1. Who we are
TORCH™ (“TORCH”, “we”, “us”) is operated by MotorNation Holdings LLC, a Florida limited liability company. This policy explains what information TORCH handles, why, who processes it for us, and the choices you have. It applies to the TORCH iPhone app. TORCH is offered in the United States to adults 18 and older.
2. Information we collect and why
| Category | What | Why | Where it's kept |
|---|---|---|---|
| Account | A Sign in with Apple identifier and a TORCH account ID. We do not request your email address and never display it or Apple's private-relay address. | To sign you in and keep your data tied to you. | Our database provider (Supabase) |
| Profile | First and last name; your answer that you are 18 or older (not your birth date); the sex option you choose (Male, Female, or Prefer not to say); height; starting, current and goal weight; goal and pace; activity level; daily targets; units; fasting schedule; dietary style, foods you like or dislike, and allergies you enter; reminder settings. | To calculate your plan and personalize coaching. | Your iPhone and Supabase |
| Things you log | Meals (name, portion, calories, protein, carbs, fat, logging method), water, weigh-ins, fasting sessions, body measurements, badges you unlock. | To run the app and keep your history when you change phones. | Your iPhone and Supabase |
| Runs, walks and rides (Train tab) | When you record one: your GPS route (precise location, collected only while you are recording), time, distance, pace, calories, splits, and heart rate from a sensor you connect or from Apple Health. | To map and measure your session and show your training history. | Only on your iPhone, and in Apple Health if you allow it. Never uploaded to our servers. Your route is never sent to Alex or any AI; Alex may see a session's type, time, duration, distance and calories. |
| Heart rate sensor (Bluetooth) | If you connect one (for example Whoop, a Polar or Garmin strap): its name and its live heart rate readings. | To show your heart rate while you train. | Only on your iPhone, saved with the session. |
| Apple Health (read) | If you allow it: steps, workouts (type, time, duration, distance, energy), heart rate during sessions you record, sleep, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, and weight. Blood glucose only if you connect a glucose monitor in TORCH. | To show your activity, sleep and recovery and to coach around them, and to show how your meals affect your glucose. | Read from Apple Health on your iPhone. Only weigh-ins are copied to your TORCH account (as weight history). Steps, sleep, workouts and heart data are not stored on our servers. Blood glucose stays on your iPhone: it is never uploaded and never sent to Alex or any AI. |
| Apple Health (write) | If you allow it: weigh-ins and meal nutrition you log in TORCH, and runs, walks and rides you record (with their routes, distance and calories). | So your other health apps stay in sync. | Apple Health on your iPhone |
| Progress / body photos | Photos you take in the Progress section. | For your own visual comparisons. | Only on your iPhone, encrypted when your phone is locked and excluded from device backups. Never uploaded, never sent to Alex or any AI, never included in analytics. |
| Meal photos | A meal photo you choose to analyze. | To estimate calories and macros. | Sent to our AI provider for that request only; not stored by TORCH. |
| Conversations with Alex | What you type to Alex and Alex's replies. Alex is text only: TORCH does not use your microphone. | To answer you. | Kept on your iPhone only while the Coach screen is open, then deleted. Not stored on our servers. See section 4 for AI processing. |
| Consent records | The versions of these documents you accepted, when, your app version, and the platform (iOS). | To keep a record of your agreement. | Supabase |
| AI feedback you send | If you report an Alex reply: the category you chose, an optional note, that reply, and the message that led to it. | To investigate and improve safety. | Supabase, up to 12 months |
| Security and service data | A per-account device-session ID (one active iPhone per account); records of AI requests (account ID, model, time) for rate limiting; a salted, one-way hash of your Apple identifier with your free-access start date. | To prevent abuse, enforce the one-device rule, and make sure the 7 free days are used once. | Supabase. Request records are deleted after 30 days. The free-access hash cannot be read back into your identity and contains no health data. |
| Purchases | Whether you have an active subscription. | To unlock TORCH. | Handled by Apple. We never receive your payment details. |
| Usage analytics | Which features are used (for example “a meal was logged by photo” or “a fast was started”), with app version, OS version, device type and an anonymized installation identifier. | To understand what works and what doesn't. | TelemetryDeck. Never includes weights, calories, meals, sleep scores, heart data, messages, photos, names or your account ID. |
Apart from the route of a session you choose to record (kept on your iPhone and in Apple Health, as described above), we do not collect your location. We do not collect your birth date, contacts, medical history, medications, diagnoses, lab results, insurance information, or reproductive-health information.
3. How we use information
- To provide TORCH: plans, tracking, reports, reminders, badges and Alex.
- To keep TORCH secure: sign-in, the one-active-iPhone rule, rate limits and abuse prevention.
- To provide support when you email us.
- To understand feature usage through anonymized analytics.
- To comply with law.
We do not sell or rent personal information or health data, share it for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising, show ads, or use identifiable information or health data to train AI models.
4. Alex and AI processing
Alex is an AI coach powered by Claude, a model from Anthropic, PBC. When you use an AI feature (chatting with Alex, analyzing a meal photo, describing a meal, a barcode verdict, your daily plan, or Alex's review of your monthly report, which you allow separately), TORCH sends Anthropic, through our secure server, only what that request needs: your message, the meal photo you chose, and a short summary of the data relevant to your question, identified by your first name only. For example, a question about steps includes your recent steps and step goal, not your meals or weight history. Your last name, account email, Apple identifier and progress photos are never sent. A monthly review includes only that month's averages and counts, never your glucose or meal names.
Health data exports and reports you create (PDFs and data packages) are made on your iPhone and go only where you choose to share them. TORCH never sends them to ChatGPT, Claude or any other service on its own.
TORCH does not store your conversations after the Coach screen closes. Anthropic processes requests to generate responses under its commercial terms, which state that inputs and outputs from API customers are not used to train its models, and it may retain them for a limited period for safety and abuse monitoring. See Anthropic's privacy policy for details. AI can make mistakes; see the AI & Wellness Disclaimer.
5. Service providers
| Provider | Role |
|---|---|
| Apple Inc. | Sign in with Apple, App Store purchases, Apple Health (on your device) |
| Supabase, Inc. | Database, authentication and server functions (United States region) |
| Anthropic, PBC | AI model provider for Alex |
| TelemetryDeck GmbH | Privacy-focused, anonymized usage analytics |
| Open Food Facts | Public food database; receives only a barcode number when you scan a product |
We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect the safety of any person, or as part of a merger or sale of the business (in which case this policy's commitments would continue to apply to your data).
6. Security
Data in transit is encrypted with HTTPS. Your account data is protected by row-level security so that only you, signed in as you, can read or change it. Our AI key and administrative credentials exist only on our servers, never in the app. Sessions are stored in the iOS Keychain, bound to your iPhone. You can add Face ID to open TORCH in Settings → Privacy & Security. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects you we will notify you as required by law.
We do not provide routine human access to your health or wellness data. Access to raw account data is limited to what is strictly necessary for security incidents or legal obligations.
7. Retention
- Your profile, logs and badges: while your account is active.
- Conversations with Alex: deleted from your iPhone when you leave the Coach screen; not stored by TORCH.
- AI request records: 30 days. AI feedback reports: up to 12 months.
- Inactive accounts: if an account has no active subscription and no activity for 24 months, we will give 30 days' notice where we are able to and then delete it.
- Deleted accounts: removed from our live database immediately. Our database provider's backups roll off within its backup window (typically up to 7 days).
8. Your choices and rights
- Access and export: Settings → Privacy & Security → Data & Privacy → Export My Data gives you a copy of everything TORCH holds about you in JSON and CSV.
- Correction: edit your name, profile, goals and individual entries in the app.
- Deletion: delete individual entries, or delete your account in Settings, which permanently deletes your account data from our database and clears TORCH's data on your iPhone.
- Apple Health: change what TORCH can read or write any time in the Health app.
- Notifications: turn reminders on or off in Settings.
Depending on your state, you may have additional rights, such as to know, access, correct, delete or obtain a copy of your personal data, to withdraw consent, and to appeal a decision about your request. Email info@motornationleasing.com to make a request. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights. See also our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy.
9. Adults only
TORCH is for adults 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has used TORCH, email us and we will delete the account.
10. Changes
If we make a material change, we will update this page and ask you to review it in the app before continuing. Earlier acceptances are kept on record.
11. Contact
MotorNation Holdings LLC · [BUSINESS MAILING ADDRESS REQUIRED BEFORE LAUNCH] · info@motornationleasing.com
TORCH™ is operated by MotorNation Holdings LLC, Florida, United States.
Mailing address: [BUSINESS MAILING ADDRESS REQUIRED BEFORE LAUNCH]
Contact: info@motornationleasing.com (email only)