FinishStrong Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Lockson Holdings, LLC collects, uses, stores, and handles information in connection with the FinishStrong mobile application. FinishStrong is a product name only and is not a separate legal entity.

This policy is intentionally narrow and describes only the data practices that actually occur in the app.

See also: Terms of Service | Support

1. Who We Are

Lockson Holdings, LLC

United States based company

Contact: finishstrong@locksonholdings.com

FinishStrong is an iOS training plan application distributed through the Apple App Store.

2. What FinishStrong Does

FinishStrong generates personalized running training plans based on information you provide, including movement context, training availability, and feedback after workouts. The app uses this information to adjust future workouts through automated, rules based logic.

FinishStrong is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice.

3. Information You Provide in the App

FinishStrong processes information you voluntarily enter into the app, including:

Training Profile Information

FinishStrong processes limited onboarding information you provide to generate an initial training plan, including:

• Recent movement context: One selection describing recent activity level:
  • I have not really been active
  • I have been walking
  • I have done some short runs
• Running history (shown only if short runs are selected):
  • I stop after a while
  • I get hurt or sore and back off
  • I am in and out and never quite consistent
  • Running usually goes fine for me
• Current sensitivities:
  • Nothing specific
  • Old injury or recurring soreness
  • I just want to be extra cautious
• Available training days: Specific days of the week selected, typically two to four days
• Training goal and target date, if you set one (for example, a 5K, 10K, half marathon, or marathon plan). The 10K pickup has no target date.
• Medical safety acknowledgment: A one time confirmation that the app is not medical advice and users should consult a healthcare professional if needed

Post Workout Feedback

After each workout, FinishStrong collects simple feedback to guide future plan adjustments, including:

• Perceived effort: How did that feel: Easy, Right, or Hard
• Energy level: Fresh, A bit tired, or Dragging
• Confidence level: Ready, Unsure, or Hesitant
• Physical signals: None, Minor, or Concerning
• Workout completion status:
  • Completed as planned
  • Stopped early when the workout was more than 20 percent shorter than planned
  • Went longer when the workout was more than 20 percent longer than planned
• Overage acknowledgment: When a workout runs long, users indicate whether it felt good or whether they intend to stick to the plan next time

Behavioral Information

FinishStrong records limited behavioral signals related to workout execution, including:

• Workout completion status
• Actual workout duration compared to the planned duration

If you log a rest day, FinishStrong can store your selected reason, timestamp and optional note. The app also calculates consistency metrics from your plan and workout history for its Progress views. Recent running distance and pace are also used, on your device, to set the starting week of a free plan that takes over when a FinishStrong+ subscription ends.

4. How Your Data Is Stored

All training, workout, and fitness-related data is stored on your device.

Lockson Holdings does not receive, access, or store this data on company servers.

Workouts read from Apple Health are stored only on your device, just like workouts recorded in FinishStrong. This information is not transmitted to Lockson Holdings, Firebase, or any other third party. See Section 6 for more information about Apple Health.

5. Device Permissions

FinishStrong may request access to certain device features to provide app functionality:

• Notifications: Used to remind you of scheduled workouts and, if you use FinishStrong+, to send notices about your free trial or subscription, such as when it is about to end. You can turn these notices off in FinishStrong Settings > Subscription Updates.
• Location services during workouts: Used to measure distance during a run
• Apple Health: Optional for FinishStrong+ subscribers. Used to import running and walking workouts and, if enabled, save workouts recorded in FinishStrong to Apple Health.

Location data is processed on device. Only total distance is stored. Exact GPS coordinates are not retained and are not transmitted off the device.

All permissions are optional and can be managed through your device settings. If permissions are disabled, some features may not function as intended.

6. Apple Health

For FinishStrong+ subscribers who choose to connect it, FinishStrong works with Apple Health.

What we read: Running and walking workouts stored in Apple Health, including their dates, duration, distance, and whether they were recorded indoors. For eligible outdoor workouts, FinishStrong can also read an available workout route to display a map while you view the workout. We do not read heart rate.

Why we read it: so runs and walks recorded on your watch or in other apps can count toward your plan and inform how your plan adjusts.

While FinishStrong+ is active and Apple Health import is turned on, FinishStrong can check for new workouts in the background. When FinishStrong+ is not active, import and background checks pause, and workouts already imported stay in your history. During eligible setup flows, it can also read running and walking activity from the previous 56 days to suggest your recent activity level. You can change the suggestion. That setup query does not save copies of the workouts.

Workout routes are read for display and are not saved by FinishStrong. Displaying the map requests map imagery from Apple, which handles those requests under its own privacy policy. Route access requires Apple Health permission.

What we write: if you turn on "Save workouts to Apple Health," workouts you record in FinishStrong can be saved to Apple Health.

Where it is processed: on your device. Health data never leaves your phone. It is never transmitted to our servers or anyone else's, never included in analytics or crash reports, and never shared with or sold to any third party.

Advertising: health data is never used for advertising or marketing of any kind.

Your control: if you are a FinishStrong+ member, you can turn off importing or saving at any time using the toggles in FinishStrong's own Apple Health section in Settings, and you can revoke the connection entirely at any time in iOS Settings > Privacy & Security > Health. FinishStrong's Delete All Data removes the app's copies of imported workouts. Deleting a workout in Apple Health does not delete the app's record of it, and deleting the app's record never deletes anything from Apple Health.

This feature is part of FinishStrong+. The free tier is unaffected.

7. In-App Purchases and Subscriptions

FinishStrong offers an optional paid subscription (FinishStrong+). All payment processing is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Lockson Holdings, LLC does not collect, receive, store, or have access to your payment information, credit card details, or Apple ID credentials.

The app caches your subscription status locally on your device so it can determine which features to enable. This cached status includes the subscription tier and expiration date only. No payment or billing information is stored by the app.

8. Health and Fitness Data Clarification

FinishStrong processes fitness related information on your device to generate and adjust your training plan. Analytics receives only the categories listed in Section 9. It never receives Apple Health data or the symptoms you report.

• The app is not a medical professional
• The app does not provide medical advice
• Training adjustments are automated and rules based
• No diagnoses, treatment decisions, or medical recommendations are made

You should consult a qualified healthcare professional before beginning or modifying any exercise program.

9. Analytics and Crash Reporting

FinishStrong uses Google Firebase Analytics to understand how the app is used and to improve the experience. This service collects usage data not linked to your identity, such as which screens are viewed, which features are used, and general app interaction patterns.

What is collected:

• Event data (e.g., workout started, plan created, feature tapped)
• Device type, operating system version, and app version
• General usage patterns and session information
• App events can include workout duration, planned duration, session type and completion-percentage bands. These event fields are not complete workout records.
• Your post-run answer to "How did that feel" (Easy, Right, or Hard)
• Subscription purchase events with the plan type, the price, the purchase value and currency, and the trial price and currency when a free trial starts. Payment card and billing details stay with Apple and are never seen by us.
• Paywall views and plan choices, with the prices shown and their currency
• A device identifier assigned by Firebase (the Identifier for Vendor), used for analytics only
• If you installed the app through an Apple Search Ads campaign, the campaign and ad group numbers, used to measure our own advertising
• Plan setup choices: the plan type you chose, the starting group the app places you in, your starting ability from a fixed list of walking and jogging time bands, whether that starting point came from your setup answers or from your recent runs on your device, how long plan setup took, and how many days passed before your first planned run
• Setup and first-workout steps: which setup screens and first-workout screens you completed, viewed or skipped, and a short code for why a step was skipped, such as declining an offer
• Plan adjustments: the names of the plan's adjustment checks, whether each check applied, which adjustment cards you were shown or dismissed, the kind of change the app made to your plan and the week it started, how long each change lasted and how it ended, whether a week was held, protected or progressed, and which change-up runs you completed
• Safety pauses: when what you report after a workout matches one of the app's safety rules, the app pauses or changes the plan. The app records that a safety pause happened and whether it paused the plan or changed it. It never records which symptom or pattern you reported. This record is not Apple Health data.
• Skipped and moved runs: the reason you pick when you skip a planned run, chosen from a short fixed list (for example, "Life Got Busy" or "Wasn't Feeling Well"), how many sessions you had missed when the prompt appeared, and the choice you make on the "Can't do this today?" sheet (move, rest, or already did)
• Time away and returning: the number of days since your last logged workout when you add one by hand, the length of a break in a broad band when you return, the choice you make when you return (log past runs or start fresh), whether you saved past runs at that point, and, each time the app opens, the number of days since you installed it and your current plan week
• Workout activity: your running total of completed workouts, the number of sessions you completed in the previous plan week, how your first workout was recorded (live in the app or entered by hand), whether a session was an interval session, and whether a workout ended early because the app was closed or moved to the background
• Goal plans: whether a goal plan's extension started or ended and how it ended, the choice you make when a goal plan completes (continue on maintenance, a 10K, or dismiss the sheet), race-readiness advisories and the steer you choose from one, and whether a goal attempt was recorded in the app
• Reminders, prompts and settings: whether notifications are allowed and when the permission prompt was shown, whether you allowed location for a workout, which kind of notification you opened, whether a subscription reminder was scheduled or held back and why, your interval audio setting, where the FinishStrong+ offer appeared, whether you accepted or dismissed the upgrade banner and the rating prompt, and when you start a training plan from Settings
• Apple Health and Apple Watch settings: whether Apple Health is connected, when a connection started or finished, whether import and saving to Apple Health are switched on or off, and how many scheduled Apple Watch workouts were removed when your plan changed. These are settings and counts of FinishStrong workouts. No value read from Apple Health is sent.
• Subscription status and price lists: whether a subscription ended and whether it was a free trial, the result of a restore purchase, whether the price list loaded fully, partly or not at all, and the country of your App Store storefront and the app version at that point
• Error and recovery codes: a short code, never the error text, when a plan cannot be built, a save fails, a data reset runs, or the data recovery screen is shown

What is NOT collected:

• Your name, email address, or Apple ID
• Complete workout records
• Location data or GPS coordinates (analytics records only whether you allowed location when asked, never your GPS location or coordinates)
• Payment card or billing details

Analytics data is not linked to your identity. It is used solely to understand aggregate usage patterns, improve app features, and support advertising efforts. Data is retained for 14 months and then automatically deleted.

You can turn off usage analytics and crash-report collection in FinishStrong Settings > Privacy > Share anonymous usage data.

Crash and Diagnostic Data

FinishStrong uses Google Firebase Crashlytics to detect, diagnose, and fix crashes and stability problems. When the app crashes or hits a serious error, Crashlytics collects a diagnostic report so we can find and fix the cause.

What is collected:

• Crash logs and stack traces
• Device state at the time of a crash (available memory, device model, operating system and app version)
• Basic performance and stability diagnostics (for example, app launch and responsiveness signals)

What is NOT collected:

• Your name, email address, or Apple ID
• Workout details, training plan data, or post-run feedback
• Location data or GPS coordinates
• Payment or subscription details

Crash and diagnostic data is not linked to your identity and is used solely to improve the app's stability and reliability.

Apple Health data never reaches Firebase Analytics or Firebase Crashlytics and is never included in analytics events, crash reports, or diagnostic reports.

Limited local logging also occurs for development and debugging purposes only. This information remains on the device.

10. Security

FinishStrong uses reasonable technical safeguards designed to protect information stored within the app on your device.

Because all data is stored locally, the security of your information depends in part on your device settings, passcode, and operating system protections. Lockson Holdings, LLC does not have access to your locally stored training data.

11. Data Sharing

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information.

Data is shared only in the following limited circumstances:

• As required to comply with applicable law or legal process

12. Data Retention and Deletion

Because FinishStrong stores data locally:

• Your data remains on your device unless you delete it
• Deleting the app removes locally stored data from that device

Lockson Holdings, LLC cannot access or delete your training data on your behalf.

FinishStrong's Delete All Data feature removes the app's copies of workouts imported from Apple Health, but it does not delete anything stored in Apple Health. Deleting a workout in Apple Health does not delete FinishStrong's existing record of that workout. Disconnecting Apple Health stops future reads and writes but does not retroactively delete information already stored in either FinishStrong or Apple Health.

13. Your Choices and Controls

You control your data through:

• What information you enter into the app
• Device level permissions
• App deletion

14. Children's Privacy

FinishStrong is rated 9+ on the Apple App Store. The app is not designed specifically for children and is intended to be used with appropriate supervision.

FinishStrong does not knowingly collect personal information from children for server side processing or storage. Training and workout records entered into the app stay on the user's device. Usage analytics and crash reports are described in Section 9.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child has used the app in a way that raises concerns, you may contact us at finishstrong@locksonholdings.com

15. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If changes are made, the updated version will be made available within the app or through the App Store listing.

Continued use of the app after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

16. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact:

Lockson Holdings, LLC

Email: finishstrong@locksonholdings.com