Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 25, 2026

Who we are

Anlan (Anlan: Meditation Insights on the App Store) is a meditation insights app for Apple Watch and iPhone, made by an independent developer. In this policy, "Anlan", "we" and "us" mean the developer of the app. This policy covers the Anlan app and this website, anlanmeditation.com. The two are separate: nothing from the app comes to the website.

The Anlan app

What "no data collected" means

In the App Store's privacy terms, an app "collects" data when it sends data off your device in a way that lets the developer or a third party access it beyond what's needed to handle a request in real time. Anlan doesn't send your data off your devices at all, so it collects nothing. Anlan makes no network connections of its own; the only online parts are Apple's: the App Store for purchases, and the system connection that carries meditations from your watch to your iPhone.

Health data

Anlan asks once for access to six types of Health data. You can turn any of them off at any time in iPhone Settings › Privacy & Security › Health › Anlan. All of it is processed only on your Apple Watch and iPhone. Health data is never sent to us or to anyone else, never used for advertising, and never sold.

Workouts write

Each meditation is saved as a Mind & Body workout. Running a workout is what lets Apple Watch measure your heart rate through the whole meditation. If you don't allow Workouts, your watch still times the meditation and wakes you, but without heart rate you only get the length.

Mindful Minutes write

Each meditation is saved as Mindful Minutes.

Heart rate read

Your heart rate during a meditation, used to tell whether and when your body settled, and to show your lowest heart rate. Your heart rate over recent days, awake and asleep, is used as your own reference.

Resting heart rate read

Used as your "usual" heart rate, for comparison.

Sleep read

Used to find when you were asleep (for your asleep heart rate), to work out your usual bedtime for Quiet Hours, and to mark the minutes you fell asleep during a meditation (those minutes don't count as still).

Respiratory rate read

Only your rate while asleep, shown as a reference on the breathing scale. Not used to judge a meditation.

Motion sensors

During a meditation, Anlan uses your watch's motion sensors to tell whether your wrist is still and to estimate your breathing from its small movements. This needs no extra permission and stays on your devices.

Where your data is stored

• Your meditations are stored in Anlan's own storage on your Apple Watch and iPhone. Your watch sends them directly to your own iPhone through Apple's watch connection. There is no Anlan server.
• What Anlan writes to Health is stored by Health, like any other Health data. Whether Health syncs through iCloud is your choice in Apple's settings.
• If you back up your iPhone with iCloud Backup or to a computer, Apple includes Anlan's data in that backup, as it does for other apps.

Notifications

If you start a free trial and allow notifications, Anlan schedules one reminder on your iPhone for 2 days before the trial ends. It is created on your device; nothing is sent anywhere.

Purchases

Memberships are sold and handled by Apple through the App Store. We never receive your name, your Apple Account or your payment details. Your iPhone tells Anlan, on the device, whether you have an active membership.

Export and deletion

• Export: Anlan › Settings › Export Data creates a CSV file with one row per meditation and opens the share sheet. Exports happen only when you start them, and you decide where the file goes.
• Delete your meditations: deleting all records in Anlan's Settings removes every meditation from your iPhone. This can't be undone. Your watch stops showing them, but may keep its own copy of recordings until you delete Anlan from the watch.
• Delete everything: delete Anlan from your iPhone and Apple Watch. This removes everything Anlan stored on them.
• Health data: Mindful Minutes and workouts Anlan saved stay in Health until you delete them in the Health app.

This website

anlanmeditation.com is a set of static pages hosted by Cloudflare. It has no forms and no accounts, and nothing you do on it reaches the Anlan app.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the website is used: which pages are viewed, how visitors arrive (for example from a search engine or an AI assistant), their approximate country and type of device, and clicks on a few buttons, such as the App Store button. To do this, Google Analytics runs a script from Google in your browser, sets first-party cookies (named _ga) and processes your IP address. We see only aggregate reports and don't receive your IP address. Google signals, advertising features and ad personalization are off.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, analytics cookies are off by default. Anywhere, you can block cookies or scripts in your browser, or install Google's opt-out browser add-on. How Google uses this data: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Hosting

Like any web host, Cloudflare processes your IP address to deliver pages and protect the site, and keeps standard logs and aggregate traffic statistics, for example how many times a page was requested and by which search engines and other crawlers. We look at these only in aggregate and don't use them to identify you.

Children

Anlan is not directed at children. The app doesn't collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the effective date above. If a future version of the Anlan app ever needs to collect data, we'll say so here and in the App Store privacy details before that version is released.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@anlanmeditation.com