ScrollGoal ("we", "us") is a screen-time app published by Cyril Bruijn, trading as ScrollGoal, Bloemendaal, Netherlands. Contact: privacy@scrollgoal.app.
Which apps you used, your monitored-apps list, and the websites the accessibility service sees stay on your phone. We cannot read them. There are no accounts and no login. Subscribers send one daily total so we can keep ScrollGoal free for light users.
We only receive anonymous, aggregated statistics if you switch sharing on. Nothing in the app requires it.
For example, "average daily social-media minutes of men aged 25–34 in this timezone" — sold to research and industry partners. Never anything about you as an individual, and never the names of individual apps.
Turn sharing off in Settings whenever you like, and erase everything on your device with one tap (Settings → Reset all data).
The following is stored only on your phone and is never transmitted anywhere:
Deleting the app, or using Settings → Reset all data, permanently erases all of this.
During onboarding you are asked whether ScrollGoal may use anonymised, aggregated usage statistics. The default is no. If — and only if — you switch this on, the app sends our server one summary per day containing: the date, your age range and birth year, gender, self-assessed severity tier, notification tone, timezone, platform, whether you went over your daily goal, the number of reminders shown, and your total daily minutes in monitored app categories (social, video, messaging, other). Web-browsing minutes measured by the accessibility service are excluded from these summaries.
These summaries carry no name, no email, no account, no device identifier, and no advertising ID. On our server they are combined into group statistics, and any group smaller than 50 people is discarded. Raw daily summaries are deleted after 180 days; only the group statistics remain.
You can withdraw consent at any time in Settings → "Allow anonymised research data". Withdrawal stops all future submissions immediately. Because past submissions are anonymous, we cannot locate and delete yours specifically; they leave the raw store automatically within 180 days.
The same opt-in also covers our product-analytics tool (PostHog, EU servers), which receives app events (for example "onboarding completed"), your settings choices (severity, tone, age range, gender), and device metadata (model, OS version, language, timezone). It never receives app-usage amounts, browser data, or anything from the accessibility service. If you do not opt in, no analytics events are sent.
ScrollGoal is a monthly Google Play subscription. Average 2 hours a day or less on social media and ScrollGoal stays free: at the end of each billing month in which you stayed within that, we ask Google Play to move your next payment back by a month. Go over, and your next payment goes ahead. To decide this, the app sends our server, once a day:
Our server asks Google Play for the subscription's status and renewal date and, shortly before each renewal, works out your average and, if you qualify, asks Google Play to defer the next payment. Days we could not measure (for example, if ScrollGoal was stopped or usage access was switched off) count as 2 hours.
These records are deleted 120 days after the day they describe, and all records for a subscription are deleted 120 days after it ends. Payment details are handled by Google Play; we never receive them.
You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection for any personal data we hold, and the right to complain to the Dutch Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens or your local supervisory authority. Because we hold no account or identifier linking data to you, most requests are satisfied by the on-device reset; contact us for anything else.
We do not sell or share personal information as defined by the CCPA — the only data sold is anonymised, aggregated statistics that cannot reasonably be linked to you. Sharing is additionally off unless you opt in, which exceeds the CCPA's opt-out requirement. To exercise CCPA rights, contact privacy@scrollgoal.app.
ScrollGoal is not directed at children. Users under 18 can use the app, but their data is never included in research statistics or product analytics, regardless of the consent toggle. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
All transmission uses HTTPS. Raw daily summaries: deleted after 180 days. Aggregated statistics: retained indefinitely (anonymous). Group rows: retained while the group exists. Subscription records: deleted after 120 days (section 5). On-device data: under your control, erased by reset or uninstall.
We will post any material changes here and, where the change expands data use, ask for your consent again in the app.
4.Social groups (only if you join one)
If you create or join a group, we sync: a randomly generated pseudonymous ID, your chosen display name, and your daily/weekly/monthly total scrolling minutes (a single number — no per-app breakdown), so your group can see a leaderboard. This is core functionality of the feature you joined, visible only to your group. Leave the group and syncing stops; ask us at privacy@scrollgoal.app with your group code to have historical group rows deleted.