Privacy Policy

1. Information You Give Us

Account details: your email address, a display name and handle, and an optional profile photo. Sign-in is passwordless — we send a one-time code to your email rather than storing a password.

Date of birth: joining a challenge with an entry fee requires confirming you are at least 18. We store the date you provide to enforce that rule. Stint is not intended for anyone under 18.

Challenge choices: the focus challenges you join, the apps you select as "work apps" (which count toward focus time), the apps you choose to block, and any emergency or social-app allowances you request.

Messages: what you post in a challenge’s group chat, plus any reports you file or members you block.

Waitlist and support: if you join the waitlist or contact us, we keep the email address and any details you include.

2. Information Collected Automatically

Focus verification data: while a session is running, the app sends periodic, server-verified "heartbeats" recording how much qualifying focus time has accrued. This is how challenge results are decided fairly for everyone in the pool. It records time, not what you did inside an app.

Screen Time data stays on your device: app selection happens through Apple’s Family Controls picker, which gives Stint opaque tokens. We never see the names of the apps you chose, and Apple does not share your usage of them with us.

Usage and diagnostics: we use Mixpanel to understand how the app is used — screens visited, onboarding steps, features used — and diagnostic reports, so we can fix problems and improve Stint. These events are associated with your account.

Device and account identifiers: an identifier for your account, a device identifier, and a push notification token so we can deliver notifications you have enabled.

Purchases: if you subscribe to Stint Pro, Apple tells us the subscription’s status (active, expiry, renewal) so we can unlock Pro features. Apple handles the payment; we never see your payment details.

3. How We Use Your Information

To operate Stint: create and secure your account, run focus challenges, verify qualifying focus time, decide who qualifies, and process entry fees and payouts.

To keep challenges fair: focus verification, moderation of group chat (including acting on reports), and detection of attempts to game the system.

To communicate with you: sign-in codes, notifications you have enabled, and updates about the service.

To improve the product: aggregated usage analytics and crash reports.

We do not sell your personal information, we do not use it for advertising, and we do not use it to track you across other companies’ apps or websites.

4. Payments and Payouts

Entry fees are collected by our payment provider, Whop, through a secure checkout. Whop handles your payment details under its own privacy policy; Stint receives only confirmation that a seat was paid for and the amount.

Prize-pool payouts are reviewed manually by our team and sent outside the app. To send a payout we may need details such as your name and, where the law requires it, tax information. We keep records of payouts as long as financial and tax rules require.

5. Service Providers We Rely On

We share information only with providers who help us run Stint, and only as much as they need: Apple (Screen Time, In-App Purchase, and push notifications), Whop (entry-fee payments), Mixpanel (app analytics), Cloudinary (profile photo storage), Hostinger (server and database hosting), Cloudflare and Vercel (website), Umami and Microsoft Clarity (website analytics), and email delivery providers for sign-in codes and updates.

Our team receives internal alerts about account activity — for example when someone signs up or a subscription changes — through a private, staff-only channel on a third-party messaging service. Those alerts are used to run the service, not for marketing.

We may also disclose information when required by law or to protect Stint, our users, or others.

6. Website Analytics

On trystintapp.com we use Umami, a privacy-first analytics service that counts visits without cookies or personal data, and Microsoft Clarity for aggregated heatmaps and session insights. Clarity data is governed by Microsoft’s privacy practices. The app itself uses neither.

7. Data Retention and Deletion

We keep your information while your account is active and for as long as needed to provide the service and meet legal obligations.

You can delete your account at any time from Settings in the app. Deletion anonymises your account — your email, handle, and name are removed — and your profile photo is no longer displayed. Records we are required to keep (for example, payout and payment history) are retained in anonymised form for as long as the law requires.

If a payout is still owed to you, deletion is paused until it has been sent, so that we can still pay you.

8. Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data, and to object to or restrict certain processing. To exercise these rights, contact us at the address below. Deleting your account from within the app is the fastest way to remove your data.

9. Children

Stint is for adults. You must be 18 or older to join a challenge with an entry fee, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has created an account, contact us and we will remove it.

10. Changes to This Policy

If we make material changes, we will update the date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, notify you in the app or by email.

11. Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy? Email us at hello@trystintapp.com.