Tunari and Cibo: Why Health Data Deserves Its Own Layer of Protection

We're excited to share our partnership between Tunari and Cibo, an iOS app that uses AI to track calories and nutrition. Behind that convenient tracking interface sits a category of data that deserves more care than your average statistics: information about what you eat, your weight, your habits, and your health goals. In this article, we'll look at why this kind of data needs dedicated protection, and what role traffic encryption plays in that.

Why Health Data Is a Special Category

Nutrition and health data is different from most of the digital trails we leave every day. It doesn't describe what you bought or watched — it describes the state of your body and your lifestyle. Your eating history, weight trends, and stated goals can reveal a lot more about you than it might seem at first glance.

That's exactly why medical and health-related data is regulated more strictly than most other categories in many countries. And it's exactly why it's worth caring not only about where this data is stored, but also about how it travels across the network between your phone and the app's server.

Where Data Becomes More Vulnerable

An app like Cibo exchanges information with its server over the internet. At home, in a café, at the airport, in a hotel — each time, that happens over whatever network you're connected to. And not every network deserves your trust.

Public Wi-Fi is a textbook example. Open hotspots are convenient, but you rarely know who administers them or who else is connected. In that kind of environment, unencrypted or weakly protected traffic can potentially be seen by others. That's unpleasant for messaging — and doubly so for health data.

What Traffic Encryption Gives You

Tunari builds an encrypted tunnel between your device and our server. We use AES-256-level encryption along with the modern WireGuard and VLESS protocols. In practice, that means:

• Your app traffic is protected in transit. Data exchanged by the app travels through an encrypted channel instead of in plain text over someone else's network.
• Public Wi-Fi stops being the weak link. Even on an untrusted network, the contents of your connection stay closed off from outside observers.
• Fewer things to worry about while traveling. The same level of protection works at home and on the road — across up to 10 devices at once.

Let's be honest: a VPN isn't universal armor. It protects your traffic in transit, but it doesn't replace responsible data handling on the app's side, and it doesn't excuse you from basic digital hygiene. Encrypting the channel is one important layer of protection — not the only one.

Privacy From Your ISP and Trackers

There's a second side to privacy too — who can even see that you were active at all. Without a VPN, your internet provider sees which servers you connect to. That's metadata, but it still tells a story: which services you use, and how often.

When your traffic runs through Tunari, your provider sees a connection to our server — not to each individual service. We hold to a strict no-logs policy: we don't keep a record of what you do inside the tunnel. Our network spans 14 servers across 9 countries, and you choose which one to connect through.

How This Works Alongside Cibo

The partnership is simple at its core. Cibo helps users take care of their nutrition and health, and handles that data responsibly on its own end. Tunari adds a layer of protection to the path that data travels — encrypting traffic and closing off unnecessary visibility to ISPs and strangers on public networks. Together, that makes everyday use of the app a little more worry-free.

Try Tunari

If you use apps that handle personal data — about your health, finances, or anything else that matters — protecting your traffic is never a bad idea. You can start without a card: Tunari gives you 7 days free through the @TunariVPNBot. Connect a couple of devices, try it on the road and on public Wi-Fi, and decide for yourself if it's worth the peace of mind.