Privacy, in plain language.

WalkAware helps you discover nearby places without creating an account or building a route history.

Effective 12 November 2026 · Publisher: Mohamed Abdelsalam

Location and nearby places

With your permission, WalkAware uses your location to find nearby places and measure straight-line distances. Apple location, geocoding and Maps services process location-based requests. Nearby results, a recent location observation, movement evidence and refresh times are stored in a device-only shared keychain so the app and complication can work together. The app does not maintain a route history.

Wikipedia descriptions and Handoff

For optional descriptions, the app sends public landmark names and coordinates to Wikipedia. Wikimedia also receives network information such as your IP address. The app does not send Wikipedia a route history and does not fetch place photographs.

If you tap Continue on iPhone, Apple Handoff makes the selected public source URL and its title available to nearby devices associated with your Apple Account. Opening the page connects to the external website under its own policy.

See Wikimedia’s privacy policy and Apple Maps privacy information.

Wikimedia request logs and App Store privacy details

Requests for descriptions also disclose your IP address, requested article or landmark query, request time, and technical response information to Wikimedia. Its documented server logs retain request information beyond the time needed to return a description. Wikimedia can derive an approximate region or city from the IP address and uses information to operate, secure, measure and improve its services. Retention varies under Wikimedia’s policies and applicable exceptions.

Our App Store disclosure includes coarse location, other usage data, performance data and other diagnostic data for this service integration. Coarse location and usage information are disclosed for app functionality and analytics; performance and diagnostic information are disclosed for app functionality. Because request information can remain associated with an IP address, these categories are treated as linked to the user rather than described as anonymous. WalkAware does not use this information for targeted advertising, advertising measurement or data-broker tracking.

The coordinates sent in a Wikipedia landmark query describe the public place, not your exact GPS position. WalkAware does not receive Wikimedia’s server logs or operate its own user analytics service. See Wikimedia’s request-log documentation for more information.

Information kept on your Watch

Article excerpts and their attribution are cached locally. Text lookup diagnostics retain up to 40 recent request events, including service hosts, response status and technical errors. Alert preferences and scheduling history are stored locally. Optional notifications are scheduled on the Watch, not sent through a developer-operated push server. Older photo caches and credit records are removed when migrating from earlier development versions.

Your choices

You can revoke location permission in system settings and turn off arrival alerts in Alerts & Details. When the app observes revoked location permission, it clears the shared nearby snapshot and cadence. That action does not clear cached descriptions or text-source records. The operating system may remove cache files; shared keychain records can survive app removal. There is no remote WalkAware account to delete.

No advertising or account tracking

The app has no account system, advertising SDK, tracking SDK or developer-operated analytics service. It does not access contacts, microphone, health data or your personal photo library. Apple handles App Store purchases; WalkAware does not receive payment-card details.

This website

This site is hosted through Cloudflare. Hosting infrastructure processes information such as IP address, browser/request details and technical logs to deliver and secure the site. We do not add advertising, analytics trackers or a contact-form database. Ordinary page use does not require an account. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Support correspondence

If you email support, your address and the information you send are used to respond, troubleshoot and manage your request. The support address forwards to the publisher’s mailbox, so email providers process the correspondence. Please share only information needed to explain the issue. Messages may be retained while needed to handle the request, related follow-up or applicable legal obligations. You can ask about access, correction or deletion by contacting us.

Contact and changes

For privacy questions or requests, contact Mohamed Abdelsalam at [email protected]. We may update this policy as the app or its services change; the effective date above identifies this version.