Updated October 1, 2026

Privacy Policy

PawsMe is a personal digital wellbeing app that helps you pause before opening distracting apps. This policy explains what data the app uses, what stays on your device, and what is processed for subscriptions, analytics, and marketing measurement.

Information stored on your device

PawsMe stores your selected apps, pause settings, quiz progress, challenge history, bypass counts, and usage summaries locally on your device. This information is used to run the app's core pause and progress features.

Android Accessibility and Usage Access

On Android, PawsMe asks for Accessibility permission so it can detect when you open apps you selected for pausing and show a PawsMe question. PawsMe uses only the foreground app package name for this feature.

PawsMe does not use Accessibility permission to read messages, passwords, notifications, photos, typed content, or screen text. Accessibility data is not sold, shared for advertising, or sent to PawsMe servers.

If you grant Usage Access, PawsMe can read usage totals for your selected apps so it can estimate screen-time changes. This usage data is kept locally on your device.

iOS Screen Time

On iPhone, PawsMe uses Apple's Family Controls, Managed Settings, and Device Activity frameworks so you can select apps or categories, apply Screen Time shields, temporarily unlock a selected target, and view Screen Time summaries.

Apple represents selected apps and categories with privacy-preserving tokens. PawsMe stores those tokens and Screen Time summaries locally in its shared app container so the app and its Screen Time extensions can provide the features you request. PawsMe does not send your selected apps, challenge history, or Screen Time summaries to PawsMe servers.

Subscriptions

PawsMe subscriptions are sold through the Apple App Store or Google Play and managed with RevenueCat. Apple, Google, and RevenueCat process purchase history, subscription status, product identifiers, receipts, and an anonymous RevenueCat app user identifier so the app can unlock paid access and restore purchases.

The app can show this anonymous RevenueCat identifier as a "Support ID" so you can share it with us to look up your subscription when you contact support. The Support ID is a generated identifier rather than your name or email address, but it can be associated with your purchase and subscription records.

Analytics and marketing measurement

PawsMe uses AppsFlyer to understand app installs, onboarding and paywall interactions, and which marketing campaigns lead people to the app. AppsFlyer processes app and device information, app-instance and device identifiers, IP addresses and approximate location derived from them, campaign information, and interaction events. PawsMe does not request precise GPS location for this measurement.

On iOS, access to the advertising identifier requires your permission through Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt. Declining that permission prevents PawsMe from collecting the iOS advertising identifier; it does not disable all subscription processing or analytics. On Android, advertising identifiers are subject to your device settings.

PawsMe shares its AppsFlyer identifier, tracking-permission status and available campaign attributes with RevenueCat to connect subscription activity with marketing measurement. The app's analytics event filter excludes selected-app identifiers, Screen Time totals and the contents of your personal onboarding answers.

RevenueCat sends subscription lifecycle events and reported purchase amounts to AppsFlyer. Configured advertising partners, including TikTok, can receive selected attribution, trial, subscription and revenue events to measure campaign results. The data available depends on your tracking permission, platform privacy restrictions and integration settings; some campaign reporting is aggregated.

Support requests

If you use the PawsMe support form, we collect the name, email address, topic, device or app version details you choose to provide, and message content you submit. This information is used only to respond to your request and keep a record of support correspondence.

Sharing

PawsMe uses Apple, Google and RevenueCat for purchases and subscription management, and AppsFlyer and configured advertising partners for marketing measurement as described above. Support request data is shared with providers needed to deliver and respond to support requests. Screen Time selections and reports are not sent to AppsFlyer or RevenueCat.

Security

Subscription data sent to Apple, Google, or RevenueCat is transmitted over encrypted connections. Support requests sent through the website are transmitted over encrypted connections. Local app data remains on your device unless the operating system or your device settings back it up.

Your choices

• You can revoke PawsMe's Screen Time access in iOS Settings.
• You can disable Accessibility or Usage Access in Android Settings.
• You can change PawsMe's tracking permission in iOS Settings, or manage advertising identifiers in Android settings.
• You can cancel subscriptions in your Apple App Store or Google Play subscription settings.
• Uninstalling removes local app data but does not cancel a store subscription or automatically remove records held by service providers. Use the support form for questions or requests about those records.

Contact

For privacy questions, use the PawsMe support form.