Rucktoise: Privacy policy

Draft, November 9, 2026

Rucktoise is built so your health data stays with you. It has no account, no server and no advertising, and it doesn't use outside analytics or tracking tools. This policy explains what it reads, what it keeps, and when anything leaves your iPhone.

What Rucktoise reads from Apple Health

With your permission, Rucktoise reads sleep, heart rate, heart rate variability, resting heart rate, breathing rate, wrist temperature, active and resting energy, walking distance, body weight, your date of birth and sex, and your workouts, including their routes. It uses them only to suggest your plan and show your progress and insights, on your iPhone, including reading new data in the background as it arrives from your Watch. You can change these permissions at any time in the Health app or in your iPhone's Settings.

What Rucktoise writes to Apple Health

Only the workouts its Apple Watch app records, with their heart rate, distance and route, and the load you carried. Nothing else is written to Apple Health.

What Rucktoise keeps on your iPhone

Your answers from setup and Settings, your plan and progress, the rucks you log and your check-ins. These stay on your iPhone and Apple Watch. They aren't sent to the maker of Rucktoise or anyone else, aren't synced to iCloud and are left out of iCloud backups. Workout routes are read when shown and never stored by Rucktoise.

Location

During a ruck or walk, the Apple Watch app uses your location to record the route, which is saved with the workout in Apple Health. Rucktoise doesn't track your location at any other time. A shared route card or video trims the first and last 200 m of the route and never shows a map.

When data leaves your iPhone

Only when you choose to share it: an export of your data or a route card, accomplishment card or video, through the iPhone's share sheet, or beta feedback. Beta feedback is an email you send to the maker of Rucktoise, with your survey answers, the name you choose to include, a random tester ID made on your iPhone, your app version, your onboarding date and choices (goals, experience, ruck days, starting load and whether you took the tour), how soon your first ruck came, your rucks by week, and the beta summary's counts. It never includes health readings such as heart rate, sleep or weight, or your health check answer. You see all of it before you send it. Once you share something, the app or person you send it to handles it under their own terms.

Health data is never used for advertising

Rucktoise doesn't show ads, doesn't sell or rent data, and never uses Apple Health data for advertising, marketing or data mining, or shares it with anyone for those purposes.

Subscriptions

Apple handles payment for subscriptions and free trials. Rucktoise learns only whether you have an active subscription or trial, never your payment details.

Information from Apple

If you've agreed to share them with app developers in your iPhone's settings, Apple may give the maker of Rucktoise crash reports and usage statistics that don't identify you. Testers using TestFlight may also send feedback and crash reports to the maker through Apple.

Notifications

Rucktoise's reminders are created on your iPhone. No notification service or server is involved.

The record of accepting the terms

When you accept the terms, your iPhone keeps a record of when, which version, the app version and the type of device. It stays on your iPhone, isn't backed up, and remains after you delete your data, as evidence that the terms were accepted.

Deleting your data

Delete all data in Settings removes everything Rucktoise keeps, apart from the record of accepting the terms. Deleting the app removes the rest of what it keeps. Data in Apple Health, including workouts Rucktoise saved there, stays under your control in the Health app.

Children

Rucktoise is for people 18 or older and isn't meant for children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version appears in Settings and on the web page where it's published, with its date.

Contact

Questions about privacy can go to the maker of Rucktoise at hello@rucktoise.com.