Your Privacy Matters to Garmin

We collect your name and email address when you create a Garmin account to make sure your Garmin Connect account is completely personalized. We also store information such as your sleep and wake times so we don’t send you “get moving” notifications while you’re sleeping. You probably want us to remember that.

When you add a Garmin device to your Garmin Connect account, we ask for information such as your height, weight, gender, and birthdate so we can personalize your stats and goals. We also need to hang on to your recorded activities and heart rate so you can tell when you beat that PR or lower your fitness age.

When you sync your device, we collect data such as your IP address, sync time and date, and battery level to help identify and resolve errors or syncing issues and to provide better customer support. We also collect usage and trend data to help us improve our features and apps.

We know you want to stay off the grid, but we may collect things such as your name, email address, and phone number during support calls to ensure you get the help you need. If someone sends you a LiveTrack invitation or you’re added as an emergency contact, Garmin stores the contact information required to fulfill those services.

Services such as GPS tracking during a run or weather updates on your device require that Garmin collect your location at that time. Your GPS data during activities does get uploaded to Garmin Connect or Garmin Sports, but you have control over who sees it from there.

We use cookies and other technologies on our websites and in our apps to help us improve customer experiences.

We use personal data, such as height, weight, gender, and age, to provide you more accurate stats, such as how many calories you burn during an activity, and insights, such as how you compare to similar users.

If you choose to upload data from your Garmin device to Garmin Connect, we collect recorded data from those activities so you can analyze it and track your progress toward your goals. If you want to, you can even share your activity data with others. Plus, you can withdraw your consent and delete activities at any time.

If you’re opted-in to product improvement, we internally process activity data to help us improve on our products and services. Again, you can withdraw your consent at any time.

We use your contact information to send you notification and to inform you about new products, apps, and features. You can opt in or out of either service at any time.

Garmin is global, which means your personal data may be stored locally or in another country or transferred between Garmin companies. No matter where your information is within Garmin, it is still secured under this privacy policy.

We share data with third parties who provide services — such as analytics and hosting services and sending emails to customers — for us.

Garmin will share your personal data when you ask us to or when required to by law enforcement and in other legal matters.

Your activity data is set to private by default. If you want others to see your daily runs and cheer you on, you can adjust your privacy settings to allow that.

When you join a Leaderboard or Challenge, other participants will be able to see your activity data and any comments you submit to the Leaderboard or Challenge. This includes anyone who is part of your Garmin Jr. family account — even if they aren’t part of that Challenge and your account is set to private.

When you participate in Garmin Sports competitions, the people you’re competing with will be able to see activity data for that competition.

When you join groups or make Connections, depending on your privacy settings, some or all of your profile and activity data may be visible to those groups or Connections.

We will not share your activity data with third parties unless you tell us to. For example, you can instruct Garmin Connect to share your activity data with a third-party wellness program provider or apps such as MyFitnessPal and Strava.

You can share a link to your device’s real-time location with your friends and family so they can follow along as you run.