Your Data. Your Rules.

What most apps do: Participate in advertising ecosystems that track you across websites and apps. Tracking pixels, Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, ad networks — all feeding your fitness habits into systems designed to sell you things. Some apps deliver third-party ads directly into the experience, giving advertisers your IP address automatically.

What we do: Zero analytics trackers. Zero advertising pixels. Zero ad partners. No behavioral profiling. There are no ads in Pacewright — not in the free tier, not anywhere. Our revenue comes from subscriptions, period.

What most apps do: Claim they "don't sell your data" while sharing it broadly with advertising partners, using it for behavioral profiling, or granting themselves perpetual licenses to commercialize it. Some apps sell "de-identified, aggregate data" to unnamed third parties. Others process your personal information "on behalf of and according to the instructions of" their advertising partners. The word "sell" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

What we do: Our commitment is backed by architecture, not just language. We don't collect behavioral data. We don't have advertising partners. We don't grant ourselves rights to commercialize your content. There's nothing to sell because we don't collect it. Our privacy policy states it plainly: "We do not and will not ever profit from user data."

What most apps do: Use your workout data for machine learning — route suggestions, performance analysis, "personalized guidance." Some offer opt-out (not opt-in). Others grant themselves a "worldwide, perpetual, sub-licensable right to access, use, commercialize" everything you submit. When it comes to AI training on your fitness data, most apps either do it quietly, bury the opt-out, or claim rights so broad they don't need to ask.

What we do: "Your data is never used to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models." Full stop. Pacewright's algorithm adapts to your performance using your data on your account. It doesn't feed a collective model. We don't claim any rights to your content.

What most apps do: Auto-renew by default. If you forget to cancel at least 24 hours before renewal, you're charged. Some offer no refunds whatsoever — "paid memberships always run their term." This is the industry standard, and it's designed to profit from inattention.

What we do: Pacewright refuses auto-renewal on principle. When your subscription period ends, you choose whether to renew. We send reminders at 14 days, 3 days, and the day of expiration — each with a "Do Not Remind Me Again" option. If you don't renew, your account reverts to the free tier. Your data stays intact.

What most apps do: One app charges a fee just to access your own data. Another can delete your account through inactivity — no warning, no recovery. Some grant themselves "perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide" licenses to commercialize everything you submit, including the right to sublicense it to others. And when you delete your account, some content may "remain visible" indefinitely.

What we do: Free, one-click data export — JSON and CSV — available to all tiers, anytime. Account deletion includes a 7-day grace period or immediate deletion with multi-step confirmation. When we say deleted, we mean deleted. We never claim rights to your training data, workout logs, or any content you create.

What most apps do: Make no commitment about employer or command access to training data. Public-by-default features have historically exposed military base locations and personnel movement patterns. Fitness heatmaps have revealed sensitive operational information. No major fitness app explicitly prohibits sharing your data with employers, military units, or insurance companies.

What we do: Our privacy policy explicitly states that training data is never shared with employers, military command, or insurance companies — no exceptions. Ghost Mode is on by default. Pacewright offers free PT test training for military and first responders because we believe in the mission, not because we want the data.

What most apps do: Some make your name, location, gender, activity, and profile picture public by default. Others have been through multiple corporate acquisitions — each transferring all user data to new owners with new privacy policies. When a company gets acquired, your data goes with it. Some apps are owned by entities in countries with different data protection standards, and don't disclose that on their main website.

What we do: Ghost Mode is on by default — all sharing is opt-in. Pacewright is self-funded by a disabled veteran. No venture capital, no investors, no acquisition risk. Your data won't end up at a company you never signed up for. We're a Pennsylvania LLC, and we tell you exactly where your data is stored.