Walk With Emi — Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 1, 2026

Walk With Emi ("the app") is operated by Port Point LLC ("we", "us"). This policy explains what we collect, why, and the choices you have. Questions: privacy@walkwithemi.com.

The short version

• We collect your phone number, the profile you create, and the step data you approve.
• Your activity is shared only with friends and challenge participants you choose.
• We never sell your data, and we never use health data for advertising.
• You can delete your account and all of its data from inside the app at any time.

Information we collect

• Phone number. Used to sign you in and to let friends who already have your number find you. It is stored privately and is never shown to other users.
• Profile. Display name, username, avatar, daily step goal, and time zone. Your display name, username, and avatar are visible to other users of the app.
• Health and fitness data. With your permission, we read step count, walking/running distance, active energy, and exercise minutes from Apple Health. We store daily and hourly step totals so leaderboards and challenges work. We do not read any other category of health data.
• Social activity. Friend connections, challenge participation and results, cheers, taunts, and messages you send.
• Device tokens. A push notification identifier, so we can notify you about challenges and friend activity.
• Diagnostics. Basic crash and error information to keep the app working.

How we use it

To operate the app: show your progress, calculate challenge standings, connect you with friends, send notifications you have enabled, and protect against abuse or fraudulent step data. We do not use your information to build advertising profiles.

Health data commitments

Consistent with Apple's requirements, health and fitness data obtained through HealthKit is never used for advertising or marketing, never sold or shared with data brokers, and never disclosed to third parties except as needed to operate the features you use. You can revoke our access at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health.

What other people can see

You control who can see your daily and weekly step totals, under Account → Step Sharing. By default that is the friends you have accepted, plus anyone in a group with you; you can narrow it to your groups only, turn it off entirely, or hide your steps from a specific person. Friends can always see your badges and challenge results, and challenge participants can see your totals for that challenge — those are the point of joining one. Friend groups are opt-in: being added to a group does nothing until you accept, and members of a group can see each other’s step totals while they are in it. Removing a friend, leaving a group, or changing your sharing setting stops future sharing. Private direct messages are end-to-end encrypted: they are encrypted on your device, we cannot read them, and we do not retain message content on our servers after delivery.

Service providers

We use Google Firebase (authentication, database, cloud functions, and push messaging) to run the app; data is stored on Google Cloud servers in the United States. Apple provides push notification delivery and, for subscriptions, payment processing — we never receive your payment card details.

Retention and deletion

We keep your information while your account is active. You may delete your account in the app under Account → Delete account. This permanently removes your profile, step history, friendships, pending requests, and interactions. Completed challenge records may retain an anonymized entry so other participants' history stays intact. Backups are purged on a rolling basis.

Children

Walk With Emi is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.

Your rights

You can access and correct your profile in the app, delete your account at any time, and control notifications and Health access in iOS Settings. Depending on where you live (for example, California or the EU/UK), you may have additional rights to access, correct, delete, or port your data, and to object to certain processing. Contact us to exercise them.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest by our infrastructure providers, access is restricted by server-side security rules, and private messages are end-to-end encrypted. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information.

Changes

We will update this page and revise the date above when this policy changes. Material changes will be announced in the app.