Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how Alke (“Alke”, “we”, “us”), a service operated by Joven Kemp, collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects your information when you use the Alke application and website at getalke.com (the “Service”). It also describes the rights you have over your data.
Alke is a voice-first assistant for fitness and health. It records your workouts and daily health metrics — including data you choose to share from Apple Health — and presents them back to you as trends, summaries, and reminders. We take the privacy of health information seriously, and we only collect what we need to provide the Service to you.
1. Who we are & how to contact us
Alke is operated by Joven Kemp. For any privacy question, request, or complaint, contact us at joven.kemp@getalke.com. This is also the point of contact for data-access, correction, and deletion requests described below.
2. Information we collect
a. Account information
When you create an account, our authentication provider collects your email address and the credentials needed to sign you in securely (for example, a password or a sign-in with Apple or Google). We do not store your password ourselves.
b. Health data from Apple Health / Health Connect (with your consent)
You can choose to connect Apple Health (HealthKit) on iPhone, or Health Connect on Android. When you grant permission through the system’s own consent screen, the app reads the following categories on your device — and only these: sleep, resting heart rate, heart-rate variability (HRV), and steps — data your watch or phone (for example a Garmin, Whoop, or Apple Watch) has recorded into the health platform. This is the only way wearable data reaches Alke — we have no direct connection to your watch vendor's account, and we request no other health permissions.
The raw samples are reduced to a small daily summary on your device; only those daily summaries (for example “7 h 12 m sleep, resting HR 48”) are uploaded to your Alke account, to power your recovery card and your coach’s advice. You choose which categories to allow on Apple’s permission screen, and you can revoke access at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health.
c. Content you provide
What you tell Alke — spoken or typed — such as workouts, meals, notes, reminders, your goal, your personal bests, and the structured training history built from the numbers you mention (for example “bench, 80 kilos, 5 by 3”). When you speak to Alke, your audio is transcribed to text so the assistant can respond; we use the transcript, not a stored recording, to operate the Service.
d. Technical & usage data
Basic technical information needed to run and secure the Service, such as request logs, error diagnostics, and — if you allow notifications — the device push token used to deliver your reminders (Apple’s push service on iPhone, Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging on Android). We do not use third-party advertising trackers.
3. How we use your information
- To provide the core Service — logging your activity and health data and generating your trends, summaries, and reminders.
- To maintain your account, keep each user’s data private and separated, and authenticate you.
- To operate, secure, debug, and improve the Service.
- To communicate with you about your account or important service changes.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use your health or activity data for advertising.
4. How health data is handled
Data obtained from Apple Health or Health Connect is treated as sensitive health information. Specifically:
- It is accessed only after you grant permission on the system consent screen on your device (Apple’s HealthKit sheet, or Android’s Health Connect permissions screen).
- It is used solely to provide the features described in this policy — your personal trends, summaries, and your coach’s advice.
- It is never used for advertising or marketing, never sold or rented, and never shared with third parties, data brokers, or information resellers.
- It is never used to make decisions about eligibility for employment, insurance, credit, housing, or benefits.
- It is stored securely and kept isolated to your own account.
- When you revoke access in iOS Health settings we stop receiving new data; when you delete your account, the health data we hold is deleted with it.
5. Service providers we share data with
We use a small number of trusted third-party processors to run the Service. They may process your data only on our instructions and only to the extent needed to deliver their function:
| Provider | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Clerk | Account creation, sign-in, and authentication |
| Fly.io | Cloud hosting and database infrastructure |
| Anthropic | The AI model that powers the assistant’s understanding and responses |
| Deepgram | Speech-to-text transcription of your voice input |
| ElevenLabs | Text-to-speech so Alke can speak its replies |
| Apple / Google | Delivery of the push notifications you opt into (APNs on iPhone, Firebase Cloud Messaging on Android) |
We may also disclose information if required by law, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of our users and the Service.
6. Data storage & security
Your data is stored on secured cloud infrastructure. Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS), access is restricted, and each user’s records are logically isolated so that one user cannot access another user’s data. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable, industry-standard measures to protect your information.
7. Data retention
We keep your data for as long as your account is active so we can provide the Service. When you delete specific entries, disconnect Garmin, or delete your account, the associated data is removed from our active systems. Residual copies may persist briefly in backups before being overwritten in the normal backup cycle.
8. Your choices and rights
- Export — download everything you’ve logged yourself, in the app (Profile → Your data → Export): your journal, nutrition days, water, health summaries, training history, personal records, and notes, as CSV files that open in any spreadsheet.
- Access & correction — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you, or ask us to correct it. Individual journal entries and notes can also be edited or deleted directly in the app.
- Deletion — delete your account yourself in the app (Profile → Delete account), which immediately and permanently erases your account and all of your data, or email us to request deletion.
- Revoke health access — at any time: iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Alke, or the Health Connect app’s permissions screen on Android.
- Turn off notifications — at any time, in your phone’s notification settings.
- Withdraw consent — where we rely on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time.
To exercise any of these, email joven.kemp@getalke.com. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under laws such as the GDPR or CCPA; we honour those rights and will not discriminate against you for exercising them.
9. Children
Alke is not intended for, and may not be used by, anyone under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has provided us data, contact us and we will delete it.
10. International transfers
Our providers may process and store data in countries other than your own. Where data is transferred internationally, we rely on the safeguards offered by those providers to protect it.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above, and, for material changes, take reasonable steps to notify you.
12. Contact
Questions or requests about this policy or your data: joven.kemp@getalke.com.