Privacy policy

Last updated: 7 November 2026

1. Who we are

Renova is run by Euan Evatt, trading as Renova, a sole trader based in the United Kingdom ("we", "us"). We are the data controller for the personal data described in this policy.

Contact: support@myrenova.app

This policy explains what personal data the Renova app and website (myrenova.app) collect, why, who we share it with, and your rights under UK data protection law (the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018).

2. What we collect

Information you give us

• Account details: your email address and password. Passwords are stored in scrambled (hashed) form, so we can't see them.
• Goals: goal names, which days they repeat, reminder times, and which days you ticked them off.
• Journal: the titles and text you write, and their dates.
• Workouts: your workout plan, the answers you give when asking for a plan (goal, experience, training days, equipment), and the workouts you log (exercises, weights, reps, times, distances).
• Nutrition: your goal, sex, age, height, weight and activity level (used to work out your daily targets), your calorie and protein targets, the food you log, your meal plan preferences (budget, diet, meals a day, cooking time, foods to avoid), your meal plans and your shopping list.
• Food photos: if you use photo calorie estimates. See section 4.
• Messages you send us: if you email support, we receive your email address and whatever you write.

Information collected automatically

• Subscription status: whether you have an active subscription or free trial, which plan, and when it renews. This comes from Apple or Google through our subscription provider. We never see your card or bank details.
• AI usage counts: a record of when you request an AI plan, meal swap or photo estimate, so we can apply fair daily limits.
• Technical data: like any online service, our providers process your IP address and basic device and app information to deliver the service and keep it secure.

We do not use advertising, analytics or tracking tools, and we don't access your contacts, location or photo library beyond a single photo you choose to scan.

Information that stays on your phone

Goal reminders are scheduled on your phone itself (local notifications) and aren't sent through our servers. Your phone also stores your login session and your reminder on/off setting.

3. Health information

Some of what you enter, such as your weight, height, calorie intake, meals and workouts, may count as health data, a "special category" of personal data under UK law. We only process it with your explicit consent, which we ask for when you create your account. We use it only to provide Renova's features to you.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by deleting your account (Settings → Delete account) or by emailing us. Because Renova's features depend on this information, we can't provide the app without it.

4. AI features

Renova uses Anthropic's Claude AI to:

• build workout plans (using your workout form answers),
• build and swap meal plans (using your calorie and protein targets and your meal plan preferences),
• estimate the food and calories in a photo you take or choose.

Only the details needed for each request are sent. Your name and email address are not included. Food photos are sent once to make the estimate and are never stored by us. Anthropic processes this data on our behalf under its commercial terms. It does not use it to train its AI models, and it may keep it for a limited time for safety and abuse monitoring.

AI results can be wrong. Always check them. See our terms of use.

5. Why we use your data (lawful bases)

We don't use your data for automated decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects on you.

6. Who we share it with

We don't sell your personal data. We share it only with the service providers below, who process it on our behalf and only as needed to run Renova:

Apple and Google handle payments for subscriptions. They act under their own privacy policies, not ours.

We may also share data if the law requires it, or to protect the rights, safety or property of our users or others.

7. International transfers

Some providers are based outside the UK, for example in the United States. When your data is transferred abroad, we make sure it's protected by safeguards recognised under UK law, such as the UK–US data bridge, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or Addendum, or UK adequacy regulations.

8. How long we keep it

• Your account and everything in it: until you delete your account. Deleting your account in the app permanently removes your account and all its data from our database straight away. Copies may remain in our hosting provider's backups for a limited period before they're overwritten.
• Food photos: not stored by us at all.
• Support emails: for as long as we need them to help you, and normally no longer than 2 years.

Deleting your account doesn't cancel a subscription with Apple or Google. Cancel that in your store account.

9. Your rights

Under UK data protection law you have the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you,
• have it corrected if it's wrong (you can edit most things in the app),
• have it deleted (use Settings → Delete account, or email us),
• restrict or object to how we use it,
• get a copy in a portable format (data portability),
• withdraw consent at any time, where we rely on consent.

To use any of these rights, email support@myrenova.app from your account's email address. We'll reply within one month. It's free.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, please contact us first so we can try to fix it. You also have the right to complain to the UK's data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO): ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint.

10. Security

Your data is sent over encrypted connections. Access to your data in our database is restricted so that each account can only see its own data. Our secret keys are kept on our servers, never in the app. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable steps to protect your data and will tell you and the ICO if a serious breach happens, as the law requires.

11. Age

Renova is for people aged 16 and over. We don't knowingly collect data from anyone younger. If you believe someone under 16 has created an account, email us and we'll delete it.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as Renova changes. We'll change the "Last updated" date above, and if the changes are significant we'll let you know in the app or by email before they take effect.

13. Contact

Euan Evatt, trading as Renova
Email: support@myrenova.app