Data & Permissions
Each device permission and connected-data use has a specific reason. Declining one feature does not disable unrelated logging.
| Permission | Used for | Not used for | Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | Route, distance, pace, elevation, and GPS reliability during an active outdoor workout. Background access lets that active recording continue with the screen off. | Background surveillance unrelated to an active workout. | Optional overall. Required only for route-based workout tracking. |
| Apple Health | Read only the health and activity types you approve and save workouts you ask Zenith to write. | Advertising, cross-app tracking, resale, or unrelated analytics. | Optional. |
| Motion | Step and movement context where the device supports it. | Continuous location tracking or unrelated profiling. | Optional. |
| Camera | Scan a food barcode or capture a food or private progress photo you initiate. | Background capture, microphone recording, or face recognition. | Optional. Manual food search remains available. |
| Photo library | Select a profile, post, food, or progress image you choose to upload. | Reading or uploading the rest of your library. | Optional. |
| Wearables | Apple Watch activity, timing, controls, and workout-summary continuity you enable. On an exact Garmin target offered by your installed build, the current versioned notice covers account/watch linking and device/app identifiers; workout and activity summaries; available fitness metrics; hydration summaries and goals; permitted planned-meal summaries; water and meal actions you request on the watch; and route location only during an outdoor route activity you start. | Continuous background tracking unrelated to an activity or integration you started. | Optional. Garmin remains inactive until the signed-in owner grants the current notice and links a watch. |
| Notifications | Reminders, social updates, and service notifications you explicitly enable. | Third-party advertising or pressure loops. | Optional. |
| Food search | Send an eligible food phrase or normalized barcode, plus dataset and language context, from Zenith's authenticated server to the selected food provider. | Advertising or storing restricted provider response content beyond its allowed boundary. | Optional. Offline or other fallback results may be available. |
| Diagnostics and support | Minimized crash and performance data when enabled and consented, plus details you choose to send in a support request. | Raw food queries, health records, photos, credentials, or background user profiling in diagnostic telemetry. | Optional and consent-based. |
| Social sharing | Publish posts, send messages, join groups or challenges, and share content only when you take the related action. | Making private logs or media public automatically. | Optional. |
You can revoke device permissions in system settings and disconnect integrations in Zenith. Already imported data remains until you delete it through the applicable control, except that Garmin Revoke and Unlink withdraw owner-wide Garmin consent, invalidate every Garmin link for that Zenith account, and delete Garmin-sourced activity and route data, hydration and permitted planned-meal projections, watch-action provenance, links, receipts, and local integration data under the full Privacy Policy. Independently entered Zenith records remain. Delete Account also removes account-scoped Garmin integration data.