with Open Food Facts

When you search for a packaged food or scan a barcode, FogBow sends a request to Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), an independent open food database. The request contains:

• the search words you typed, or the barcode number you scanned
• the result language (English/French) and the product fields the app needs
• an app identifier (the app name and version) and the standard information any internet request carries, such as your IP address

No account, name, health record, meal log or other FogBow data is sent. Open Food Facts handles these requests under its own privacy policy: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/privacy. Foods from the built-in list (Canadian Nutrient File) are searched on your device without any request.

Exporting and sharing

You can create a CSV export, a JSON tracking-record export or a backup file and share it through the iPhone share sheet. The JSON export includes your food preferences (allergens to avoid and diet preference). Where it goes (Files, email, another app) is your choice, and that destination's own terms apply. FogBow does not send these files anywhere by itself.

Deleting your data

• Delete individual entries, photos, meals or routines inside the app.
• About & Privacy → Delete all my data erases FogBow's records, food preferences, damaged-file recovery copies, local backups and setup on your iPhone.
• Copies outside the app stay where they are: data you shared to Apple Health, workouts on your Apple Watch, originals in your photo library and exports you shared. Remove those in the Health app, the Watch app or the place you shared them.
• Deleting the app also removes its data from your iPhone.

What FogBow does not do in version 1.0

• no sign-in or account
• no advertising and no ad or analytics SDKs
• no tracking across apps or websites, and no data sale
• no FogBow server or cloud storage

Health information

Medication tracking and Adjust My Day are for planning and recording only. FogBow does not give medical advice or recommend doses.

Minimum age

FogBow is intended for adults 18 and older. We don’t knowingly collect data from anyone younger: FogBow keeps your records on your device and doesn’t send them to us.

Changes

If a future version changes how data is handled (for example, adds an account), this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the effective date above will change.

Contact

FogBow is operated by Chris Crane, Bay Roberts, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Email: support@fogbow.app