Our powerful apps request certain permissions necessary to function. Here’s what those permissions are and why your Luxelion app is requesting that permission:
Run in the background when it is not active (potentially affecting battery life)
All Luxelion apps are designed with battery life top-of-mind. Garmin only allows watch face apps to make internet calls from a “background” context, so we need to run a short background process for a fraction of a second when it is necessary to validate your license key.
The background process for validating your license happens faster than the blink of an eye (literally) and typically requires just one network call (via your paired mobile device). Once this call is made, the background process ends.
The battery impact of this is negligible — it’s no more impactful than the calls your watch is already making to get updated weather.
Send/receive information to/from the Internet
We take privacy very seriously and do not collect any information about you or your device other than the unique device identifier we use to pair a license key to a specific device. Nothing else from your watch is ever sent over the internet. The only internet call made is the one to validate your license key.
GPS location
Luxelion apps offer a number of powerful metrics and stats, many of which rely on the location of the device. For example, the current weather and sun & moon schedule rely on the ability to access the last known position of your device.
This requirement has no impact on battery life, since the Luxelion app isn’t causing the GPS location to be read. It’s just accessing the data your watch has already been tracking to show you it’s own position-dependent information.
Heart rate, barometer, temperature, and altitude history
These metrics are a crucial part of the complications offered by your Luxelion app.
Your Garmin Connect™ fitness profile
Luxelion apps only access your fitness profile to understand certain important user information used to show you metrics, such as your sleep time, wake time, resting heart rate, and VO2 Max metrics.