Privacy policy

Last updated 26 October 2026

Movearium is a training library and log for aerial, circus and pole athletes. We collect what the app needs to work, we don't sell your data, and we don't show ads or track you across other apps.

Who we are

Movearium is operated by Loepfe Consulting FZCO, licence number 56774, Premise Number 56774-001, IFZA Business Park, DDP, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We decide how your data is used and we are responsible for it (in GDPR terms, we are the controller). Questions, requests or complaints about your data: support@movearium.com. A person reads every message.

This policy covers the Movearium app on iPhone and Android and this website.

What we collect

Your account: your email address and, if you sign in with Apple or Google, the name they share with us. If you sign up with email, your password is stored only in a scrambled form we can't read.
Your profile: display name, username, bio, profile photo, cover photo, the apparatus you train, your portfolio (photos and videos, with their captions and credits), and any links you add (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, a website, a contact email, and other links you name).
Your training: the videos and photos you upload, and the moves, routines, lists, sessions and events you create, and the challenge entries you post. Sessions can include the date, a place you type in, notes, and how you felt (energy, flexibility, fear, soreness).
Your connections: who you follow, who you block, and reports you send. Also any feedback you send in the app, with the app version and phone type, read only by the Movearium team.
Your settings: appearance, notification preference, and whether new moves start private. If you turn notifications on, we also store your device push token, which lets notifications reach your phone.
Technical logs: when your phone talks to our servers, our hosting provider records technical details such as your IP address, the time and what was asked for. We use them only to keep Movearium secure and working.
Messages to us: if you email us, we keep your email address and what you wrote, so we can answer.
Newsletter (website only): your email address, if you sign up on movearium.com.

We use your camera, microphone and photo library only when you choose to film or pick something. Before a video leaves your phone, the app removes the place it was filmed and other hidden details from the file. On the Free plan, the app makes a smaller copy of each video on your phone and backs up that copy, not the full-size file. Free backs up to 2 GB of videos. Photos are saved again without their location before they are uploaded.

If you allow it, Movearium uses your phone's location to show events near you. The app asks your phone for a rough position once, and your phone's own map service (Apple's on iPhone, Google's on Android) turns it into a city and a country. Only that city and country are sent to us, to filter the events list. The position itself is never sent to us or kept.

We don't collect your contacts or advertising identifiers, and the app contains no advertising trackers and no third party analytics. If the app crashes, a crash report (the error, the app version and your phone type, with no name, email or content) is processed by Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.) on servers in the EU. Sentry also counts how many app sessions of each version end without a crash, with no name, email or content.

Usage data

To make Movearium better, the app records simple usage data: which screens and features are used, how long the app is open, the app version, and whether your phone is an iPhone or an Android phone. It never records your videos, photos, notes, names or anything you type, your location, your contacts or an advertising identifier. It goes to our own database, never to a third party, and it is never used for advertising or to track you across other apps. Each record carries your account ID so we can count people rather than taps; it is never shown to anyone, and only the Movearium team reads the totals. We keep it for 13 months, or until you delete your account. To turn it off, open Settings, go to Privacy and switch off Share usage data. Nothing more is recorded or sent from that phone.

The switch is saved on each phone, so if you use Movearium on more than one phone, switch it off on each one.

Who can see what

Private by default. New moves and routines are visible only to you until you make them public. Sessions are always private: they are never shown on your profile or to anyone else. You can still share a session as an image you make on your phone. Your profile shows a count of this week's sessions only if you turn it on: a number only, never which sessions.

Public items can be seen by other signed-in Movearium users. Your profile basics (name, username, bio, photos, the apparatus you train, your portfolio photos and videos with their captions and credits, your links and follower counts) are also visible to signed-in users. If your account is in Private mode, only your name, username and profile photo are shown. Your portfolio and your links are never shown to anyone you've blocked or who has blocked you, and nobody sees them while your account is in Private mode. Signed-in people can see who you follow and who follows you, unless you turn on Private mode. Your profile also shows signed-in users the month you joined and whether you are a founding member. If you turn it on, your profile shows how many sessions you logged this week, never the sessions themselves. None of this is shown if your account is set to Private mode, or to anyone you've blocked or who has blocked you. Challenge entries are public. When you post a clip to a Movearium challenge, that one clip, the name of the move and your caption can be seen by every signed-in Movearium user, on the challenge and in the feed. The rest of your library stays private. Finishing a challenge shows a small badge on your profile; how far along you are is shown only to you. You can delete an entry at any time. Accounts in Private mode can't post entries, and nobody you've blocked, or who has blocked you, sees your entries.

Never shared: your sessions, session notes and how you felt, the email address you sign in with, and your drafts. A move with no clips is a draft, and it stays visible only to you, even if it is set to public. Some things are shared only with the people you choose: a list you share with a class is seen by that class, and attempts you share with your teacher are seen by that teacher. When your teacher opens an attempt you shared, you see that it was seen; nobody else does. Notes on a list you share with a class are seen by that class. Tags and session options you make yourself are only ever seen by you. Events you post are always public to signed-in users, even if you never make anything else public. Once you block someone, they can't see your moves, clips, routines, sessions or events, and you can't see theirs. Your name, username and bio stay visible to them, as they are to every signed-in user; your photos, event flyers, portfolio and links do not. Your ratings on a move (its status, your confidence, the fear factor and how hard it is) are never shown to anyone else, even when the move is public or shared with a class. The note you write on a clip is only ever seen by you, even when the clip is public or shared with a class.

Shared by you. Anyone who can see something you made public can also film their screen or tell others about it. Only make public what you are happy for other people to see.

How we use it

To run the app: store your library, show your profile, and power follows, classes, challenges, events and the feed. To notify you about new followers, and about what your teacher shares with your class, only if you turn notifications on.
To send you emails your account needs, such as a code or a link to reset your password. We don't send marketing emails from the app.
To keep the community safe: text you post is checked for abusive words before it is saved, and when someone reports content, we get an email so we can review it within 24 hours. Decisions to remove videos or accounts are made by a person.
To keep Movearium secure and working: technical logs, crash reports, and, if we switch it on, a check at sign-up and sign-in that stops bots.
To make Movearium better: usage data, as explained above, and the feedback you send.
To answer your messages and requests, and to meet our legal duties.
To send beta invites and launch news, only if you signed up on the website. You can unsubscribe at any time.

We don't sell or rent your data, and we don't use it for advertising. We don't use your videos, photos or notes to train AI models.

Why we're allowed to use it

Privacy laws such as the GDPR ask us to name a legal reason for each use.

To give you the app you signed up for (a contract with you): your account, your library, your profile, follows, classes, challenges, events and the emails your account needs.
Our legitimate interests, weighed against yours: keeping the community safe, keeping Movearium secure, crash reports, usage data and answering messages. You can object to any of these by emailing us, and you can switch usage data off yourself.
Your consent: notifications, your location for events near you, your camera, microphone and photos, and the newsletter. You give it through your phone's permission prompts or the website form, and you can take it back at any time in your phone's settings or by unsubscribing.
The law: when we must keep a record or answer a lawful request from an authority.

How you felt in a session, and what you write in session notes, can say something about your health, such as soreness or an injury. You choose whether to add it, it is only ever shown to you, and you can change or delete it at any time. We use it only to show it back to you, because you asked us to by adding it.

Payments

Payments are not switched on yet. At launch every account is on the Free plan, nothing in the app can be bought, and the app sends nothing to a payment service.

When paid plans start, you will buy Movearium Pro through the App Store or Google Play; Movearium never sees your card or bank details. We will use RevenueCat, Inc. to check which subscription you have. RevenueCat will receive your Movearium account ID (a random identifier, not your name or email), the products you bought, the dates and status of your purchases, and the technical details it needs to verify them (such as the app version, your phone's system version and your country or region). RevenueCat keeps its own record of these purchases. See https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy. We will update this page before payments start.

Services we use

These companies process data for us, only to provide their service to Movearium and under data protection terms that bind them to protect it.

Supabase: database, file storage and sign-in. Your app data is stored in the EU (Ireland).
Apple and Google: Sign in with Apple and Google, if you choose them. Apple Push Notification service (on iPhone) and Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging (on Android) deliver notifications to your phone, if you turn them on. Your phone's map service turns a rough position into a city, if you use events near you.
Sentry: crash reports, on servers in the EU.
Resend: sends the emails your account needs (such as resetting your password), and sends us an email when a report is filed.
Cloudflare: if we switch it on, a check at sign-up and sign-in that stops bots (Turnstile). Cloudflare sees technical details about your phone and connection, such as your IP address.
RevenueCat: only once paid plans start, checks which subscription you have. See revenuecat.com/privacy.
Kit: the website newsletter.
Netlify: hosts this website and keeps a backup of newsletter sign-ups. This website sets no cookies and has no analytics.

Where your data is

Movearium is run from the United Arab Emirates and New Zealand, and your app data is stored in the EU (Ireland), where our hosting provider runs our database. Our team and some providers may access or process data from other countries, including the United States, where most of the companies above are based. Wherever that happens, we protect it the same way and use the safeguards the law requires, such as the EU and UK standard contractual clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. You can ask us for a copy of these safeguards.

How long we keep it

Your account and everything in it: while your account exists. When you delete your account in the app (Settings), we delete your profile, your content and your uploaded files straight away. See how to delete your account, including if you can’t sign in.
Things you delete yourself (a move, a clip, a session): deleted straight away, with their files.
Backups: our hosting provider keeps backup copies of the database for disaster recovery. Deleted data drops out of them within 7 days.
Usage data: 13 months, or until you delete your account.
Crash reports: up to 90 days, at Sentry.
Technical logs: up to 7 days.
Reports: a report you send is deleted if you delete your account. Reports about content are kept while they are needed to keep the community safe, and no longer than 2 years after they are closed.
Emails to us: as long as we need to answer you, and no longer than 2 years.
Newsletter addresses: until you unsubscribe. We then delete the backup copy at Netlify too.
Your device push token: deleted when you sign out on that device or delete your account.
A deletion record: after you delete your account, we keep a small record that your files were deleted, holding only your random account ID, so we can check nothing was left behind.

How we protect it

Everything between the app and our servers travels encrypted (HTTPS), and our hosting provider stores it encrypted. Database rules check every request, so each person can only read what they are allowed to see. Videos and photos lose their location before they leave your phone. Deleting your account needs a fresh sign-in. Only the small Movearium team can reach the data, and only to run and support the app. If a breach ever puts your data at risk, we will tell you and the authorities where the law requires.

Your rights

You have the same rights wherever you live. You can see, correct and delete most of your data yourself in the app. You can also ask us:

for a copy of your data, including in a form you can take to another service;
to correct it or delete it;
to stop using it, or to use it only in limited ways, for example while we check a complaint;
to stop a use based on our legitimate interests;
what we hold about you and why.

Email support@movearium.com, if you can from the address you signed up with, so we know it's you. It's free. We reply within 30 days; if a request is complex we may need up to two more months, and we'll tell you why. Where you gave consent, you can take it back at any time; that doesn't affect what we did before.

Depending on where you live, local privacy law also protects you. Examples are the UAE Personal Data Protection Law, the EU and UK GDPR, the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 and US state privacy laws such as California's. If you're unhappy with how we handled a request, you can complain to your local data protection authority, for example the UAE Data Office, the UK Information Commissioner's Office or the authority in your EU country. We'd like the chance to put it right first, so please write to us too.

If you live in the US: we don't sell your personal information or share it for advertising, and we use the things you tell us about how you felt only to show them back to you. If your state's law gives you rights, email us and we will honour them. We will never treat you differently for using them.

Children

Movearium isn't intended for children under 16, and we don't knowingly collect data from them. If you think a child has created an account, contact us and we'll remove it and its data.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update this page and the date at the top. For significant changes, we'll let you know in the app before they take effect, and if a change needs your consent, we'll ask for it.