Athletica Privacy Policy

• Location. Used only while you are recording a ride or run, to measure your route, speed, distance, laps and climb. With your permission the app keeps recording while the screen is off or the app is in the background, so an activity isn't cut short. On Android this runs as a foreground service with an ongoing notification (also on the lock screen) showing your speed, distance and max speed. Location is not collected when you are not recording.
• Barometer. Where your phone has one, air pressure is used to measure climb and gradient more accurately. These readings stay on your phone.
• Photos and camera. Only when you make a share image: you can pick a photo from your gallery or take one with the camera to put behind your route, and save the finished image to your gallery. The app only uses the photo you pick or take.
• Files you choose. When you import a GPX file or restore a backup, the app reads only the file you pick.
• What you enter. Activity names, notes, how an activity felt, weekly goals, target speed or pace, settings, and your body weight (used only for the calorie estimate).
• Phone status. Battery level, network type and GPS signal are shown on the ride screen. They are read on your phone and never sent anywhere.

Activities, routes, records, milestones and settings are stored on your phone. We do not run a server for Athletica, so we never receive or see your activities.

You can export an activity as a GPX file, share an image of it, or back up all your activities to one file. These are saved or shared wherever you choose, and are then under your control.

Sync is off unless you sign in with Google. If you do, Athletica keeps your activities and most settings in a hidden app-data folder in your own Google Drive, so they follow you to another phone. Settings that only make sense on one phone, such as keeping the screen on or dimming it, stay on that phone. You can choose to sync on Wi-Fi only.

The app asks only for the drive.appdata permission: it can read and write its own folder, but cannot see any other files in your Drive. Your Google account's ID, email, name and profile photo are used only to sign you in and show which account is connected.

Synced data goes directly between your phone and Google; it does not pass through any Stackbits server. Google's handling of that data is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.

The app uses a small number of services to show maps and weather. They receive only what is needed to do their job, with no account or identifier from us:

• Google Maps shows maps of your routes, the live map while you record, and your heatmap. Map tiles for the area being shown are loaded from Google. See the Google Privacy Policy.
• Open-Meteo provides weather, air quality and UV. While you record, the app asks for the air quality where you are, about every 30 minutes. For an activity's summary it asks for the weather around the middle of the route during the activity's hours. Positions are always rounded to about 1 km. Turning off weather in Settings stops both. See the Open-Meteo terms and privacy.
• Google Sign-In, only if you use Drive sync (see above).

Voice announcements and drink and eat reminders use your phone's built-in text-to-speech engine.

• No ads and no advertising identifiers.
• No analytics, tracking or crash-reporting services.
• We don't sell, rent or share your data with anyone.
• No account is needed to record, review, export or back up your activities.

Athletica is made by Stackbits. There is no Athletica server, and Stackbits holds no account or data about you: signing in with Google only connects the app to your own Google Drive. Everything Athletica stores is on your phone and, if you use sync, in a hidden app folder in your Google Drive. You can delete it in any of these ways.

In the app

You can delete single activities or all activities from the app at any time, without signing out.

1. Settings → Your data → Delete all activities removes every activity from your phone and, if you are signed in, from your Google Drive too. You can also delete a single activity from its summary.
2. Settings → Account & sync → Delete synced data from Google Drive removes every activity and setting Athletica has synced to your Drive and signs you out. The copy on your phone stays until you delete it or uninstall the app.
3. Settings → Account & sync → Sign out disconnects your Google account from the app.
4. Uninstalling the app removes everything it stored on your phone.

Without the app

1. Open Google Drive settings on the web and choose Manage apps. Find Athletica, open Options and choose Delete hidden app data. This deletes everything Athletica synced to your Drive.
2. Then open your Google Account's third-party connections, choose Athletica and remove its access.

What is kept

Nothing. Deleting is immediate, and Stackbits keeps no copies, backups or logs of your activities or account, so there is nothing else to delete. Backup or GPX files you exported yourself stay wherever you saved them.

Other choices

• Turn off weather and air quality lookups in Settings.
• Revoke location, photo, camera and notification permissions in your phone's settings.

Need help deleting your data? Email Stackbits at stackbits.in@gmail.com.

Athletica is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. Because we don't collect personal data at all, nothing is sent to us either way.

Data on your phone is protected by your phone's own security. Sync with Google Drive uses encrypted HTTPS connections, as do all requests to map and weather services.

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "Last updated" date.

Questions about privacy? Email us at stackbits.in@gmail.com.