ScrollTidePrivacy Policy
This policy explains how ScrollTide handles your data. We do not sell personal data or use it for advertising or tracking across apps and websites.
1. Contact
The controller responsible for your data is:
Adrian NeithertMühlenhof 38
46047 Oberhausen
Germany
contact@scrolltide.app
2. Using the app
ScrollTide creates an account with a random ID, without an email address or password. We process your profile, shoal membership, settings and unlock history to provide the shared time budget. Device status and technical connection data, including IP addresses, support setup and service security.
Your shoal sees your name, fish, time used and unlocks from the last 14 days. Past unlocks remain visible after you leave. Your personal daily contribution is not shown, but may be inferred from group totals.
Your app selection stays on your iPhone; we do not receive the identities of the selected apps or Apple’s Screen Time history. Onboarding answers, including your age range, stay on your iPhone and are discarded after onboarding. Required local settings keep the locks working offline (§ 25(2) No. 2 TDDDG).
An account, profile, shoal, daily contribution, app selection and Screen Time permission are needed for the shared budget and locks. The features below are optional, except a subscription is needed to unlock apps.
3. Optional features and subscriptions
- Apple sign-in: Apple provides an identifier and possibly an email address for account recovery. We retain a token to revoke the link upon account deletion.
- Notifications: with your permission, we use a device token to send shoal updates through Apple. You can disable them in the app or iOS settings.
- Feedback and support: ideas are reviewed before publication and stored without an author ID; votes are linked to your account. Emails are processed to answer your request. Avoid personal details in public feedback.
- Subscriptions: Apple handles billing. RevenueCat and our backend process account, transaction, subscription and device data to verify access and restore purchases. We do not receive payment details. Paywall visits are counted to determine when an offer appears.
We process service, recovery and purchase data to fulfil our contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR), notifications with your consent (a), and security, feedback and service statistics for our legitimate interests in reliable operation and improvement (f). Support uses (b) or (f), depending on your request; legally required records use (c).
4. Website and usage statistics
The website serves fonts locally and sets no cookies. IONOS processes access data for security and website statistics, anonymizes IP addresses immediately and retains visitor data for 8 weeks within the EU.
In the app, selected setup and purchase screens send a signal containing only the screen name. We keep daily totals without account or device IDs and store nothing on your iPhone for this. IP addresses are processed during transmission and in short-lived server logs. We also use aggregate service counts to improve ScrollTide, without building individual usage profiles. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
5. Service providers
| Provider | Purpose and location |
|---|---|
| Supabase | Backend and login; USA, North Virginia |
| RevenueCat | Subscription management; USA |
| IONOS | Website hosting and email; Germany/EU |
| Apple | App Store, payments, sign-in and notifications; independent controller |
Supabase, RevenueCat and IONOS act under data processing agreements. Transfers to Supabase and RevenueCat in the USA are covered by EU Standard Contractual Clauses; contact us for a copy.
6. Storage and deletion
| Data | Retention |
|---|---|
| Account and personal statistics | Until account deletion |
| Individual unlocks / closed shoal data | 14 days after the group day ends / 30 days after closure, once accounting is settled |
| Subscription history | While the account exists; after account deletion, necessary references remain while the subscription runs and normally for 90 days after its final end. Unresolved payments or refunds may require longer retention. |
| Notification tokens | Until notifications are disabled, the device is replaced or the account is deleted |
| Feedback | Unpublished ideas: 90 days; published ideas: until removal; votes: until account deletion |
| Support emails | Until the request is resolved and further retention is no longer needed for legal obligations or claims |
| Backend logs / backups, if kept | At most 7 days |
| Usage counts / website access data | 12 months / 8 weeks |
Delete your account under Profile. Access ends immediately; personal app data is removed once running unlocks are settled, and the Apple link is revoked. Necessary subscription records follow the rule above before RevenueCat deletion. Shared time already used stays used. A deletion record remains for 30 days after completion. Legally required accounting records follow statutory retention periods.
Account deletion does not cancel an App Store subscription. Cancel it separately in your Apple Account settings.
7. Your rights
You may request access, correction, deletion, restriction or portability of your data, and withdraw consent at any time. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests on grounds relating to your situation. Use the contact address above; we may need to verify account ownership.
You can complain to a data protection authority, including LDI Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Depending on your US state, you may also have access, correction and deletion rights. We do not sell or share data for cross-context behavioral advertising; exercising your rights causes no disadvantage.
8. Children
ScrollTide is not directed to children under 13. If you believe we have collected personal data from a child under 13, contact us so we can stop further processing and delete the affected data. Where the law requires it, for example in Texas, ScrollTide asks Apple for your age range when the app starts. It is evaluated only on your iPhone and is not sent to us; if it shows that you are under 13, the app cannot be used (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, our legitimate interest in meeting these legal requirements).
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