Pacer

1. Who we are

Pacer (the “App”) is an activity-tracking application for iOS that lets you record walks, runs and treks, view your personal statistics, and create shareable summary cards.

The App is provided by Reconchille Studios (“Reconchille Studios”, “we”, “us” or “our”), an independent app studio operated by an individual developer based in Türkiye. For the purposes of the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the Turkish Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“KVKK”), Reconchille Studios is the data controller responsible for the personal data described in this Policy.

You can reach us at any time at info@reconchillestudios.com or via www.reconchillestudios.com.

2. Scope & age requirement

This Policy applies to personal data we process through the Pacer mobile app and its supporting backend. It does not apply to third-party services or apps that you may link to or share content with (for example, social or messaging apps), which are governed by their own privacy policies.

Pacer is intended for users who are at least 16 years old. The App is not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from, children under 16. See Children’s privacy.

3. Data we collect

We collect only the data needed to provide the App’s features. An account is required to use Pacer; some data is provided by you, some is generated as you record activities, and some is technical.

3.1 Account & identity

• Email address — your primary account identifier, used to sign you in (via a one-time code) and to send essential service messages.
• Account identifier & sign-in method — a unique user ID, the provider you signed in with (email, Apple or Google), and whether your email is verified.
• Account dates — when your account was created and basic onboarding status.

If you sign in with Apple or Google, that provider shares your email and (if available) your name with us. If you use Sign in with Apple and choose Apple’s private-relay email, we receive and store that relay address as your contact email.

3.2 Profile

• Display name — provided by you or by your sign-in provider; shown in the App and on your activity records.
• Gender — selected at sign-up (used, for example, to choose card artwork).
• Optional body metrics — date of birth, height and weight. These are entirely optional and only collected if you enable the “Add personal metrics” option; they are used to show personal figures such as your body-mass index (BMI).

3.3 Activity & location data Sensitive

When you record an activity, the App collects precise GPS location data, including:

• latitude and longitude points along your route, plus altitude, speed, heading and accuracy;
• per-point timestamps, and start/end coordinates;
• place names for the start and end of your route (obtained by reverse-geocoding the coordinates);
• derived figures such as distance, duration, pace and the route shape.

Location is collected only while you are recording an activity, and recording can continue in the background (with the screen off) until you stop it. The App does not track your location for advertising or for any purpose other than recording the activity you started.

3.4 Health & fitness information Sensitive

From your activities we derive fitness-related information such as activity type (walk, run, trek), distance, pace, duration, streaks and all-time totals. Combined with any optional body metrics, this can reveal information about your physical activity and fitness. We process this information only to provide the App’s statistics and sharing features, on the basis of your consent.

Importing from Apple Health (optional). If you choose to import workouts in the App — and only after you grant permission on Apple’s HealthKit consent screen — the App reads your running, walking and hiking workouts and their saved GPS routes from Apple Health, with read-only access. Imported workouts become ordinary Pacer activities (the same as ones you record in the App) and are used only to populate your map and statistics. The App does not read heart rate, step count or other sensor data from Apple Health, does not write anything back to Apple Health, and never uses Apple Health data for advertising or for any purpose other than the import you requested. You can revoke this access at any time in your device’s Settings → Privacy & Security → Health. Pacer does not connect to Google Fit or any other third-party health platform.

3.5 Photos & waypoints

• Photos — you may attach up to five photos to an activity, taken with the camera or chosen from your library. Before upload, we re-encode each image, which removes embedded metadata such as EXIF location and camera tags from the image file.
• Waypoints — optional markers you place on a route, each with a name, description, icon and the coordinates where you created it.

Please note: although embedded EXIF location is stripped from photo files, the coordinates of a waypoint (and of the activity itself) are stored as activity data in our database.

3.6 Activity annotations

Titles, descriptions (optional), a cover image, and a per-activity visibility setting (private by default, or public if you choose). See Public activities.

3.7 Technical & device data

• Time zone — used to group your statistics by your local calendar.
• Device battery level during recording — recorded alongside an activity to help understand recording reliability.
• Service logs — our backend provider keeps standard operational logs (such as connection and error records) used for security and to keep the service running.
• On-device recovery data — while an activity is in progress, the App stores the route data locally on your device so it can be recovered if the App is interrupted or crashes. This local data is removed when you save or discard the activity.

3.8 Leaderboard participation

If you choose to join the optional weekly leaderboard, we store a single on/off preference recording that choice. This setting is off by default, and you can turn it off again at any time. While it is on, your display name, profile image and your total distance for the current week are shown to other Pacer users in a ranked list. See Public activities & the leaderboard for exactly what is and isn’t shared.

4. How & why we use data

We use your personal data to:

• create and manage your account and sign you in;
• record, store, calculate and display your activities, routes and statistics;
• generate the shareable activity and stats cards you request;
• personalise your experience (for example, card artwork and your “runner” title);
• keep the App secure, prevent abuse, and diagnose and fix problems;
• respond to your requests and provide support; and
• comply with our legal obligations.

We do not use your data for advertising, profiling for marketing, or automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects on you.

5. Legal bases (GDPR)

Where the GDPR applies, we rely on the following legal bases:

Under the KVKK, we process your data based on your explicit consent for location and special-category data, and otherwise where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract or for our legitimate interests, in accordance with Articles 5 and 6 of the KVKK.

6. Device permissions

The App asks for the following device permissions. You can change or withdraw them at any time in your device’s Settings; some features will not work without them.

7. How data is shared

We do not sell or rent your personal data, and we do not share it for advertising. We share data only in the limited circumstances below:

• Service providers (processors) — companies that process data on our behalf and under our instructions to run the App. Our main processor is Supabase, which hosts our database, authentication and file storage. We also use Apple (Sign in with Apple, map and geocoding services, App Store) and Google (Google Sign-In and device-integrity verification). See Third-party services.
• When you choose to share — if you export an activity or stats card and share it to another app (such as a messaging or social app), the content you share, and that app’s own data practices, are outside our control.
• Public activities — if you set an activity to public, certain information may be made visible to others. See Public activities.
• Leaderboard (if you opt in) — if you join the weekly leaderboard, your display name, profile image and current-week total distance are shown to other Pacer users. This is off by default and you can leave at any time. See Public activities & the leaderboard.
• Legal & safety — where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law, or is necessary to protect our rights, your safety, or the safety of others.
• Business transfer — if the App or our business is transferred to another party, data may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to this Policy.

8. Third-party services

The App relies on the following third parties, each acting under its own privacy policy:

• Supabase — backend database, authentication and storage (our data processor). Privacy: supabase.com/privacy.
• Apple — Sign in with Apple, Apple Maps and reverse-geocoding, and App Store distribution. Privacy: apple.com/legal/privacy.
• Google — Google Sign-In (if you choose it) and an automated device-integrity check used to protect our backend. Privacy: policies.google.com/privacy.

These providers receive only the data necessary for their function (for example, Supabase processes the activity and profile data you create; sign-in providers verify your identity).

9. Public activities & the leaderboard

Every activity you record is private by default. You can choose to mark an individual activity as public. If you do, information associated with that activity — which may include your display name, the activity’s cover image, title and description, start/end place names, distance, duration and the route — may become visible to other Pacer users, and may be surfaced by community/discovery features now or in the future.

The weekly leaderboard

Pacer offers an optional global weekly leaderboard. It is strictly opt-in and off by default — you never appear on it unless you turn it on, and you can opt out at any time. When you participate, other signed-in Pacer users can see your display name, your profile image, and your total distance for the current week, together with your rank. We do not share your routes, individual activities, start/end places, body metrics or any health information, your email address, or any data from past weeks through the leaderboard. Distance imported from Apple Health is treated only as distance, never as a health metric.

10. No tracking or advertising

Pacer contains no advertising, no analytics SDKs, and no third-party tracking or attribution tools (such as Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics, Sentry, Meta, AppsFlyer, Mixpanel, Amplitude or advertising networks). We do not use the device advertising identifier (IDFA) and do not engage in cross-app or cross-site tracking, so no App Tracking Transparency prompt is required. Diagnostic information is limited to our backend’s standard operational logs.

11. International transfers

Our service providers may store and process data on servers located outside your country, including in the European Union and the United States. Where personal data is transferred internationally, we rely on appropriate safeguards required by applicable law — such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses — to protect your data. By using the App, you understand that your data may be processed in these locations.

12. Data retention

• Account & profile — kept while your account is active.
• Activities, routes, photos & waypoints — kept until you delete them or delete your account. Deleting an activity also removes its photos and cover image from storage.
• On-device recovery data — removed when you save or discard the in-progress activity.
• Operational/security logs — kept for a limited period as needed for security and reliability.

When you delete your account, we delete or anonymise your personal data from our active systems. Residual copies in routine encrypted backups are removed in the ordinary course of backup rotation. We may retain limited information where required to comply with legal obligations or to resolve disputes.

13. Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your data, including:

• encryption of data in transit (HTTPS/TLS);
• per-user access controls on our backend, so that in normal operation you can access only your own data; and
• restricted media storage — your photos and route snapshots are not publicly listable, and the App retrieves them through short-lived, signed links rather than permanent public URLs, so that media belonging to a private activity is intended to be accessible only to you.

Media on an activity that you choose to make public may be shown to other users, as described in Section 9. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for keeping access to your device and email account secure, and we recommend using discretion about the images you upload.

14. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you have some or all of the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Access — to know what data we hold about you;
• Rectification — to correct inaccurate or incomplete data;
• Erasure — to have your data deleted;
• Restriction & objection — to limit or object to certain processing;
• Portability — to receive your data in a portable format;
• Withdraw consent — at any time, without affecting prior processing; and
• Complain — to your local data protection authority.

Many of these you can exercise directly in the App: edit your profile, change an activity’s visibility, delete an activity, sign out, or delete your account (which permanently removes your account, profile, activities, photos and waypoints). For any other request, email us at info@reconchillestudios.com. We will respond within the time required by applicable law (generally within 30 days under the GDPR and KVKK, and within 45 days under the CCPA, where applicable). We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

California residents (CCPA/CPRA): we do not “sell” or “share” your personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising, and have not done so. You have the right to know, delete and correct your personal information, and to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.

Türkiye (KVKK): you have the rights set out in Article 11 of the KVKK, including learning whether your data is processed, requesting correction or deletion, and objecting to results arising from automated analysis. You may also apply to the Turkish Data Protection Authority (KVKK Kurumu).

15. Children’s privacy

Pacer is not intended for children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data. If you believe a child under 16 has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will take steps to delete it.

16. Your choices & controls

• Location — grant, limit or revoke location access in your device Settings; recording requires location, but viewing your history does not.
• Body metrics — optional; you can add, change or remove them at any time in the App.
• Visibility — keep activities private (the default) or make them public per activity.
• Deletion — delete any activity, or delete your whole account, from within the App.

17. Changes to this policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, provide a more prominent notice in the App. Your continued use of the App after an update means you accept the revised Policy.

18. Contact

For any privacy question or request, contact:

See also our Terms of Use.