newturnPrivacy policy
newturn is an iPhone app that records your walks and uncovers the streets you’ve walked on a map under fog. There’s no account and no analytics. The developer never receives your personal data.
What stays on your iPhone
- Your walks, the map you’ve uncovered, statistics and routes are stored only on your iPhone.
- Nothing is sent to the developer or to the developer’s servers.
- You can delete all of it in the app: Recording → Delete history. Deleting the app deletes it too, except for copies inside your own iPhone or iCloud backups.
- A backup file is created only when you ask for it, and you decide where to save it.
What the app asks for and why
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Location | To record a walk and uncover the streets along your path. “Always” lets it record with the phone in your pocket. Precise location may be asked once to plan a route. |
| Motion & Fitness | To turn GPS on only while you walk or run. This saves battery. |
| Health (optional) | To count calories and elevation of your walks. It reads weight, height, age, sex, steps and flights climbed. With an Apple Watch, it also reads active and resting energy, heart rate and workouts. It never writes to Health. |
| Notifications | To show a summary when a walk ends. |
What the app downloads
The map under the fog is Google Maps. Your iPhone loads the map from Google for the area on screen, and like any internet request, this shows Google your IP address. Google’s privacy policy applies.
City maps (boundaries, districts and street graphs for routes) come from the developer’s storage on Google Cloud. A request names only the city, and no logs of who downloads them are kept. Your location is never sent with these requests.
This website
newturn.app sets no cookies and runs no analytics or third-party scripts. It’s hosted by Cloudflare, which processes requests to deliver the pages.
Who is responsible
newturn is developed by Andrei Meshchanchuk. He is the controller of the little personal data described here, mainly IP addresses seen by the services that deliver city maps and this website. Questions: newturnapp@gmail.com.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be on this page with a new date.