StrideSafe is designed to help two trusted people share walking progress and selected journey information without hidden tracking. This policy describes the current app and website implementation. StrideSafe is operated by Luan van der Walt. For privacy requests, email [email protected].
Information you provide
- A guest account identity, optional display name, and authentication information when you protect your account with Apple or verified email.
- Personal daily and weekly step goals and onboarding choices.
- Pairing invite actions and one active trusted pairing.
- Journey labels, entered timing, status, and current sharing choice.
- Supported encouragement reactions and notification preferences.
Health and motion information
When you choose Apple Health, the iPhone requests read access to steps, workouts, and recorded workout routes. Raw Health samples and workout routes are not uploaded by StrideSafe or shown to a partner. The app syncs one daily step total and a source label to support personal and shared progress.
You may instead choose steps recorded by this iPhone. Apple Health and iPhone totals are never added together.
If you explicitly add a workout to a stride and grant write permission, StrideSafe saves that workout and its recorded route to Apple Health. Workout recording is optional. These routes are not uploaded to StrideSafe’s servers.
Location and journey information
Planning a journey leaves location off. A new journey preselects Precise unless you chose a different default in Settings. Review the visible mode before starting; Start applies that selection.
Location is off by default. A selected walk or commute can use Off, Approximate, or Precise sharing. StrideSafe Plus also includes a separately approved continuous mode outside a commute. Both modes use one replaceable latest-location record; StrideSafe does not create a partner-visible coordinate route history.
Approximate detail is reduced server-side before partner access. Precise mode shares the latest approved precise point. With Plus, you may separately enable a live route during an active walk. Those points are relayed temporarily, never saved to the server database, and cleared when sharing stops. Partner access requires the current pairing and consent state.
Private walk route history can be saved in a protected store on the walker’s device. These route points are never written to StrideSafe’s server or database.
How information is used
- Authenticate the account and keep the session available.
- Calculate daily progress, goals, and personal or couple streaks.
- Enforce pairing and independent consent choices.
- Present current journey and permitted latest-location state.
- Deliver opt-in, privacy-safe local or partner notifications.
- Process an eligible StrideSafe Plus purchase through Apple.
Sharing
StrideSafe shares partner-visible information only with the one active paired account and only when the relevant server rules permit it. Pairing alone does not enable steps or location. Push payloads do not include coordinates, destinations, exact steps, Health data, or reaction rows.
Apple processes App Store purchases. Supabase provides authentication, database, Realtime signalling, and server functions. Apple operating-system services provide Health, motion, location, notifications, and StoreKit capabilities.
Retention and deletion
Daily step summaries, profiles, pairing, journey metadata, preferences, and reactions remain according to the current product data model until removed by their applicable lifecycle or account deletion. Latest approved coordinates are replaced rather than appended. Account deletion cascades through profiles, pairing, invites, steps, commutes, reactions, and latest location.
Security
Access is enforced by authenticated accounts, server-side relationship checks, Row Level Security, and narrowly scoped functions. The app contains a Supabase publishable key, not a service-role secret. No system is guaranteed to be completely secure.
Your controls
You can change step source, step sharing, commute sharing, continuous sharing, notification preferences, and goals; pause or stop current sharing; revoke a pairing; sign out; or delete the account and associated data. System permissions can also be changed in iOS Settings.
Website analytics
If you choose Allow analytics, this website loads Google Analytics 4 to measure page visits and selected interactions, such as opening FAQs or clicking release-status links. Google receives technical information about your browser and device and uses first-party analytics cookies to recognise visits. Website analytics is separate from the StrideSafe app: we do not send account identifiers, Health data, steps, partner information, commute details, or location snapshots.
Analytics does not load until you agree. Advertising storage, advertising personalisation, Google signals, and automatic enhanced measurement are disabled. We send canonical page addresses without query strings or fragments and do not send form contents. Your choice is remembered in this browser for up to six months. You can change it using Analytics preferences in the footer; declining stops future collection and clears this site's Google Analytics cookies. Data already sent is not removed by changing your choice.
Google processes analytics data on its infrastructure, which may be outside your country. See Google's privacy policy for more information.