Overview
Scaffold is a focus and routine app operated by Scaffold Apps, LLC (“Scaffold,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). It turns completed effort into progress in a virtual city. Some information stays on your device, while account, backup, synchronization, social, purchase, and analytics features use the service providers described below.
Information Scaffold collects
- Account information: an account identifier, authentication provider, email address when using email sign-in, and the username you choose.
- App content and progress: topics, focus sessions, routines, city layout and buildings, unlocks, in-app balances, and related progress needed to provide the app and supported recovery features.
- Social information: friend requests, friend relationships, rewards, and neighborhoods you explicitly choose to share.
- Purchase information: subscription or entitlement status supplied through Apple. Scaffold does not receive your full payment-card details.
- Usage and analytics: feature interactions, session statistics, app-instance identifiers, approximate location, and app or device information collected through Firebase Analytics.
- Support communications: your email address and the information you choose to include when you contact support.
Scaffold does not collect the content you view, create, or send in other apps, and it does not collect precise location information.
How information is used
Information is used to operate Scaffold, authenticate accounts, save and synchronize app data, recover supported account data, calculate progress and rewards, provide friend and sharing features, verify purchases, maintain security, respond to support requests, understand product usage, and improve the app.
Screen Time and app blocking
Scaffold uses Apple’s Family Controls, Managed Settings, and Device Activity frameworks to let you choose apps or categories to restrict during a focus session. Those selections are represented by Apple-provided tokens and are stored locally on your device for the blocking feature. Scaffold does not upload those selections or receive the content you view, create, or send inside other apps.
Analytics and tracking
Scaffold uses Firebase Analytics to understand app usage and improve features. Firebase Analytics may automatically collect an app-instance identifier, usage events, session statistics, approximate location, and app or device information. Scaffold does not use this information for third-party advertising or cross-app tracking.
Scaffold does not display third-party advertising, sell personal information, or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
When information is shared
Scaffold may share information in these limited circumstances:
- Google Firebase: for authentication, cloud database storage, server functions, hosting, and analytics.
- Apple: for Sign in with Apple, App Store distribution, purchases, subscriptions, and Screen Time functionality.
- With friends when you initiate or accept a connection or explicitly select a neighborhood for sharing.
- When required to comply with law, protect users, investigate abuse, or defend legal rights.
- As part of a business transfer, subject to appropriate protections and notice where required.
Service providers process information under their own terms and privacy commitments and only for the purposes described here.
Retention and deletion
We retain account information and app content while your account is active and as needed to provide Scaffold. You can permanently delete your account at any time from Settings in the app. Deletion begins immediately and removes the Scaffold account and all account data controlled by Scaffold, including cloud-stored account information, app progress, city data, routines, focus history, friendships, shared neighborhoods, and data stored locally on your device.
Account deletion does not cancel an Apple subscription. If you have an active subscription, manage or cancel it through your Apple account. Apple may retain purchase records under its own policies. Firebase Analytics measurements collected before deletion may remain for the applicable Analytics retention period or in aggregated or deidentified form, but Scaffold clears the account identifier and does not use those records to restore your deleted account.
Children
Scaffold is intended for people age 13 and older and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If the law where you live requires a higher minimum age or parental consent, you may use Scaffold only after that requirement is met. Contact us if you believe a child provided information contrary to this policy.
International use and data transfers
Scaffold is available to users around the world. We and our service providers may process information in the United States and other countries where we or they operate. Those countries may have different data-protection laws than your country. Where required, we rely on appropriate legal mechanisms for international transfers.
Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of personal information, or to object to or restrict certain processing. You may delete your account directly from Settings. For other requests, email habitualapps@gmail.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.
Security and your choices
Scaffold uses reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect information, including encrypted connections and access controls. No storage or transmission method can guarantee absolute security. You can control Screen Time authorization in iOS, decide which neighborhoods to share, manage Apple subscriptions through your Apple account, and delete your Scaffold account from Settings.
Changes and contact
We may update this policy as Scaffold changes or as required by law. We will post updates on this page and revise the effective date when appropriate.
For privacy questions or requests, contact Scaffold Apps, LLC at habitualapps@gmail.com.