Effective date: October 20, 2026
Pedometer is operated by Kayven Chen in Australia. This policy explains how information is handled when you use the iPhone and Apple Watch apps, their widgets and complications, our support service, and our website. For privacy questions or requests, email k800k67@gmail.com.
With your permission, Pedometer reads step count, walking/running distance, flights climbed, and active energy (shown as active calories). These values support activity displays, charts, daily goals, widgets, and complications. Trips also reads walking, running, and hiking workouts and their available GPS routes. When you save a recorded trip and grant permission, Pedometer writes the workout, its walking/running distance, and timestamped GPS route to Apple Health. Pedometer does not write duplicate step-count samples.
Pedometer keeps a limited local activity snapshot containing today’s totals, hourly step/distance/flights values, a seven-day step average when available, the step goal, and the last successful update time. The app and its widgets share this cache on the same device. Starting with the version 1.1 release, this cache is protected by the operating system and excluded from device backups; the system may remove it and the app can recreate it from Apple Health. A failed or temporarily unavailable Health query does not replace the last successful cache with an empty result.
The app also stores setup completion, the app-owned step goal, appearance preferences, a subscription entitlement cache, and settings-sync information locally. Onboarding progress, unfinished colour previews, distinct app-use days, and the dates of review requests or Plus invitations are stored locally to resume the tour and limit interruptions. Sample activity shown in previews is clearly labelled and is never written to Apple Health or saved as your activity. These local preferences are not sent to an analytics service or used to target advertising. WatchConnectivity exchanges only the goal, appearance preferences, and the identifiers/timestamps needed to reconcile those settings with a paired iPhone or Apple Watch. It does not exchange Health snapshots or subscription entitlement state.
Apple controls Apple Health storage and optional Health syncing, device backups, and system widget presentation under your Apple settings and Apple’s privacy terms. Pedometer does not operate a cloud Health-sync service. Earlier versions or prerelease builds may have stored local activity snapshots in existing device backups. Updating the app cannot remove those backups; manage them through your device and Apple account settings.
When you start a trip, Pedometer requests location and motion access to record your path and available steps. Location updates continue during an active trip while the screen is locked or another app is open, and stop when you finish or discard the recording. Pausing stops adding route samples. Live Activities show trip status and controls on system surfaces when enabled.
Trip recovery records, trips that have not been saved to Health, route caches, saved paths, and planned routes are stored in protected storage on your iPhone and excluded from device backups. Saved paths remain available independently of the original Health workout. Removing a saved path does not delete a Health workout. You can discard an unfinished recording, remove saved paths, manage workouts in Apple Health, and remove app-owned local data by deleting the app. Unsaved local trips and planned paths do not synchronize to another device.
When you choose a GPX file in Files, Pedometer reads its tracks on your device. Previewing and importing do not create a workout or write to Apple Health. Saving copies the selected track into protected local Saved Paths storage; the app does not retain access to the original file. You can remove the saved path independently of the original file. Imported tracks are not uploaded to a developer service or supplied to advertisers.
Apple Maps supplies the map, place search, and walking directions. Search terms and the coordinates needed for route requests are processed by Apple’s mapping services under Apple’s privacy terms. Pedometer does not send recorded GPS histories, planned routes, or location samples to a developer backend or advertising services. GPS recording and stored paths can remain available without connectivity, but searches, route calculation, and map imagery may require a network connection.
Voice guidance is off by default. If enabled in Settings or during navigation, the app speaks directions and alerts using system speech synthesis and temporarily lowers other audio. It does not record your microphone.
Free users may see one Google Mobile Ads banner in the iPhone activity screen. Ads do not appear in the Apple Watch app, widgets, complications, onboarding, Health authorization or error screens, Settings, privacy information, or purchase screens.
Google’s advertising and consent services may process:
Google uses this information for ad delivery, advertising measurement and analytics, fraud prevention, diagnostics, and consent-related functionality. Non-personalized ads can still involve these forms of processing. See how Google uses information from partner apps and Google’s Privacy Policy.
Pedometer never supplies step counts, goals, distance, flights, calories, charts, trip routes, location samples, Health authorization state, or Health-derived fitness information to ad requests or advertising audiences. HealthKit data is not used for advertising, marketing, tracking, profiling, or data mining. Google’s publisher first-party ID is disabled in the app.
Google’s User Messaging Platform determines whether a regional consent form or privacy-choice entry point is required. Where required, you can reopen Ad Privacy Choices in Settings > Pedometer Plus to change or withdraw your choices. The app refreshes its advertising state after those choices change.
The iPhone app requests Apple’s App Tracking Transparency permission after onboarding is complete and the Health experience is ready. Tracking-based personalized advertising requires your permission. You can change this permission in iOS Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking. If permission is denied or unavailable, the app requests non-personalized treatment. Any stricter regional consent choices still apply. Declining tracking does not remove core app features.
Pedometer Plus offers an optional monthly auto-renewable subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase through Apple’s StoreKit. Both options remove iPhone banners and unlock optional appearance settings, route planning, and saved-path navigation. Trip recording, Live Activities, Health history, GPX import, and saving paths remain free. Core activity metrics, charts, goal setting, widgets, and complications remain free.
Apple handles payment details, purchases, renewals, restores, and refunds. Pedometer reads verified entitlement information to enable Plus and keeps a local entitlement cache; it does not receive your full payment-card details. Apple verifies entitlement separately on eligible devices. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple account settings. See App Store and Privacy.
If you email us, we receive your email address, the message, and any information or attachments you choose to send. We use these to respond to your request and troubleshoot the issue. Do not send Apple Health exports or unnecessary sensitive health details. Support correspondence is not used for advertising.
We retain support correspondence for 12 months after the request is resolved, then delete it, unless a longer period is necessary to meet a legal obligation or handle an active dispute. In those cases, we retain only what is necessary for that purpose until the obligation or dispute is resolved. You can request earlier deletion where applicable law permits it.
The website is hosted by GitHub Pages. Visiting it involves ordinary web connection information handled by GitHub; see GitHub’s Privacy Statement. Our email provider also processes support email. These services are separate from the local HealthKit activity cache.
Apple, Google, GitHub, and email service providers handle information needed for their respective services. Providers processing information on our behalf are required to protect it consistently with the applicable service agreements and privacy law. Their policies explain their own processing and retention. We do not sell or share HealthKit data with advertisers.
Service providers may process personal information outside Australia, including in the United States and other locations described in their policies. Privacy laws in those locations may differ. Applicable international-transfer requirements must be met; this policy does not replace any consent or safeguards required by law.
We may disclose information we actually hold, such as support correspondence, when legally required or necessary to address fraud, security incidents, or legal claims. We do not have remote access to your local Apple Health records.
The local activity cache is replaced as activity is successfully refreshed; it is not a permanent copy of your full Health history. Local settings remain until you change them or remove the app. Revoking Health access stops future access but does not itself erase previously cached information.
To remove local Pedometer data, delete Pedometer on each device where it is installed. Deleting the iPhone app does not itself erase a separately installed Watch app, your Apple Health records, existing backups, or Apple’s purchase records, and it does not cancel a subscription. Manage those through the relevant Apple controls. Google’s ad/consent records follow Google’s retention and deletion practices, rather than the lifetime of Pedometer’s local cache.
Depending on applicable law, you may request access, correction, deletion, or portability of personal information we hold, restrict processing, or object to certain uses. You may withdraw consent for future processing without affecting processing that was lawful before withdrawal. Where a legal basis is required, we rely on consent for processing that requires it, providing the services you request for purchases, legitimate interests in responding to support and protecting the service, and applicable legal obligations. Health and advertising permissions remain separate choices.
Email k800k67@gmail.com to make a privacy request or complaint. We will consider your request, explain any applicable limits, and respond under the requirements that apply to it. Because we cannot remotely access your local activity records, some requests are handled using Apple Health or device controls. You may also complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner or the relevant privacy authority where you live.
Pedometer is a general-audience fitness app and is not directed to children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us without required permission, contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate action. App Store age ratings and device parental controls also apply.
Pedometer provides general fitness information. It does not provide medical diagnosis, treatment, clinical, emergency, or health research guidance. Activity values may be incomplete or delayed because of sensor, permission, or system limitations. Do not use Pedometer to make medical decisions.
We update this policy when relevant features or information practices change and update the effective date above. We provide additional notice or request new consent when required for a material change.
Privacy contact: Kayven Chen, Australia — k800k67@gmail.com.