Privacy policy
The short version: no account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. Your location stays on your iPhone. The one thing we keep is a scrambled ID next to the tour you chose as your free one, so it stays free on all your devices.
Who we are
Peripatica makes LA Walking Tours. Peripatica is a business name of STP Consulting Group LLC, a California limited liability company, which is responsible for the personal information described here. For anything about privacy, email our privacy officer (the address is coming soon).
The app
No account
You never sign up or sign in. We don’t know who you are.
Your location stays on your iPhone
The app uses your location to show you on the tour map and to start the narration when you reach a stop. It keeps doing that while a tour is running, with your phone in your pocket; iOS shows the location indicator while it does. Your location is used on your iPhone only. It is never sent to us or anyone else.
Your walks (which tours you started and finished, when, and how far you walked) are stored on your iPhone, not on our servers. Deleting the app deletes them.
Which tour you picked as your free tour is saved in your iCloud Keychain, so it survives reinstalling and reaches your other devices. Apple stores it encrypted. Our server also remembers it, in scrambled form (see Tours below).
Downloading tours
Tours and the list of tours come from tours.peripatica.com, served by Amazon Web Services (CloudFront). As with any website, AWS sees your IP address to send you the files. Before a tour downloads, the app shows our server Apple’s signed record of your purchase, or of your download of the app, so it can check that the tour is yours. For your free tour we keep one thing: a scrambled form of the ID Apple gives your Apple Account for this app (never your name, email or Apple Account itself), next to the tour you picked, so the same tour stays free on all your devices and after reinstalling. We can’t look it up by your name or email. Nothing else from these checks is kept, and we have not turned on access logs, so we don’t keep your IP address.
Purchases
Your first tour is free; unlocking all LA tours is an in-app purchase. Apple handles the payment. We don’t receive your name, email, Apple Account or payment details; the app only asks Apple whether the unlock was bought. With Family Sharing, one purchase covers your family.
Apple services
The map, Look Around street imagery and Siri shortcuts are Apple services. When you use them, Apple handles the requests under Apple’s privacy policy. If you choose to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone settings, Apple sends us anonymous crash reports and usage totals; we can’t tell who you are from them.
Tools for our route checkers
Our own team uses a hidden part of the app to check routes on foot. It can record a walking route and voice notes. Those stay on the iPhone they were recorded on; voice notes are turned into text on that iPhone, and nothing is sent to us unless the person who recorded them chooses to share a report.
What the app doesn’t do
- No advertising and no advertising ID.
- No analytics or tracking tools, from us or anyone else.
- No selling, renting or sharing of data, because we have none to share.
If we ever add anonymous usage counts (for example, how often a tour is finished), we will update this page before that version of the app comes out, describe exactly what is sent, and give you a switch to turn it off.
This website
peripatica.com sets no cookies and uses no analytics, ads, third-party scripts or third-party fonts. AWS (CloudFront) sees your IP address to deliver the pages; we have not turned on access logs and don’t keep it.
If you write to us, we use your message and email address only to answer you. We delete it when it’s no longer needed, at the latest two years after your last message, unless you ask us to delete it sooner.
Your rights
You can ask what we hold about you (normally only emails you sent us; the scrambled free-tour record can’t be linked to your name or email, so we can’t find it from a request), ask us to correct it or delete it. Email our privacy officer (the address is coming soon); we answer within 30 days. If you’re not happy with our answer, you can complain to the privacy regulator where you live.
Children
The app and the site are for a general audience and collect no personal information from anyone, including children, beyond the scrambled free-tour record described above.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
We don’t track you, so there is nothing for these signals to switch off.
Changes
If this policy changes, we update it here and change the date at the top. Before a change in what the app sends takes effect, the new version of the app will say so.