Privacy Policy

YourMoves is built to be private by design. This policy explains what data the app touches and what happens to it.

Health data stays on your device, unless you join Friends

YourMoves reads steps, walking distance, flights climbed, active energy and walking pace from Apple Health, with your permission, to show your progress, streaks, trends and journeys, and, if you connect your watch walks, your outdoor workouts and their routes, to add them to your city. This data is processed and stored on your device. The one exception is Friends, below, and only if you choose to join it. You can revoke Health access at any time in Settings.

Friends (optional)

Friends lets you compare steps with people you add, and in leagues with groups of people. If you join, our server keeps:

• your daily step totals, or your daily pushes if you use Wheelchair mode (just the number per day; walks, routes, distance and other Health data are never sent to us; steps you typed into Health by hand are left out),
• the name and emoji you pick, and your country’s flag if you choose to show it,
• the country you’re travelling in, only while you choose to show it, and when it stops showing (at most 61 days). The app may suggest it from your phone’s time zone or a walk on My city; that guess stays on your phone, and nothing is sent until you tap to show it. It is removed from our server within a day of the trip ending,
• your friend code, your friends, friend requests, people you blocked, and any reports you make,
• an identifier derived from your App Store purchase record of YourMoves, so you are the same person on every device without creating an account. It contains no name or email,
• if the app’s notifications are on, your phone’s push token (the address Apple gives the app for sending it notifications), so you hear when a friend accepts your invite. It is used for nothing else. It is deleted when you leave Friends, at once when you turn notifications off in the app (if you turn them off in iOS Settings instead, the next time you open the app), or after 60 days without use. To keep notifications fair, we also count how many of these you get a day and note who they were about, so the same person can’t notify you more than once in 30 days,
• your phone’s time zone and language setting, so friend notifications ("a friend just passed you", at most once an hour about the same friend and 10 a day, and one evening nudge when first place is within reach) arrive at sensible hours and show numbers your way. You can turn these off with "Friends updates" in your Friends profile.
• the nudges and cheers you send a friend or someone in a league with you, and the ones you get (who, to whom, when, a cheer’s emoji, and any words you add, up to 60 characters), so they stay within their daily limits and the other person gets a notification ("👋 Ana nudged you", "👏 Ana cheered you on", or your words). They are kept for four days,
• a thought you share (up to 24 characters, like “Lunch walk at 1?”) and who it’s for: all your friends, or the people in one of your leagues. It shows over your face to them only, and is deleted a day after you share it, or as soon as you change or clear it,
• the leagues you make or are in: each league’s name, emoji, colour, how long it runs, who made it, who is in it, who added them and when, and the day each person joined. A league counts only the daily totals above; nothing else is collected for it. A friend can add you to their league straight away: you’re told at once and can leave any time, and once you leave, nobody can add you back to that league for 30 days (we keep that you left, and when, for those 30 days). Only your friends can add you. Whoever looks after a league can take someone out of it; they aren’t told, and can come back with the league’s code. Anyone in a league can send a friend request to someone else in it. Every league has a code (six letters and numbers) and a link (yourmoves.app/l/…) that anyone in it can share: whoever has it can see the league’s name, emoji, colour, size and who made it, and join it, friends or not. With “Friends updates” on, you get a notification when a friend adds you to a league, when someone joins a league you’re in, and one each morning about who won yesterday in your leagues.

A friend, or someone in a league with you, can share a picture of the board, for example in a message or a story. It shows your name, flag, emoji, place and steps, or only your emoji, place and steps if they switch “Friends’ names” off. Once shared, a picture is outside YourMoves, like any screenshot.

The Hall of fame on the Friends board counts, for everyone on your board, how many finished days they were 1st, 2nd and 3rd, and turns those places into points. It is worked out from the daily step totals above, over the friends on your board at that moment: someone you add brings the days they won, and someone you remove takes theirs. The morning after you top your board, you get one note about it, only with “Friends updates” on. So that note only goes to a version of the app that can show the Hall of fame, we keep the time your app last asked for it.

Your step totals, name, emoji, flag and trip, and the places and points they add up to, are shown only to the friends you add, and in pictures of the board they choose to share. In a league, everyone in it sees your name, emoji and your steps for each day the league runs, the places and points they add up to, and when your steps for today last arrived, even people who aren’t your friends, and they can nudge and cheer you. You can leave a league any time, and report or block anyone in it from the league’s board. A thought is shown only to the people you shared it with, and the words you add to a nudge or a cheer go only to the person you send them to. A report about someone’s thought or message keeps those words with the report, so we can look at them. We use this data only to run Friends. It is stored with Cloudflare in the European Union, never sold, and never used for advertising or tracking.

Leave Friends any time from your profile in the Friends tab: your profile, step totals, thoughts, friends, requests, invites, your place in leagues and everything else that names you are deleted from our server straight away (a league you made passes to whoever joined it first after you). To keep other people safe, a few records stay for a while, tied to you only by a code made from your App Store purchase record with a secret key: blocks other people made on you and reports about you (365 days), friend requests of yours that were declined (30 days), how many requests your app made each day (4 days), the nudges and cheers you sent (4 days, so leaving doesn’t reset their daily limits; any words you added are removed), and, if you accepted someone’s invite, the note that they were notified about you (30 days, so joining again doesn’t notify them twice). They hold no name, emoji, steps or profile ID. Reports you made stay, without your ID. Deleting the app does not delete your Friends data: leave Friends first, or write to us and we will.

If someone’s name or emoji is offensive, report it from their menu on the board. We look at every report within a day.

Maps and places

My city draws your walks on a map. Walks you record in the app use your location only while you record them, and stay on your device with the rest of your walks. The map itself comes from Mapbox, which sees which part of the map is being shown, along with standard technical data such as your IP address, but never your walks; Mapbox’s own telemetry is turned off. Place names for your walks are looked up with Apple’s maps service.

No ads, no tracking

YourMoves shows no ads and contains no advertising or analytics trackers. Apart from Friends, which you can choose to join, there are no accounts.

Purchases

If you subscribe to YourMoves+ or buy a lifetime unlock, the purchase is processed by Apple. We use RevenueCat to validate purchases and manage subscription status. RevenueCat receives purchase information and an anonymous, randomly generated identifier. It does not receive your name, email or any health data. See the RevenueCat privacy policy for details.

Notifications

Reminders and goal celebrations are local notifications, scheduled and delivered entirely on your device. Enabling them is optional.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page.

Contact

Questions? Email [email protected].