Walk Tales
Walk Tales
Privacy policy
In short: Walk Tales has no account, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. Your walks, steps and health details stay on your phone. The only information that leaves your phone is what is needed to sell and check a Walk Tales Plus subscription, and to download Plus stories.
Who we are
Walk Tales is made by Klyntora Labs, an independent app development team in Sri Lanka. We are responsible for the information described here. You can reach us at support@klyntoralabs.com.
What stays on your phone
This information is saved only on your device. We never receive it.
- Your stories: which stories you have started or finished, where you stopped, the steps and walking time in each mode, and your settings.
- Steps: with your permission (Android calls it "Physical activity"), Walk Tales reads your phone's step counter so a story moves on only while you walk. Steps are counted on the phone.
- Health: the Health tab keeps your daily steps and walking minutes from Walk Tales walks and, only if you enter them, your height, birth year, sex, weight and goals. This is stored encrypted on your phone and is left out of phone backups. It is never sent to us or to anyone else.
- Downloaded Plus stories: audio you download is saved in the app's storage so it plays without internet.
- The phone's voice: a few short lines may be read by your phone's own text-to-speech voice, which is handled by your phone's speech service.
If you choose Save a copy in the Health tab, the app makes files with your health data and opens your phone's share menu. Where they go is up to you.
If backups are turned on in your phone's settings, Android may include your story progress and settings in your own Google backup. Your health data is excluded.
What leaves your phone
Buying Walk Tales Plus
Payments are made through Google Play or the App Store. They handle your payment details, and we never see them. Their own privacy policies apply to the payment.
We use RevenueCat to manage subscriptions. To check, restore and renew your plan, RevenueCat receives:
- a random ID that the app creates. It is not your name, email or phone number;
- your Walk Tales purchase history and store receipts;
- basic technical details that come with any internet request, such as IP address, device model, system and app version, language and country.
Downloading a Plus story
The first time you start a Plus story, the app asks our Plus server for its audio. It sends the random ID above and the name of the story. The server asks RevenueCat whether that ID has Plus and, if it does, returns download links that expire after 30 minutes. Our server does not keep or log your ID. It runs on Cloudflare, which handles your IP address to deliver the request and the files.
What we don't do
- No account, sign-in, email or phone number is needed.
- No ads, no advertising ID, no analytics and no crash reporting.
- No location, contacts, camera or microphone.
- We don't sell or share your information for advertising.
Children
Walk Tales has a Kids mode, Bramble's Flights, for children walking with a grown-up. It asks children for no personal information, and it has no ads, chat or links to other people. Leaving Kids mode needs a grown-up's check. Purchases go through the store, with its own payment and parental controls.
How long information is kept
- Information on your phone stays until you delete it in the app (Health → Delete all health data) or delete the app.
- RevenueCat keeps purchase records as long as needed for your subscription, and to meet legal and tax duties, as described in its privacy policy.
- Our Plus server keeps nothing about you.
Your choices and rights
You can turn off the step permission in your phone's settings, delete your health data in the app, or delete the app to remove everything stored on your phone. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal information about you, or to object to how it is used. To ask about purchase records held by RevenueCat, email us and we will help.
Security
Health data is encrypted on your phone. The app talks to RevenueCat and our server only over secure HTTPS connections, and Plus download links stop working after 30 minutes.
Information handled in other countries
RevenueCat and Cloudflare may process information in the United States and other countries, under their own safeguards.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top. Important changes will also be mentioned in the app's update notes.
Contact
Klyntora Labs, Sri Lanka. Email: support@klyntoralabs.com