Your route stays yours.

Who this covers

This policy covers the Walkbit iPhone app (with its widgets and Live Activity) and this website. Walkbit is developed by Mareks (mareks.ee), who is responsible for both. Questions go to [email protected].

Location

Walkbit asks for location "While Using the App". It tracks your location only during a Run: from the moment you tap Start Walking until you end the Run. While a Run is going, it keeps tracking with the screen locked, and iOS shows the blue location indicator so you always know.

Your position is used on your iPhone to draw your trail, close Loops and work out which map Cells you captured. The route itself is never saved and is discarded when the Run ends. What stays is:

• the map Cells you own or have uncovered (hexagons of roughly 15,000 m², not points on a path);
• a summary of each walk: date, duration, distance, steps, area captured and points;
• an optional Home Ground area you choose in Settings.

Maps are drawn by Apple Maps (MapKit). To show a map, your iPhone asks Apple for the map tiles of the area on screen, as any map app does. That is handled by Apple under Apple's Privacy Policy. Walkbit's developer never receives your location.

Apple Health and motion

Both are optional. Walkbit works without them.

• Reading: with your permission, Walkbit reads your daily steps and walking distance from Apple Health, for the Stats screen and to size each day's board of Enemies. Without Health, it reads step counts from the iPhone's motion sensor instead.
• Writing: if you turn on "Save walks to Apple Health", each finished Run is saved as a walking workout with its time, distance and energy, so it counts towards your Activity rings. The route is not saved to Health.

Health and motion data is used only for these features, on your iPhone. It is never sent to the developer or anyone else, and never used for advertising or sold. You can change Health access at any time in the Health app → Sharing → Apps → Walkbit.

iCloud backup

If you're signed in to iCloud, Walkbit keeps a copy of your game progress in your own private iCloud database, so it comes back on a new iPhone. That copy holds your Territory Cells, walk summaries, points, coins and unlocked items. It lives in your Apple Account under Apple's privacy terms; the developer cannot read it.

To stop it, go to Settings → your name → iCloud and turn off Walkbit. Reset all progress in the app's Profile erases your progress from the iPhone and from its iCloud copy.

Game Center

Leaderboards and achievements use Apple's Game Center, and only if you're signed in to it. When you are, Walkbit sends Game Center your biggest Territory, your total points, your distance walked this week and the achievements you've earned. Other players can see these next to your Game Center name. Game Center is run by Apple, and you can sign out or change who sees you in Settings → Game Center.

Purchases

Walkbit Plus, the Legends Pack and coffee tips are bought through the App Store. Apple handles the payment; Walkbit only learns which products your Apple Account owns, never your name or payment details. Apple gives the developer sales reports that don't identify you.

Other permissions

• Notifications (optional): reminders before Territory fades or a streak ends, and when you reach your goal. They're scheduled on your iPhone; nothing is sent from a server.
• Photos (optional): Walkbit can only add the share images and videos you choose to save. It can't see your photo library.
• Widgets: the widgets read a small summary (today's steps, Territory) that the app shares with them on your iPhone.
• Crash reports: if you've chosen to share analytics with app developers in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements, Apple may send the developer anonymous crash reports. Walkbit adds nothing of its own.

This website

• Hosting: the site is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes standard request data (such as your IP address) to deliver and protect the site.
• Visit counts: Cloudflare Web Analytics counts visits without cookies and without identifying you. The site also counts clicks on a few buttons (such as "Watch the trailer") as daily totals only, with no IP addresses, cookies or IDs.
• Waitlist: if you leave your email under "Notify me", it is stored with our email provider, Resend, and used only to tell you when Walkbit launches. Every email has an unsubscribe link, or write to us and we'll delete it.
• Your browser: the playable demo remembers your level and chosen sprites in your browser's local storage. That never leaves your device.
• Fonts: some fonts load from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts Google's servers.

The site sets no advertising or tracking cookies.

Children

Walkbit doesn't collect personal data from anyone, children included. If you think a child has given us an email on the waitlist, contact us and we'll delete it.

Your choices and rights

Because the app sends the developer nothing, everything it keeps is in your hands: delete the app, use Reset all progress, or turn off iCloud, Health, Game Center or notifications in Settings. For the waitlist, you can ask to see, correct or delete your email at any time. If you're in the EU or UK you also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. If a change means Walkbit would start collecting something new, the app will ask you first.