Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 5, 2024

1. Who We Are and What This Policy Covers

At Stride Labs L.L.C.-F.Z., headquartered at The Meydan Hotel, Grandstand, 6th floor, Meydan Road, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, U.A.E, we are committed to safeguarding your privacy and ensuring that your personal data is protected. This Privacy Policy applies to all products, services, and websites offered by Stride Labs L.L.C.-F.Z., except where otherwise noted. We refer to those products, services, and websites collectively as the "services" in this policy.

We are a digital wellness mobile application designed to promote physical activity and social interaction through gamified challenges and rewards. This policy details how we handle your personal information when you use our Stride services, including:

  • The Stride mobile app
  • Our website
  • Social media pages
  • Marketing campaigns
  • Support services

Unless specified otherwise, this Privacy Policy does not apply to third party products or services or the practices of companies that we do not own or control.

2. Personal Information We Collect

a. Information You Provide to Us:

  • Account Information: When you create an account, we require certain information like your name, email address, and other details necessary for the setup.
  • Profile Information: You may also provide additional information such as a profile photo, biographical details, and physical activity metrics.
  • Communications: When you communicate with us, we may retain those communications to process your inquiries, respond to your requests, and improve our services.

b. Information We Collect Automatically:

  • Usage Information: We collect information about your interactions with our services, including the pages you visit, the time, frequency, and duration of your activities.
  • Technical Information: We gather certain information about your device including IP address, web browser type, operating system, and device identifiers.
  • Health and Fitness Data: This includes information such as your step count, distance walked, and other metrics that you provide through syncing your fitness tracking device with our application. This data helps us to tailor challenges and rewards to your personal fitness goals.

c. Information from Third Parties:

  • Social Media: If you choose to link or login to your Stride account with a social media service (e.g., Twitter, Google, Discord), we may receive information from that service, such as your profile information and friend list.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:

  • To Provide and Manage the Services You Request: This includes, for example, processing your requests, hosting and storing your data, and analyzing data.
  • To Improve Our Services and Develop New Ones: We use your information to customize your experience with us and to develop new features or services.
  • To Communicate with You: This may include responding to your customer support requests or notifying you of changes to services.
  • To Provide Personalized Fitness Goals: We use your health and fitness data to offer customized walking challenges that match your personal health objectives.
  • To Engage You in Competitions: Your location and step count data allow us to place you in appropriate competitive brackets with other users, fostering a community-driven fitness challenge.
  • To Enhance User Experience: We analyze usage data to understand how our services are used and to make improvements that enhance user engagement and satisfaction.
  • For Security Purposes: We use information to enhance the security of our services, to detect and prevent fraud, and to resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

4. Sharing Your Information

a. With Service Providers:

We share information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting, data analysis, payment processing, information technology, customer service, email delivery, and auditing services. These service providers are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

b. For Legal Reasons:

We may share information about you if we believe that disclosing the information is necessary to:

  • Comply with any valid legal process, governmental request, or applicable law, rule, or regulation.
  • Investigate, remedy, or enforce potential Terms of Service violations.
  • Protect the rights, property, and safety of us, our users, or others.
  • Detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.

c. With Your Consent:

We may share information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of Stride when we have your consent to do so.

5. Your Rights and Choices

a. Access and Updates to Your Information:

You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you and to ask for your information to be corrected, updated, or erased. You can usually do this using the settings and tools provided in your account.

b. Data Portability:

You have the right to receive a copy of your personal data in a structured, machine-readable format.

c. Objections and Restrictions:

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data or ask us to restrict processing of your personal data.

d. Withdrawal of Consent:

If we are processing your personal data based on your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time by changing your account settings or sending us communication specifying which consent you are withdrawing.

e. Complaints to Authorities:

You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

Right to Withdraw Consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Stride relied on your consent to process your health-related information.

Rights Related to Automated Decision Making: You have the right to request human intervention in any automated processes we use to analyze your health data for offering personalized fitness programs.

6. Security Measures

At Stride Labs L.L.C.-F.Z., we take the security of your data very seriously. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage. This includes using encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive data, such as credit card information.

Despite our efforts, no security measures are completely impervious, so we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your personal information.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax, or accounting requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

8. International Transfers of Personal Information

Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country.

Specifically, our servers are located in Dubai, U.A.E, and our third-party service providers and partners operate around the world. This means that when we collect your personal information, we may process it in any of these countries.

However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These include implementing the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information between our group companies and third-party service providers and partners, which require all parties to protect personal information they process from the EEA in accordance with European Union data protection law.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical, or business developments. When we update our Privacy Policy, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.

We will obtain your consent to any material Privacy Policy changes if and where this is required by applicable data protection laws.

You can see when this Privacy Policy was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Privacy Policy.

10. Your Data Protection Rights

At Stride, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right. No matter where you are in the world—Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, Asia Pacific, or elsewhere—you have the following rights regarding your data:

  • Right to Access: You can ask if we have personal information about you and request to see this information.
  • Right to Correct: If you find that the personal information we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can ask us to update or correct it.
  • Right to Erase: If you believe there is no longer a justification for us to keep your personal information, you can request its deletion. For example, this might be relevant if you decide to deactivate your account.
  • Right to Object to Processing: You can ask us to stop processing your personal information in certain situations, such as if you believe we're not using it appropriately.
  • Right to Restrict Processing: You can request that we limit the processing of your personal information, which might be the case if you're contesting the accuracy of the data we hold.
  • Right to Withdraw Consent: If you've given us consent to use your health-related information, you can withdraw this consent at any time.
  • Rights Related to Automated Decision Making: You can request human oversight of automated decisions that might significantly impact you, ensuring that any outcomes are fair and transparent.
  • Right to Data Portability: You can request a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and ask that we transfer it to another entity, if technically feasible.

To exercise any of these rights, please visit our Privacy Settings page directly through the Stride app, or contact us via email at hello@stride.social. We provide educational resources on privacy rights in our Help Center to help you understand and manage your data effectively.

We respond to all requests from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

11. Link to Social Media Features

Our Services may include social media features, such as the Twitter Like button, and widgets, such as the "Share This" button or interactive mini-programs that run on our Services. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Services, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Services. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

12. Children's Privacy

Our Services are not directed to individuals under the age of 18. Stride is committed to protecting the privacy of children. Although our app promotes physical activity suitable for all ages, we do not intentionally collect personal information from children under the age of 16 without parental consent. If it comes to our attention that we have collected personal data from a child under 16, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible, unless consent is given by the child’s guardian.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact us at:

Stride Labs L.L.C.-F.Z.
The Meydan Hotel, Grandstand, 6th floor, Meydan Road, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, U.A.E
P.O. Box No: 9305

You can also contact our Data Protection Officer at the same address.

We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any complaint or concern about privacy. If you believe that we have not been able to assist with your complaint or concern, you have the right to make a complaint to the data protection authority of your country.

This concludes our Privacy Policy. We appreciate you taking the time to read it.