{"schemaVersion":1,"id":"en-institutional-privacy","type":"institutional","pillar":"trust","locale":"en","translationGroupId":"institutional-privacy","slugPath":"privacy","title":"Privacy","shortTitle":"Privacy","summary":"Body Lab can be read without an account. Bookmarks, history, pathway progress and video playback positions stay on your device, and can be exported or deleted from the settings.","level":"beginner","estimatedMinutes":6,"synonyms":["privacy","personal data","local data","anonymous","data deletion","analytics"],"blocks":[{"id":"b1","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"Body Lab is designed to be useful without an account. No sign-up is asked of you to read a page, watch a video, open a three-dimensional scene or follow a pathway."}]},{"id":"b2","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"This page describes what the app actually does with your data: what it records, where it records it, what it sends and what it never sends."}]},{"id":"b3","type":"heading","level":2,"text":"No health data","anchor":"no-health-data"},{"id":"b4","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"Body Lab collects no health data."}]},{"id":"b5","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"The product records no weight, no body measurements, no meals, no workouts, no symptoms and no medical history. It asks no question about your state of health and offers no form for entering any. That absence is not a setting: those features do not exist in the product."}]},{"id":"b6","type":"heading","level":2,"text":"What is stored, and where","anchor":"what-is-stored-and-where"},{"id":"b7","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"Four categories of information are recorded, all of them "},{"kind":"strong","value":"exclusively on your device"},{"kind":"text","value":", in the local storage of the app or the browser."}]},{"id":"b8","type":"list","ordered":false,"items":[[{"kind":"strong","value":"Bookmarks"},{"kind":"text","value":": the pages you have marked to find again."}],[{"kind":"strong","value":"Reading history"},{"kind":"text","value":": the last items opened, so you can pick up easily."}],[{"kind":"strong","value":"Pathway progress"},{"kind":"text","value":": the steps completed and the last step opened."}],[{"kind":"strong","value":"Video playback position"},{"kind":"text","value":": where you stopped, so you can resume at the same point."}]]},{"id":"b9","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"To those are added display preferences: the language chosen, the accessibility settings and the rendering quality settings."}]},{"id":"b10","type":"callout","tone":"insight","title":"Local means local","content":[[{"kind":"text","value":"This information is sent to no server and is tied to no identity. It does not leave the device you are reading on."}],[{"kind":"text","value":"The direct consequence: it does not sync between your devices, and it disappears if you uninstall the app or clear your browser data. That is the price of genuinely anonymous reading, and it is a deliberate choice."}]]},{"id":"b11","type":"heading","level":2,"text":"Export or delete everything","anchor":"export-or-delete-everything"},{"id":"b12","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"The app settings offer two direct actions."}]},{"id":"b13","type":"list","ordered":false,"items":[[{"kind":"strong","value":"Export"},{"kind":"text","value":" all local data, so you can keep a readable copy of it."}],[{"kind":"strong","value":"Delete"},{"kind":"text","value":" all local data: bookmarks, history, progress, playback positions and preferences."}]]},{"id":"b14","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"Deletion is complete and immediate. Since nothing has been sent anywhere else, there is no remote copy to request and no erasure delay to wait out."}]},{"id":"b15","type":"heading","level":2,"text":"Analytics","anchor":"analytics"},{"id":"b16","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"strong","value":"No analytics service is connected to the version currently published."},{"kind":"text","value":" The code defines a limited set of technical events — opening a page, loading a scene, progressing through a video, starting a pathway or changing language — but its transport is inactive: those events do not leave your device."}]},{"id":"b17","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"If a measurement service is enabled later, this page will be updated before activation. No non-essential tracker will be set on the web without the required consent, no health data or search text will be transmitted, and analytics will remain switchable from the settings."}]},{"id":"b18","type":"heading","level":2,"text":"Search and advertising","anchor":"search-and-advertising"},{"id":"b19","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"The text you type into search "},{"kind":"strong","value":"is sent to nobody"},{"kind":"text","value":". The search index is built when the site is compiled and loaded onto your device: search runs locally, with no request to a remote engine."}]},{"id":"b20","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"Body Lab displays no behavioural advertising and passes no search query to an advertising network. No advertising profile is built from what you read."}]},{"id":"b21","type":"heading","level":2,"text":"What the product does not ask for","anchor":"what-the-product-does-not-ask-for"},{"id":"b22","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"Body Lab has no feature requiring access to the camera, the microphone, location, contacts or photos. Those permissions are therefore never requested."}]},{"id":"b23","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"No email address, no phone number and no personal information is needed to use the product, since there is no sign-up, no form, no comments and no user-published content."}]},{"id":"b24","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"When you share a page, the link sent is simply its canonical address, which preserves the language and the path of the page. Sharing goes through your system's share function, and Body Lab knows neither the recipient nor the app used."}]},{"id":"b25","type":"heading","level":2,"text":"Error reports","anchor":"error-reports"},{"id":"b26","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"When a 3D scene, a video or a download fails, a technical report may be sent. Its contents are limited to what serves diagnosis: app version, content version, identifier of the scene concerned, platform, general device model, approximate memory, rendering quality and error code."}]},{"id":"b27","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"An error report never contains the free text of a search, nor any personal health information."}]},{"id":"b28","type":"heading","level":2,"text":"Notifications","anchor":"notifications"},{"id":"b29","type":"paragraph","content":[{"kind":"text","value":"Any reminders tied to a pathway are "},{"kind":"strong","value":"local"},{"kind":"text","value":": they are scheduled by the app on your device and depend on no remote notification server. They stay optional and can be switched off from the settings."}]},{"id":"b30","type":"callout","tone":"note","title":"What would change if an account appeared","content":[[{"kind":"text","value":"No sign-in is needed today. If optional syncing between devices is ever offered, it will remain optional, and the local behaviour described here will continue to apply for people who do not create an account."}],[{"kind":"text","value":"This page will be updated before any such change, and its last review date lets you check that it is current."}]]},{"id":"b31","type":"shapierAction","actionId":"about-shapier","label":"Discover Shapier, the app behind Body Lab","description":"The presentation of Shapier, the product Body Lab is the editorial arm of, lives on its own page; Body Lab only describes here what it does with your data.","webTarget":"https://shapier.app/en/about","appTarget":"shapier://about"},{"id":"b32","type":"relatedContent","title":"Read next","targetIds":["en-institutional-about","en-institutional-methodology","en-institutional-sources","en-institutional-editorial-team","en-institutional-legal"]}],"relations":[],"authors":["equipe-editoriale-shapier"],"reviewers":["Thanh Chau"],"references":[],"review":{"publishedAt":"2026-08-02","reviewedAt":"2026-08-02","reviewDueAt":"2027-08-02"},"limitations":[],"seo":{"title":"Privacy — what Body Lab stores and never sends","description":"Anonymous reading, local storage of bookmarks and progress, no active analytics transport, and no health data collected at all.","canonicalPath":"/en/privacy","image":"/og/en/institutional-privacy.png"},"app":{"offlineEligible":true},"version":1}