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Privacy Policy

Last updated October 14, 2026.

Who we are

Run Past Me is a running-partner app. This policy covers the marketing site, the waitlist, Strava data stored for the iOS app, and live location. You sign in to the app with Apple. Live location is explained in full on the safety page.

What we collect when you join the waitlist

When you join with Strava we save a few public profile details:

• Your Strava athlete id
• First and last name
• City, state, and country if they are on your profile
• Profile photo
• Email address, if Strava shares one

We disconnect from Strava as soon as you are on the list. We do not keep a lasting Strava login from this signup, and we do not pull your run history from the waitlist.

Why we collect it

We use this information to know who is interested in Run Past Me, to invite you when the app is ready, and to understand where waitlist runners are located.

What we do not do

• We do not sell waitlist data, Strava data, or live location.
• We do not create an app account from waitlist signup.
• We do not leave Strava connected from this site.

Strava data in the app, and the 7-day cache

Connecting Strava inside the app is optional and separate from the waitlist. When you connect, we keep a short cache of recent runs. Your own profile shows stats from that window. The stored routes, and a coarse area code from each one, are also used to suggest nearby runners. Other runners never see the route.

That cache can include:

• Public runs and trail runs from the last 7 days
• A trimmed route for those runs. We leave off the start and the end of the track, then store the line that remains.
• A coarse area code for each stored route: a precision-6 geohash of the route's center. That is a cell roughly 1.2 km by 0.6 km (about three-quarters of a mile by under half a mile), not a street address.
• Your own pace, weekly miles, runner type, and run count, rebuilt from runs that are still inside the 7 days
• The Strava connection, with its token encrypted

We also store club memberships imported from Strava. Those memberships are not part of the 7-day cache.

Private, commute, manual, trainer, flagged, and hide-from-home activities are not stored. A run with a hidden start time is not stored either. Your own weekly miles can still count a private run inside the 7-day window. Other runners do not see your Strava stats on Discover or in a match. We do not copy a run onto your profile location.

When location sharing is on, the proximity and neighborhood feeds use the stored routes and those area codes to suggest nearby runners. Other runners never see the route or the area code.

Strava activities, routes, and samples expire 7 days after the run starts. We delete them when that time passes, including if you do not open the app again. Stats are rebuilt from whatever is still inside those 7 days.

How to disconnect

You can revoke Run Past Me in your Strava settings (Settings, then Apps), or disconnect from inside the app. The two paths do not delete the same things.

Disconnecting in the app revokes the token when Strava accepts it, then deletes your cached activities, your cached stats, and the connection. The app reports that Strava is disconnected. That disconnect does not remove club memberships imported from Strava. They stay until you email privacy@runpastme.com. Revoking access on Strava afterward does not remove them either, because the connection is already gone.

When you revoke access on Strava while the app is still connected, we wait until Strava confirms the connection is revoked. Then we delete the cached activities, the cached stats, and the connection, and we remove memberships in clubs that have a Strava club id. Clubs you joined only inside Run Past Me stay.

Deletion is confirmed

An in-app disconnect finishes only after the cached activities, cached stats, and connection are deleted. The app then reports that Strava is disconnected. That report confirms the cache is gone. It does not confirm that club memberships are gone.

If you revoke access on Strava while the app is still connected, we delete that cache, and the Strava club memberships, only after Strava confirms the connection is revoked. If Strava reports that an activity was deleted or made private, we remove our copy only after Strava confirms that activity is gone or private. Until that confirmation, we leave the row in place.

Waitlist deletion is separate. Email privacy@runpastme.com with the name or email you used on Strava. We will remove your waitlist row and reply to confirm it is gone.

Live location

Run Past Me's servers receive precise location only while you are live. On the App Store app, we ask for location only after you agree to go live, and only while you are using the app. We do not ask for Always.

Development and Alpha builds can also record a workout on the phone. That GPS track stays on the device and is not sent to Run Past Me.

Live mode turns itself off. The default is 90 minutes. You can choose a shorter time. It cannot stay on longer than 3 hours. You can also tap Stop.

While you are live, other runners may see an Out running now badge, and only when at least three people are live nearby. They do not see your map, route, distance, direction, pace, or coordinates. An encounter, if you and the other runner both opt in, arrives only after both runs have ended. It names an hour and whether you passed or ran together. It does not name a place.

A live track is kept for at most 24 hours, then deleted. An encounter is kept for at most 7 days, then deleted. Visibility and encounter reveal stay off until you turn them on. Stop and ghost mode end a live session and clear live presence. Turning off encounter reveal does not. Turning off "Show that I'm out running" blocks a new session; it does not, by itself, end one that is already live. Ghost mode also hides encounters immediately.

To delete what remains, email privacy@runpastme.com. We delete it and reply to confirm. Live location is not sent to ads or to AI. Collection, use, retention, sharing, withdrawal, and deletion are written out on the safety page. On the App Store app, the Go live consent sheet links there before the first location prompt.