Privacy Policy
Walking with Miles is a walking app: your steps power up your character, Miles, earn coins for items, and let you compete with friends. This policy explains what information the app collects, why, who can see it, and how to delete it. In short: we collect what the game needs to work, we never sell your data, we show no ads, and we don't track you across other apps or websites.
Walking with Miles is made by Daniel Wada, an independent developer ("we", "us"). Questions? Email hello@walkingwithmiles.com.
What we collect
Your account
You sign in with Apple. Apple gives us a private account identifier, an email address (this can be Apple's private relay address if you choose "Hide My Email"), and your name if you choose to share it. We use these only to run your account and to contact you about it if needed.
Your steps
- Apple Health: with your permission, the app reads your step count from Apple Health. It reads nothing else from Health: no heart rate, workouts, sleep, location or other health data. It never writes to Apple Health.
- Motion & Fitness: while the app is open, it can read your iPhone's step counter so the number on screen goes up as you walk.
- We store one step total per day, starting the day you sign up, along with your account's time zone (so your days start at your midnight). Steps entered by hand in Health, and steps from apps not on our approved list, aren't counted.
Your game
Your username, how your Miles looks, your coins and how you earned or spent them, rewards, items you own, your plot layout, your friends list and friend code, invites, and step challenges with friends (including coin wagers).
Your device
To stop the same iPhone from claiming invite rewards more than once, the app creates a random identifier for your iPhone and uses Apple's DeviceCheck service. DeviceCheck lets us ask Apple whether a device has already been used for this purpose; it doesn't give us your name, phone number or any personal information.
What we don't collect
No location, contacts, photos, microphone, advertising identifier or browsing data. The app contains no advertising and no third-party analytics or tracking tools.
How we use it
- To run the game: set Miles' look from your step average, check and pay rewards, run challenges, and save your items and plot.
- To show your progress to the friends you choose (see below).
- To show your steps and Miles on your Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, which can update in the background.
- To prevent cheating and abuse, such as fake steps or invite-reward farming.
- To answer you when you contact us.
Health data is used only to provide the app's features. It is never used for advertising, never sold, and never shared with data brokers or other third parties for their own use.
Who can see your information
- Your friends (people you've added with a friend code or invite link) can see your username, your Miles, your steps for today and this week, your plot, and any challenges you have with them.
- Nobody else. There are no public profiles, public leaderboards or maps, and people who aren't your friends can't look you up or see your steps.
Service providers
We use a small number of providers to run the app. They process data only on our behalf:
- Supabase stores the app's data and runs its servers (hosted in the United States).
- Apple provides Sign in with Apple, Apple Health and DeviceCheck.
We may disclose information if required by law. We never sell or rent your personal information.
Keeping and deleting your data
We keep your data while your account exists. You can delete your account at any time from within the app, or by emailing hello@walkingwithmiles.com. Deleting your account permanently removes your profile, steps, coins, items, plot, friendships, challenges and invites. The only thing kept is the anonymous device record used for the invite check, which isn't linked to your account or to you.
Deleting the app from your iPhone does not delete your account.
Security
Your data travels over encrypted connections, and each account can access only its own data and what its friends share. Coins and rewards are decided on our servers, not on your phone. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information.
Children
Walking with Miles is not directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, email us and we'll delete it.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export or delete your personal information. Email hello@walkingwithmiles.com and we'll respond within 30 days.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top and, for important changes, let you know in the app.
Contact
Daniel Wada · hello@walkingwithmiles.com