Privacy Policy

Last updated July 22, 2026

The short version: Cologra has no accounts and runs no servers. Your runs — routes, times, fitness data, treasures — are stored on your phone and nowhere else, unless you explicitly turn on cloud backup to your own storage. We cannot see your data, because there is nothing of ours for it to be sent to.

The rest of this page is that promise spelled out.

What the app collects, and where it stays

• Location. Used during runs to track your route, place treasures on nearby paths, and guide you back to your start. Processed entirely on your phone. Never transmitted to us — we have no servers to receive it.
• Motion & fitness. Step cadence from your phone's pedometer, and heart rate if you connect a Bluetooth sensor. Used on-device for coaching and your fitness model.
• Run history, fitness profile, treasures. Stored in a local database on your phone. Deleting the app deletes all of it.

The only network traffic

• Map data. To place treasures on real walkable paths, the app downloads path maps from OpenStreetMap's public Overpass API. This sends the coordinates of the area being fetched (around you, or around a place you typed for offline download) to that service. The request carries no account, name, or identifier — Cologra has no such thing to send. Address search for offline maps uses your phone's built-in geocoder (Apple or Google), not a service of ours.

That is the complete list. The app contains no advertising SDKs, no trackers, and — as currently shipped — sends no analytics of any kind. If a future version adds anonymous usage statistics, this policy will say so first, and the app will include a switch to turn them off.

Cloud backup — off by default

Settings → Backup offers an optional cloud backup. It is off by default and only turns on after you agree to a dialog explaining exactly what it does: one file, containing your runs (including route maps), copied to storage you control — your iCloud Drive on iPhone, or a folder you choose on Android (a Google Drive folder works). We never receive it and cannot read it. Apple's or Google's handling of your storage is governed by their privacy policies. Turn it off anytime; the file remains in your storage until you delete it. Manual "Export backup" works the same way — the file goes wherever you send it, and to no one else.

With cloud backup off, Cologra also opts its data out of automatic device backups — on Android today; on iPhone, once the App Store build ships — so "off" means off.

Health app sync — off by default

If you enable it, finished runs are written to Apple Health or Health Connect on your device. That data then lives in your health store under Apple's or Google's rules and your control. Cologra only writes; it does not read your health records.

Deleting your data

Delete the app and everything it stored on the phone is gone. If you used cloud backup or exports, delete those files from your own storage — we couldn't delete them for you even if asked, because we never had them.

Children

Cologra is not directed at children under 13 and collects no personal information from anyone.

Changes & contact

If this policy changes, the date above changes with it, and material changes will be called out in the app's release notes. Cologra is made by Vortas. Questions: support@vortas.io.