Privacy Policy — iPhone
Simply Step Tracker has no account, no server and no analytics. Your steps, walks, routes and health entries are written to a database on your own iPhone and are never uploaded to us. We could not read your step history if we wanted to — there is nowhere for it to arrive.
Last updated: 30 August 2026 · Simply AppHub LLC1. What the app records, and where it is kept
All of the following is stored on your device only, in the app's own database and settings. None of it is transmitted to Simply AppHub LLC, and none of it is transmitted to any third party.
| What | Where it is stored | Does it leave the iPhone? |
|---|---|---|
| Step counts, by day and hour | App database | Never |
| Walks, pace and splits | App database | Never |
| GPS route points from walks you record | App database | Never |
| Weight, water, sleep and heart rate you enter | App database | Never |
| Goals, units, reminders and settings | App settings | Never |
| Achievements and streaks | App database | Never |
| Backups you export | A file you choose | Only where you send it |
| Share cards you create | Your photo library | Only where you send it |
Backups and share cards are the two exceptions, and in both cases you are the one moving the data. The app writes the file where you tell it to; what happens to it next is yours to decide.
2. What the app never asks for
- An email address, a password, or a sign-in of any kind. There is no account.
- Your contacts, calendar, microphone or camera.
- Your location in the background, or at any time when you are not recording a walk.
- Permission to read your photo library. The app can save a share card to it; it cannot browse it.
- Permission to track you across other apps and websites. See section 3.
This app does not ask to track you. It does not show the App Tracking Transparency prompt, because it has no use for the answer: it never accesses your Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA), and it does not follow you into other apps or websites. Ads on the free version are non-personalised as a result.
3. The three services that use the network
The app has no server of its own to talk to. Three outside services are reached from it, and each is listed here with what it can actually see.
Google AdMob — advertising, free version only
The free version shows ads supplied by Google AdMob. Because the app never requests tracking permission and never accesses your IDFA, these ads are not personalised and are not based on a profile of you built across other apps.
AdMob still receives what any network request carries in order to return an ad: your IP address, device model and iOS version, coarse location derived from that IP address, and how you interacted with the ad itself. It does not receive your steps, your walks, your routes, or any health entry — no such data is passed to the ad SDK at any point.
Where the law requires it, the app asks for your advertising consent before any ad loads, using Google's own consent form, and you can reopen that form at any time from Profile → Privacy & ads. Google's own handling of ad request data is governed by How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Buying Pro removes the advertising code from the app entirely — not merely the visible ads. Once Pro is active, no ad request is made and the ad SDK is never initialised.
Apple — purchases
Used only when you open the Pro screen, buy Pro, or restore an earlier purchase. Apple is told which product you own, so the app can unlock the ad-free version. It is never told anything about your activity, your health data, or how you use the app. Payment details are handled entirely by Apple; the app never sees a card number and we never receive one.
Apple Maps — map tiles, only when you open a route map
When you view a map of a walk you recorded, the map is drawn using Apple Maps. To render the right area, Apple necessarily receives the map region being displayed, which indicates the approximate area where the walk took place. This request is made by Apple's own framework under Apple's privacy terms; we receive nothing from it.
Your route itself — the actual list of GPS points — is never uploaded; it is drawn on your device on top of the map. If you never open a route map, no map service is contacted at all. See Apple's privacy policy.
4. Apple Health
The app can optionally read from and write to Apple Health. This is off until you turn it on and grant permission in the system prompt.
Apple Health lives on your iPhone, under iOS's permissions rather than ours. Reading lets the app fill gaps your iPhone's own motion sensor could not cover — steps recorded by an Apple Watch, for example — and show your entries in one place. Writing lets other apps you trust read your walks and steps. Data shared this way stays on the device; it does not pass through us.
Health data obtained from Apple Health is used only to display your own activity inside the app. In line with Apple's requirements it is never used for advertising or marketing, never sold or shared with data brokers, and never transmitted to any third party. You can withdraw the permission at any time in the Health app, under Sharing → Apps.
5. Permissions, and why each is asked for
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Motion & Fitness | To read your iPhone's built-in step counter, including the recent history it recorded before you installed the app. This is the core function. |
| Location — While Using the App | Only while you are recording a walk, so the route can be traced and the distance measured accurately. Never in the background for any other purpose. |
| Notifications | Reminders and goal alerts you switched on. Optional. |
| Apple Health (read and write) | Optional, off by default. See section 4. |
| Add to Photos | Only to save a share card you created. The app cannot read your library. |
6. Keeping and deleting your data
Because your data lives on your device, you control its lifetime completely:
- Delete individual records — walks, health entries and days can be deleted in the app.
- Delete everything — the app's settings include an option to erase all recorded data.
- Delete the app — this removes its database and settings. Nothing survives it, because nothing was ever stored elsewhere. Anything you wrote to Apple Health stays in Apple Health, under your control there.
There is no server-side copy to request, correct or have erased, because there is no server. If you exported a backup file yourself, that file is yours and is not affected by deleting the app.
7. Children
Simply Step Tracker is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. The app has no account system and requests no identifying information.
8. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export or erase personal data held about you, and to object to processing. In this app those rights are largely satisfied by the design: the data is on your device, you can read it in the app, export it to a file, and delete it at any time.
9. Changes to this policy
If the app starts doing something this policy does not describe, this policy changes first. The date at the top reflects the most recent revision, and material changes are noted in the app's release notes on the App Store.
10. Contact
Questions about this policy, or about anything above: [email protected]