Walking to the Moon — Terms of Use

These terms cover how you may use Walking to the Moon. How your information is handled is a separate document: Privacy Policy.

The short version: walk, keep your journey to yourself unless you choose otherwise, and treat the people on your board the way you would want to be treated.

What the app is

Walking to the Moon turns the steps you already take into progress toward the Moon, Earth-equator equivalents, and a fictional World Trail. The app reads step and walking distance data from Apple Health with your permission and converts steps into a standardized step-equivalent distance using steps × 0.75 m.

That conversion is deliberately the same for everyone so that no one ranks higher for being taller. It is not a measurement of the distance you personally walked. Apple Health’s own recorded Walking + Running Distance is shown separately as a private informational number.

The app never counts activity recorded before the moment you activated your journey.

The app is not a medical device

Walking to the Moon is for motivation and enjoyment. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent anything, and nothing in it is medical advice. Step counts come from Apple Health and from your iPhone’s motion hardware, and they can be wrong, delayed, or missing.

Do not use this app to make a medical decision. Talk to a qualified professional before starting or changing an exercise routine, and stop and seek help if you feel unwell while walking.

Who can use it

You must be at least 14 years old. Fourteen rather than thirteen because COPPA sets the United States threshold at 13 and PIPA requires a legal guardian’s consent below 14, and the higher number satisfies both launch regions.

If you believe someone under 14 is using a social account, write to doldorijw@gmail.com and it will be removed.

Your journey stays yours

The solo journey needs no account. Your local profile, daily movement history, imported historical snapshot, and private recaps live on your iPhone.

Because that history is stored on your device rather than on the app’s servers, deleting the app deletes your journey, and a new iPhone starts over. Signing in recovers your Social identity only. Keep that in mind before you reinstall.

Social features are optional

Social is off until you turn it on, and it asks separately each time the scope widens. Consent to share progress is one decision. Sharing your imported historical steps is a second, independent decision that is off by default. Being visible on the Global board is a third.

When Social is on, other people can see the parts of your identity the app publishes: your username, your callsign, your chosen animal and suit colour, and your standing on the boards you have joined. The app never publishes your raw Apple Health samples, your workouts, your devices, your real location, or precise timestamps.

Acceptable use

Your username, callsign, and avatar are visible to other people. Do not use them, or any other part of the app, to:

• Impersonate another person, a real organisation, or the operator of this app • Harass, threaten, bully, or target anyone • Post hateful content, slurs, or content attacking a protected group • Choose a sexual, obscene, or otherwise inappropriate username or avatar • Advertise, spam, or recruit • Falsify step counts, whether by shaking a device, using a machine, or altering data before it reaches Apple Health • Probe, scrape, reverse engineer, or interfere with the service or anyone else’s use of it • Use another person’s account, or share a friend code with someone you would not want to see your progress

Falsified progress is called out specifically because a leaderboard only means something if the numbers are real. Fabricating them takes the point away from everyone else on the board.

Reporting and blocking

Every walker you can see, you can also report or block. Blocking takes effect immediately and needs no one’s approval. A blocked walker disappears from your boards and you disappear from theirs. You do not need a reason and they are not told.

Reporting sends the account to the operator for review under one of seven reasons: spam, harassment, hate, impersonation, inappropriate username, inappropriate avatar, or cheating. You can report a given account once.

Reports are reviewed by a person, which means a real human being reads them and response time depends on that. Reporting someone does not block them, so block as well if you do not want to see them in the meantime.

Moderation

The operator may reset a username or avatar, restrict social features, or remove an account entirely when these terms are broken. Serious cases, and anything involving a minor or a credible threat, may be actioned without warning.

Moderation applies to social features. It does not reach the journey stored on your iPhone, which the operator cannot see or alter. If you think a decision was wrong, write to doldorijw@gmail.com and say so.

Deleting your account

You can delete your social account from within the app at any time. Deletion removes your authentication record, your profile, your username claim, your published aggregates, your connections, and the projections built from them. Where you signed in with Apple, the app also revokes that sign-in.

Deletion is permanent and is not reversible by the operator. Your journey on the iPhone is not deleted by this. It never left your device, so it is yours to keep or to remove by deleting the app.

Availability and changes

This app is offered free of charge and is maintained by one person. It may be unavailable, may change, and may one day be discontinued. Features can be added or removed, and the social service depends on providers whose availability the operator does not control.

If the service is ever shut down, the operator will give notice in the app where reasonably possible so you can export your data first.

No warranty, and the limits of responsibility

The app is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind, including that it will be accurate, uninterrupted, or fit for a particular purpose.

To the fullest extent the law allows, the operator is not liable for indirect or consequential losses, for lost data, or for injuries arising from physical activity you chose to undertake. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing here takes away consumer rights you hold under the law of the country you live in, including South Korea.

Changes to these terms

These terms may change. A material change is announced in the app, and where it widens what gets uploaded, publication stays paused until a new consent version is accepted. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms, moderation decisions, or anything else: doldorijw@gmail.com.

Related: Privacy Policy.