Batwalk Privacy Policy
Batwalk is a cozy pet game for Apple Watch: your steps hatch eggs, and the bats that hatch keep you company. Health data stays on your devices by default. You can choose to include walk details in a card and share it using Apple's share sheet.
What Batwalk reads
Step Count from Apple Health, with your permission, to grow your egg and find fruit. Batwalk reads only your daily step total. It never writes to Health and never reads location, workouts, heart rate or any other Health record.
Where your data lives
- Your game and step accounting are stored on your Apple Watch. Health-derived files are excluded from device backup.
- Your paired iPhone receives an offline mirror of the game through Apple's WatchConnectivity, and keeps a copy of your collection (bats, names, friendship, hatch history) so a new Watch can restore it. The mirror never includes step history, step totals, active egg progress, or certificate steps and start dates.
- If the build has iCloud backup enabled, only that collection list is stored in your private iCloud account. Daily steps, step dates, lifetime steps and egg progress are never uploaded.
Cards you choose to share
Birth certificates and collection posters are rendered on your iPhone. By default, a certificate has no walk details. Tapping Include my steps and days asks your paired Watch for that one receipt; it stays in memory during the preview, never in mirrors, collection backups, analytics, or links. The phone-only Show steps on shared cards setting defaults on, but does not itself request or send any Health information. Turn it off to remove both steps and days. You choose whether and where to send the card using Apple's share sheet. Old walks may have no saved details. Collection posters have no Health information.
What Batwalk does not do
- No Batwalk accounts, no ads, no tracking, no data brokers, no Batwalk servers.
- No Health information is sent automatically. Sharing a card with walk details is always your choice.
- This free version makes no purchases. Historical purchases were handled by Apple; we receive no payment details.
Optional Game Center sharing
Walking together is off by default. On iPhone, separate switches let you share this month's hatch count and your all-time hatch count with Apple's Game Center, linked to your Game Center profile. Batwalk shows friends only, but shared scores may also be publicly visible in Game Center. We do not send steps, egg distances, birthday information or any Health data to Game Center.
Turning sharing off stops future submissions and clears the friends displayed in Batwalk. It does not delete scores already shared with Apple. Changing Game Center account turns both switches off. Friends, names and avatars are used only to display this optional feature and are kept in memory, not in backups or analytics. See Apple's Game Center privacy information.
Anonymous game statistics
Some builds count anonymous game events (for example "egg hatched" or "bat fed") through TelemetryDeck so we can tell whether the game is fun. These counts contain no step data, no identifiers and no Health information, and they are never sold. If a build has this switched on, the Privacy & data screen inside the app says so.
Siri and the watch face
In builds with live shared progress enabled, the watch-face complication and Siri's "Check my egg" read a small egg-progress summary stored on your device. The initial release does not enable this shared progress; its complication opens Batwalk instead. No summary is sent to developer servers.
Birthday hats
Birthday hats are optional. Only month and day are stored, never your birth year. Your iPhone sends that preference to the paired Watch; it is included in your paired collection and private iCloud backup when enabled. Hat years record when you earned a keepsake, not your age. Remove the birthday in iPhone Settings whenever you like; earned hats remain yours. No birthday information is sent to developer servers.
Your choices
- Change Step Count access any time in the Health app on iPhone.
- Change notifications in your device settings.
- Deleting Batwalk deletes its local data. If iCloud backup is enabled, manage that copy in your iCloud storage settings.
Children
Batwalk has no advertising or tracking. Optional Game Center sharing is off by default and links selected hatch counts to the player's Game Center profile. Apple handles this data as described above. No steps, Health information or birthday information are sent to Game Center.
Contact
Questions: jack@aimanjack.com. See also the support page.