Privacy Policy

Summary

Stride (“the Stride app,” “we,” “our”) turns movement into screen time, and it does that maths on your iPhone. There is no account, no sign-up and no backend of ours. Your movement data, your Health data and your app selections never leave your device. The one exception is subscription validation, which sees purchase and entitlement data only — never anything about your movement or which apps you chose.

Who we are

The data controller responsible for any personal data described here is Apphive Technologies, a private technology company. You can reach us at support@apphive.tech with questions about this policy, or with an access or deletion request. We respond within seven days.

What Stride reads from Apple Health

With your permission, Stride reads exactly four totals, and only ever reads them — it never writes anything back to Health:

• Step count
• Flights climbed
• Exercise minutes (from an Apple Watch)
• Swimming distance (from an Apple Watch workout)

Stride does not request and cannot read heart rate, ECG, blood glucose, sleep, reproductive health, workout routes, location, or Clinical Health Records. These four totals are read on your device, converted to minutes on your device, and stored on your device. They are never transmitted anywhere. You can revoke Health access at any time in the Health app, and Stride will keep working in a reduced Preview Mode rather than dead-ending you.

Screen Time and your app selection

To pause apps, Stride uses Apple’s Screen Time frameworks (Family Controls, Managed Settings and Device Activity) in self-management mode — it manages only the device it is installed on, and it cannot be pointed at anyone else’s device.

When you choose apps, categories or websites, Apple hands Stride opaque tokens rather than names. Stride cannot see which apps you picked, what you do inside them, or your usage history. The interface can only ever show a count, such as “6 apps” — that is the entire picture available to us. Those tokens are stored on your device, and no usage or activity data is transmitted anywhere.

What we collect

Nothing about your movement, your Health data, or your app choices. The only data that leaves your device is what Apple and our subscription provider need in order to validate a purchase:

• Purchase history — the StoreKit transaction and receipt data needed to confirm you have an active subscription.
• A device identifier — the vendor identifier (IDFV) that iOS assigns, used to tell anonymous subscribers apart and to service support requests. It is scoped to us and resets when you delete the app.
• Basic diagnostics — device model, OS version, locale, country, timezone and app version, retained against an anonymous identifier.

On the App Store this is declared as Data Not Linked to You: Purchases, Identifiers, Diagnostics. None of it is used to track you, and there is no Data Used to Track You category, because there is nothing in it.

Subscription validation — our one network call

Subscriptions are validated through Apple’s StoreKit and through RevenueCat, running in anonymous mode. Anonymous mode means we never send RevenueCat an account, an email address, a display name or any attributes about you — Stride has none of those to send.

This is the only network client in the app. The parts of Stride that actually do the blocking — the monitoring and shield extensions — have no networking at all and run entirely offline.

RevenueCat’s privacy policy: revenuecat.com/privacy. Payments are processed by Apple; we never see or store your card or bank details.

Where your data lives

On your iPhone. Stride stores your balance, history, streak, settings and app selection in a local database and a shared app-group container on the device. There is no server of ours holding a copy, and no cloud sync. Deleting Stride deletes all of it. You can also wipe everything from inside the app with Reset Stride.

Notifications

Stride’s notifications — a warning when you are low on minutes, a nudge when apps pause, a streak reminder — are scheduled and delivered locally by your device. They are not sent from a server and they carry no data off the phone.

Exporting your data

You can export everything Stride holds about you from inside the app, as a JSON file handed to your own share sheet. That export includes the first name you entered, if you gave one. Because you choose the destination, this is you sharing your own file — not a transfer to us.

What we never do

• Sell or share your data with anyone.
• Use your movement or Health data to train models.
• Show ads of any kind, inside or outside the app.
• Include an analytics SDK, a crash reporter, an advertising identifier, or an attribution SDK.
• Ask for tracking permission, because there is nothing we would do with it.
• Ask for your location, camera, microphone or contacts.

Your rights

Under the GDPR, the CCPA and similar laws you have the right to access, correct, delete and export your personal data, and to object to processing. Because Stride has no account and holds your data on your own device, most of these are immediate and self-service: the in-app export gives you a portable copy, and Reset Stride or deleting the app erases everything.

For the limited purchase data described above, or for a formal request or complaint, email support@apphive.tech. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Children

Stride is a self-management tool intended for the person using the device, and it is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, contact us and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

We will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page whenever this policy changes, and material changes will be surfaced in the app before they take effect.

Contact

Apphive Technologies — support@apphive.tech. See also our Terms of Service and Support pages.