Privacy policy

Last updated 4 November 2026

StreetCrew is built to work without an account. Your routes, workouts, health numbers and photos stay on your device. Only if you sign in to share with friends does anything reach our server, and then only what you choose to share.

Who we are

StreetCrew is made by Anoop Jose, an independent developer in the United Kingdom, who is the controller of the personal data described here. Contact: support@flutterly.co.uk.

What stays on your device

• Location. While you record, the app uses your location to draw your route and measure distance and pace. It also uses it to show the map, plan routes and fill in your explored squares. Your recorded routes and the squares you have explored stay on your device.
• Motion. Your device's motion sensors count steps and cadence during a recording. These stay on your device.
• Apple Health. With your permission the app reads your daily steps, active energy and weight to show your day and estimate the calories you burn, and your past workouts and their routes to fill in your exploration map. Health data is only read on your device. It is never sent to our server, never shared with anyone else, never used for advertising and never sold. Outings imported from Apple Health stay on your device and can never be shared.
• Photos. If you allow it, the app looks for photos you took during an outing so you can pin them to your route. Photos stay on your device, and the app strips their location and camera details before saving a copy.
• Notifications. Reminders about your streak, goals and weekly recap are scheduled on your device. No push service is involved.
• Apple Intelligence. Where your device supports it, written insights and outing stories are made by Apple's on-device model. Nothing is sent to us or to an AI provider.
• Settings. Your units, goals, weight and privacy zones stay on your device.

Apple services the app uses

To show the weather, plan routes and search for places, the app sends an approximate location to Apple (WeatherKit and Apple Maps). Apple handles that under its own privacy policy. Live Activities and widgets run on your device.

If you sign in to share

Friends, the feed and leaderboards are optional and need you to be 18 or over and to sign in with Apple. Then our server stores:

• Account: the anonymous identifier Sign in with Apple gives us, your display name, that you confirmed you are 18 or over, your friend code, an optional area name for local boards (for example “Reading”) and whether new outings are shared by default. We never see your email address unless you send it to us.
• Friends: who you are friends with and who you have blocked.
• Outings you share: type, title, start time, distance, moving time, climb and new ground. For outings shared with friends, the route too, after the app trims the first and last 200 metres and anything inside your privacy zones on your device. “Boards only” outings store no route at all. “Only me” outings never leave your device.
• Squares: for walks, runs and hikes you share, how many metres you covered in each map square of about 190 metres, worked out on your device from the same trimmed route, so squares around your privacy zones and the ends of your route are never sent. We keep who owns each square, when someone takes one over, and your daily “squares changed hands” alert.
• Push token: if you allow notifications, the token Apple gives your device, so we can send that daily alert. It is deleted when you delete your account.
• Kudos and comments you give and write.
• Events you host or join: the event details the host enters (title, time, meeting place and point, area, who can see it), who is going or has asked to join, and whether they checked in. Check-in compares your location with the meeting point once and does not store it. People who are not going only see a rough area of about 1 km, never the exact meeting point or who is coming.
• Reports when you report a comment, an outing, a person or an event: what you reported, the reason and any details you write, so we can review them. Content several people report is hidden while we look.

Your friends can see your display name and the outings you share with them. Leaderboards show your display name and totals to friends, crew-mates or people who chose the same area. On the squares map, friends see your name on squares you own; everyone else only sees that someone owns them. Nobody else can see your routes.

Why we use it (lawful basis)

We process account and sharing data to provide the social features you asked for (performance of a contract under UK GDPR). We keep short server logs, such as IP addresses and request times, to keep the service secure and working (legitimate interests).

Who processes it

• Vercel runs the server (functions in London; logs may be handled in the United States).
• Neon hosts the database in London.
• Apple provides Sign in with Apple, WeatherKit, Apple Maps and push notifications.

Where data is handled outside the UK, these providers use the UK's approved safeguards such as the International Data Transfer Addendum. There are no ads, no analytics or tracking SDKs, and we never sell or rent personal data.

How long we keep it

Shared data stays until you unshare it, remove a friend or delete your account. Events, and who went, are deleted 30 days after the event ends. Reports are kept while we review them and to keep people safe, and are deleted with the reporter's or reported person's account. If we suspend an account for breaking the terms, we keep a one-way hash of its Sign in with Apple identifier, and nothing else, so the same Apple ID cannot sign up again. Server logs are kept for up to 30 days. Data on your device stays until you delete the app.

Deleting your account

In the app, go to Settings → Delete account. This immediately deletes your account, your friend list, everything you shared, your kudos and comments, and the events you host or joined from our server. Your outings on your device are kept unless you delete the app. You can also email us and we will do it for you.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct or delete it, object to or restrict how we use it, and take it elsewhere. Email support@flutterly.co.uk. If you are unhappy with our answer you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).

Children

The tracker can be used by anyone, but accounts and sharing are only for people 18 or over. If you think someone under 18 has an account, tell us and we will delete it.

Changes

If we change this policy we will update the date above, and tell you in the app before any change that affects what we collect.