Privacy Policy
Last updated: 6 October 2026
Minga RUNNER ("MingaRunner", "we") analyses your training and health data to give you performance audits, training plans and coaching. This policy explains what we collect, why, who we share it with, and the choices you have. It covers the website at www.mingarunner.com and the MingaRunner iPhone app.
Who is responsible
Elysium Sàrl, 36 Cardinal Mermillod, 1227 Geneva, Switzerland, is responsible for your data. Contact: admin@mingarunner.com.
What we collect
- Account details: name, email address, language and time zone. If you sign in with Apple, we receive an Apple user identifier and the email you choose to share (which may be an Apple private relay address).
- Training and health data from the services you connect:
- Garmin Connect: activities, daily health (steps, heart rate, sleep, stress, body battery, HRV, VO₂max, weight and more).
- Strava: activities, read-only (we never post or modify anything).
- Apple Health (iPhone app only): see the Apple Health section below.
- Garmin password: stored only if you authorise a coach to keep your data in sync, and then encrypted (AES-256-GCM). Otherwise it is used once to sign in and not stored.
- Things you give us: race goals, injuries, notes, feedback messages and your WhatsApp number if you add one.
- Payments: handled by Stripe. We store the payment status and amount, never your card details.
- Technical data: IP address and basic request logs, used for security.
Apple Health
With your permission, the MingaRunner iPhone app reads these Apple Health types: workouts and their GPS routes, heart rate, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, VO₂max, body weight and sleep. You choose which types to allow, and can change this any time in Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices → MingaRunner. MingaRunner never writes to Apple Health.
Apple Health data is used only to show your dashboard and to produce the analysis, training plans and coaching you ask for. Apple Health data is not sent to our AI provider. If we ever add AI analysis of Apple Health data, we will ask for your explicit consent first. We do not use it for advertising or marketing, do not sell it, and do not share it with data brokers. It is shared only with the service providers below that are needed to deliver those features, and with a coach only if you connect one.
How we use your data
- To show your dashboards, trends and activity history.
- To generate AI performance audits, training plans and weekly coaching, when you request them or subscribe to the AI Coach.
- To let a coach you connect see your data and build your plans.
- To send messages you opt into (email, WhatsApp).
- To process payments and keep the service secure.
Who we share it with
We share data only with these providers, and only what each needs:
| Provider | Purpose | Data |
|---|---|---|
| Contabo GmbH (EU) | Hosting our servers and database | All data we store |
| OpenRouter and the AI model it routes to (currently Google Gemini) | Generating your audits, plans and coaching | The Garmin or Strava training and health data needed for the analysis you request (not Apple Health data) |
| Garmin, Strava | Fetching your data from accounts you connect | Your sign-in or authorisation for those services |
| Apple | Sign in with Apple | Apple user identifier, sign-in tokens |
| Stripe | Payments | Email, payment details (entered with Stripe) |
| WhatsApp (Meta) | Messages you opt into | Your number and the messages sent |
| Cloudflare (cdnjs), Google Fonts | Loading charts and fonts | Your IP address, as for any web request |
Coaches you connect can see your activities, health data and plans until you revoke their access in Settings. We may disclose data if required by law.
Cookies
We use two cookies: a session cookie that keeps you signed in, and ui_lang, which remembers
your language. We do not use advertising or analytics cookies.
How long we keep it
We keep your data while your account exists. When you delete your account, we delete your account and all data linked to it, including exported files, and revoke Sign in with Apple. Server logs are kept for a short period for security.
Your rights
You can access, correct, export or delete your data, object to or restrict its processing, and withdraw consent at any time. Delete your account yourself in Settings → Delete account, export your data from Data & Analysis, or email us for anything else. You can also complain to the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) or, in the EU, to your local data protection authority.
Where data is processed
Our servers are in the European Union. Some providers (for example the AI model provider, Stripe and Apple) may process data in other countries, including the United States, under their own safeguards such as standard contractual clauses.
Young athletes
MingaRunner has no minimum age. If you are under 16, please use MingaRunner with the consent of a parent or guardian, who can also ask us to access or delete your data. If you believe a child's data was shared with us without that consent, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes
If we change this policy we will update the date above, and tell you in the app or by email for significant changes.