AIM Privacy Policy

This application is part of an academic research study conducted by Professor David Conroy at The Pennsylvania State University.

The objective of the study is to use text messages to motivate participants to increase their physical activity. The message content and schedule are tuned for each participant using a machine learning algorithm developed during the first phase of the study.

As such, we collect and use the following information to schedule and deliver messages and monitor participants' activity levels:

• Phone number: Used to send text messages.
• Location & Background Location: Location is accessed periodically only to acquire weather conditions. We do not store individuals' location history.
• Step counts: Obtained from Fitbit via Fitabase and used for scheduling messages and determining their content.
• Heartrate: Obtained from Fitbit via Fitabase and used only to detect if participants are wearing their Fitbit devices.

We do not share any of this information with third parties.