Privacy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 24 August 2026

This policy covers two separate things: the SugarWalk app, and this website. They behave differently, so they are described separately rather than under one promise.

The app

The apps you block never leave your phone. That is Apple's rule, not only ours: the Family Controls entitlement SugarWalk is granted under forbids sharing that data with anyone, including us. It is the one guarantee here that cannot change.

Today, nothing else leaves either. Version 1 has no server, no account and makes no network requests of any kind — the build fails if networking is added. Where that could change one day is described under What could change, and this policy will say so before it does.

• The apps you choose. Picked through Apple's FamilyActivityPicker. SugarWalk is handed an opaque token for each one and never learns which apps they are — we could not tell you what you selected if you asked.
• Movement. SugarWalk uses Core Motion to tell whether you have been moving, so a block can end early when you have. It runs on your device, and the app keeps only what it needs to decide the block in front of it.
• Health data, read only, and only three kinds. With your permission, SugarWalk reads workouts, wheelchair pushes and wheelchair distance from Apple Health — and nothing else. It reads them so that movement your iPhone did not see still counts: a walk recorded on an Apple Watch, or a journey made in a wheelchair, which the phone's motion sensor cannot detect at all. SugarWalk never writes to Apple Health, never stores what it reads, never puts it in a log, and never sends it anywhere. If you refuse, the app works exactly as before — your iPhone's own motion still ends blocks early. Health data is never used for advertising or marketing; SugarWalk has no advertising and no third parties.
• No location, ever. There is no GPS, no geofence and no location permission anywhere in SugarWalk. It cannot tell a walk round the block from a walk round the hallway, and both count.
• Your meal times and block history. The meal times you set, and whether each block ended by moving or by running out, are stored on your device.
• Notifications, where the app uses them, are local to your phone. There is no server to send a push from.

What the app does not do

• No account, no sign-in, no profile.
• No advertising SDKs, no analytics SDKs, no third-party trackers, no crash reporter.
• No camera or photo access.
• Nothing about you is sold or shared. There is nowhere for it to go.

This website

The website is not the app, and it is not silent in the way the app is.

• The waitlist. If you enter your email address, it is sent to Kit (kit.com), the email service that stores the list and sends the messages. That is a third party receiving your address, which is the point of a mailing list. Every email has an unsubscribe link and leaving removes you.
• Hosting. The site is served by Cloudflare Pages, which keeps ordinary server-side request logs. There is no tracking script, no cookie banner and no advertising pixel on this site, because there is nothing here that sets one.

Paying for it

SugarWalk is intended to be a paid app after a free trial. Any purchase is handled by Apple's In-App Purchase system — Apple processes the payment and SugarWalk never sees or stores your card details. If a future version ever uses a third-party service to manage purchases, this policy will be updated before that version ships.

Health-related framing

SugarWalk is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat or monitor anything. It does not measure, estimate or display any physiological quantity — there is no blood-sugar reading in it, and no number about your body. It counts minutes of movement, and it has no sensor for anything else. What the app describes about walking after eating is general information drawn from published research, linked on the home page, and is not personal medical advice. Talk to a clinician about your own health.

What could change

Features that let you share progress with family or friends — walk minutes, streaks, encouragement — are a direction we intend to build, and they would need accounts and a server. Two things are worth saying now rather than later:

• Which apps you block would still never leave your phone, because Apple's entitlement terms forbid it. That does not change with any feature.
• Anything shared would be a result you chose to share — minutes moved, a streak — with people you picked, and never raw health data. This policy and the App Store privacy label will both be updated before any such version ships.

Contact

Questions about this policy: [email protected]

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