Privacy policy

Data protection at a glance

• No account is required to use RunFromHere.
• Routes are generated on the device from installed region packs; Sopamo does not receive your planned route or run history.
• The Android and iOS apps do not use analytics, advertising identifiers, cookies, remote push tokens, or third-party crash-reporting services.
• Notifications are local device notifications for guided runs and region downloads; iPhone can also show a Live Activity during navigation.

Controller

Controller for the app and website is Sopamo GmbH, Feldstrasse 44, 24235 Laboe, Germany. Contact: [email protected].

Sopamo GmbH is currently not required to appoint a data protection officer. You can contact us through the controller contact details above.

Use of this website

runfromhere.app is a static website hosted on Cloudflare Pages. The website does not use analytics, advertising identifiers, cookies, local storage, tracking pixels, user accounts, or web forms.

When the website is requested, Cloudflare may process technical connection data such as IP address, request time, requested URL, referrer, and user agent to deliver and protect the site. This processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest is secure, reliable, and efficient website delivery. Cloudflare may process this data outside the EU/EEA under applicable transfer safeguards and retains it according to its own policies.

Email links only open your local email application. Sopamo receives personal data only if you choose to send a message. The website itself does not submit or store the contents of that message.

Data stored on your device

RunFromHere stores the following app data locally so the app can work without an account and without a backend user profile.

• Last route start, including the selected coordinate. If you used current location as the start, that coordinate can be stored as the last route start.
• Route distance and preference settings such as quiet streets, fewer crossings, and off-road paths.
• Home region, installed region IDs, paid region assignments, pending purchase state, and store transaction or assignment identifiers needed to restore purchases.
• Downloaded map and routing files for installed offline region packs.
• An unfinished navigation snapshot and short-lived route data needed to resume navigation or transfer the active route to a paired watch. This active state is removed after completion or an explicit stop.

Location and guided runs

Precise location is requested only when you use current location to suggest a home region, choose your current position as a start point, or start live guidance. During user-started navigation, background location may be used so progress and cues continue while the screen is locked or another app is visible. Location is processed on your phone and, when watch navigation is active, on your paired watch to match a region, place you on the route, calculate progress, and provide cues. Sopamo does not receive live location, completed runs, or run history. Apple Maps or Google location and map services may process device and map-request data under the platform provider's terms.

Region downloads

The app downloads the public region catalog and selected region packs from Cloudflare. During these requests, Cloudflare may process technical connection data such as IP address, request time, requested file, and user agent. The app requests region IDs and pack files, not precise GPS coordinates.

Purchases

Paid region unlocks use Google Play Billing on Android and Apple StoreKit on iPhone. Google or Apple processes payment and store-account data. The app provides the store with the product ID and a device-generated region-assignment identifier so an owned non-consumable region slot can restore the same assigned region without a RunFromHere account. Sopamo does not receive your payment-card details in the app.

Notifications, Live Activities, and watches

The app can show local notifications for an active guided run and region-pack download progress. iPhone can show a Live Activity for active navigation. If you use a paired Wear OS watch or Apple Watch, route geometry, route progress, the active cue, and current runner position can be transferred to that watch while guidance is active. Apple Watch can additionally use its own location for a responsive map display.

Optional feedback

If you choose Send feedback, the app opens an external Typeform page. Loading that page lets Typeform process technical connection data such as your IP address, request time, browser information, and requested URL. If you submit the form, Typeform and Sopamo process the feedback and any contact details you voluntarily provide so we can evaluate or answer it. Feedback is kept only as long as needed to handle it and meet legal obligations. You can use the app without sending feedback.

Recipients and service providers

• Cloudflare provides the public region-pack catalog and files.
• Google provides Android location APIs, Wear OS data transport, and Google Play Billing.
• Apple provides iOS location and map services, StoreKit purchases, Live Activities, and Apple Watch communication.
• A paired Wear OS watch or Apple Watch can receive active guidance data when you use watch guidance.
• Typeform provides the optional external feedback form.

International transfers

Cloudflare, Google, Apple, and Typeform are globally operating providers. Technical connection data, store data, and data related to platform services, watch transport, or optional feedback may be processed outside the EU/EEA, including in the USA. Where this happens, the transfer is based on an adequacy decision such as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework for certified providers or on appropriate safeguards such as EU standard contractual clauses.

Purposes and legal bases

We process app data to provide requested app functionality and purchases, Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, and to keep downloads, billing restoration, and app operation secure and reliable, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interests are secure delivery of region files, restoring purchases without a RunFromHere account, and reliable app operation. Optional feedback is processed based on your voluntary submission, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR where consent is required. Optional platform permissions can be revoked in system settings.

Required data and consequences

The app only needs data for the feature you use. Without precise location you cannot use current-location home-region detection, current-location starts, or live guidance. Without network access you cannot download region packs, load the region catalog, or use Google Play Billing or Apple StoreKit. Without the applicable store service you cannot buy or restore paid regions. Without a paired supported watch, watch guidance is unavailable.

Retention

Local app data remains on your device until you overwrite it, clear app data, or uninstall the app; active navigation state is removed after completion or an explicit stop. Sopamo does not keep a server-side RunFromHere account, route archive, or run history. Google Play, Apple, Cloudflare, and Typeform retain data they process according to their own policies and legal duties. Voluntary feedback held by Sopamo is deleted when it is no longer needed to handle the feedback unless legal retention duties apply.

Automated decisions and profiling

RunFromHere does not use automated decision-making within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR and does not create advertising, analytics, or behavior profiles.

Your rights

You can request access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and object to processing where applicable. You can also lodge a complaint with any competent data protection supervisory authority. For Sopamo in Schleswig-Holstein, this includes the Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein, [email protected]. Because RunFromHere works without accounts, we may need information from you to identify data related to a request.

Data protection contact

For privacy questions, contact Sopamo GmbH at [email protected].

Provider

Sopamo GmbH, Feldstrasse 44, 24235 Laboe, Germany

Commercial register: HRB 19757, Register court: Amtsgericht Kiel

Represented by: David Mohr, Joachim Mohr

Email: [email protected]

VAT identification number according to Section 27a German VAT Act: DE294383954