Privacy Policy

The short version

There is no account, no email address and no name. Everything you create stays on your phone, unless you turn on sync, in which case a copy goes to your own iCloud Drive or Google Drive app folder, which belongs to you and which we cannot read. Two things leave it to a third party: your city, for the weather, and your purchase receipt, so the purchase can be restored. No analytics, no crash reporting, no push token, no advertising, nothing sold, and no server of ours at runtime.

Who operates the app

Trade the Scroll is published by its developer, an individual based in France. There is no company behind it and no team that reads your data. For any request about this policy, write to support@tradethescroll.app.

What stays on your device

Everything you create lives on the phone: your activity logs, the photos you add, moods, comments, the trigger map built from the relapse ritual, your danger windows, the recommendation engine state, your watched-app list, your screen-time counts, and the date the free trial started.

Screen-time measurement runs on the device. On iPhone, Apple’s Screen Time framework counts minutes of watched-app use inside an app extension and renders Apple’s own history view; those figures never leave the phone. On Android, the app reads usage history through the Usage Access permission and draws the wall through the overlay permission; both are processed locally.

We cannot read any of it. There is no server of ours that receives it.

What leaves your device, and who receives it

Open-Meteo (weather, open-meteo.com). The city you type in onboarding is sent once to Open-Meteo’s geocoding service to obtain coordinates. Those coordinates, rounded, are then sent about once an hour while the app is open to fetch the forecast. No identifier, no account and no cookie accompany these requests. Open-Meteo does not learn who you are.

RevenueCat (purchases, revenuecat.com). When you buy the app or restore a purchase, RevenueCat receives an anonymous app user id generated on your phone and the purchase receipt issued by Apple or Google, so your purchase can be validated and restored. RevenueCat receives none of your logs, photos or screen-time data.

Apple App Store and Google Play (payment). The purchase itself is processed by Apple or Google through your store account, under their own privacy policies. We never see your card or your store identity.

Your own iCloud Drive or Google Drive (sync, only if you turn it on). Sync is off by default. If you turn it on, the app copies your logs and photos into a private container of your own iCloud Drive (iPhone) or into the app data folder of your own Google Drive (Android). That space belongs to you, is billed to you, and is unreadable by us. On Android the Google sign-in serves only to reach that folder; it creates no account with us and the app asks for no other Drive access.

That is the complete list. No other company or service receives any data from Trade the Scroll.

What we never collect

No analytics SDK, no crash reporting, no push notification token, no advertising identifier, no precise location (the app never asks for location permission; it uses the city you type), no contacts, no browsing history. Trade the Scroll does not track you across other apps or websites and never sells data.

The notifications the app sends are created on the phone itself. There is no server that knows when they fire.

Legal basis and retention

Data on your device: kept until you delete it or uninstall the app. Basis: performance of the contract (the app cannot work without it).

City and rounded coordinates sent to Open-Meteo: not retained by us; Open-Meteo processes the request to return a forecast. Basis: performance of the contract, since you asked for the weather line.

Anonymous app user id and purchase receipt at RevenueCat: kept while your purchase is valid, so it can be restored. Basis: performance of the contract.

Your rights

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation you can ask for access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, or object to processing. Because we hold no data that identifies you, most of these rights are exercised directly on your phone, as described below. For anything else, write to support@tradethescroll.app. You can also lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority (in France, the CNIL).

How to delete your data

On the phone: open Settings in the app, scroll to the end, and tap "Delete all data". Everything on the device is erased (logs, photos, swaps, settings, watched apps, screen-time counts) and the app returns to its first launch. The one thing kept is the trial clock, which keeps the 14 free days honest and, on iPhone, survives a reinstall. If sync was on, the copy in your own cloud is yours to remove: on iPhone, Settings > Apple Account > iCloud > Manage Account Storage > Trade the Scroll; on Android, drive.google.com > Settings > Manage apps > Trade the Scroll > Delete hidden app data.

Your purchase record at RevenueCat: it is anonymous and tied to the purchase, not to you. If you want it removed anyway, email support@tradethescroll.app from the phone that made the purchase and we will walk you through it within 30 days.

Children

Trade the Scroll is for adults managing their own screen time. It is not directed at children under 13, asks for Screen Time authorisation for the device owner only, and has no parental-control mode, no account and no social features.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version is posted on this page with an updated date. A change that affects what leaves your phone is also announced inside the app.