Privacy at Upwind

Updated 9 October 2026. This policy covers the Upwind website and Apple Watch app.

Upwind is operated by Samuel Müller. For privacy requests, contact support@upwind.community.

Information you provide

We store your account name, email address, password hash, profile information, and the content you choose to add: reports, photos, equipment, comments, follows, and plans. Your profile and public contributions are visible to other visitors. Email addresses, password hashes, private report notes, and GPS routes are not public.

Watch recordings and location

When you start a recording, the Watch stores precise GPS coordinates, timestamps, accuracy, speed, and recording settings. These are uploaded with your account identifier so you can see your route and speed statistics. Live mode uploads during recording; offline mode uploads after you stop when a connection is available. GPS routes remain private to your account, including when linked to a public report.

HealthKit provides a workout session for background recording and Water Lock. Upwind does not read your Health history or heart rate. The app does not save workouts to Apple Health. You can revoke location and Health permissions in your device settings.

How we use information

We use this information to provide your account, recordings and community features, deliver account emails, and protect the service. Sign-in records include IP address and browser information. The website uses a session cookie to keep you signed in. The Watch keeps its access token in the device Keychain and recording settings on the device.

The app does not include advertising or cross-app tracking. Hosting, database, file storage, and email delivery providers process information needed to operate the service. Apple supplies the maps displayed in the Watch app.

Website analytics and cookies

Essential cookies keep you signed in. Where Google Analytics is enabled, we ask before loading it or setting analytics cookies. You can accept or decline analytics and change your choice using “Cookie settings” in the website footer. We remember your choice for 180 days.

If you accept, Google Analytics helps us understand which types of pages people visit and how they use the website. Google processes browser and device information and analytics identifiers. We send page categories rather than account details, page titles, search terms, or private links, and disable advertising signals and personalization. Declining analytics does not affect website features. See Google’s privacy policy for details about Google’s processing.

Storage and deletion

Your account data and recordings remain until deleted. Deleting your account removes your profile, server recordings and GPS points, reports, photos, equipment ownership, comments, follows, and plans, and revokes your sign-ins and Watch connections. Shared spot and equipment catalog entries remain without your attribution; descriptions and facility notes attributed to you are removed. Legacy text with unknown authorship remains. Other members’ reports remain. Photo files are removed by a background cleanup job after deletion.

Recordings also remain locally on each Watch after upload. Deleting your account on the website does not erase these local copies.