Avela Privacy Policy
Effective date: 23 October 2026
The short version
Avela keeps your data on your iPhone. We have no servers, no accounts, no analytics, no ads and no tracking. We never see, sell or share your health information.
1. Who we are
Avela is made by ArtingSoft, Ukraine. If you have any question about this policy or your data, write to artingsoft@gmail.com.
2. What Avela stores, and where
What you enter in the app:
- your name (optional);
- your answers in the welcome quiz: goal, activity level, cycle and period length, the date of your last period, your contraception method, what bothers you before your period, how you sleep;
- your daily check-ins: mood, energy, stress, symptoms, period flow, water, and sexual activity (protected or unprotected);
- saved recipes, practices and articles, your daily plan, challenge progress and settings.
From Apple Health, only if you allow it: sleep, heart rate variability (HRV), resting heart rate, steps, wrist temperature during sleep, workouts and menstrual flow, plus symptoms, mood, water and sexual activity that you logged in Health or in other apps.
All of this is stored only on your device, in Avela's own storage, protected by iOS data protection (it is encrypted and unreadable while your iPhone is locked). It is not sent to us or to anyone else. Avela works the same way without an internet connection.
Avela never stores your data in iCloud or on any server. If you use your device's own backup (iCloud Backup or a computer), that backup includes the data of your apps, Avela's too; device backups are made, encrypted and protected by Apple under your own settings.
3. Apple Health
Avela reads Health data only with your permission, to estimate your cycle and to compare how you sleep, recover and feel with your own usual. If you allow it, Avela also writes what you log in Avela (period flow, symptoms, mood, water and sexual activity) to Apple Health, so your records stay in one place and reach your other Apple devices.
Data from Apple Health is never used for advertising or marketing, never sold, and never shared with third parties. You can change what Avela can read or write at any time: Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices → Avela.
4. Widgets
To show your cycle day on the Home Screen and Lock Screen, Avela gives its own widgets on the same iPhone a small copy of your name, the start of your last period, your cycle and period length and your contraception method. This copy never leaves the device.
5. Notifications
Morning notes and reminders are scheduled on your iPhone; no notification server is involved. By default the Lock Screen shows only "Your note for today", so nobody glancing at your phone sees details about your cycle. You can change this in Profile.
6. Backup file
Avela creates a backup file only when you ask for it, and you choose where to save it (for example, in Files). The file contains all your Avela data, so anyone who has the file can read it: keep it somewhere safe. We never receive it.
7. Things you share yourself
The partner note and other share buttons open the standard iOS share sheet. Nothing is sent unless you choose a recipient and send it yourself.
8. Purchases
Subscriptions are sold and managed by Apple through the App Store. We never receive your payment details. The app checks with the App Store on your device whether your subscription is active. Apple gives us sales reports that do not identify you. Apple's handling of your purchase is described in Apple's Privacy Policy.
9. Analytics
Avela contains no analytics, advertising or tracking tools of its own or from third parties. If you have chosen in your iPhone settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple may give us aggregated statistics such as downloads and crash reports. These do not include your health data and do not identify you.
10. What we don't do
- No accounts or sign-in.
- No servers that store your data.
- No ads, and no tracking across apps or websites.
- No selling or renting of data, and no data brokers.
- No processing of your data by AI services outside your device.
11. Your control and your rights
- You can see and edit everything you logged in the app, including any earlier day in the calendar.
- Profile → Delete all data erases everything Avela has stored on your device.
- Deleting the app also removes Avela's data from the device. Records that Avela wrote to Apple Health stay in Health until you delete them there.
- Because we hold no data about you, there is nothing on our side to access, correct, export or delete. You stay in full control on your device.
If you live in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Ukraine or anywhere else with data protection laws, you have rights over your personal data, including access, correction and deletion. Since Avela does not send us any personal data, you can exercise them directly in the app. You can also contact us at artingsoft@gmail.com or your local data protection authority.
12. Children
Avela is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect any data from them.
13. Not medical advice
Avela offers general wellness information. It is not a medical device, does not diagnose or treat any condition, and is not a method of contraception. Always talk to a doctor about health concerns.
14. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top. If a change affects how your data is handled, we will also tell you in the app before it takes effect.
15. Contact
ArtingSoft, artingsoft@gmail.com