Privacy Policy

Headout: Daily Walk (“the app”) is a private walking-motivation app developed by Tamas Bereczki (“we”, “us”, “our”). We do not operate any servers of our own, we do not collect your personal data, and we do not use analytics, advertising, or tracking SDKs of any kind. Your walks are yours. This page explains the limited data the app stores, the location it uses to run the core experience, and the Apple platform services it relies on — including iCloud, which the app uses to back up and sync your data.

1. Data stored on your device, backed up to your iCloud

Everything Headout records is stored locally on your iPhone using Apple’s SwiftData and UserDefaults frameworks. This includes:

• Your adventures — each completed walk’s date, duration, distance, steps, XP earned, and the start and destination coordinates.
• The path you walked — the sequence of GPS points recorded during a walk, drawn back on the map in your history.
• Progress — your level, XP and streak, all derived from your saved walk history.
• App settings — such as map orientation, unit preference, and reminder preferences.

Your adventures, path data, and progress are also synced to your own private iCloud account using Apple’s CloudKit framework, so your history and streak survive reinstalling the app and stay consistent across your iPhones signed into the same Apple Account. This sync goes only to your private CloudKit database — Apple’s infrastructure, not ours. We have no server of our own, no copy of this data, and no way to access it; Apple’s handling of it is governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy. Because this data now lives in your iCloud as well as on-device, deleting the app removes its local copy but does not delete your iCloud copy — see Section 8 for how to remove it fully.

2. Location

Headout needs your location to work: to place a reachable checkpoint near you, to guide you toward it, and to detect when you arrive. Location is accessed through Apple’s Core Location framework only while you are using the app (“When In Use”), and is used on your device to run the walk. Your location and the path you walk are not transmitted to us or any third party — they are saved as part of your own history, which (as described in Section 1) syncs only to your own private iCloud account.

To find reachable checkpoints and draw walking routes, the app uses Apple’s MapKit directions and mapping services. Your use of those services is governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy. You can review or revoke the app’s location permission at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services.

While a walk is actually in progress, location updates continue even when your screen is locked, so your distance and the path you walked keep being recorded accurately. iOS shows a blue indicator while this is happening. It stops the moment the walk ends — Headout never tracks your location in the background outside an active walk, and never requests “Always” access.

3. Health & steps

With your permission, Headout reads your step count from Apple Health for the time period of each walk, so your history shows the steps you actually took rather than an estimate. This is read-only: the app never writes any sample to Apple Health, and your Health data never leaves your device — it is not transmitted to us or to any third party, is never used for advertising, and is never shared with anyone.

If you decline Health access, or it isn’t available, the app estimates steps from the distance you walked instead and everything else works normally. You can review or revoke Health access at any time in iOS Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices → Headout.

4. Notifications

With your permission, Headout can send a gentle daily reminder to head out. These are local notifications generated and delivered on your device by Apple’s UserNotifications framework — no server is involved and no data about you is sent anywhere. You can turn reminders off in the app, or revoke the permission in iOS Settings at any time.

5. Purchases

Headout is free to use. Headout Pro is an optional paid upgrade sold by Apple through the App Store using StoreKit, available as a monthly or yearly subscription or as a one-time lifetime purchase.

Apple processes the transaction. We never see or receive your payment method, billing address, or Apple Account details.

To manage entitlements — so a purchase unlocks Pro and is restored correctly on a new device — the app uses RevenueCat, a subscription infrastructure provider, as our data processor. RevenueCat is the only server Headout talks to. There is no account system: Headout does not create a profile for you, and RevenueCat identifies your install with an anonymous, randomly generated ID rather than your name, email, or Apple Account. Through this ID, RevenueCat receives and stores purchase and transaction data (product purchased, price, currency, purchase and expiration dates), device and app data (device type, OS version, app version, IP address, country/locale) needed to run the store correctly, and entitlement status. This data is used solely to grant and restore your Headout Pro entitlement, and is not used by us for advertising or tracking. It is handled under RevenueCat’s Privacy Policy and Data Processing Addendum.

Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and can be managed or cancelled at any time in iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions.

6. What we do not do

• No analytics, attribution, advertising, or crash-reporting SDKs.
• No advertising and no use of the IDFA (Advertising Identifier).
• No developer-operated servers of our own, and no third-party tracking requests beyond RevenueCat’s handling of purchase data described in Section 5.
• No accounts, sign-in, or user profiles.
• No tracking across other apps or websites.
• No sale or sharing of personal data — we have none to sell.

7. Children

Headout is intended for a general audience and does not knowingly collect personal data from anyone, including children.

8. Your rights

We do not operate any server of our own that stores or processes your walk, health, or location data — there is nothing on our side to access, export, correct, or delete. That data lives on your device and, as described in Section 1, in your own private iCloud account. You remain in full control:

• Delete individual adventures from your History at any time — this removes them locally and from your iCloud.
• Delete the app to remove its local copy from the device. To also remove the iCloud copy, delete all adventures from History first, or turn off iCloud sync for Headout in iOS Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Saved to iCloud → Headout before deleting the app.
• Manage location, notification and Health permissions in iOS Settings.

For the anonymous purchase data described in Section 5, RevenueCat is the processor and can be contacted directly, or through us at the address below, to exercise rights over that data.

If you are in the EEA or UK, laws such as the GDPR and UK GDPR may grant you rights including access, rectification, erasure, and portability.

9. Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy as the app evolves. Material changes will be reflected by updating the effective date at the top of this page.

10. Governing law

This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of Romania, without regard to conflict of law principles.

11. Contact

Questions, requests, or anything else: [email protected].