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Privacy Policy
This policy explains how Strides ("Strides," "we," "us," or "our") handles information when you use the Strides iPhone app and runstrides.com. Strides is operated by Brandt Misik in California, United States.
Information we collect
Depending on the features you use, we collect:
- Account information, including your email address, name, authentication identifiers, and optional birthday and gender.
- Running and fitness information, including activities, distance, duration, pace, heart rate, cadence, elevation, training plans, goals, race results, and related performance analysis.
- Location information contained in routes you choose to import from Apple Health or Garmin Connect.
- User content and preferences, including workouts, schedules, notes, shoes, training zones, app settings, and support messages you send us.
- Technical information needed to operate and secure the service, such as request timestamps, network information, and error or security logs generated by our service providers.
The website does not use advertising trackers. If you email us, we receive your email address and anything you include in the message.
How we use information
We use information to:
- create and secure your account;
- sync your data across sessions and devices;
- import Apple Health and Garmin activities and send or schedule workouts you request;
- show routes and calculate training insights, trends, and race predictions;
- provide support, diagnose problems, prevent abuse, and improve Strides; and
- comply with applicable law and enforce our rights.
We do not sell personal information. We do not use health, fitness, or location information for advertising.
Garmin data
If you connect Garmin Connect™ in Strides, this is how we handle the data Garmin shares with us.
- What we collect: the activities and health data you allow Garmin to share, such as distance, pace, heart rate, GPS routes, device model, daily summaries, VO2 max, and HRV.
- How we use it: to show your runs and health metrics, calculate your training insights and race predictions, match runs to your plan, and send the workouts you choose to your Garmin device.
- How it is processed and stored: Strides' own code processes it on your device and on our servers, hosted by Supabase. It is encrypted in transit and only your account can access it.
- Third parties and AI: we do not sell Garmin data or share it with any third-party AI or machine-learning service. Only Supabase (hosting), Mapbox (map tiles for your routes), and Open-Meteo (weather for a run's start location) process it, solely to run Strides.
- Your control: disconnecting Garmin in Strides or in Garmin Connect stops new data. Deleting your account permanently deletes your Garmin data from our servers.
Services that process information
We use service providers only as needed to operate Strides:
- Supabase provides authentication, database, synchronization, and backend infrastructure.
- Apple Health provides running workouts and fitness metrics when you explicitly connect it. Strides syncs the data you import to your Strides account.
- Garmin provides account connection, activity import, and workout delivery when you connect Garmin Connect.
- Mapbox and OpenStreetMap contributors provide map tiles and route-map functionality. Map requests may include network, device, app, usage, and geographic context information.
- Open-Meteo provides historical weather for an activity's start location and time.
- Apple distributes the app and provides platform services subject to Apple's own privacy terms.
These providers process information under their own terms and privacy policies. We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect safety or rights, or in connection with a business transfer. We do not give providers permission to use your fitness data for their own advertising.
Your choices and control
- You may disconnect Garmin from within Strides or your Garmin account settings.
- You may update supported account details in Strides settings.
- You may permanently delete your account and synced training data in Strides under Settings → Account → Delete Account.
- You may contact us to request access, correction, deletion, or a copy of your personal information.
Retention and security
We retain account and training information while your account is active so Strides can provide its features. When you delete your account, we delete the account and synced training data, subject to limited retention required for security, legal obligations, or disaster-recovery backups. We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards, but no internet service can guarantee absolute security.
International processing
Strides and its providers may process information in the United States and other countries. Privacy laws in those places may differ from the laws where you live.
Children
Strides is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Contact us if you believe a child has provided us with personal information.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as Strides changes. We will post the revised policy here and update the effective date. Material changes may also be communicated in the app or by email.
Contact
Questions or privacy requests can be sent to hello@runstrides.com.