Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 5, 2026

Walk When is built to respect your privacy. There are no accounts, no ads, no tracking, and no third-party analytics. It collects no personal data. To understand how the app is used and to catch crashes and performance problems, it sends anonymous, non-identifying usage and diagnostic data — which you can turn off at any time in the app's settings.

What the app accesses

• Location. If you choose "Use my location," the app asks for your location once to find weather near you. Your approximate coordinates, rounded to about one kilometer, are sent to the weather provider to fetch a forecast. They are stored only on your device, so the app, widgets, and Apple Watch app can show your local walk windows. You can also search for a city by name instead of sharing your location.
• Weather and air quality data. Forecasts come from Open-Meteo, a free weather API. Your coordinates are sent to Open-Meteo only to retrieve the forecast for that area, with no account or identifier attached.
• Reverse geocoding. To turn coordinates into a city name, the app uses Apple's geocoding service, which is handled by the operating system.
• Health, motion, and workout data (optional). If you choose to track a walk, the app measures it and saves a workout to Apple Health, where it appears in the Fitness app. On iPhone it reads motion data (steps and distance) to measure the walk. On Apple Watch it records a full workout, including heart rate, active energy, distance, and a GPS route, which also credits your activity rings. These readings are used only to record and show that walk, are stored on your device in Apple Health, and are never sent to us or any third party. We have no servers and never see this data. Tracking a walk is entirely optional, and you control Health, Motion, and Location access in iOS and watchOS Settings.

Anonymous usage and app health

To make Walk When better, the app sends a small amount of anonymous information to our own service:

• Usage events — actions like opening the app, switching cities, or finishing a walk, so we can see which features people actually use. These never include free-form text, your location, or any health data.
• App-health diagnostics — crash and performance reports, provided by Apple's MetricKit, so we can find and fix problems.

This data is tied to a random identifier that changes every day, so it cannot be linked back to you or connected across days. It carries no name, email, account, location, or health information, and there is no advertising identifier. We never use it to track you across other apps or websites, and we never sell or share it or send it to a data broker. It is on by default, and you can turn it off at any time in the app's settings — doing so stops collection and clears the associated data.

What the app does not do

• No accounts and no sign-in.
• No advertising and no advertising identifier (IDFA).
• No third-party analytics or advertising SDKs, and no cross-app or cross-site tracking.
• No selling or sharing of your personal data, and no data brokers.
• No health, workout, or route data leaves your device. It stays in Apple Health.
• No personal data on our servers — the only thing we receive is the anonymous usage and diagnostic data described above.

Where your data lives

Your settings, saved cities, and walk log are stored on your device, in a shared app group so the widgets and Apple Watch app can read them. If you're signed in to iCloud, they also sync across your own devices through your private iCloud account (using Apple's CloudKit) — this stays in your iCloud, and we can't see it. Walks you track are saved to Apple Health on your device. Deleting the app removes its local data; workouts already saved to Apple Health stay in Health until you remove them there, and iCloud data follows your Apple account.

Children

Walk When does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13.

Third-party services

• Open-Meteo provides weather and air quality data. See open-meteo.com for their terms.
• Apple provides reverse geocoding and standard App Store services.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email hello@walkwhen.karansangha.com.