Privacy Policy

'Ohana Run Club · Last updated November 1, 2026

'Ohana Run Club is a free, non-commercial app for planning runs with a small group of friends. It has no ads, no analytics, no tracking and no accounts of its own. We (the developer) can't see your club or anything in it.

Where your club lives

A club is stored in the iCloud account of the person who started it, using Apple's CloudKit. It is shared only with the people that person invites. Nobody else can see it, including us. Apple's handling of iCloud data is covered by Apple's privacy policy.

What's in a club

• Runs: title, date and time, meeting spot (name, address and map pin), parking notes, route, indoor backup and any notes.
• RSVPs: whether you're going, any note you add, and "running late" with your estimated arrival.
• Members: the name you choose to show, your initials and color, which notifications you've muted, and an identifier Apple gives the app for your iCloud account (not your name or email).
• Saved places: meeting spots and homes the club saves for reuse, including addresses.
• Activity: a log of who added, changed or canceled what, and when.

Everyone in the club can see all of this.

Location and weather

The app never asks for your current location. Meeting spots are found with Apple Maps search. To show the forecast for a run, the app sends the meeting spot's coordinates and the run's date to Open-Meteo, a free weather service. Nothing that identifies you is sent with them.

Apple Health

If you choose to, the app reads your own workouts from Apple Health (read only) to draw the route you ran on a past run's map, with its distance and time. It asks first, and only when you tap Show my route. Your route stays on your phone: it isn't added to the club, sent to iCloud or to anyone else, and the app never writes to Apple Health. You can turn this off any time in the Health app under Sharing › Apps › ORC.

Notifications

Reminders and change alerts are created on your phone, or delivered by Apple when someone in the club changes something. You can mute each kind of alert in the app, or turn them off in iOS Settings.

Backups

On the club owner's iPhone, the app saves a copy of the club's records once a day to that owner's own private iCloud storage, keeping the last 30 days, so the club can be recovered if something is deleted by mistake.

Deleting your data

• A member can open the Club tab and choose Leave the club and delete my data. This removes your member record and RSVPs from the club, and the club from your phone. Runs you planned and the club's activity log stay with the club; ask the owner to remove anything else.
• The owner can choose Delete this club, which removes it for everyone.
• Copies in the owner's daily backups expire after 30 days.

What we don't do

• We don't sell or share your data, and we don't receive it.
• We don't use analytics, advertising or tracking software.
• The app isn't directed at children.

Contact

Questions about this policy: dianatkach@mac.com.

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