Privacy policy
The short version. Your rowing data and your health data stay on your iPad. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. The only thing that ever leaves your device is what you send to a live race, and that never includes health data.
Who is responsible
Row Smarter is developed and operated by an independent developer in the Netherlands. For any question about this policy or your data, write to privacy@rowsmarter.app.
Data stored on your device
Your rowing sessions, strokes, workouts and settings are stored on your iPad. They are not uploaded anywhere. Deleting the app deletes them.
Apple Health
If you grant permission, Row Smarter reads the following from Apple Health: body mass, height, date of birth, biological sex, resting heart rate and heart rate samples. It uses them only to calculate calorie burn, training zones and the maximum heart rate shown in the app.
If you grant permission, it writes your completed rowing sessions and their heart rate back to Apple Health.
Health data is never used for advertising, never shared with anyone, and never leaves your device except to Apple Health itself. Declining Health access leaves the rest of the app fully usable.
Live racing, which is optional
Racing is the one feature that sends anything off your device. When you join a race, the app sends to the race server:
- The display name you choose for that race.
- An identifier the app generates for you. It is not linked to your Apple ID or your device.
- Your live position while you row: elapsed time, distance, split, power and stroke rate.
This is what lets other rowers in the race see where you are. Heart rate and every other health value are deliberately excluded and are never transmitted.
Race records are kept only as long as they are needed to show the result, then deleted automatically. If you never join a race, the app never contacts the server at all.
What is not collected
- No analytics or usage tracking of any kind. The app contains no analytics or advertising software.
- No advertising identifiers, no cross-app or cross-site tracking.
- No account, no email address, no password.
- No location. The app requests no location permission.
- No payment details. Subscriptions are handled entirely by Apple, and the developer never receives your payment information.
Other permissions
Bluetooth is used only to read metrics from your rowing machine and heart rate strap. Local network is used only by racing, to reach a race server on your own network. Both can be declined.
Your rights
Because your rowing and health data stay on your device, you control it directly: delete a session in the app, or delete the app. Health data is managed in Apple's Health app.
For race data held on the server, you may ask for it to be deleted by writing to privacy@rowsmarter.app. Under the GDPR you also have the right to access, correct or restrict processing of personal data, and to complain to your data protection authority.
Children
Row Smarter is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from them.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will be noted in the app's release notes.