StarWalks Privacy Policy

Last updated September 21, 2026

StarWalks is a walking game: stars are scattered along real walkable paths around you, and you capture them by physically walking to them. This policy explains what the app does — and doesn't do — with your information. In short: your location and routes never leave your device, there is no account or sign-up, and there are no ads or third-party trackers.

Information the app uses on your device only

• Location. Used to show stars near you on the map and to record your route during an active walk. Your precise location and your walk routes are stored only on your device and are never transmitted off it — not to us, not to a server, not to other players.
• Motion & fitness (steps, distance). Read from your device's motion sensor and Apple Health to show your progress.
• Apple Health. With your permission, the app reads your step and distance history to display weeks, months, and years of progress, and writes your finished walks to Health as Outdoor Walk/Cycling workouts. This data stays within Apple Health on your device.

Information shared when you join a group

Groups are an optional feature. If you create or join a group leaderboard, the app shares — through Apple's iCloud (CloudKit) — only:

• Your daily totals: steps, stars captured, and distance;
• A display name you choose (it can be a nickname).

This lets other members of the same group see your daily totals on a leaderboard. Your location, your routes, and your map are never shared. Group data is associated with your iCloud account identifier so your scores stay attached to you. If you leave a group, your scores stop appearing on its leaderboard; if a group is deleted, its data is removed for everyone.

What we do not do

• No account, email, phone number, or password is ever collected.
• No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
• No third-party analytics or tracking SDKs. Nothing about you is used to track you across other apps or websites.
• No selling or sharing of personal data with third parties.

Data storage and deletion

App data lives on your device (and, for group scores, in Apple's iCloud). Deleting the app removes its on-device data. To remove shared group data, leave the group from within the app. Health data is managed by you in the Apple Health app, where you can revoke the app's access at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Health.

Children

StarWalks is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes to this policy

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

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email shonil.vijay@gmail.com.