WalkBharat Privacy Policy

• We count your steps from your phone, or from Apple Health, Health Connect or Samsung Health if you allow it. We only ever read them. We never write to those apps.
• Your steps, habits and settings are backed up to WalkBharat Cloud so a new phone picks up where you left off. Only you can see them, except your daily step totals, which people in your groups see.
• Your walking routes and your location stay on your phone. We do not collect them.
• We do not sell your data and we do not show advertising.
• You can delete your account, and everything we hold for it, inside the app at any time.

When you sign in with Google we receive your name, email address and profile picture from your Google account. We do not receive your Google password. Your name is shown to people in groups you join. Your picture and city are shown to them only if you turn those on.

The app reads your step count from one source at a time: your phone’s own step counter, Apple Health, Health Connect or Samsung Health, whichever you have chosen or your phone provides. It may also read walking distance and active energy from Apple Health or Health Connect, and floors climbed from Apple Health, if you allow it, to show them in the app. These activity figures are used on your phone only.

What goes to WalkBharat Cloud when backup is on: your daily step total for each day, which source it came from, and your daily goal. While backup is on, your phone also sends the current step total about every six hours, even when the app is closed, so your groups stay up to date.

Habits you create (their names, reminders and ticks) and your app settings are backed up so they follow you to a new phone. They are private to your account.

If you create or join a group, we store the group, who is in it, and the cheers and challenges inside it. Members of a group see each other’s name and daily step totals.

If you turn notifications on, we store your phone’s notification address (a token from Apple or Google), its language and its time zone, so messages arrive at sensible hours.

If you start a walk with “Record my route”, the app uses your location during that walk to draw the route and measure distance. On Android, a notification stays visible while the route is being recorded, so the walk keeps recording with the screen off. The route stays on your phone and is not uploaded. The map is shown with Google Maps, so Google receives the map requests the app makes. See Google’s privacy policy.

If you choose a photo as the background of a picture of your steps to share, only that photo is used, on your phone, to make the picture.

To show your steps, streaks and history; to back them up; to run groups and leaderboards; to send notifications you asked for; to keep the service secure; and to fix problems. We do not use your data for advertising, and we do not sell or rent it.

• People in your groups: your name and daily step totals, and your picture and city only if you allow it.
• Our service providers, who process data for us: Supabase (database and sign-in, hosted in India), Google (sign-in, Firebase Cloud Messaging for Android notifications, Google Maps), and Apple (iPhone notifications). They may only use it to provide their service to us.
• Authorities, when the law requires it.

We keep your data while your account exists. When you delete your account, everything backed up to WalkBharat Cloud is deleted, and what you saved on your own phone stays on your phone until you uninstall the app. Notification addresses that stop working are removed.

• Delete your account in the app (Profile, then your account card, then Delete account) or by following the steps on the Delete your account page.
• Turn backup, notifications, your picture and your city on or off in the app.
• Stop the app reading steps by removing its access in your phone’s Settings, Apple Health, Health Connect or Samsung Health.
• Ask us to access, correct or erase your personal data, or to withdraw your consent, by emailing support@nexinfinitymeta.ai. This includes your rights under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. We will reply within 30 days.

WalkBharat is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has signed up, email us and we will delete the account.

Your data is sent over encrypted connections and kept in a database with access rules that let each account reach only its own data. No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot promise absolute security.

If we change this policy we will update the date above and, for important changes, tell you in the app.

NEXINFINITY META (OPC) PRIVATE LIMITED, support@nexinfinitymeta.ai. Write “WalkBharat privacy” in the subject.