RunWear

RunWear tells you what to wear for your run, based on the weather where you are. It collects no health data and keeps no location history. Most of RunWear works without any account or server storage at all; the one exception is the optional Make it me feature, which works from photos of you — that part is explained in its own section below. This policy explains the few things it does send, and to whom.

Location, used in the foreground only

With your permission, RunWear uses your location for two things: to fetch the weather for where you are, and to look up the name of that place. Location is used only while you are using the app — never in the background — and no location history is stored.

To answer those requests, your coordinates are sent to two service providers: Open-Meteo, which returns the forecast, and Nominatim / OpenStreetMap, which returns the place name. If you search for a place by name instead, the text you typed is sent to Open-Meteo's geocoding service to find it.

Images

The outfit photos and clothing thumbnails in the app are served from our image storage, hosted on Supabase; if that is unavailable, the app falls back to stock photos. Loading an image is a one-way fetch: the host sees your device's IP address, as with any image on the web, and loading them uploads nothing. (If you turn on Make it me, you choose to upload your own photos — see the next section.)

Make it me — photos of you

Make it me is an optional feature that makes your outfit photos from photos of you, instead of showing you a model. It is off unless you turn it on, and turning it on asks for your confirmation that the photos are of you and that you are 18 or older.

What you send us. A photo of yourself (taken in the app or chosen from your library). We store your photo on our server, together with a smaller working copy we make from it, so the feature can work. Your photos are tied to your RunWear account on our server.

How your pictures are made. Our server sends your photo and a description of the outfit to an outside AI image service (Replicate), which generates a picture of you wearing the outfit and returns it to us. Before any picture is shown to you, it is checked twice: a face-matching service we run ourselves confirms the picture actually looks like you, and a second AI service (Anthropic) checks that the outfit in the picture matches what was recommended. Pictures that fail either check are discarded and never shown. The face-matching service compares the shape of the face in the two photos in the moment; it does not keep a copy of that measurement. A pass/fail score is kept with the job record.

Where your pictures live. Pictures that pass are kept on our server, under your account only, so your outfits are ready when you open the app — including outfits made ahead of time for weather that's coming. Your pictures are never shown to anyone else, never added to RunWear's standard photo library, and never used for advertising.

How long we keep them. Your photo and the pictures made from it are kept until you delete them (below) — there is no automatic expiry, and a subscription ending does not delete them either. For subscribers this is deliberate: your library of pictures builds up over time, so your outfits keep coming from a growing set of photos of you. If you replace your photo with a new one, the old photo is deleted and the new one starts a fresh set; pictures already made from the old photo stay in your library until you delete them.

Training. We do not use your photos, or the pictures made from them, to train AI models. The copies sent to our generation provider are deleted from its systems within about an hour of each generation. Under that provider's published terms, the copies it receives may be used as those terms describe, which can include training and improving services it provides; we have asked the provider to confirm its practice in writing, and we will update this section when it answers.

Deleting. Settings → Make it me → Delete my photos removes your photos and every picture made from them from our server and your phone, and turns the feature off. This is permanent and takes effect right away.

Shopping links and affiliate disclosure

Some items in the app link to retailer searches — Amazon, Dick's Sporting Goods, and REI — which open in your browser. What happens after the tap is governed by that retailer's own site and privacy policy.

RunWear is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites and apps to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon. Links to Amazon in the app carry our program tag. If you buy something after following one of those links, we may earn a small commission, at no additional cost to you.

Preferences

Your settings — units, fit preferences, and whether you tend to run warm or cold — are stored on your device only.

What we do not do

• Outside of Make it me, nothing about you is stored on a server. Make it me stores only what its own section above describes, under your account, and only if you turn it on.
• We do not sell personal data.
• There are no advertising trackers in the app.
• No background location, and no location history.

Security

Every network request the app makes is encrypted in transit over HTTPS.

Retention and deletion

Your on-device preferences are removed by clearing the app's data or uninstalling it. If you have used Make it me, your photos and pictures live on our server until you delete them in Settings → Make it me → Delete my photos (see above). You can also delete your account and all of your RunWear data — photos, pictures, and records — from Settings → Delete my data. Our database provider does not retain backups of RunWear's database, so information you delete does not persist in provider backups. Questions: [email protected].

Changes to this policy

If we change how the app handles data, we will update this page and change the effective date above before the change ships.