Privacy Policy for SUPKA
At SUPKA, we value your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you use our mobile applications on iPhone and iPad, and the optional Apple Watch companion.
1. Information We Collect
- Location Data: We collect precise GPS location on your device to record paddling routes and show your position on the map during an active workout. Full route tracks are stored locally on your phone by default. When you start a session on Apple Watch, GPS may also be collected on the Watch for that Watch-owned workout.
- Account Information: When you sign in with Apple or Google, we receive basic profile information (such as name and email) from that provider.
- Workout summaries: Sessions stay on this phone. If you are signed in with Apple or Google, SUPKA may copy existing workout summary metrics (distance, duration, speeds, and similar stats) from an older cloud account onto this phone once, and may upload pending summaries once while an App Store subscription is still active. After that, new sessions stay on the phone. SUPKA does not upload your GPS track or photos to SUPKA servers.
- Photos: Workout photos you add stay on your device and in your photo library. SUPKA does not upload them to SUPKA servers.
- Backups you choose: You may back up workouts and settings to iCloud or Google Drive using your own Apple / Google account quota. Those backups are controlled by you and subject to Apple’s or Google’s terms for that storage.
- Weather / water context: Approximate location may be used to fetch air weather (WeatherKit / Open-Meteo) and water temperature from public sources. When those sources have no sample, the same request may go to a SUPKA function.
- Usage / diagnostics: We may process diagnostic information to improve stability (for example via Firebase).
Apple Watch companion
When the Apple Watch companion is installed, with your permission the Watch app may use:
- Heart rate and workout session data via HealthKit / workout APIs during a session
- Location on the Watch to record route and distance for Watch-started paddles
- Motion / stroke sensing on the wrist for paddle cadence estimates
- WatchConnectivity to send session metrics and finished workouts to the paired iPhone Logbook
Watch-started workouts are owned on the Watch (HealthKit) and synced to the iPhone Logbook. Phone-only sessions remain tagged as iPhone.
Weather and water conditions
SUPKA may use your approximate location to show weather and water context:
- Apple WeatherKit (primary on iOS when available), with Apple’s legal attribution
- Open-Meteo as a fallback air-weather source
- Public water / ocean data providers (for example USGS, NOAA) where available
Weather and water information is for convenience only and is not a substitute for official marine forecasts or safety advice.
2. How We Use Your Information
Your data is used to:
- Provide tracking, mapping, statistics, and related features on your devices
- Enable Liveguard: when you choose, SUPKA opens the system share sheet so you can send a Maps location pin via an app you select. Liveguard does not stream your location to a SUPKA live-tracking server
- Keep sessions on this phone, and back them up to iCloud or Google Drive when you choose
- Copy older cloud summaries onto this phone once for an existing signed-in account
- Show weather and water context
- Improve app performance and fix technical issues
3. Soft trial, Pro, and payments
A 14-day period on this device unlocks the full app. It is not an App Store introductory offer.
After that period, recording and Live Activity, the Logbook and session map, photos on the device, Liveguard, Apple Watch recording, iCloud and Google Drive backup, GPX and FIT import and export, settings and heart-rate zones, and air weather stay available.
Lifetime unlocks route replay, share cards, statistics and trends, the route planner, and water temperature. It is a one-time App Store purchase. An existing monthly or yearly subscription stays unlocked while Apple reports it as active. Apple handles billing and refunds. The price shown in the app is the App Store price.
4. Data Deletion
Signed-in users (Apple / Google): Profile → Account → Delete Account → confirm → type DELETE.
This removes your Firebase Auth account, cloud workout summaries for that account, SUPKA workouts and avatar on this device, and the paid entitlement cache on the device. The 14-day clock on the device may remain.
After you type DELETE, you can also choose to delete the SUPKA backup file in iCloud and Google Drive. If you keep it, that file stays in your account. App Store purchases and subscriptions stay in your Apple ID (deleting the app account does not refund purchases).
You may also email avi.apps.labs@gmail.com; in-app Delete Account is the primary path. Guests have no cloud account — delete workouts in Logbook or remove the app. Revoke HealthKit access in iOS Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices.
5. Your Rights
You have the right to request access to your personal data or the deletion of your account and associated cloud data at any time via Delete Account in the app or by contacting us.
6. Contact
Questions: avi.apps.labs@gmail.com
7. Apple Health Integration
SUPKA optionally integrates with Apple Health (HealthKit).
- Data: With your permission, we may read and write workout-related data (such as active energy, distance, duration, and heart-rate related workout data) so sessions appear in Apple Health and contribute to Activity Rings where applicable.
- Control: Revoke access anytime in iOS Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices. We do not sell or share your health data with third-party advertisers.