Privacy Policy

Cyclops records and displays cycling rides on your iPhone and, if you use one, Apple Watch. There is no Cyclops account or server. Disco Media does not receive your rides, location, Health data or listening history from the app. Cyclops has no advertising, analytics or tracking SDKs, and we do not sell your data.

Location and motion

With your permission, Cyclops uses GPS to measure speed and distance, record your route and guide you to a destination. While a ride is active, it can use location with the screen locked or the app in the background. On supported devices it uses the barometer to measure climb. Without location access it cannot record a GPS route or provide directions.

When you search for a place or request cycling directions, Cyclops uses Apple Maps. Search text, map regions and the locations needed for directions, including a new starting position when rerouting, are processed by Apple under its Maps privacy notice. Cyclops does not upload your full recorded route to a Disco Media service.

Apple Health and Apple Watch

Connecting Apple Health is optional on iPhone. If allowed, Cyclops reads cycling workouts, heart rate and active energy for ride metrics. The iPhone may read your weight to estimate ride calories when energy data is unavailable. Cyclops writes cycling workouts, routes and cycling distance to Apple Health only when authorised. On Apple Watch, workout recording uses Apple Health. Cyclops never uses Health data for advertising or shares it with data brokers.

Ride information, saved places, settings and workout metrics can transfer directly between your paired iPhone and Apple Watch. Your active ride can appear on your lock screen, and your most recent distance can appear on an Apple Watch complication. Cyclops excludes its local ride storage from device backups and does not sync it to iCloud. Apple Health manages any copy you choose to save there under your Apple settings.

Apple Music

If you connect Apple Music, Cyclops can control playback and store track titles, artists and listening times with your rides. When you like or unlike a song or save a playlist, Cyclops uses Apple Music to update your library; this can send song identifiers, ratings and the playlist name to Apple. Cyclops does not record, copy or export audio. Apple Music and Apple Health are subject to Apple’s privacy policy.

Retention, deletion and your choices

To delete a ride from your iPhone, open it in Rides and choose Delete ride. If it is linked to a workout, you can also choose to delete it from Apple Health, or manage the workout separately in the Health app. Apple Watch can keep up to ten recent rides for workouts it recorded or hosted. Remove Cyclops from your watch to clear those copies.

Clear Home or Work by pressing and holding the saved place in Cyclops Settings. Remove Cyclops from both devices to clear its remaining local data. Copies you have exported or shared are managed by the destination you chose.

You can turn off the Apple Health and Apple Music connections in Cyclops Settings. To revoke permissions entirely, use your device’s Location Services, Health data access, or Media & Apple Music settings. Revoking access stops future access; it does not delete data already saved.

Support and privacy requests

If you contact Disco Media for support, we use your email address and the information you choose to send to answer your request. We retain it only as long as needed for support, legal or security purposes. Service providers who handle support or hosting for us are required to protect the information and use it only to provide those services. Contact privacy@discomedia.co for questions or to request access, correction or deletion of information you sent us.