Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 13, 2026

RunSketch ("the app") is an Android app published by Kiqo Lab ("we", "us"). You pick or draw a shape, place it on a map and run it while GPS draws your route. This policy explains what data the app handles, why, and the choices you have.

1. Data that stays on your phone

Location

With your permission, the app uses your phone's precise location to place shapes near you and to record your route while a run is in progress. Recording continues with the screen off, and the app shows a notification while it does. Location is used only while you're placing a shape or running. The app doesn't track you otherwise, and it never sends your location to us.

Runs and drawings

Your recorded routes, run statistics (distance, time, pace, how much of the shape you drew), the shapes you draw and your settings are kept in the app's private storage on your phone.

Sharing and exports

Share images and GPX files are created on your phone. They leave it only when you choose to share or save them, and they go to the app or place you pick.

Voice cues

Spoken directions use your phone's text-to-speech engine.

Device backup

If Android backup is turned on in your phone's settings, your runs, drawings and settings may be included in your phone's backup to your Google account, so they can be restored on a new phone. Google handles that backup, and you control it in your phone's settings. Ad consent choices are not backed up.

2. Data shared with service providers

The app uses services from Google to work, to show ads and to improve. These services receive the data below and process it under Google's Privacy Policy.

Google Maps (Maps SDK for Android)

To show the map, the app loads map images from Google. Google receives technical information such as your IP address and the map area being displayed. See the Google Maps Platform Terms.

Google AdMob (ads)

The app shows banner ads on browsing screens and, at most once an hour, a full-screen ad after a finished run. Ads never appear during a run. To serve and measure ads, and to prevent fraud, AdMob may collect your device's advertising ID, IP address, device and app information, and how you interact with ads.

• European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland: the app shows Google's consent form. Ads are personalized only if you agree. If you don't, you see limited or non-personalized ads.
• US states with privacy laws (such as California): you can opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for targeted advertising.
• Where these choices apply, you can change them at any time in Settings → Ad privacy choices.
• You can also reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of ads personalization, in your phone's settings (Settings → Google → Ads, or Privacy → Ads on some phones).

Learn more about how Google uses information from apps that use its services.

Google Analytics for Firebase (usage statistics)

The app records usage events such as which screens are opened, when a run starts or finishes, which shape was used, and a run's distance and duration. It also records an app-instance identifier, device and app information, and your approximate region, which Google derives from your IP address. Your routes and precise location are never included. Where consent is required, analytics storage follows your consent choice.

Firebase Crashlytics (crash reports)

If the app crashes or hits an error, it sends a report with technical details such as the error, device model, Android version and app state at the time. Crash reports contain no location or route data. Firebase keeps crash reports for 90 days.

3. Why we use your data

• To provide the app: location to record runs, and maps to show them.
• To fund the app with ads: AdMob, based on your consent where the law requires it.
• To keep the app working and improve it: crash reports and usage statistics.

In the EEA, UK and Switzerland, the legal bases are: performance of our service (running the app), your consent (personalized ads, and analytics storage where required), and our legitimate interest in fixing crashes and understanding how the app is used.

4. Your choices and rights

• Location: you can deny or revoke location permission in your phone's settings. Recording runs needs precise location; the rest of the app still works.
• Notifications: you can turn them off. Run tracking still works.
• Your runs: delete one run from its summary, or everything in Settings → Delete all runs and shapes. Uninstalling the app deletes all of its data from your phone.
• Ads: use Settings → Ad privacy choices where available, and your phone's ad settings.
• Data held by Google: usage statistics and crash reports are linked to an app-instance identifier, not to your name. Because we hold no account for you, we usually can't identify you in that data. If you want to exercise a right to access, correct, delete or object to processing, contact us and we'll help as far as we can. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

5. Children

RunSketch is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country), and we don't knowingly collect their personal data. If you believe a child has used the app in a way that concerns you, contact us.

6. Security and retention

Data on your phone stays in the app's private storage until you delete it or uninstall the app. Data that service providers receive is protected and kept according to their own policies. Crash reports are kept for 90 days, and analytics data for the retention period set in Google Analytics.

7. International transfers

Google may process data on servers outside your country, including in the United States, with safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

8. Changes to this policy

If we change how the app handles data, we'll update this page and its effective date. If the changes are significant, we'll also say so in the app or in its store listing.

9. Contact

Questions or requests about privacy: kiqocoding@gmail.com