Privacy Policy
Stowed measures your screen time so it can pay you for reducing it. That requires unusually sensitive access, so this policy is specific about what is collected and what is structurally impossible for us to collect.
What never leaves your device
Screen Time data is delivered by Apple into a sandboxed extension. Per-app usage, app names, bundle identifiers, content, keystrokes and location are never transmitted and are never stored by us.
The identifiers Apple returns when you choose categories are opaque tokens. They cannot be decoded. Stowed itself cannot determine which apps you selected — it can only hand a token back to iOS to be drawn on screen. That is enforced by the operating system, not by our promise.
What is sent to our server
- A daily total of minutes in the categories you chose, expressed as a 15-minute band rather than an exact figure.
- A daily total of minutes of other device activity, used only to tell an active phone apart from one set aside.
- Daily step count, if you allow Motion access, for the same purpose.
- Whether blocking was switched on that day.
- An anonymous device key generated by Apple's App Attest.
That is the complete list. There is no account, no email address, no name and no phone number unless you redeem a gift card, at which point an email address is required solely to deliver it.
What we do not do
- We do not sell or share your data with anyone.
- We do not use device or usage data for advertising or advertising measurement, and we do not share it with data brokers.
- We do not use third-party analytics or advertising SDKs.
- We do not track you across other apps or websites.
Why we hold it
Scoring is performed on our server rather than on your device, because a balance calculated on a device can be altered on that device. Daily minute totals are retained for 120 days so that baselines and reductions can be computed, then deleted.
Gift cards
Redeeming sends your email address and the card amount to our fulfilment provider so they can deliver it. Nothing about your usage is shared with them.
Your control
Deleting the app removes all local data. To delete server-side records, email support@stowed.app — no reason required, and the request is honoured within 30 days.
Children
Stowed is for adults managing their own device. It is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from anyone under 13.
Contact
Beers Labs LLC · support@stowed.app