What we collect
Gyde stores the account details you provide, the wellness information you choose to track, and any supported integration data you connect so the product can personalize coaching and keep your progress in sync.
Privacy
Privacy Policy
This notice explains how Gyde handles product data today. Last updated July 17, 2026.
How we use it
We use your data to power goal intake, daily coaching, progress views, notifications you opt into, and connected experiences such as Garmin sync. We do not need your data to do anything unrelated to the coaching experience.
Friends and private social spaces
Gyde has no public profile, searchable member directory, contact import, or friend-of-friend access. A private, single-use friend link expires after seven days. Accepting it creates a reciprocal connection containing only a display name, connection status and date, record version, and the internal account identifier used as the record key. A friendship alone does not expose health data, workout history, email, location, private Coach content, rooms, or challenges.
Workout rooms and challenges
Your one-to-one Coach chat, detailed sets, loads, RPE, pain notes, biometrics, and private workout drafts stay in your account. Workout rooms are separate, opt-in spaces: active participants can see the participant list, messages you send, and coarse set progress allowed by your privacy setting. Invite-only challenges expose the challenge definition, active roster, and authorized coarse scores derived from completed app workouts and activity summaries you chose to sync from Garmin or Strava; contributing provider names are shown with the score. Neither surface shares private Coach history, GPS routes, heart rate, or detailed workout drafts.
Your social privacy controls
The Privacy & Data dashboard lets you replace your name with "Gyde member" for confirmed friends and active friend links, stop live room progress, and clear challenge scores and provider attribution. These account-wide limits are enforced by the server for current and future social activity. Joining a room or challenge remains a separate explicit action, and room messages are shared only when you press Send.
How long we keep it
We keep account data while your account is active so your history, trends, and coaching context remain available. Either friend can remove a friendship immediately. Active workout rooms expire after 24 hours without activity; ended rooms and their sent messages are eligible for deletion after 30 days. Challenges are eligible for deletion 30 days after they end. Leaving or removal clears current coarse progress and ends your access, while an inactive membership may remain host-visible and room messages already sent remain visible to current participants until cleanup. Account deletion removes private app data, hosted rooms and challenges, and scrubs authored content in rooms hosted by someone else. Copies another person made and records held independently by payment or connected providers follow their own retention rules.
Questions
If you have privacy questions, contact the Gyde team before sharing sensitive health information you would not want stored in a coaching app.
Signed-in members can review and change social sharing in Privacy & Data settings.