Privacy

On Your Device

Kicks Tracker keeps its own copy of your shoes, mileage, and rotation history in the app's private storage area on your iPhone or iPad — nowhere else on the device, and nowhere the app can be reached from except by you opening it.

A handful of small preferences — things like appearance and sync mode — are stored the same way, using Apple's standard UserDefaults mechanism. These are settings, not content: none of them describe you, and none of them leave the device except as part of an iCloud device backup you control.

Apple Health

Kicks Tracker asks for read-only access to your running and walking workouts in Apple Health so it can assign their distance to the right pair of shoes automatically. It only reads workout type, distance, and date — it never reads any other Health data, and it never writes anything back to Health.

Imported workout distances are copied into Kicks Tracker's own on-device database alongside your shoe records; Health data is never sent anywhere off your device. You can review or revoke this access at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Kicks Tracker — doing so simply stops new workouts from being imported going forward.

Your Private iCloud

If you leave sync turned on, each of your shoes, mileage, and rotation history is also mirrored to your own private CloudKit database — container iCloud.com.burningsquirrelproductions.Kicks-Tracker — the same private-by-default storage Apple gives every app, tied to your Apple ID. It is not a shared or public database: only devices signed into your own iCloud account can read it, the same way only your devices can read your iCloud Photos or iCloud Drive files.

We — the developer — have no access to this database. There is no server of ours in the loop, no copy on our infrastructure, and no way for us to see a single one of your shoes or workouts. Apple's standard iCloud security and encryption protects it the same way it protects everything else in your iCloud account.

What We Never Do

Your Control

Settings → iCloud lets you switch to local only at any time. Doing so deletes Kicks Tracker's iCloud copy of your shoes and workouts (after you confirm) and stops syncing from then on — your data stays only on this device.

Deleting the app removes its on-device copy along with it. There's no "delete my account" step, because there was never an account to begin with.