Privacy policy

1. Who we are

Walkzen is an iPhone app that pauses the apps that distract you most and lets you earn minutes to use them by walking. This policy explains what data the app uses and what this website (walkzen.app) measures, why, and where it is stored.

2. Screen Time

Walkzen uses Apple’s Screen Time framework (FamilyControls, ManagedSettings and DeviceActivity), with your permission.

• Choosing apps: you pick the apps or categories to pause in an Apple picker. Walkzen only receives opaque identifiers for those apps; it doesn’t know their names or content.
• Pausing apps: the pause is applied on your iPhone, through Apple.
• App usage: how long you use those apps is only shown inside Apple’s report, which runs isolated on your phone. Neither Walkzen nor anyone else sees what you do inside them, and that data never leaves the device.

3. Steps: Motion and Health

• Motion & Fitness: with your permission, Walkzen reads the iPhone’s step counter to add minutes to your bank. It only counts steps.
• Health (HealthKit): if you allow it, Walkzen reads your daily steps from Health to build a plan that fits you and show how much you’ve improved. It writes nothing to Health and reads no other health data.

Steps are read and used on your iPhone. They are not sent to any server, not used for advertising and not shared with third parties. You can change these permissions at any time in Settings › Walkzen and in Settings › Health › Data Access › Walkzen.

4. What the app stores on your iPhone

To work, Walkzen stores in the phone’s local storage (including an App Group, a space shared only between the app and its extensions, such as the widget and the pause screen):

• What you choose during onboarding: your name or nickname, your age range, your goals, what you want to win your time back for, your screen-time estimate, your leisure goal and, if you tell us, when and where you usually walk.
• Your step challenge, your minutes bank, your streak, Zen’s stage, your missions, seeds and the garden.
• Your app preferences.

This data never leaves the device. If you delete the app, it is deleted with it. If you have iCloud backups turned on, Apple may include it in your backup under its own policy.

5. Notifications

If you allow them, Walkzen sends you local notifications, scheduled on your own iPhone: for example, when you add minutes, before your time runs out or at the time you chose to walk. We don’t use push notifications from servers. You can turn them off in Settings › Walkzen › Notifications.

6. Purchases and subscriptions

Purchases are made with Apple’s purchase system (StoreKit). Apple processes the payment; Walkzen never sees your payment details. The app only receives from Apple the confirmation of which plan you have active, to unlock its features. See Apple’s privacy policy.

7. Ad measurement in the app

In Profile there is an option called «Ad measurement». It exists so that, in the future, we can know which Walkzen ad brought you to the app.

• It is off by default.
• Today the app has no measurement tool built in: turning it on sends data to no one.
• If we connect one in the future, it would only measure our ads and would never use the content of your apps or what you do in them. We’ll update this policy before doing so.

8. This website (walkzen.app)

• Hosting: the site is served by Cloudflare. Like any web server, Cloudflare processes technical data for each visit (IP address, browser, requested page) to deliver the site and protect it from attacks.
• No cookies by default: no third-party tool loads when you arrive. We only store your language and your cookie choice in your browser.
• If you accept «Analytics»: we use Google Analytics (through Google Tag Manager) to know, in aggregate, which pages are visited.
• If you accept «Marketing»: we use the Meta pixel and Google tags to know which ad brought you here.
• Your choice: it is kept for 12 months. You can change it at any time with «Cookie settings» at the bottom of every page.
• These providers may process data outside your country, under their own privacy policies. The website has no forms or accounts.

9. What we don’t do

• We don’t create accounts or ask for contact details.
• We don’t show ads inside the app.
• We don’t use third-party analytics, advertising or tracking SDKs inside the app.
• We don’t sell or share your data.

10. Your rights

Since the app’s data is only on your iPhone, you’re in control: you can revoke each permission in Settings and delete all of Walkzen’s data by deleting the app. For this website, you can change or withdraw your consent in «Cookie settings». If you have questions about your privacy, write to us.

11. Changes to this policy

If we change something important, we’ll update this page and the «Last updated» date.

12. Contact

Write to us at [email protected].