Privacy Policy

Data we collect and how it's used

• GPS location — route, distance, elevation, and speed, recorded from your iPhone while you're actively tracking a ride, used to draw your route and calculate ride statistics.
• Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) sensor data — heart rate, cadence, power, speed, and calories from sensors you pair yourself, received directly from your sensor by your iPhone or Apple Watch.
• Apple Watch data — ride start/pause/stop controls and heart rate, when you use the Watch companion during a ride.
• Ride history — your rides are saved as workouts in Apple Health on your device, and VeloCyRaptor reads them back to show your history, reports, records, trends, and per-bike totals.
• Bikes and settings — the bikes you set up (name, type, wheel size, weight, assigned sensors), their service items, and app settings such as the live tile layout and units.

All of this is processed on your device. Your bikes, their service items, and the live tile layout are also kept in your own iCloud account (iCloud key-value storage) when iCloud is available, so your devices share the same setup. VeloCyRaptor has no server and requires no account — apart from Apple's own services described on this page, none of this data is ever transmitted to Stefan Oberwalder or any third party.

Location access

VeloCyRaptor uses Location access to record your GPS route while you're tracking a ride, including while the screen is locked or another app is in front. It asks for access while using the app and, at the start of a ride, may ask to allow it always, so the route keeps recording in the background. Location data is used exclusively to record and display your route, distance, speed, and elevation, and is stored only on your device and, as part of the workout, in Apple Health.

Bluetooth sensors

Connecting a cycling sensor (speed, heart rate, cadence, or power) requires Bluetooth access. VeloCyRaptor only reads data from sensors you pair yourself — during a ride, and in the sensor list so you can check that a sensor is working. Sensors assigned to a bike connect automatically when they're in range.

Apple Health / Fitness integration

If you choose to connect Apple Health, VeloCyRaptor writes your ride's workout data (such as distance, duration, heart rate, and energy burned) to the Health app so it appears alongside your other Apple Fitness activity. To show your history, reports, records, trends, and per-bike totals, it also reads your cycling workouts from Health, including those recorded by other apps, and it reads your weight, age, and sex to estimate calories and power. This connection is entirely optional, requires your explicit permission through iOS's Health authorization screen, and can be reviewed or turned off at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health. VeloCyRaptor does not access any Health data beyond what this feature needs, and never uses Health data for advertising or shares it with third parties, in line with Apple's Health data guidelines.

Notifications

VeloCyRaptor only uses local notifications created on your iPhone; there is no push server. If you switch on service reminders on the Bikes screen, iOS asks for permission, and the app notifies you when a part becomes overdue. If a ride starts while your iPhone is locked, the app may place a quiet notice in Notification Center asking you to open it, so the Lock Screen Live Activity can start. The Live Activity itself is updated by the app on your iPhone, not through a server.

Exporting and sharing your data

VeloCyRaptor lets you export a ride as a FIT file. Exporting is an action you take yourself, using iOS's share sheet to choose the destination — for example AirDrop, Files, email, or a third‑party training platform. Stefan Oberwalder has no visibility into, and no control over, what you choose to do with an exported file.

Data storage and retention

Your rides are stored as workouts in Apple Health, where they remain under Apple's own retention rules — managed through the Health app — even after VeloCyRaptor is deleted. VeloCyRaptor itself keeps your bikes and settings, a cache of figures derived from your rides for records and trends, and, for a short time, a safety copy of a just-finished ride until Apple Health confirms it has been saved. Deleting the app removes these from your device; copies of your bikes, service items, and tile layout in iCloud are subject to Apple's iCloud terms.

Third‑party services and diagnostics

VeloCyRaptor does not include any analytics, crash‑reporting, or advertising SDK. If you have opted in to "Share With App Developers" in iOS Settings, Apple may share anonymized crash and usage diagnostics with Stefan Oberwalder for the sole purpose of improving app stability. That sharing is controlled entirely by your iOS device settings — VeloCyRaptor itself does not request, read, or otherwise access this data.

Your choices

You can review or withdraw Location, Bluetooth, or Health access at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security, and notifications in iOS Settings → Notifications. Withdrawing a permission limits the corresponding feature — for example, tracking won't work without Location access — but the rest of the app keeps working normally.

Children's privacy

VeloCyRaptor is not directed at children. Because the app collects no data on a server — your rides stay on your device and in Apple Health — there is no personal data of any user, including a child, for Stefan Oberwalder to hold or process.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the update will be posted on this page with a revised "Last updated" date above.

Contact

Questions about this policy or VeloCyRaptor can be sent to info@oberwalder.net. For troubleshooting and FAQs, see the support page.