NavNav Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 14, 2026
The short version
NavNav helps you walk somewhere. It is not built to collect data about you.
- Your location is primarily processed on your devices. NavNav uses your location to point you toward your destination. Apple Maps receives the information needed for searches and directions, but we do not store your location, routes, or location history on our servers.
- Your health and workout data never reaches our servers. It stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch and, if you turn it on, in Apple Health. We never use it for advertising.
- We never sell your precise location or health data or share it with advertisers.
- No account needed. You can use NavNav without signing up or giving us your name or email.
This summary is here to help. The full policy below is what governs.
Who we are and what this covers
This Privacy Policy explains how JoWoCo, LLC ("JoWoCo," "we," "us") handles information in connection with the NavNav app for iPhone and Apple Watch and the NavNav website at jowoco.com/apps/navnav (together, "NavNav").
This policy applies only to NavNav. JoWoCo's other products have their own policies. Use of NavNav is governed by our Terms of Use.
Location data
NavNav needs your location to work: it points you from where you are to where you're going. Here is exactly how that location is handled.
- Processed on your devices. Your current location, destination, and route are processed on your iPhone and Apple Watch.
- Apple Maps. To search for places and get walking directions, NavNav sends your search text and the coordinates needed for that request to Apple through Apple's MapKit services. Apple handles that information under the Apple Privacy Policy.
- iPhone and Apple Watch sync. NavNav passes your destination and route between your iPhone and your paired Apple Watch using Apple's device-to-device frameworks. This data does not pass through our servers.
- Stored only on your device. Recent destinations and saved places, if any, are stored locally in the app. They are deleted when you remove them or delete the app.
- Not stored or shared by us. We do not collect, store, or keep a history of your location, routes, destinations, or saved places on our servers. We do not sell or share this data with advertisers, analytics companies, or data brokers.
- Background use. If you allow it, NavNav uses your location in the background only while a navigation session is active, so the arrow stays accurate when your screen is off.
- Your control. You can change NavNav's location access at any time in Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > NavNav. NavNav can't give directions without location access.
Health and workout data
Apple Health integration is optional and stays off unless you turn it on.
- What NavNav can do with it. If you enable it, NavNav shows your heart rate from Apple Watch during your walk and saves your walks to Apple Health as workouts, including distance, duration, steps, active energy, heart rate, and the workout route.
- Never on our servers. Health and workout data stays on your iPhone, your Apple Watch, and in Apple Health. Apple Health may sync it across your devices through your iCloud account, under Apple's privacy policy. We do not receive, store, or have access to it on our servers.
- Never used for ads. We never use Health data for advertising, marketing, or data mining. We never sell it or share it with anyone; it goes only to Apple Health when you turn that on.
- Your control. You can change what NavNav can read or write at any time in the Health app, or in Settings > Health > Data Access & Devices > NavNav. Workouts already saved to Apple Health stay there until you delete them in the Health app.
- Not medical advice. Anything NavNav shows about your activity is for general information only. NavNav is not a medical device.
Other information we may receive
Apart from location and health data processed on your devices, we may receive limited technical, usage, purchase, and support information. Some of it, such as IP addresses or device identifiers, may count as personal information under applicable law.
| Information | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address and anything you write to us | When you contact support | To reply and help you |
| Purchase and subscription status | If you buy something in NavNav | To unlock what you paid for. Apple handles payment; we never see your card details |
| App usage and diagnostics (features used, screens viewed, sessions, crashes, device and app version, and app-instance or pseudonymous identifiers) | If we enable analytics or diagnostics tools, and from Apple if you share analytics with developers in iOS Settings | To fix bugs, understand usage, and improve NavNav |
| Ad measurement data | From advertising platforms (next section) | To see whether our ads work |
| Basic web logs (IP address, browser type, pages visited) | When you visit our website | To run and secure the website |
We may use third-party analytics, diagnostics, attribution, and advertising services, including SDKs, APIs, cookies, pixels, and similar technologies, and may add or replace providers over time. Depending on the service, providers may process data on our behalf or for their own purposes, as disclosed and permitted by law. We don't send precise location, routes, destinations, or health data to these services, and we configure them not to collect it. We update this policy when our practices materially change.
Advertising and measurement
To help new people find NavNav, we may advertise it on other apps and websites through advertising platforms such as Apple Ads, Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Google, Reddit, and others, and may use their measurement tools to learn whether our ads work. We may add or change platforms over time; the rules below apply to all of them.
- What these tools may receive. App installs and opens, session and feature events, trials and purchases, attribution and referral information, device and app characteristics, IP address, approximate region inferred from IP address, app-instance or other pseudonymous identifiers, and, only with your permission, your device's advertising identifier. What's actually collected depends on the tools we use and your settings.
- What they never receive from NavNav. Your precise location, location history, routes, destinations, saved places, or any health or workout data. Like any internet service, these platforms can see your IP address, which may indicate your general region.
- Apple's tracking prompt. We ask before any tracking that requires permission under Apple's rules. If you decline, we don't access your advertising identifier or do that kind of tracking. We may still use permitted analytics and privacy-preserving ad measurement, subject to applicable law.
- Our website. Our website may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies for analytics and ad measurement. Where required, we'll ask for consent before using nonessential technologies.
- Their own policies. Each platform handles the data it receives under its own privacy policy.
Your choices: You can turn off tracking for NavNav in Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking, and adjust Personalized Ads in Settings > Privacy & Security > Apple Advertising. You can also adjust preferences directly with each advertising platform.
How we share information
We never sell your precise location or health data or share it with advertisers or data brokers. Location goes only to Apple Maps to get directions, and health data only to Apple Health if you turn it on. We don't sell any personal information for money, and we share limited information only in these cases:
- Service providers that help us run NavNav (such as our email and website hosts), who may use it only to provide services to us.
- Apple, as the platform for maps, Apple Health, purchases, and app distribution.
- Advertising partners, as described above, and only with your permission where required.
- Legal reasons, if required by law or legal process, or to protect the rights, safety, or property of our users, JoWoCo, or others.
- Business transfers, if JoWoCo or NavNav is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Any new owner must honor this policy for information it receives.
- With your consent, in any other case you approve.
Your choices and privacy rights
Because your location and health data never reach our servers, your main controls live on your device: location permissions, Health settings, the tracking prompt, and deleting the app. Deleting NavNav removes everything it stored on your device.
We hold limited personal information, such as support emails and any technical or usage information collected through the tools described above. To request access, correction, deletion, or another privacy right that applies to you, email navnav@jowoco.com. We may need to verify your request, and we may keep information where the law allows or requires it. We'll never treat you differently for exercising your rights. For data held independently by an advertising platform, use that platform's own privacy tools.
California and other US states
Some US state privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), give residents specific privacy rights. These laws may not apply to JoWoCo because of our size, but we've written this policy with them in mind.
- What we may collect: identifiers (such as an email address you send us, IP address, pseudonymous app identifiers, and advertising identifier if you allow tracking), commercial information (purchase status), and internet or app activity (app usage, diagnostics, and ad measurement events).
- What we don't collect: precise location or health information. It stays on your devices.
- Sale and sharing: we don't sell personal information for money. Depending on how they're set up, some advertising and measurement tools may count as a "sale," "sharing," or targeted advertising under state law. Where required, we honor opt-out rights.
- Sensitive information: we don't collect sensitive personal information on our servers.
Users outside the US
If you're in the European Economic Area, the UK, or Switzerland, we process information as needed to provide NavNav, for legitimate interests such as security and essential diagnostics where permitted, and with your consent where required for optional analytics, advertising technologies, or Apple Health. Where applicable, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or portability, object to certain processing, withdraw consent, and complain to your local data protection authority. Information may be processed in the United States or other countries, and where required we use appropriate safeguards for international transfers. Contact us for details.
How long we keep information
- Data on your device: until you delete it or delete the app.
- Support emails: as long as reasonably needed to respond, keep records, and meet legal obligations.
- Purchase status, analytics, and ad measurement data: as long as reasonably needed for running the app, analysis, security, accounting, disputes, and legal compliance. Periods vary by provider and data type, and providers may keep data under their own terms. Deleting NavNav does not necessarily delete information we or our providers have already received.
Security
We use reasonable safeguards to protect the information we hold. Keeping location and health data off our servers is our biggest safeguard. No system is perfectly secure, so we can't guarantee absolute security.
Children
NavNav is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If a child under 13 has emailed us, a parent or guardian can contact us and we'll delete that message.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. When we do, we'll post it here with a new "last updated" date, and the changes take effect when posted. If a change is significant, we'll let you know in the app or on our website.
Contact us
If you have questions about this policy or how NavNav handles your information, or want to make a privacy request, email us.
NavNav is made by JoWoCo, LLC. Email: navnav@jowoco.com