Privacy Policy
Rise to 5K · Effective 7 October 2026
The short version
Rise to 5K stores everything on your device and sends nothing anywhere. There is no account, no analytics, no tracking, and no server that holds your data.
What the app stores, and where
Your runs, program progress, and settings are saved in your device's local app storage (browser localStorage, or the equivalent inside the installed app). This data never leaves your device unless you export it yourself.
What we collect
Nothing. No account, no analytics, and nothing about you or your runs is ever uploaded. The app itself, and its updates, are downloaded from our hosting provider, which involves the ordinary technical logs any web host keeps (such as IP address and request time); we do not use these to identify or profile you.
Three things do reach the network. Two are optional: route map imagery, and the weather at the start of a run (see “Distance tracking and maps” and “Weather” below). The third can’t be turned off, and it’s small: when you open the app, at most once a day, it looks for a short note from us on our server, usually about a new version. Nothing about you is sent with it: like loading any web page, our server sees only your IP address and the time. If the check fails, the app carries on as normal.
Distance tracking and maps
Distance tracking is on by default and can be turned off at any time: the "Track distance" switch sits on the screen before every run, and in Settings. While it is on, the app uses your phone's GPS to measure a run's distance, pace and route. Your phone will ask your permission the first time a run actually starts; declining turns the setting off. All of it is processed and stored on your device only. Routes are never uploaded, and deleting a run deletes its route.
Route maps display imagery from OpenFreeMap. Loading a map sends your IP address and the requested map area to OpenFreeMap's servers, like visiting any website; your route itself is never sent. Maps only ever load for runs you tracked with GPS.
Weather
With "Record the weather" on (it is on to start with, and only applies while distance tracking is on), the app asks Open-Meteo for the conditions at the start of each run: temperature, "feels like", humidity and sky. That request carries your location rounded to about a kilometre and your IP address, like visiting any website; nothing else, and nothing that identifies you. The answer is stored with the run on your device only. Turn it off in Settings at any time. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).
Backups
The backup feature creates a file on your device, under your control. Where you send or store that file (your notes, email, cloud drive) is your choice and governed by those services' policies, not ours.
Apple Health and Health Connect
If you turn it on (it is off to start), each run you finish is saved to Apple Health on iPhone or Health Connect on Android, on your phone: its time, distance, route for outdoor runs, and estimated calories. To estimate calories the app reads your weight from Apple Health or Health Connect, if you allow it; you can type it in Settings instead. To avoid saving a run twice, the app also looks at workouts other apps (such as a watch) saved at the same time, and saves nothing if one already covers the run (or removes its own copy if one turns up later that day). None of this leaves your phone through the app, and none of it is used for advertising. Deleting a run in the app removes the copy the app saved. You can turn this off in Settings, or change what the app may read and write in the Health app or Health Connect, at any time. Runs already saved there stay when you turn this off, start from scratch or uninstall the app; you can delete them in the Health app or Health Connect.
Errors and feedback
If something in the app goes wrong, a short note of the error (what failed and where in the app's code) is kept on your device, the last 20 at most. It is never sent by itself. When you choose to send feedback, or tap Send details after a crash, your email app opens with the app's version, your phone's model and system version, and the latest few errors, where you can read or delete them before you send. Sending it gives us your email address, which we use only to reply.
Deleting your data
Use Settings → Start from scratch inside the app, or simply uninstall it / clear the site's data. Runs saved to Apple Health or Health Connect stay there until you delete them in those apps. Because we hold nothing, there is nothing for us to delete on any server.
Children
The app collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here and the effective date above changed.
Contact
Questions or concerns: riseto5k@gmail.com