Privacy

Footpace doesn’t collect any data. It has no account, no analytics and no ads, and it never connects to the internet. Nothing you do in the app is sent to me or to anyone else.

What stays on your phone

Footpace keeps a few things on your iPhone so it can work:

• The Bluetooth identifier of the pad you picked, so it can reconnect next time. iOS creates this identifier; it isn’t your pad’s serial number or hardware address.
• The time, distance and steps of the walk you’re on, so they aren’t lost if the app restarts partway through.
• Whether you’ve read the safety notice.
• A log of connections and speed changes, for troubleshooting. It’s kept under about 2 MB and never leaves your phone.

All of it is removed when you delete the app.

Bluetooth

Footpace asks for Bluetooth so it can control your pad. While you’re choosing a pad, it looks only for devices that use the pad’s Bluetooth service, and shows their names in a list. It doesn’t keep that list. Once you’ve picked a pad, it connects to that pad and no other.

Footpace doesn’t use your location, contacts, photos, health data or anything else on your phone.

This website

This site has no cookies, no analytics and no tracking. It’s hosted by Cloudflare, which may keep short-lived technical logs, such as IP addresses, to keep the service running and secure.

Changes

If anything here changes, I’ll update this page and the date below.

Contact

Footpace is made by Nishad Thalhath. If you have a question about privacy, email footpace@thalhath.org.