Pali™ by Total Life Dynamics
Total Life Dynamics, Inc. ("Total Life Dynamics," "we," "us") operates Pali™, an iOS application that helps people see their own physiological signals in plain language and reduce the daily burden of self-monitoring. This Privacy Policy explains what information Pali collects, how we use and protect it, and the choices you have. Pali is a general wellness product. It is not a medical device, does not provide medical advice or diagnosis, and does not replace your healthcare providers or your continuous glucose monitor's (CGM) own alerts.
We collect only the information needed to provide the service:
Pali connects to glucose data through your Nightscout site — an open-source platform that you set up and control. Nightscout is the only glucose connection Pali offers: there is no Apple Health glucose connection in onboarding or in Settings → Connections, and Apple Health cannot be used in place of Nightscout. When you connect Pali to your Nightscout site, you provide the web address (URL) of your Nightscout instance and, if your site requires one, an access token. Pali uses these to retrieve glucose readings from your Nightscout site and display them alongside your other wellness signals.
Glucose readings already in Apple Health. If you have granted Pali access to Apple Health and have not connected a Nightscout site, Pali may read glucose samples already stored in Apple Health to show glucose history on the Trends screen. These readings are not a connected glucose source: they do not drive your Home screen, Live Activity, or the live adaptive baseline. Trends may still show and classify that history. Values from this history may be included in the scoped context Pali sends when you use Ask Pali or generate insights, as described below. You can revoke Health access at any time in the Health app or iOS Settings.
With your permission, Pali reads heart rate variability (HRV), heart rate, sleep, activity, and related metrics from Apple Health, including data collected by your Apple Watch. Pali requests only the Health categories it uses, and you can review or revoke this access at any time in the Health app or iOS Settings. Apple Health data is governed by Apple's own privacy protections. Pali processes HealthKit data on your device to generate wellness views and insights. We do not upload raw HealthKit sample streams to our servers or store a copy of your Health history in the cloud. Limited values derived from that data may leave your device in two situations: when you use Ask Pali™ or generate insights, as described above; and as small status indicators — for example, whether your personal baseline has been established, or the current wellness label shown on your Lock Screen — which our servers use to deliver those features.
What Pali writes back. With your permission, Pali can save completed recovery sessions to Apple Health — mindful minutes from Breathe easy, and walking workouts from Take a walk. Pali writes only sessions you complete in the app. You can revoke write access at any time in the Health app or iOS Settings.
With your permission, and only when Cycle Intelligence™ is enabled, Pali also reads menstrual cycle and symptom entries from Apple Health to show cycle information alongside your other signals. This processing happens on your device. You can disable Cycle Intelligence™ at any time in Pali's settings, or revoke Health access in the Health app or iOS Settings. Cycle information in Pali is observational and is not intended for contraception, fertility planning, or detecting or monitoring pregnancy.
When you use Ask Pali™, your messages and recent conversation context are sent to our cloud AI provider only to generate that reply for the request. Pali stores your Ask Pali conversation history on your device (not as a separate chat archive on our servers). Pali also includes scoped context in that request so the reply can be grounded in your own data. Depending on what you have connected, what Health access you have granted, and what you ask, this may include recent numeric values derived from your health data — such as a heart-rate-variability reading in milliseconds, your personal baseline range, or a recent glucose value — along with how fresh those readings are and the plain-language wellness labels Pali has assigned. This context is used only to generate your reply for that turn. It is not sold, not used for advertising, and not used to train third-party models.
If you optionally rate whether an Ask Pali reply was helpful, we store that rating together with a message identifier, conversation identifier, timestamp, and platform. If you choose to add an optional note with your rating, we store that note with the rating. We do not store the text of your question or Pali's reply with that feedback. We use this feedback to improve Pali's responses and reliability. This feedback is not sold and is not used to train third-party models.
We do not collect more health data than is necessary to deliver Pali's features.
Pali is built on a simple principle: you bring your own data, and you stay in control of it.
We do not sell your personal or health information, share it with advertisers, or use it to train third parties' models.
We share information only in limited circumstances:
We protect your information using administrative, technical, and physical safeguards. Data is encrypted in transit (TLS). Nightscout access tokens on your device are stored in the iOS Keychain. When you are signed in, encrypted Nightscout connection credentials are stored server-side; they are not embedded in the app binary. Access to data within Total Life Dynamics is limited to what is necessary to operate the service.
We retain your information only for as long as needed to provide the service or as required by law, then delete or de-identify it. You can disconnect Nightscout or revoke HealthKit access at any time. Disconnecting Nightscout removes your server-side Nightscout registration when you are signed in and stops new Nightscout glucose retrieval. Revoking Health access stops new Apple Health glucose reads. Glucose history already stored on the device, including history read from Apple Health, may remain until you remove it or delete the app. Locally stored Nightscout credentials may persist on your device until you remove them or delete the app. When you close your account or request deletion, we stop retrieving new data and delete associated cloud records and personal data on the schedule described in our internal Record Retention Policy.
To exercise any of these, contact us using the details below.
Pali is intended for adults. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account or use Pali. Pali is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we learn that we have collected information from a person under 18, we will delete it.
We may update this policy from time to time. We will post the updated version with a new effective date and, where appropriate, notify you in the app.
Andy Tiedeman
Privacy Officer, Total Life Dynamics, Inc.
Email: andy@totallifedynamics.com · Address: 4903 Bayard Blvd Bethesda, MD, USA