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Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how TicNut ("we") collects, uses, shares and protects the personal data of users of the TicNut app, a service for finding gym training partners. By using TicNut, you confirm that you have read and understood this Policy. The Portuguese version is the legally binding text; this translation is provided for convenience.
1. Controller and Data Protection Officer (DPO)
The controller of personal data processed in TicNut is TicNut, represented by its founder, Gustavo Gonçalves.
Data Protection Officer (DPO): Gustavo Gonçalves
Contact channel for data subjects: contato@ticnut.com
2. Data we collect
2.1 Registration data
- Name, e-mail address and date of birth (to verify that you are 18 or older);
- Gender, profile photos and training information you choose to include (gym, schedule, goals, level).
2.2 Location
- Approximate location, to suggest nearby gyms and partners;
- Location at check-in time, to validate gym attendance via geofencing. We do not continuously track your location in the background.
2.3 Content you create
- Chat messages, including photos and audio sent to other users;
- In-app interactions: likes, matches, training invites, check-ins, streaks and XP;
- Conversations with the AI Coach, used to generate replies and training plans.
2.4 Usage and device data
- Analytics data (screens viewed, usage events, crashes), device and instance identifiers, device model, operating system and language;
- Push notification token (FCM), if you allow notifications.
2.5 Purchase data
- Subscription status (Premium/Premium+), transaction history and purchase identifiers processed through RevenueCat and the Apple App Store and Google Play stores. We do not collect or store credit-card data — payment is handled entirely by the stores.
3. Purposes and legal bases (LGPD, art. 7)
- Performance of a contract: creating and maintaining your account, showing your profile to other users, matching, chat, check-ins, streaks/XP, the AI Coach and managing subscriptions;
- Consent: use of your location (approximate and at check-in) and push notifications. You may withdraw consent at any time in your device or app settings;
- Legitimate interest: community safety (fraud, spam and fake-profile prevention, trust and moderation systems), product analytics and crash diagnostics;
- Compliance with legal or regulatory obligations, where required by law or by a competent authority.
4. Data sharing
We never sell your personal data. We share data only with processors needed to run the service:
- Google LLC (Firebase) — authentication (Firebase Auth), database (Firestore), notifications (FCM), analytics (Google Analytics for Firebase) and crash reporting (Crashlytics). Servers in the United States;
- Cloudflare, Inc. (R2) — media storage (profile photos, chat photos and audio);
- Cloudflare, Inc. (Workers AI) — processing of AI Coach conversations (replies, training plans and your training memory);
- RevenueCat, Inc. — subscription management and validation of purchases made on the App Store and Google Play;
- Public authorities, where there is a legal obligation, court order or request from a competent authority.
Other users of the app see only your public profile information (name, age, photos, gym, goals and the training data you choose to display) and the content you send in conversations.
5. International data transfers
The processors listed above store and process data on servers located outside Brazil, mainly in the United States. These international transfers are carried out under art. 33 of the LGPD with appropriate safeguards, including standard contractual clauses, certifications and contractual data-protection commitments made by those providers, offering a level of protection compatible with Brazilian law.
6. Retention and deletion
- We keep your data while your account is active and for as long as needed for the purposes in this Policy;
- When you delete your account in the app (Profile → Settings → Delete account), all of your data is deleted in cascade: profile, photos, matches, messages, stored media (including files on Cloudflare R2), check-ins, streaks and the AI Coach history and memory;
- We may retain specific records for periods required by law (for example, access logs under the Brazilian Internet Framework and tax records of transactions) or for the regular exercise of rights in legal proceedings.
7. Your rights (LGPD, art. 18)
You may exercise, at any time and free of charge, the rights to:
- Confirmation that processing takes place and access to your data;
- Correction of incomplete, inaccurate or outdated data (editable directly in the app);
- Deletion of data — available in-app via account deletion, which erases everything in cascade, including media;
- Anonymization, blocking or deletion of unnecessary or excessive data;
- Portability of data to another provider, upon request;
- Information about sharing and about the possibility of not consenting;
- Withdrawal of consent (location and push) at any time.
To exercise any right, write to contato@ticnut.com. We will respond within the timeframes set by the LGPD. You may also petition Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD).
8. Security
We adopt technical and organizational measures to protect your data, including encryption in transit (TLS), restrictive database access rules, app integrity verification (App Check), authenticated access control, and moderation and trust systems to protect the community. No system is 100% secure; in the event of a relevant security incident, we will notify you and the ANPD as required by the LGPD.
9. Minors
TicNut is intended exclusively for people 18 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect data from minors. Date of birth is required at sign-up for age verification, and accounts identified as belonging to minors are deleted.
10. Cookies and identifiers
The app does not use browser cookies, but it does use device and instance identifiers for authentication, analytics, crash diagnostics and push notifications. The ticnut.com website does not use third-party tracking cookies.
11. Changes to this Policy
We may update this Policy from time to time. Material changes will be communicated in the app or by e-mail before they take effect. The effective date at the top indicates the current version. Continued use of TicNut after changes take effect constitutes acknowledgement of the new version.
12. Governing law and venue
This Policy is governed by the laws of the Federative Republic of Brazil, in particular the LGPD (Law No. 13,709/2018) and the Brazilian Internet Framework (Law No. 12,965/2014). The courts of the data subject's domicile in Brazil are elected to resolve disputes, in accordance with consumer-protection legislation.
13. Contact
Questions about this Policy or your data: contato@ticnut.com.