Privacy Policy

TheNextHill (thenexthill.com) is a web application (the "Service") that helps adults discover outdoor adventures and assess their fitness readiness.

If you have questions about this policy, contact us at privacy@thenexthill.com.

TheNextHill LLC ("TNH," "we," "us," or "our") is the controller of the information described in this Privacy Policy unless we state otherwise. Our Terms of Service explain how you may use our services, and this Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information when you use our platform which includes our website, web application, AI coaching features, and integrations with third-party services like Garmin®.

If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy or with our Terms of Service, you should not use the Service or any services offered by TNH.

We collect and process the following types of data:

• Self-reported fitness scores — the fitness dimension ratings you enter during onboarding (such as cardiovascular endurance, strength, altitude tolerance, and duration/stamina). These self-reported scores are later refined using data from connected platforms like Garmin®.
• Adventure plan selections — which adventures you add to your plan, target dates, and custom event names.
• Garmin® fitness data — if you choose to connect your Garmin® account or upload Garmin® export files, we process activity summaries, fitness metrics (VO2 Max, resting heart rate, endurance scores), and wellness data (heat/altitude acclimatization) to compute your fitness dimension scores. We do not store raw Garmin® data files on our servers.
• Account Information — when you create an account, we collect your email address. We use your email address to manage your account, send you service-related notices, and communicate with you about the Service. We do not collect your name unless you choose to provide it.
• Account Identifier — a unique identifier associated with your account, used to link your fitness snapshots, adventure plan, and activity history to your account over time.
• AI coaching data — when you use the AI coaching feature, we collect your messages, prompts, and other content you send to the coach, as well as the AI-generated responses. This data may include information about your fitness history, health-related questions, and adventure goals to the extent you choose to share it.
• Device and usage information — basic technical information about how you access and use TNH, such as browser type, device type, approximate region derived from general network routing information, and feature usage. We use this to keep the Service running, secure, and improving. We do not use this information for targeted advertising.

We do not collect your name unless you choose to provide it. We do not use your information for targeted advertising or sell it to third parties.

If you contact us, we will collect the information you choose to provide so that we can respond to you and keep records of our communications.

• Readiness scoring — calculating how ready you are for each adventure based on your fitness profile.
• Fitness trends — tracking how your fitness dimensions change over time so you can see progress.
• Adventure planning — sequencing your selected adventures into a progressive multi-year roadmap.

We do not sell, rent, or share your data with third parties for marketing or advertising purposes.

We also use the data we collect for the following purposes:

• Operating the Service — to provide, maintain, and secure TNH, including account-related functionality, third-party integrations, and AI coaching features.
• Service improvement and research — to understand how people use TNH, troubleshoot issues, develop new features, and improve our readiness assessments, training recommendations, and user experience. Where reasonable, we use data in an aggregated or de-identified form for these purposes.
• Safety and moderation — to monitor for misuse of the Service and to protect the safety of users and the integrity of the Service.
• Communications — to respond to your messages, send you service-related notices, and otherwise communicate with you about TNH when you contact us. We do not send marketing emails or newsletters at this time.

When you connect your Garmin® account, we use the Garmin Connect® Developer Program APIs to access your fitness and activity data. Specifically:

• We request only the data needed to compute the fitness dimension scores used by the Service (activity summaries, fitness metrics, wellness data).
• We do not access your Garmin® account credentials. Authentication is handled securely via Garmin's OAuth 2.0 flow.
• You can disconnect your Garmin® account at any time from the Settings page, which revokes our access to your Garmin® data.
• Raw Garmin® data is processed to compute dimension scores and is not stored permanently. Only the computed scores and fitness snapshots are retained.

We use Garmin® data to generate readiness assessments, fitness trends, and training-related insights within TNH. We do not use Garmin® data for targeted advertising or sell it to third parties.

Information you provide to Garmin Connect® is governed by Garmin's own Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, not by this Privacy Policy. You should review Garmin's terms and policies to understand how they handle your data.

If you disconnect Garmin®, we will stop receiving new data from Garmin®, but we may continue to store and use previously received data and fitness snapshots as described in this Privacy Policy, unless you request deletion.

In addition to Garmin®, you may choose to connect other fitness platforms to TNH. For each connected platform, authentication is handled securely via the platform's own OAuth flow (we do not receive your password), and you can disconnect at any time from the Settings page, which revokes our access to that platform. Information you provide to each platform is also governed by that platform's own terms and privacy policy, not by this Privacy Policy. You should review each platform's terms before connecting.

• Strava — when you connect your Strava account, we access activity data including type, duration, distance, elevation gain, heart rate, cadence, and effort score, in order to compute your readiness scores and training trends. Your Strava data is displayed only to you. We do not share your Strava data with other users or third parties, and we do not use it for advertising. Strava may collect and use data related to our access to their API as described in Strava's Privacy Policy. You may disconnect Strava at any time, which deletes your stored Strava tokens and revokes our access.
• Whoop — when you connect your Whoop account, we access recovery scores, strain metrics, sleep data, and heart-rate variability to inform your readiness and training feedback. See Whoop's Privacy Policy for how Whoop handles your data.
• Oura — when you connect your Oura ring, we access sleep, readiness, stress, and heart-rate variability data to inform your readiness and training feedback. See Oura's Privacy Policy for how Oura handles your data.
• Intervals.icu — when you connect your Intervals.icu account, we access training load, fitness/fatigue/form metrics, and activity data to inform your readiness and training plan. See Intervals.icu's Privacy Policy for how Intervals.icu handles your data.
• Terra — Terra is a data-aggregation provider that lets you connect multiple wearable accounts (such as Garmin, Fitbit, Apple Health) through a single integration. When you connect via Terra, Terra acts as an intermediary between TNH and the underlying wearable provider. See Terra's Privacy Policy for how Terra handles your data.

For all of these platforms: we use the data only to provide TNH features (readiness assessments, fitness trends, training recommendations, AI coaching context). We do not use this data for targeted advertising and we do not sell it to third parties. If you disconnect a platform, we will stop receiving new data from that platform, but we may continue to store and use previously received data and fitness snapshots as described in this Privacy Policy, unless you request deletion.

Your account data is stored on our servers. This includes your account information, fitness snapshots, readiness scores, adventure plan selections, AI coaching logs, and other data associated with your account. This means:

• Your data is tied to your account and accessible when you log in from any device or browser.
• Deleting your account or submitting a deletion request — not clearing your browser — is the way to remove your data from our systems. See Section 7 for details.
• We may also store certain preferences or temporary data in your browser's local storage to improve your experience, but your core account data lives on our servers, not in your browser.

Our servers are located in the United States or other locations where our service providers host their infrastructure.

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the data we store, but no system can be completely secure. You are responsible for keeping your devices secure.

Because your data is associated with your account and stored on our servers, the primary way to delete your data is to delete your account or submit a deletion request. You can delete your account by following the instructions in the Service (if available) or by contacting us at privacy@thenexthill.com. Upon a verified deletion request, we will delete or de-identify your account data subject to any data we are required or permitted to retain for legal, security, or operational reasons.

We keep data for as long as it is reasonably necessary to provide TNH, maintain our records, and meet our legal obligations. In practice, this means:

• Account data — including your fitness snapshots, adventure plan, readiness scores, and AI coaching logs — is retained for as long as your account remains active or as needed to provide the Service.
• Server-side fitness snapshots, AI coaching logs, and related technical logs are retained for as long as needed to operate and improve the Service and for safety, troubleshooting, and record-keeping, unless you request deletion where applicable, or we choose to delete or anonymize them earlier.
• If you use browser local storage for certain preferences or temporary data, that data persists on your device until you clear your browser storage, but clearing your browser will not delete your account data stored on our servers.

TNH uses only strictly necessary cookies for authentication and session management when you are logged in. We do not use cookies for advertising or behavioral tracking, and we do not use any third-party analytics, advertising networks, or tracking pixels.

We rely primarily on server-side storage tied to your account, with limited browser storage for preferences and limited server-side logs to operate and secure the Service. These may record basic technical information so we can keep TNH running reliably.

If we introduce additional cookies or similar technologies in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy and, where required by law, provide you with a way to manage your choices.

TNH is designed for adults aged 50 and over. We do not knowingly collect data from children under 18. If you believe a child has provided us with data, please contact us and we will delete it.

You must be at least 18 years old to use TNH, as described in our Terms of Service. We do not knowingly allow anyone under 18 to create an account or use the Service.

If we learn that we have collected data from a child under 18, or a higher minimum age where required by law, without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete that data and may disable access to the Service for that user.

When you use the AI coaching feature, your conversation messages are sent to Anthropic's Claude API for processing. Conversations may be logged by TNH for service improvement and safety monitoring. AI coaching conversations may be flagged for review if the system detects content related to medical conditions or safety concerns.

Your AI coaching messages and the AI-generated responses may include information about your fitness history, health-related questions, training goals, or other personal details that you choose to share. We use this information to provide the coaching experience, generate recommendations, and improve the quality and safety of the AI features.

We may review a subset of AI coaching conversations to investigate potential abuse, address safety concerns, troubleshoot issues, and improve our models and prompts. Access to this information is limited to authorized personnel and service providers who need it for these purposes.

Our third-party AI providers process your AI coaching data to generate responses. They are contractually restricted from using this data for their own advertising or marketing. We may change or add AI providers over time, and we will update this Privacy Policy if our use of AI providers materially changes.

Do not share information in AI coaching conversations that you would not want us or our AI providers to process in this way. AI coaching content is not used to show you third-party advertising.

TNH imports fitness data from Garmin® and other connected platforms, including activity logs, heart rate data, sleep data, and other metrics. This data is used to generate readiness assessments and training recommendations. Fitness data is stored securely and is not sold to third parties.

Information you provide to Garmin Connect® is governed by Garmin's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The information you choose to send from Garmin Connect® is not used by TNH for advertising or transferred to third parties for advertising purposes.

We also combine fitness data with your self-reported fitness scores, adventure selections, and, if you use it, AI coaching interactions to help you understand your readiness for adventures, track progress over time, and receive training-related insights.

Some of the data we process may be considered "health" or "sensitive" data under certain laws. We process this data only to provide TNH, to operate our integrations, to improve our algorithms and features, and for safety and security purposes as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.

We do not use your fitness or health-related data for targeted advertising, and we do not sell this data to third parties. We may, however, use de-identified or aggregated data to understand usage, improve the Service, and publish or share high-level insights about training and readiness patterns.

Adventure suggestions, reviews, and other user-submitted content may be displayed publicly on the Service. By submitting content, you consent to its public display.

User-submitted content is also governed by our Terms of Service, which explain your responsibilities, the license you grant to TNH, and how we may use, display, and remove content.

Because user-submitted content may be public, do not include information that you do not want others to see in adventure suggestions, reviews, or similar public areas of the Service.

Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights under applicable privacy laws with respect to the personal information we hold about you. We aim to honor these rights for all users regardless of jurisdiction. They include:

• Right to access — you may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
• Right to correct — you may ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to delete — you may ask us to delete your account and associated personal information, subject to limited exceptions for data we are required or permitted to retain (for example, for legal, security, or operational reasons).
• Right to opt out of sale or sharing — TNH does not sell your personal information and does not share it with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising. There is therefore nothing to opt out of in this respect.
• Right to non-discrimination — we will not deny you service, charge you a different price, or provide a different level of service because you exercised a privacy right.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@thenexthill.com. We will need to verify your identity before acting on a request, typically by confirming you control the email address associated with your account. We will respond within the time frame required by applicable law (generally 30 to 45 days).

If you live in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, or another state with a comprehensive consumer privacy law, the rights above are intended to satisfy those laws. You may also have the right to appeal a denial of a request; appeals can be sent to the same email address. If we cannot resolve your concern, you may have the right to contact your state attorney general.

TNH is operated from the United States and is intended primarily for users in the United States. If you access the Service from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States and other locations where our service providers operate. By using the Service, you consent to such transfer and processing. United States data-protection laws may differ from those of your home country.

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date. Your continued use of TNH after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

If we make material changes, we will take additional steps to notify you, such as showing a notice in the Service or sending an email to the address associated with your account.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically, so you understand how we collect, use, and share information. If you do not agree with the updated policy, you should stop using TNH.

For privacy-related questions or data deletion requests, contact: privacy@thenexthill.com

You may also contact us at hello@thenexthill.com for general questions about TNH or our Terms of Service.

If we list a postal address on our website as a primary business address, you may use that address for written privacy inquiries as well.