Ekiro
Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 30, 2026
The short version: The Ekiro app does not collect your personal data. Your workouts and health data stay on your devices — no accounts, no ads, no tracking. To improve the app, it sends anonymous usage statistics without your name, email, location, health or workout data (see “Anonymous usage statistics” below); you can turn them off in Settings. The ekiro.run website uses only privacy-friendly, cookieless visitor analytics (see “Website” below).
What data the app works with
Ekiro is an interval run/walk timer for iPhone and Apple Watch. To do its job it works with the following data — all of it locally, on your devices only:
- Your workouts — the interval plans you build and your workout history are stored on your device.
- Heart rate (Apple Watch) — during a workout, Ekiro reads your heart rate from the watch sensor via Apple HealthKit to display it and to give optional voice guidance when you leave your chosen heart-rate zone.
- Workout records — completed workouts are saved to Apple Health (with your permission), so they appear in your Activity rings and Health app.
- Resting heart rate and cardio fitness — if you allow it, Ekiro reads them from the Health app and shows them as charts in the Progress section.
HealthKit
Ekiro uses Apple HealthKit to read your heart rate during workouts and to save completed workouts to Apple Health. With your permission, Ekiro also reads your resting heart rate and cardio fitness from the Health app for the Progress charts. Health data:
- never leaves your devices and is never transmitted to the developer or to any third party;
- is used only to provide the app's core features (live heart-rate display, zone guidance, workout recording, Progress charts);
- is never used for advertising, marketing, or data mining, and is never sold or shared.
You control HealthKit permissions in the Health app and can revoke them at any time.
Syncing between your devices
Workouts you build on iPhone are sent to your paired Apple Watch using Apple's WatchConnectivity — a direct connection between your own devices. Nothing passes through our servers, because we don't have any.
Location
During a workout on iPhone, Ekiro keeps a location session active — iOS requires this so the lock-screen widget (Live Activity) can update while the app is in the background. Coordinates are not stored, not shown to anyone, and never leave your device. The session ends with the workout. You can decline location access — everything keeps working except the lock-screen widget updates.
The same session is used to measure your workout’s distance and pace: Ekiro adds up the meters covered and keeps only the distance, while coordinates are discarded right away. Without location access, iPhone cannot measure distance and pace.
Anonymous usage statistics
To understand which features are used, where people get stuck and how stable the app is, the iPhone app sends anonymous usage statistics through TelemetryDeck, an analytics service based in the EU (servers in the Netherlands and Germany).
- What is sent: which actions happen in the app — for example, a workout was started or finished and how much of the plan was completed, a screen was opened, a purchase was made; whether you are on the trial, a purchase or a subscription, and whether an Apple Watch is connected; app crashes and freezes (only the fact and a technical code); the app version, iOS version, device model, language and region settings; and a random installation identifier that is anonymized on your device and cannot be linked to you.
- What is never sent: your name, email, location, heart rate or other health data, workout details such as durations and effort ratings, workout names or anything you type. Your IP address is not stored.
- The statistics are used only to improve Ekiro. They are never used for advertising, never sold, never combined with data from other apps or websites, and never used to track you.
- You can turn them off at any time in the app: Settings → Anonymous usage stats.
What we don't do
- No user accounts or registration.
- No personal analytics and no profiling: usage statistics are anonymous and can be turned off (see above).
- No advertising and no third-party trackers.
- No collection of contacts, photos, or any other personal data; location is used only as described above and is never stored or transmitted.
Website (ekiro.run)
The ekiro.run website uses privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics (Cloudflare Web Analytics): it counts aggregate page views without cookies, without tracking individual visitors, and without collecting personal data. There are no advertising or third-party trackers. This applies to the website; the app’s anonymous usage statistics are described above.
Changes to this policy
If the app ever changes how it handles data, this page will be updated first, and the effective date above will change.
Contact
Questions about privacy: support@ekiro.run
Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 30, 2026
The short version: The Ekiro app does not collect your personal data. Your workouts and health data stay on your devices — no accounts, no ads, no tracking. To improve the app, it sends anonymous usage statistics without your name, email, location, health or workout data (see “Anonymous usage statistics” below); you can turn them off in Settings. The ekiro.run website uses only privacy-friendly, cookieless visitor analytics (see “Website” below).
What data the app works with
Ekiro is an interval run/walk timer for iPhone and Apple Watch. To do its job it works with the following data — all of it locally, on your devices only:
- Your workouts — the interval plans you build and your workout history are stored on your device.
- Heart rate (Apple Watch) — during a workout, Ekiro reads your heart rate from the watch sensor via Apple HealthKit to display it and to give optional voice guidance when you leave your chosen heart-rate zone.
- Workout records — completed workouts are saved to Apple Health (with your permission), so they appear in your Activity rings and Health app.
- Resting heart rate and cardio fitness — if you allow it, Ekiro reads them from the Health app and shows them as charts in the Progress section.
HealthKit
Ekiro uses Apple HealthKit to read your heart rate during workouts and to save completed workouts to Apple Health. With your permission, Ekiro also reads your resting heart rate and cardio fitness from the Health app for the Progress charts. Health data:
- never leaves your devices and is never transmitted to the developer or to any third party;
- is used only to provide the app's core features (live heart-rate display, zone guidance, workout recording, Progress charts);
- is never used for advertising, marketing, or data mining, and is never sold or shared.
You control HealthKit permissions in the Health app and can revoke them at any time.
Syncing between your devices
Workouts you build on iPhone are sent to your paired Apple Watch using Apple's WatchConnectivity — a direct connection between your own devices. Nothing passes through our servers, because we don't have any.
Location
During a workout on iPhone, Ekiro keeps a location session active — iOS requires this so the lock-screen widget (Live Activity) can update while the app is in the background. Coordinates are not stored, not shown to anyone, and never leave your device. The session ends with the workout. You can decline location access — everything keeps working except the lock-screen widget updates.
The same session is used to measure your workout’s distance and pace: Ekiro adds up the meters covered and keeps only the distance, while coordinates are discarded right away. Without location access, iPhone cannot measure distance and pace.
Anonymous usage statistics
To understand which features are used, where people get stuck and how stable the app is, the iPhone app sends anonymous usage statistics through TelemetryDeck, an analytics service based in the EU (servers in the Netherlands and Germany).
- What is sent: which actions happen in the app — for example, a workout was started or finished and how much of the plan was completed, a screen was opened, a purchase was made; whether you are on the trial, a purchase or a subscription, and whether an Apple Watch is connected; app crashes and freezes (only the fact and a technical code); the app version, iOS version, device model, language and region settings; and a random installation identifier that is anonymized on your device and cannot be linked to you.
- What is never sent: your name, email, location, heart rate or other health data, workout details such as durations and effort ratings, workout names or anything you type. Your IP address is not stored.
- The statistics are used only to improve Ekiro. They are never used for advertising, never sold, never combined with data from other apps or websites, and never used to track you.
- You can turn them off at any time in the app: Settings → Anonymous usage stats.
What we don't do
- No user accounts or registration.
- No personal analytics and no profiling: usage statistics are anonymous and can be turned off (see above).
- No advertising and no third-party trackers.
- No collection of contacts, photos, or any other personal data; location is used only as described above and is never stored or transmitted.
Website (ekiro.run)
The ekiro.run website uses privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics (Cloudflare Web Analytics): it counts aggregate page views without cookies, without tracking individual visitors, and without collecting personal data. There are no advertising or third-party trackers. This applies to the website; the app’s anonymous usage statistics are described above.
Changes to this policy
If the app ever changes how it handles data, this page will be updated first, and the effective date above will change.
Contact
Questions about privacy: support@ekiro.run