Privacy Policy
The short version: Tempo reads the date and distance of your runs and walks from Apple Health so it can add up your weekly mileage and shoe wear. It saves that, your shoes and your settings to your Tempo account so they're backed up and available on your other devices. Tempo has no ads and no analytics, and it never sells or shares your data with anyone for marketing.
What Tempo collects
| Data | Where it comes from | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Email address and password | You, when you create an account | To sign you in and to send account emails, such as the link that confirms your address. Passwords are stored only as a secure hash. |
| Runs and walks: whether it was a run or a walk, start time, time zone, distance, and Apple Health's ID for the workout | Apple Health, or workouts you add by hand | To show your weekly mileage, count miles on each shoe, and avoid importing the same run twice |
| Shoes: brand, model, nickname, category, replacement distance, starting miles, the dates you started and retired them, and which runs they were worn on | You | To track wear and tell you when a shoe is due for replacement |
| Settings: units (miles or kilometers), weekly goal, and the date your goal streak started counting | You | To show your mileage the way you want it, and your streak of weeks that reached the goal |
| Badges: which achievement badges you've earned and the date of each | Worked out by the app from your runs, walks, shoes and weekly goal | To show your achievements on all your devices, and to keep a badge once it's earned |
| Paused and repaired streak weeks (Tempo Pro): the week, whether it was paused or repaired, and the reason you picked for a pause (off-season, injury, rest or travel) | You | So those weeks don't break your goal streak, on all your devices |
What Tempo doesn't collect
- Nothing else from Apple Health. Tempo asks only for Workouts and Walking + Running Distance. It doesn't read heart rate, routes, pace, or other health data, and it never writes to Apple Health.
- No location. Tempo never asks for your location and doesn't store GPS routes.
- No analytics, ads or tracking. There are no analytics, advertising or tracking tools in the app, and Tempo doesn't track you across other apps or websites.
Apple Health data
Data from Apple Health is used only to provide Tempo's features. It is never used for advertising or marketing, never sold, and never shared with third parties, except the hosting provider below, which stores it on Tempo's behalf. You can turn off Tempo's access at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Tempo. Runs that Tempo already imported stay in your account until you delete them or your account.
Where your data is stored
Your data is stored on your device and in your Tempo account, which is hosted by Supabase on servers in the United States. Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS), and access controls on the database make sure each account can only read its own rows. Supabase processes the data only to run Tempo's service.
The home-screen widget reads a small summary (this week's daily distances, your goal, your goal streak and your current shoe's wear) that the app saves on your device. It never leaves your device.
Tempo Pro purchases
Tempo Pro is sold as a subscription through the App Store, and Apple handles every payment. Tempo never sees or stores your name, card or other payment details. The app checks with Apple on your device whether your subscription is active, and nothing about your purchase is saved to your Tempo account. You can manage or cancel the subscription in iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Apple's handling of purchase data is covered by Apple's privacy policy.
Notifications
Tempo's notifications (shoe wear, "which shoe did you wear?", the Friday weekly-goal reminder and the reminder before a free trial ends) are created on your device. No push notification service is used.
Keeping and deleting your data
- Your data is kept for as long as you have a Tempo account.
- When you delete a run or shoe in the app, it's marked as deleted in your account rather than erased, so your other devices remove it too. The same goes for future paused weeks dropped when you end a pause early. A Health run you delete in Tempo is also kept hidden so it isn't imported again. Deleting your account erases all of these for good.
- Delete your account in Tempo → Settings → Delete account. This permanently erases your account, shoes, runs, settings, badges and streak weeks from our servers right away. Copies in our hosting provider's backups are overwritten on its normal backup schedule. Your Apple Health data isn't touched.
- Signing out leaves your data on the device so you can pick up where you left off. Deleting the app removes it from the device.
Your rights
You can see and change all of your data in the app, and delete it at any time as described above. To get a copy of your data, or for any other privacy request, email thibb.designs@gmail.com from the address on your account. Depending on where you live (for example, in the EU, UK or California), you may have additional rights, such as access, correction, deletion and portability. We honor these for every user, and we'll reply within 30 days.
Children
Tempo isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from them. If you think a child has created an account, email us and we'll delete it.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top. If a change affects how your data is used, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect.
Contact
Questions about privacy: thibb.designs@gmail.com