Run Like a Kenyan™

Privacy Policy

Effective November 10, 2026

1. Who we are and what this policy covers

This policy describes how A. Korir Apps LLC (“we”, “us”) handles information in the Run Like a Kenyan™ app for iPhone and its Apple Watch app (together, the “App”), and on this website. Questions: info@runlikeakenyan.com.

2. Summary

3. Information stored on your device

The App stores what you enter or record, including your first name (optional), running goals and experience, runs and splits, GPS routes, heart-rate and pace data from your workouts, training plans and calendar progress, achievements, coaching and notification settings, Food Diary entries, water intake, favorite and recent foods, and Kenyan Runner's Kitchen preferences. This information stays in the App's storage on your iPhone and Apple Watch. It may be included in your iCloud or computer backups, according to your device settings.

4. Apple Health and Apple Watch

With your permission, the App reads data from Apple Health (such as workouts, heart rate, resting heart rate, heart-rate variability, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, sleep, steps, running distance, speed, power and form metrics, and energy burned) to show your training metrics and trends. If you allow it, the App writes your completed workouts and, if you turn on nutrition sync, the foods and water you log.

Health data is used only to provide the App's features. It stays in Apple Health and in the App on your devices; we do not receive it, sell it, use it for advertising or marketing, or share it with third parties. You can change permissions at any time in the Health app or in iOS Settings.

The Apple Watch app records workouts during a workout session and sends them directly to your paired iPhone. Live Activities and Watch complications display data on your own devices.

5. GPS, location and motion

With your permission, the App uses your precise location while you record a run, including in the background while a run is in progress, to measure distance, pace and your route. Motion data is used to estimate cadence. Routes are stored on your device. Maps are provided by Apple Maps; displaying a map sends map requests to Apple under Apple's privacy policy.

6. Food Diary, nutrition records, dietary preferences and allergies

Foods and meals you log, your nutrition goals, and the Kitchen preferences you choose (vegetarian, allergens to avoid, foods you avoid, and an optional body mass used only to show gram ranges) are stored on your device. They are not sent to us. Allergen and preference settings filter suggestions in the App; they are not medical or allergy advice.

7. USDA food search and Cloudflare

When you search USDA foods, the App sends your search text (for example “banana”) and the type of search to our food service, which runs on Cloudflare Workers. The service forwards the search text to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's FoodData Central API and returns the results.

The App also checks whether you are online by contacting Apple's connectivity check page (captive.apple.com) when a search fails.

8. Microphone and voice coaching

If you use hands-free voice coaching, the App uses the microphone to listen for spoken commands. Speech recognition is performed by Apple. Unless “On-device speech recognition” is turned on in the App's Settings, your speech may be processed on Apple's servers under Apple's privacy policy. We do not receive or store your audio or transcripts. Spoken coaching uses your iPhone's built-in voices.

9. Subscriptions and purchases

Champion Pro subscriptions are sold and billed by Apple through the App Store. We do not receive your payment details. The App checks your subscription status with Apple's StoreKit on your device and keeps a short record of the last verified status on your device. Apple may provide us with anonymous or aggregated sales and subscription reports in App Store Connect.

10. Camera and food photo scanning

Current: photo scanning of food (“Scan U.S. Food”) is not available, and the App does not take or upload food photos. The App does not read your photo library.

Planned: if this Champion Pro feature is offered in a future version, it would ask for camera permission, and it would upload a photo only after you confirm. We would update this policy before release to describe exactly what is sent, which providers process it and how long anything is kept.

11. Identifiers, diagnostics and analytics

12. Service providers

We do not share personal information with any other company.

13. Retention

Information stored on your device is kept until you delete it in the App or delete the App. Apple Health data is kept in Apple Health until you remove it. Cloudflare request logs are retained for a limited period under Cloudflare's settings for our account (currently no longer than 7 days), cached search results for up to 24 hours, and rate-limit counters for about a minute. We do not keep other copies.

14. Security

Connections between the App and our food service use HTTPS. The USDA API key is kept on our server and is not included in the App. On your devices, your information is protected by iOS and watchOS security, such as your passcode and Face ID or Touch ID.

15. Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live (for example in California or the European Economic Area), you may have rights to know, access, correct, delete or obtain a copy of your personal information, and to object to or restrict certain processing. You can exercise most of these directly on your device. We do not sell or share personal information for targeted advertising. To make a request or ask a question, email info@runlikeakenyan.com. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

16. Access and deletion

Your App data is on your device, where you can view and delete it. See Delete your data for step-by-step instructions, including Apple Health data and backups. For any privacy request, email info@runlikeakenyan.com with the subject “Privacy request”.

17. Children

The App is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided information to us, contact info@runlikeakenyan.com.

18. International processing

Cloudflare processes requests in its data centers worldwide, usually close to you, and USDA FoodData Central is in the United States. If you use food search outside the United States, your search text is processed in the United States.

19. Changes to this policy

We will post changes on this page and update the effective date. If a change is significant, for example before any new feature sends additional information off your device, we will also tell you in the App.

20. Contact

A. Korir Apps LLC
Email: info@runlikeakenyan.com