Privacy Policy
This policy describes how YourTrackPal ("the App") handles information when you use the iPhone app. The App is developed by Jeremy Dixon.
Summary: YourTrackPal does not have accounts. Your workout history stays on your iPhone. We do not sell your information, show ads, or use analytics or crash-reporting services. The App does use your location, and it sends your coordinates to a weather service. You can also turn on Google Maps.
1. No account
You do not sign in. There is no YourTrackPal account. We do not upload your workout history to servers we operate.
2. What stays on your iPhone
The App stores this on the device:
- Activities you record or import, including type, time, distance, route, splits, elevation, and related stats
- A weather snapshot saved with an activity
- Heart rate samples from a workout, when a sensor, Apple Watch, or Apple Health provides them
- Step counts for the day and, when the activity uses them, steps during that activity
- A photo, if you attach one from your library
- Settings, equipment, goals, badges, segments, and saved routes
That information stays in on-device storage until you delete it in the App or uninstall the App. Uninstalling removes the App's local data from the phone.
3. Location
The App asks for location access so it can show where you are and record a route. When you start a workout, it also asks to keep using location in the background, including while the phone is locked, so it can record distance, pace, elevation, and the path you took. If you decline background location, tracking continues only while the App is in the foreground.
Location used for your route is saved with the activity on your iPhone. It is not sent to a YourTrackPal server. It is sent to the weather service described below, and to Google if you turn on Google Maps.
4. Weather
Weather is not optional. There is no switch in the App to turn it off.
If you allow location, the App sends your exact latitude and longitude to Open-Meteo at api.open-meteo.com to show temperature, conditions, humidity, and wind. It sends those coordinates when you open the App, about every 10 minutes while the Track tab is open, and again when your position on that tab changes. During a workout, location updates often, so those requests can happen much more often than every 10 minutes. Starting a workout sends your coordinates once more. See Open-Meteo's terms.
A snapshot of the weather can be stored with the finished activity on your phone. We do not operate that weather service.
5. Maps
Apple Maps can draw the map on your device. In Settings you can switch to Google Maps when this build of the App includes a Google Maps key. If you select Google Maps, map tiles load from Google, and Google may receive your map view and location as part of providing the map. See Google's Privacy Policy. If the build does not include a Google Maps key, the map stays on Apple Maps and the Google option is unavailable.
6. Heart rate
Heart rate can come from three places. None of them require a YourTrackPal account.
- Bluetooth. You can pair a Bluetooth heart rate monitor. The App can also pair a Bluetooth cadence sensor. Those readings stay on your iPhone.
- Apple Watch. A paired Watch can send heart rate samples to the iPhone during a workout. The phone and Watch talk to each other directly.
- Apple Health. Heart rate from Apple Health is off until you turn it on in Settings. If you also turn on Health sync, the App can write a finished workout to Apple Health, including activity type, duration, distance, and energy. Health data follows your Health permissions and Apple's practices.
7. Steps
The App reads step counts from the iPhone's motion sensors. It counts steps for the current day, not only during a workout, and it can save the steps taken during an activity that shows steps. This uses the Motion & Fitness permission.
8. Photos
You can attach a photo from your library to an activity. The App asks for photo library access when you do that. The photo stays with that activity on your iPhone. We do not upload it.
9. What we do not do
- No accounts and no sign-in
- No ads
- No in-app purchases
- No third-party analytics or crash-reporting SDKs
Charts and training stats in the App are calculated on the phone.
The App can show a Live Activity on the Lock Screen during a workout, and it can send workout state to the Apple Watch companion. That stays between your devices.
10. Permissions
The App requests:
- Location while you use the App, and background location during an active workout
- Motion and fitness, for step counts
- Bluetooth, to connect heart rate or cadence sensors you choose
- Photo library, only when you attach a photo
- Apple Health read, only if you enable heart rate from Health
- Apple Health write, only if you enable saving workouts to Health
You can change these in iOS Settings.
11. Export, backup, and deletion
You can take your data with you from the App:
- Export GPX Route on a saved activity shares that route
- Export All GPX (ZIP) in Settings, under Data & Privacy, shares your routes
- Backup All Data shares a JSON file of saved app data. You can set a passphrase first. The share sheet lets you save it to Files, iCloud Drive, or another place you choose
- Restore from Backup loads a backup file you pick
Anything you export or share is then handled by the app or service you send it to. We do not receive that file.
You can delete activities in the App, including Delete All Tracked History under Data & Privacy. Uninstalling the App removes its local data from the phone.
12. Children's privacy
The App is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided information through the App, email privacy@yourtrackpal.com.
13. Your rights
Because workout history is stored on your iPhone, you control it there. You can delete history, turn permissions off, disconnect a Bluetooth sensor, turn Apple Health access off, switch the map back to Apple Maps, or uninstall the App. Weather cannot be switched off inside the App. Denying location access stops both route tracking and weather requests.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or California, you may have additional privacy rights under applicable law. Email privacy@yourtrackpal.com.
14. Changes
We may update this policy. The "Last updated" date at the top will change when we do. Continued use of the App after a change means you accept the updated policy.
15. Contact
Questions about this policy or the App's data practices:
Jeremy Dixon
Email: privacy@yourtrackpal.com
Support: yourtrackpal.com/support