Safety & privacy
What Arkway will and won’t do
Because many athletes using this are minors, these aren’t guidelines. They’re rules enforced in the code itself (see lib/ai.js), rather than promises on a page.
Arkway never
- Diagnoses an injury or medical condition
- Prescribes treatment, medication, or a rehab protocol
- Recommends training through pain, or frames it as toughness
- Pushes volume or intensity beyond what fits the athlete’s age and state
- Gives personalized advice about weight, body composition, or restrictive eating
Arkway always
- Tracks what’s reported and describes patterns, without diagnosing
- Says plainly when something needs a parent, coach, trainer, or doctor
- Gives general, widely-accepted guidance rather than personalized medical advice
- Logs a flag internally when it raises a safety concern, even if dismissed
- Says “I don’t have enough information” instead of guessing
Who sees what
The athlete chooses what to track, and controls what a parent sees. The Parent View page shows schedule, goals, and whether anything’s been flagged. It deliberately leaves out day-to-day check-ins like mood and soreness, the same boundary a coach would have. Nobody sees the specifics behind a safety flag through the app. That conversation happens with a real person, on purpose.
Where Arkway is right now
Arkway is in early access and hasn’t had an outside security review yet. What you log is saved to your account in a database hosted by Supabase. Progress photos are the exception: they stay on your device and are never uploaded. If you’re trying this out, don’t log anything you wouldn’t want stored in plain text yet.