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Last updated 13 October 2026 · Applies to Tayli Move, Tayli Water and all Outer Meadow apps

1. Who we are

Outer Meadow is a small, independent software studio working internationally, and is the developer of Tayli Move and Tayli Water. You can reach us at [email protected].

2. What the app records

When you start an activity, Tayli Move records the following on your device:

• Location data — GPS coordinates, altitude and timestamps along your route, used to draw your map and calculate distance, pace, speed and elevation.
• Activity data — date, duration, activity type, distance, splits, calorie estimates and any activities you mark as favourites.
• Motion data — barometric pressure readings from your iPhone's barometer, used only to measure elevation change more accurately than GPS can on its own.
• Your preferences — the name you optionally enter during onboarding, your units, goals, appearance and accent colour settings.

Tayli Water records far less, again entirely on your device:

• Your drinks — the amount of each drink you log and the time you logged it. Nothing else is recorded about it, and everything the app shows you — today's total, your streak, the weekly chart — is worked out from that list rather than stored alongside it.
• Your preferences — your daily goal, your units, the quick-add sizes you set, and your reminder hours.

Tayli Water asks for no location, no motion data and no name. It has no onboarding questions to answer.

Neither app collects your name, email address, contacts, photos, device identifiers, advertising identifiers, or any usage or crash analytics. (Tayli Move asks for a name during onboarding only if you choose to give one, and it never leaves your device.)

3. Where that data goes

Nowhere. Neither app contains networking code, and neither makes network requests of its own. There is no backend, no cloud storage and no third-party SDKs — no analytics, advertising, attribution or crash-reporting libraries are embedded in either app.

Your activities, and your drinks, are stored in each app's private storage on your device, in the sandbox iOS gives it, and are covered by your device's own encryption and passcode.

4. Apple Health

If you grant permission, Tayli Move writes each finished activity to Apple Health as a workout, including the distance, active energy and the GPS route, so the Health and Fitness apps can show your map. With permission it also reads heart rate and active energy from Health to improve the stats shown for an activity.

Tayli Water, again only if you grant permission, writes each drink you log to Apple Health as a water entry, and reads water that other apps have written so that your day adds up. Its own entries are left out when it reads, so a glass logged in Tayli Water is never counted twice, and removing an entry in the app removes the matching entry from Health. Erasing everything from Troubleshooting removes every water entry the app has written; water written by other apps is left alone.

It reads one other thing, and only when you ask it to: your most recent body weight, used once to work out a suggested daily goal. The number is read, turned into a suggestion and forgotten — it is not stored, not shown and not written anywhere. Ignore the suggestion and the weight is never read at all. Apple Health is switched off in Tayli Water until you turn it on, and the app works fully without it.

Health data is handled by Apple's HealthKit on your device. We never receive it. You can revoke this permission at any time in Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices, or refuse it entirely — the app works without it. Data already written to Health remains in Health until you delete it there.

We do not use HealthKit data for advertising, marketing, or any use-based data mining, and we do not disclose it to any third party.

5. Location permission and background tracking

This section concerns Tayli Move only — Tayli Water never asks for your location, and contains no location code at all.

Tayli Move asks for location access the first time you start an activity. To keep recording while your screen is locked or you switch apps, iOS requires background location access, and shows the blue location indicator whenever the app is using it in the background.

Location is only recorded while an activity is actively running. Ending or pausing an activity stops it. You can change or revoke this permission at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Tayli Move.

6. When data leaves your device — and it's always your choice

Nothing leaves your device unless you deliberately send it. There are three ways that can happen, all of them initiated by you:

• Share cards — you generate an image of an activity and choose where to send it using the standard iOS share sheet. Whatever you send it to (WhatsApp, Instagram, Messages) then handles it under their privacy policy, not ours.
• GPX export — you export an activity as a file containing its GPS route, and choose where to save or send it.
• Backup export — you export your full history as a single file and choose where to save it. If you save it to iCloud Drive, it is stored under your own Apple account, subject to Apple's terms.

An exported file contains real location data. Treat it the way you would treat any file that says where you live and when you leave the house.

7. Deleting your data

You are always in control:

• In Tayli Move, delete an individual activity by swiping it in the History tab, or erase everything the app holds using Settings → Troubleshooting → Reset and delete all data inside the app.
• In Tayli Water, remove a drink with the button on the entry itself on the Today screen.
• Deleting either app from your iPhone removes all of its stored data with it.
• Anything written to Apple Health stays in Health until you delete it there, in Health → Browse, whichever app put it there.

Because we never hold a copy, there is nothing for us to delete on our side and no deletion request you need to send us.

8. Your data protection rights

Data protection laws such as the GDPR give you rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection in relation to your personal data.

Outer Meadow does not act as a data controller for the content of your activities, because that data is never transmitted to us and we have no ability to access it. In practice you exercise these rights directly within the app: you can view all of your data in it, edit or delete any of it, and export all of it in an open, portable format at any time.

9. Children

Our apps are not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from anyone — including children — because we do not collect data at all.

10. The App Store

Downloads, and any information Apple collects when you get an app from the App Store, are governed by Apple's privacy policy. Apple may show us anonymous, aggregated download and territory figures in App Store Connect. We cannot identify individual users from those figures.

11. This website

outermeadow.com is a set of static pages. It sets no cookies, so there is no cookie banner and nothing is stored on your device.

We do measure how many people visit, using Cloudflare Web Analytics. It tells us page views, rough visitor counts, which country visitors came from, and how quickly pages loaded. It uses no cookies, no local storage and no browser fingerprinting, it does not follow you to other websites, and it does not build a profile of you. We cannot identify individual visitors from it, and the data is never sold or shared.

Our hosting provider also processes standard technical request data — such as IP address and browser type — to serve the site and protect it from abuse. That happens for every website you visit anywhere, and is separate from the analytics above.

None of this applies inside the apps. Neither app contains analytics whatsoever and makes no network requests at all.

12. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted on this page with a new "last updated" date. Any change that meaningfully affects how data is handled will also be noted in the app's release notes.

13. Contact

Questions about privacy, or anything else: [email protected]. We read everything.