Privacy Policy

Runara is a workout companion for iPhone and Apple Watch built by Manuel Fegerl (sole developer). This policy describes exactly what information the app and this website handle and what they do with it. The short version: the Runara app collects no data. Nothing about your use of the app, your workouts, your settings, or your location ever leaves your devices except where you explicitly cause it to.

What we don't do

• We have no servers for the app. There is no Runara cloud account.
• We don't use third-party analytics in the app (no Firebase, Mixpanel, Sentry, Amplitude, or similar).
• We don't use advertising SDKs and we don't request the IDFA.
• We don't share data with anyone.
• We don't sync your data through iCloud, CloudKit, or any other cloud service.
• We have no login system.

What the app does on your device

Apple Health (HealthKit)

With your permission, Runara reads heart-rate samples, resting heart rate, recent workout types, and workout routes for older workouts displayed in History. With your permission, it writes finished workouts (HKWorkout), the route polyline of each outdoor workout (HKWorkoutRoute), per-segment events with distance metadata (HKWorkoutEvent), and heart-rate, distance, and active-energy samples for each workout.

All HealthKit data lives in Apple Health on your device. Runara never copies, exports, or transmits it. Apple Health itself stores this data on-device; if you turn on Health in your iCloud settings, Apple may sync your Health database across your own devices using iCloud's end-to-end encryption. That is Apple's feature, controlled entirely by you, and something Runara neither enables, configures, nor relies on. Runara itself has no cloud.

Location

Runara requests "When in Use" location permission. Location is read only while a workout is actively running and is used only to record the workout's route into Apple Health. The app does not run location updates in the background outside an active workout, and it never transmits location data anywhere.

Local settings storage

Your screen layouts, favorite workout types, interval plans, and preferences are stored on your iPhone using Apple's SwiftData framework, protected by iOS's filesystem encryption. They are copied to your paired Apple Watch via Apple's WatchConnectivity framework, a direct device-to-device channel, and never traverse any third-party server.

Offline maps

Map tiles you export on your iPhone are rasterized from Apple Maps and saved as MBTiles files in the app's shared container, then transferred to your watch via WatchConnectivity. Nothing about the tiles or your map use is transmitted beyond Apple's own Apple Maps SDK calls during the export.

This website

This marketing website is separate from the app and processes a limited amount of data, only as described here. See the GDPR page for your rights and the legal basis for each.

• Analytics: We use Google Analytics, loaded only after you accept the cookie banner. If you reject or ignore the banner, no analytics cookies are set and no analytics data is sent. IP anonymization is enabled.
• Contact form: If you send a message, the name, email, and message you enter are transmitted to our email provider (Resend) and delivered to us by email so we can reply. Form submissions are protected from spam by Cloudflare Turnstile.
• Server logs: Our server keeps minimal operational logs that may include a truncated form of your IP address for security and abuse prevention. We never log message contents or full email addresses.

Children

Runara does not target or knowingly collect data from children under 13. The app collects no data from anyone.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, the "Last updated" date will change and the new policy will be posted at the same URL.

Contact

Questions? Reach us through the contact form.