Imshi is a social steps app with optional personal modules. This page explains, plainly, what we collect and what we do with it. If anything here is unclear, email imshi@alqefari.app.
What we collect
- Step counts — Imshi's core feature. We read them from Apple Health (iOS) or Health Connect (Android) only after you grant access, and use them to show your daily total alongside your friends'.
- Optional Santé health data — only when you enable Santé in Settings and grant the related Apple Health access, Imshi reads workout sessions and their active energy, including activity type, start and end time, duration, overlapping steps, and source metadata. This keeps Santé's calorie balance accurate. Steps-only users do not send this workout data to Imshi.
- Account info — your name, verified email (when supplied), and profile photo from the sign-in provider you choose. Your provider's stable account identifier secures sign-in; your email is not used as the identity key.
- Username — the handle you pick. Visible to friends and to anyone searching to add you.
- Friend list — the people you add as friends and pending friend requests. Used to build your leaderboard and Inbox.
- Optional module content — only when you enable an optional module in Settings and choose to add content, Imshi stores the information needed to provide it, such as Santé meals, goals and body measurements; Notes content; and reading or library data.
- Restricted Money data — only for an account specifically authorized for Money, Imshi receives read-only banking data from the configured Endute connection and stores the account descriptors, masked account identifier, balances, transactions, recurring-payment facts, categories, notes, reimbursements, and manual adjustments needed to provide the feature. Imshi cannot move money or change your bank account.
- Diagnostic data — bounded crash, error, performance, sync, update, and device-health reports used to keep Imshi working. Reports may be linked to your account and paired devices so support can diagnose a problem you report. We redact credentials and reading content, restrict access to administrators, and automatically delete operational reports after their retention window.
What we don't collect
- Your location. Imshi never asks for location permission and never knows where you walked.
- Heart rate, sleep, or Apple Health categories other than step counts and the workout/active-energy data used by Santé when you explicitly enable it.
- Your contact list. Imshi never asks for contacts permission and never reads your address book.
- Advertising identifiers. We do not show ads, and we do not let anyone else use your data for ads.
Who can see what
Your step count, username, display name, and profile photo are visible to your friends — that's the point of the app. Your email, Santé health data, and Money data are not shown to friends. Optional-module content stays private except where a module explicitly offers friend visibility. In Library, accepted friends may see the non-hidden books and reading activity intended for sharing; private shelf notes, device identifiers, account IDs, and internal sync fields are never included in that friend view. We never sell data, and we never rent data.
How long we keep it
We retain your step entries and content you add while your account is active. Santé workout-energy records are automatically limited to roughly the most recent 120 days. Money records remain until you use Money's “Forget All” control or delete your account; removing them from Imshi does not change the source bank account or the banking aggregator's independent retention obligations. Deleting the app does not delete your account. The in-app deletion control immediately revokes access and scrubs identifying account fields, then starts a resumable background purge of the account's steps, friendships and memberships, optional-module content, uploaded files, credentials, diagnostics, and sync/support data. Safety passes repeat after roughly 24 hours and 30 days to catch work that was already queued, after which the deletion tombstone is removed. All data is encrypted in transit.
Children
Imshi is rated 4+ but is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has signed up, email us and we will delete the account.
Your choices
- Revoke Health access — iOS Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices → Imshi → toggle off. Imshi will continue to work, but your step number and any enabled Santé workout data will stop updating.
- Disable Santé — turn Santé off in Settings to stop new workout and active-energy imports. Existing workout-energy records remain subject to the retention period above or account deletion.
- Forget Money data — Money → Settings → Forget All disables Money and starts a bounded background purge of Imshi's Money records. This does not close or modify the source bank account.
- Delete your account — Settings → Delete account. Immediately revokes access and scrubs identifying account fields, then purges the account's social, Steps, Santé, Notes, Library/Reader, Money, Movies, uploaded-file, diagnostic, notification, sync, and support records in bounded background passes. Irreversible.
- Sign out — Settings → Sign out. Clears your session on this device.
Changes to this policy
If we materially change this policy, we will note it at the top of this page with a new "last updated" date.
Contact
Questions, concerns, or data requests: imshi@alqefari.app.