Privacy Policy

Version of 30 September 2026.

This policy sets out what data Mentalizi processes, why, for how long, and who else sees it. It is written to be read, not to be endured.

1. Data controller

SCALERIA (SAS), 6 rue d’Armaillé, 75017 Paris.

For any question or request about your data: contact@mentalizi.com.

2. The part that matters, first

What you share with your coach, by voice or in writing, can reveal things about your health, even when that isn't the topic: tiredness, an injury, a rough patch. The GDPR classes this as "data concerning health", one of the special categories of personal data it protects most closely (Article 9). Since no one can sort in advance what you're going to say or write, we give that protection to everything that feeds your coaching (your sessions, your messages, your journal, your in-depth questionnaire and your feedback on routines): we only use it with your explicit consent, collected before your first session on a screen of its own. You can withdraw it at any time.

The safety net. During a session, every message you send, written or spoken, goes through an automatic check, first on your phone and then at OpenAI, that picks up anything suggesting you might harm yourself. When it does, the app shows you helpline numbers straight away. Your coach gets the signal too, in writing and on a call: they set the exercise aside, point you to a helpline and encourage you to talk to someone you trust. Nobody is alerted: not the Mentalizi team, not your trainer, not the people close to you. The check can get it wrong or miss something, and it never replaces a call to 112 or to a helpline. It is part of the coaching you consent to. Your text is not kept for this check. All that remains is a line in our technical logs, with neither your name nor your words, deleted after 30 days, and, for a voice session, a "safety signal" marker: when the call ends, the check reads back everything you said, and if it picks up those words there, the session keeps that marker, which is kept and erased along with it. In the Locker Room, the same check runs on your phone only, before your post goes out: it shows you helpline numbers and asks you to confirm before sending, without passing anything on or keeping anything.

You can withdraw your consent without deleting your account: Profile → Withdraw my consent to AI coaching. Withdrawing erases, straight away, your coach's memory and its earlier versions, your in-depth questionnaire and your goals, your voice and written sessions with their transcripts and write-ups, your written conversations (including any replies you rated with a thumb), the difficult moments you told your coach about, your personalised routines and your feedback on routines, your rituals, the exercises you practised, your coaching cycles and your competitions, and the remarks on how your coach speaks picked up in your sessions. What stays: your account and your profile (first name, age, discipline, level), the card you published for your trainer and your requests for a talk, your Locker Room posts, the feedback you sent us from the feedback screen, your credits and your subscription. Your journal stays only if you choose to keep it when you withdraw: it is then kept for you alone, and you can read it and delete its entries whenever you like. Until you give your consent again, your coach doesn't read it and you can't add new entries. The coach can't be used again until you give your consent back; the rest of the app stays open, apart from what only feeds your coaching (your goals, your mental profile, the questions at the end of a routine, writing in your journal). Withdrawing your consent does not stop your subscription: it keeps renewing until you cancel it. Withdrawal does not affect anything done before it.

3. What data, what for, on what legal basis

DataWhat forLegal basis
Email address, password (encrypted), or the identifier Apple or Google passes on if you sign in with themCreating and securing your accountPerformance of the contract
Purchases and subscription (product, dates, status)Opening and keeping your paid accessPerformance of the contract
Your credits and their historyKeeping your balance, counting your usage, carrying over what's leftPerformance of the contract
The box you tick before a purchase so that your access starts straight away (the text ticked, its language, the version of the terms, the product and the time), and the record of the email confirming the purchaseProving your request, working out what you pay if you withdraw, and confirming your purchase in writingLegal obligation (Articles L. 221-13 and L. 221-25 of the French Consumer Code) to record it and confirm your purchase; legitimate interests (being able to prove your request if there is a dispute) to keep it afterwards
Your bank details, if you withdraw after buying on the App StoreRefunding you by bank transferLegal obligation (Article L. 221-24 of the French Consumer Code)
Your membership of a team covered by your club's planOpening the access your club covers, within its number of placesPerformance of the contract
Your email address, first name, and the date and price of your annual subscriptionTelling you before it renews that you can stop it, and howLegal obligation (Article L. 215-1 of the French Consumer Code)
First name, age, discipline, levelSetting up your space, checking you are old enough, fitting the app to your sportPerformance of the contract
Your goals, and what your coach takes from them session after sessionPersonalising the coachingExplicit consent
Your answers to the in-depth questionnaire, what you add to your mental profile, and your mental map (your answers and the sliders you give your coach again at a cycle review, brought to a score out of 10, never compared with anyone)Personalising the coaching, and showing you where you stand in your mental skills as an athlete. It is not a measure of your healthExplicit consent
Your country (taken from your phone's region, editable in your Profile)Showing the emergency numbers that work where you areLegitimate interests (your safety)
Your voice during a session (sent during the call, never recorded on our side)Making the real-time conversation possibleExplicit consent
Transcripts of your sessionsSo your coach remembers what you worked on together, and producing the summariesExplicit consent
Summaries, themes, mood estimate, your coach's memory (what they remember about you, rewritten after each session)So your coach remembers your sessions and sees how you progress from one session to the nextExplicit consent
Written messages with your coachRunning the chat, and so your coach remembers your conversationsExplicit consent
What you say and write to your coach during a session, read by the safety check, and the marker set on a voice session when the check picked up the idea that you might harm yourself (never your words)Showing you helpline numbers straight away. Your trainer never sees this markerExplicit consent
The difficult moments you tell your coach about, your personalised routines, your rituals, the exercises you practise, your coaching cycles and your competitionsBuilding your routines and moving your programme forward from one session to the nextExplicit consent
Your journalBeing yours, first; and your coach reads your latest entries before your sessions, to make the conversation your ownExplicit consent
Your feedback on routines (ratings, "did that help?", how it felt, why you stopped)So your coach knows what works for you, and adjusts what they suggestExplicit consent
A coach reply you rate with a thumb, along with the message you sent just before itHaving the team review it to improve the coachExplicit consent
Your feedback on the service (the feedback screen, the reason for a thumbs-down, corrections to your coach's wording)Reading it, and spotting each day what needs to change in the appLegitimate interests (improving the service)
Your card published for your trainer, your requests for a talkThe team features you choose to useExplicit consent, given separately when you publish your card or send a request (withdrawing your consent to AI coaching does not remove them: you remove them yourself)
Your posts and reports in the Locker RoomRunning the community space and moderating itPerformance of the contract
Technical events (session dates, quotas, usage statistics)Security, preventing abuse, keeping costs under controlLegitimate interests

The sound of your voice is never used to identify you or to measure how you are. During a call, your voice goes live from your phone to OpenAI: the voice model listens to it to understand what you say and to answer you, so it hears how you speak and not just your words, and a written transcript is made along the way. We keep no recording of the sound (only the transcript is kept, for 90 days) and we take no measurement from it: no voiceprint, no timbre, no intonation, no emotional state. The end-of-session mood estimate and your coach's memory come from the transcript, in other words from your words, never from the sound. In compatible mode, your voice passes through our servers, without being kept there, to be transcribed by OpenAI, and only the text goes to your coach.

Your data is never sold, never used for advertising, and never used to train artificial intelligence models.

4. Who else has access

Making a coach speak takes technical providers. Each one is involved only in what it strictly needs, acting as a processor, with no right to use anything for its own purposes:

Some of these providers process data outside the European Union. Those transfers are covered by the mechanisms set out in Chapter V of the GDPR (the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, or an applicable adequacy decision).

The daily feedback review. Once a day, the feedback from the last 48 hours (what you send from the feedback screen, the reason for a thumbs-down along with the coach reply it concerns, corrections you make to your coach's wording, why you stopped a routine) is sent to OpenAI with your sport and nothing else about you: no name, no email, no account id. The point is to tell a one-off case from a problem that keeps coming up for several people. Only the team reads the resulting report, and nothing about the coach changes without a human decision.

Some other recipients get data too, each for a specific reason:

Nobody reads your conversations as they happen, and nobody reads them at all, apart from an exchange you choose to rate with a thumb. Access to production data is limited to what maintenance requires, and every access is logged.

5. How long we keep it

When you withdraw your consent, the coaching data listed in section 2 is erased straight away. When you delete your account, all of it is erased straight away, except your request for immediate access, kept as set out above. Copies may remain for up to 30 days in our host's encrypted backups, where nothing can be done with them.

6. Your rights

You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability, as well as the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Straight from the app:

A step-by-step guide to deleting your account, with or without the app: https://mentalizi.com/legal/delete-account.html

For anything else: contact@mentalizi.com. We answer within one month.

You can lodge a complaint with the CNIL, the French data protection authority (www.cnil.fr, 3 place de Fontenoy, 75334 Paris Cedex 07).

7. Minors

Mentalizi is distributed in France and is for people aged 15 and over. That is the age from which French law lets a person consent on their own to an online service using their data (article 45 of the French Data Protection Act of 1978, which sets this threshold under Article 8 of the GDPR). We do not knowingly collect data from anyone younger. If you are a parent and find that a child under 15 has created an account, write to contact@mentalizi.com: the account and its data will be deleted.

8. Automated decisions

Your coach generates their replies automatically. The app works out a mood estimate and your mental map, and after every session it rewrites your coach's memory. An automatic check also looks through your messages for the idea that you might harm yourself, so that it can show you helpline numbers. The mood estimate, the mental map and your coach's memory are profiling within the meaning of the GDPR: they describe where you stand, based on what you say and how you answer. None of it produces a legal effect concerning you, or is the basis of a decision that significantly affects you within the meaning of Article 22 of the GDPR: nothing shuts you out of a service, sets a price or passes anything on to your trainer. Your coach's replies, the mood estimate, the mental map and your coach's memory are there to tailor your mental preparation to you, and you remain free to follow or ignore what your coach suggests; the safety check is there to show you where to find help.

9. Security

Exchanges are encrypted in transit. Access to data is partitioned by user in the database itself: technically, one person cannot read another person's data, beyond the access described in section 4. The keys to the AI providers are never present in the app installed on your phone.

10. Changes

Any substantial change to this document will be shown to you in the app, and you will have to accept it to keep using the service.