Stepping Wolf
Privacy policy
Stepping Wolf helps adults limit selected apps until they reach a step goal. This policy describes the information the app accesses, stores, and shares in the current Android release.
Information the app accesses and stores
Physical activity and step information
With your permission, Stepping Wolf accesses the Android device step sensor through the Physical activity permission. It stores step progress, goals, daily history, streaks, cycle timing, and related settings on your device. This information is used to show progress and decide when selected apps should unlock.
Accessibility and opened-app information
If you enable Stepping Wolf's Accessibility service, it receives Android window-change events and the name or package identifier of the app currently opened. It compares that identifier with the blocked-app list you selected and shows a step shield when there is a match and your goal has not been reached.
Stepping Wolf does not retrieve or read screen text or screen content, record keystrokes, request touch-exploration access, perform gestures, or use Accessibility for advertising.
Installed and selected apps
Stepping Wolf queries apps that have launcher activities so you can choose which apps to block. It stores the package identifiers you select on your device. It does not request unrestricted access to every installed package through QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES.
Preferences and onboarding responses
The app stores your goals, reminder and reset settings, emergency-unlock state, onboarding progress and answers, and feature preferences on your device.
Diagnostics
Stepping Wolf keeps a local diagnostic event log to understand app behavior and troubleshoot problems. Events may include timestamps, onboarding actions and answers, goals, step/cycle state, purchase-flow status, selected-app count, opened blocked-app package identifiers, shield duration, and dismissal reason. The log is capped at approximately 20,000 rows.
The app does not automatically upload this log. If you choose an export or share control, Android lets you send diagnostics to a destination you select or write them to Downloads. That destination then receives the exported content under its own privacy practices. Review exported diagnostics before sharing them.
Purchases
Subscriptions are processed by Google Play Billing. Google processes payment details under its own terms and privacy policy; Stepping Wolf does not receive your full card or bank details. The app receives purchase status and a purchase token from Google Play and stores entitlement information on your device to provide or restore paid features.
How information is used
The app uses this information to count and display progress, determine whether selected apps should be blocked or unlocked, render and dismiss the blocking shield, remember settings and onboarding state, provide subscription access and restore purchases, schedule local reminders, show ongoing step-progress notifications, and troubleshoot app behavior through local diagnostics that you may explicitly export.
Sharing and sale
Stepping Wolf does not sell personal information. It does not automatically share step information, app identifiers, onboarding responses, or diagnostics with Rapki Apps or advertising companies. Information is shared only when you explicitly export or share diagnostics to a destination you choose, when Google Play processes a subscription or purchase, or when disclosure is required by applicable law.
Storage, security, and retention
Product data and diagnostics are stored in the app's private storage on your Android device. Android backup is disabled for the app. Cleartext network traffic is disabled by the app's network security configuration.
Settings and history remain until you change or reset them, clear the app's storage, or uninstall the app. The local diagnostic log automatically prunes older rows after it exceeds approximately 20,000 events. Files exported to Downloads or another app are outside Stepping Wolf's control and must be deleted from that destination separately. Purchase records retained by Google are governed by Google's policies.
Your choices and controls
You may decline or disable Accessibility; decline or revoke Physical activity permission; disable notifications through Android settings; change or remove blocked apps and goals; use the app's reset controls, clear app storage, or uninstall the app to remove local app data; and choose whether to export diagnostics.
The app provides a “Delete local data” action in Settings. It stops the step-progress service, cancels local reminders, clears preferences, step-counter state, purchase-entitlement state, and the diagnostics database, and returns the app to onboarding. Files already exported to Downloads or another app are not removed by this action.
Children's privacy
Stepping Wolf is intended for adults and is not directed to children under 18. Rapki Apps does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can review the request.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when app features, data practices, or legal requirements change. We will update the effective date and provide any additional notice required by law.
Contact
Developer: Rapki Apps
Privacy: privacy@steppingwolf.com
General support: help@steppingwolf.com