Last updated: 23 September 2026
Street Cred is a game about covering the streets of New York. To do that it needs to know where you are. This policy says what happens to that, in plain terms, because a location app that is vague about location has not earned anything.
Nothing leaves your phone for us. Not your location, not your coverage, not a count, not an anonymous identifier. The app has no server, no account, and no network code of its own: it works out which streets you covered on the device, and everything it knows stays there.
The one thing that does reach the network is Apple's, not ours: the base map under the streets is Apple Maps, which your phone loads the way it does for any app that shows an Apple map. More on that below.
There are no adverts, no analytics, no tracking, and no third-party SDKs.
This is a stronger claim than most apps can make, and it is stronger than this app will be able to make forever — a friends layer is planned. If that is ever built, this policy changes before it ships, and the date at the top changes with it.
All of it is stored only on your device, in the app's own storage, and is included in your device backup if you have one:
| What | Where | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your coverage — which streets, in which mode | Application Support | It is your map |
| Recorded rides: the raw location samples of a ride | Documents, visible in the Files app | So a ride can be scored, and re-scored if the rules improve |
| A watch log: when rides started and stopped, and when iOS woke the app between them — times and counts, never where you were | Application Support | So a battery or recording problem can be worked out afterwards. The app never sends it anywhere |
| Settings: tracking tier, whether rides start themselves, block fill, what the headline counts, haptics and sound | The app's preferences | So the app behaves the way you left it |
If you delete the app, all of it goes with it.
One honest caveat about "nothing leaves your phone": if you have iCloud Backup switched on, iOS backs up this app's storage along with every other app's, and that includes your recorded rides. That is Apple backing up your device, encrypted, under your own account and your own settings — not us sending anything, and we cannot read it. You can exclude the app in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Storage → Backups if you would rather it did not.
To record which streets you covered. There is no other reason and nothing else it is used for.
So it can notice a ride by itself. With "Always", the app can be woken when you set off and record the ride without you pressing Record — only if you turn on "Start rides by themselves" in Settings, which is off until you do.
Choosing "While Using" instead works: a ride you start with Record keeps recording with the phone in your pocket, and iOS shows the location indicator while it does. What you give up is rides starting by themselves, and the app says so plainly in Settings. You can change or revoke this at any time in iOS Settings, and the app keeps working with what you allow.
To tell walking from cycling from being carried, so a stretch of street is recorded the way you actually travelled it. Refusing it does not stop the app working: rides are still recorded and still scored, they are simply all recorded as one unattributed mode.
Nothing that reaches us. There is no server and no account. Street Cred's own code contains no networking: it does not upload, does not phone home, and does not check for anything.
The streets, blocks and neighbourhoods it draws ship inside the app, so your coverage map needs no network at all. Where that data came from, and what the City asks in return, is in docs/data-sources.md.
The base map underneath is Apple's. It is drawn by MapKit, Apple's own map framework, which loads map tiles from Apple's servers for the part of the city you are looking at — the same as in any app that shows an Apple map. That traffic is between your phone and Apple; it never passes through us and we never see it. Apple's privacy policy is the one that covers it. Without a network your streets and your coverage still draw, but the map beneath them may not.
Recorded rides are files you own. They are in the Files app under On My iPhone → Street Cred, and they can be shared from inside the app.
A ride is a record of where you have been, so sharing one sends that. Nothing is shared unless you ask for it, each time, for that ride. There is no setting that sends rides automatically, because there is nowhere for them to go.
While a ride is running, a fix that has not moved and that the motion classifier says is stationary is not written down. A phone sitting on a table does not become a recording of your kitchen. One sample a minute is kept so a quiet stretch is distinguishable from a stopped recorder, and a ride is capped in size.
This is a disk saving and a privacy property, and it is worth saying which: the app records less than it could.
Any recorded ride can be deleted from inside the app — Settings → Recorded rides, swipe or long press. The confirmation names its size and tells you it is the only copy unless you have already shared it, because it is.
Deleting the app removes everything: your coverage, every recorded ride, and your settings. There is nothing held anywhere else to delete, and nobody to ask.
Street Cred is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect anything from them. It has no account system, no messaging, and no user-written content that anyone else can see.
Everything the app holds is on your device and visible to you: your coverage on the map and in Settings, and your rides in the Files app as plain text you can read. You can delete any of it as described above. There is no copy held elsewhere to request, correct or erase.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and material changes will be noted in the app's release notes.
Street Cred is made by patacognition. The person accountable for privacy, and the address to write to about anything on this page, is:
Privacy contact, patacognition
streetcred@patacognition.tech