Stride Privacy Policy
- No ads, no tracking, no analytics. Stride contains no third-party code, and we don't sell, rent or trade your data.
- Your runs are yours. Runs, routes, shoes, challenges, workouts and settings stay on your devices and in your own private iCloud account. We can't see them.
- Heart rate isn't synced. Stride never sends Health data to us, and it never syncs heart rate, or the weight and birthday it reads from Apple Health, through iCloud. For runs recorded on Apple Watch, the distance, time and calories the Watch measured are saved with the run and sync to your private iCloud like any other run.
- Friends is opt-in. Only if you turn on sharing does Stride publish a small card (a display name and running totals) that people with your friend code can see. Turn sharing off and the card is deleted.
- Apple handles payments. We never receive your payment details.
Who we are
Stride: Running ("Stride") is an app for iPhone and Apple Watch made by Alexandre de Paula Dias Junior, an independent developer ("we", "us"). We are responsible for the personal data described here, including for the purposes of the EU and UK GDPR and Brazil's LGPD (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados). You can reach us at reabilitado97@gmail.com.
We don't run any servers of our own for Stride. Everything below happens on your devices, in your iCloud account, in Apple Health, or (only for Friends) in a database Apple hosts for the app.
On your device and in your iCloud
Stride stores what you record and set up on your iPhone and Apple Watch. If you're signed in to iCloud, it keeps your iPhones in step through your private iCloud database (Apple's CloudKit). That data lives in your iCloud account under Apple's privacy policy. We, the developer, have no access to it. Without iCloud, it simply stays on the iPhone.
| Data | Where it's kept |
|---|---|
| Runs: date, time, distance, duration, pace and splits, elevation, calories (estimated from your weight, or measured by Apple Watch for Watch runs), GPS route, run type, workout name, how it felt, surface, notes and shoe | Your devices and your private iCloud |
| Shoes, challenges and custom workouts | Your devices and your private iCloud |
| Settings: your name, units, goals, voice coach, target pace, training plan progress, and your Friends settings (your code, friends' codes, blocked codes, cheers) | Your devices and iCloud's key-value storage for your account |
| Heart rate from Apple Watch runs: a run's average, time in each zone and heart rate along the route (runs recorded on iPhone have no heart rate) | Only on the iPhone that received the run from your Apple Watch, in a separate store that Stride never syncs to iCloud. Your Watch keeps its copy only until the run reaches your iPhone. |
| Weight and maximum heart rate | Only on your iPhone (your maximum heart rate is also sent to your Apple Watch for heart-rate zones). Stride doesn't sync them through iCloud, but each run's calorie estimate is calculated from your weight and syncs with the run. |
| A random identifier for your iPhone | In the iPhone's Keychain, and with each run it records, so only that iPhone saves the run to Apple Health. It isn't linked to you. The Keychain copy stays after you delete Stride, so a reinstall recognizes the runs this iPhone recorded. |
Between your iPhone and Apple Watch
Stride on Apple Watch talks directly to Stride on your paired iPhone using Apple's WatchConnectivity and HealthKit workout mirroring. Finished Watch runs (with route and heart rate) go to your iPhone; during a mirrored run, live numbers appear on your iPhone; and your iPhone sends the Watch your units, maximum heart rate, Stride Pro status, your custom workouts and a summary of your week for complications.
Widgets, Live Activities, Siri and Shortcuts
To show your week on widgets, complications, Live Activities and in Siri answers, Stride keeps a short summary of your recent runs (and, if you have friends, their cards) in storage shared only by Stride and its widgets on your device. The voice coach speaks using your device's built-in voices.
Housekeeping on your device
- While a run is recording, Stride saves its progress every few seconds so it can be recovered if the app closes. That copy is deleted when the run ends.
- So that one person's friends don't carry over to another person's iCloud account, Stride keeps a one-way fingerprint of the signed-in iCloud account on the device.
- Like other app data, what Stride stores on your iPhone, including heart rate and weight, can be included in the device backups you make, including iCloud Backup if you use it. Those backups are handled by Apple, and we can't see them.
Apple Health
Stride uses Apple Health (HealthKit) only with your permission, which you give or change on Apple's Health permission screen. You can turn off any item at any time in Health › your picture › Privacy › Apps › Stride.
What Stride reads
- Heart rate, active energy, walking and running distance, and workouts, during runs recorded on Apple Watch, to show live heart rate, zones, distance and calories on your Watch and iPhone, and to record the run: the distance, time and active energy Apple Watch measures become the run's distance, time and calories. Stride also looks up the workouts it saved itself, so a run isn't saved twice and can be removed when you delete it.
- Weight and date of birth, only when you tap Update from Health in Profile. Your weight is used to estimate calories, and your age to estimate your maximum heart rate. Stride keeps the weight and the resulting maximum heart rate on your iPhone; it doesn't store your birthday.
What Stride saves to Health
- If Save runs to Apple Health is on: runs recorded on iPhone or added by hand, as running workouts with their distance, active energy and, for GPS runs, the route.
- Runs recorded on Apple Watch are saved by the Watch as workouts with their route and the heart rate, distance and active energy measured during the workout.
How Health data is treated
- It's used only to provide Stride's features. It is never used for advertising or marketing, never sold, never used for tracking, and never shared with anyone else, except the running totals you choose to share with Friends and the run images you choose to share.
- It's never sent to us. Stride never syncs heart rate, or the weight and birthday read from Health, through iCloud (your device's own backups can include them, as described above).
- For runs recorded on Apple Watch, the distance, time and active energy Apple Watch measured are saved as the run's distance, time and calories. Like every run, that summary and the route are part of your run history and sync to your private iCloud, which only you can access. For runs recorded on iPhone or added by hand, distance comes from GPS or what you typed, and calories are Stride's estimate from your weight.
- If you turn on Friends, the distance and time of your runs, including those Apple Watch measured, count toward the totals on your card, which only people with your code can see. Heart rate, calories, route and other Health data are never on the card.
- If Stride saved a run to Health from your iPhone, deleting the run in Stride also removes that workout from Health. Workouts recorded on Apple Watch stay in Health until you delete them there.
Location
- When: Stride asks for location access "While Using the App". It uses your location while the Run screen is open (to show GPS readiness and where you are on the map) and while a run you started is recording. While a run records, iOS lets Stride keep going with the screen locked and shows the location indicator. It stops when the run ends or you leave the Run screen.
- Why: to map your route and measure distance, pace and elevation, and for auto-pause. Stride may ask for precise location for a single run if Precise Location is off.
- Apple Watch: uses GPS during runs recorded on the Watch.
- Where it goes: your route is saved with the run on your devices and in your private iCloud, and to Apple Health if you chose that. It is never part of your Friends card, and it's never sent to us.
- Maps: maps are drawn with Apple Maps, which loads map images for the area shown from Apple under Apple's privacy policy.
Friends
Friends lets you and people you choose see each other's week and cheer each other on. It's off until you turn it on in Progress › Friends › Share my running, and it needs you to be signed in to iCloud.
What is published
While sharing is on, Stride keeps one card up to date in the public database of Stride's iCloud container (Apple's CloudKit). The card is named after your 8-character friend code and holds exactly:
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| Name | The "Name friends see" in Stride, up to 30 characters, with links, handles, email addresses and long numbers removed ("Runner" if empty) |
| This week | Which week it is, and your distance, number of runs and total time that week (weeks run Monday to Sunday) |
| This month | Which month it is, and your distance and number of runs that month |
| Streak | How many weeks in a row you've run |
| Last run | Its date and time, distance and duration |
| Cheers | Which week it is, and the friends you cheered that week, stored as one-way codes so the card never lists your friends' codes. Someone who has both your code and that friend's code can tell you cheered them. |
Apple also stores standard details with every record: when it was created and changed, and an anonymous identifier for the iCloud account that created it. That identifier is specific to Stride and isn't your Apple Account email or name.
Your card never includes your route, location, heart rate, calories, weight, notes, shoes or email address. For runs recorded on Apple Watch, the distances and times that count toward your totals and last run are the ones Apple Watch measured through Apple Health.
Who can see it
- Anyone who has your friend code. Stride finds cards only by code. There's no search or directory of runners.
- As the developer, we can view the records in Stride's public database through Apple's CloudKit tools. We look only when we need to, for example to handle a report or a deletion request.
Your friends' cards
When you add a friend by code, Stride fetches their card and keeps a copy on your device for the Friends board, widgets and your Apple Watch. Your friends' codes are saved in your iCloud settings so your other iPhones show the same friends.
Stopping and removing it
- Stop sharing: turn off Share my running. Stride deletes your card from the public database. If you're offline, it keeps trying the next times you open Stride until the card is gone. Turning sharing off on one iPhone turns it off on your other iPhones through iCloud.
- Change your code: Change my code deletes the card under your old code. Anyone with the old code stops seeing you.
- Block: removes a runner from your board and stops them being added again. To stop them seeing you too, change your code.
- Friends' devices: your friends' iPhones, widgets and Apple Watches keep the copy of your card they last fetched, and drop it the next time Stride refreshes on their iPhone.
- Deleting the app, or leaving iCloud, doesn't delete your card. If you delete Stride, sign out of iCloud, or switch your iPhone to another iCloud account while sharing is on, the card stays with its last numbers. Turn sharing off first. If it's too late, sign in again with the same Apple Account (reinstalling Stride if needed; your sharing setting and code come back through iCloud), then turn off Share my running. Or email us your friend code and we'll delete the card. If you no longer have the code, send the name on your card and roughly when you last used Stride, and we'll do our best to find it.
Sharing is based on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by turning sharing off.
Stride Pro subscriptions
- Stride Pro is sold through the App Store. Apple processes the payment; we never receive your card details, name, email or billing address.
- Stride uses Apple's StoreKit on your device to check whether your Apple Account (or your family, through Family Sharing) has an active subscription, and remembers the last answer on that device so the app opens quickly.
- Apple gives developers sales reports that don't identify you. Your purchase is covered by Apple's privacy policy. You can manage or cancel it in Settings › your name › Subscriptions.
Sharing to Instagram, Photos and other apps
Stride shares a run only when you tap to share it. It draws an image of the run on your device, which can show the run's name and date, the shape of your route, distance, time, pace and elevation, and a photo if you pick one.
- Instagram Stories: Stride places the image on the clipboard (it expires after 5 minutes) and opens Instagram's Stories editor. If you use Universal Clipboard, your other nearby Apple devices can paste it until it expires. What happens in Instagram is covered by Instagram's own privacy policy.
- Save to Photos: Stride asks only for permission to add photos. It can't see your library.
- Your photo as background: you choose it with Apple's photo picker, and Stride receives only that photo, to draw the image.
- More and invites: the share sheet sends the image, or an invite containing your friend code, only to the app or person you choose.
A route image can reveal where you run, such as the streets near your home. Think about that before posting it publicly.
Reports and emails
- Report Name: in Friends, Report Name opens your email app with a message to us that includes the reported runner's name and friend code. Nothing is sent until you send it.
- When you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you write. We use it only to review the report (which can include removing a card that breaks the Friends rules) or to answer you.
- We keep emails only as long as we need them to help you, and we'll delete them if you ask.
Services Apple provides
Stride relies on Apple for iCloud, Apple Health, Apple Maps, the App Store, and communication between your iPhone and Apple Watch. Apple handles that data under its own privacy policy, and it may be stored outside your country. If you've chosen to share analytics with app developers in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements, Apple may give us crash reports and usage statistics that don't identify you. Stride itself contains no analytics.
Apple is the only service provider that stores or processes Stride data for the app (in iCloud and CloudKit, including the Friends database), and it protects that data at least as well as this policy requires. We don't share your personal data with anyone else: people with your friend code see only the Friends card you choose to publish, and Instagram and other apps receive a run only when you choose to share it with them.
Children
Stride isn't directed at children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country), and we don't knowingly collect their personal data. The only thing Stride ever publishes is a Friends card. If you believe a child has turned on sharing, turn it off in the app or email us the friend code and we'll delete the card.
Keeping and deleting data
How long data is kept
- On your devices: until you delete it in Stride or delete the app. The random device identifier stays in the iPhone's Keychain after you delete Stride.
- Settings in iCloud's key-value storage (your name, friend code, friends, blocked codes and other settings): until you change or remove them in Stride. They stay in your iCloud account after you delete the app and come back if you reinstall it.
- Your private iCloud: until you delete it in Stride (deletions reach your other iPhones) or remove Stride's data from iCloud. To do that, go to Settings › your name › iCloud › Manage Account Storage and choose Stride, if it's listed.
- Apple Health: until you delete it in the Health app.
- Friends card: while sharing is on. It's deleted when you turn sharing off or change your code. It stays, with its last numbers, if you delete Stride, sign out of iCloud or switch to another iCloud account while sharing is on (see Stopping and removing it).
- Emails to us: as long as we need them to handle your request.
How to delete
- One run: swipe left on it in Activities, or open it and choose Edit › Delete run. This also deletes its heart rate, and the Health workout if Stride saved one from your iPhone.
- All runs: Profile › Delete all runs deletes every run with its heart rate, plus your shoes and challenges, on all your iPhones through iCloud. Runs already saved to Apple Health stay there.
- Custom workouts: swipe to delete them in Workouts.
- Friends card: turn off Share my running.
- Your name and friends: they sync through iCloud's key-value storage and come back if you reinstall Stride. Clear the "Name friends see" and remove your friends in Stride before you delete the app.
- Everything else on the device (weight, cached friends' cards, other settings): delete the app.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, including under the GDPR in the EU and UK and the LGPD in Brazil, you have the right to confirm whether we hold your personal data and to access, correct, delete or port it, to restrict or object to its use, and to withdraw consent. You can also complain to your data protection authority, such as the ANPD in Brazil.
Most of your data never reaches us, and you can see, change and delete it in the app. For data we can access (a Friends card or emails you sent us), email reabilitado97@gmail.com. For a Friends card, include your friend code. We may ask for something that shows the card is yours. We'll reply within the time the law requires.
We don't sell your personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Changes to this policy
If Stride starts handling data differently, we'll update this page and the effective date at the top. For significant changes, we'll also say so in the app's release notes.
Contact
Alexandre de Paula Dias Junior
Email: reabilitado97@gmail.com
Support: Stride Support