Health access is intentional
StepCat may read activity data from Apple Health through HealthKit on iOS, and from Health Connect on Android, only after you grant permission.
A privacy model people can actually understand.
StepCat uses your activity data to power your progress, but it aims to keep that relationship readable, limited, and grounded in the features you chose to use.
Activity data powers progress
StepCat may store activity records and summaries needed for metrics, goals, quests, rewards, leaderboards, and cafe progress.
Sharing stays limited
Friends and leaderboards may show selected summaries, but StepCat does not show your detailed Apple Health or Health Connect records to other users.
Health and activity data
On iOS, StepCat may request read access to Apple Health data through HealthKit. On Android, StepCat may request read access to activity data through Health Connect.
Depending on what you allow and what your device supports, StepCat may collect, transmit, and store activity records and summaries such as step count, walking or running distance, active energy or calories, and exercise or active minutes.
StepCat uses this data to power Metrics, daily progress, goals, quests, rewards, cafe growth, cat care, movement history, and leaderboard features. StepCat does not write data back to Apple Health or Health Connect.
What we collect
StepCat may collect activity data you explicitly allow, profile details such as your chosen display name and cat name, app progress such as quests, rewards, streaks, and cafe progression, and basic social data needed for friends, gifts, requests, and moderation records.
When you use social features, the app may also store relationship events such as friend requests, gifts, blocks, and reports so those systems can function safely.
How data is used
Your activity data is used to calculate in-app progress, display movement history, and support features like goals, rewards, cafe growth, and cat care loops.
Social and identity data is used to render your public profile to friends, support friend visits and gifting, and enforce safety controls like blocking and reporting.
- Displaying health and activity metrics you choose to connect
- Powering progress and reward systems
- Rendering social profile and friend interactions
- Operating moderation and abuse-prevention tools
- Diagnosing technical issues and support requests
Social and leaderboard visibility
If you use friends or leaderboard features, StepCat may display selected activity-derived information such as step totals, rankings, display name, avatar or profile details, and cafe state to users participating in those features.
StepCat does not show detailed underlying Apple Health or Health Connect records to other users.
Service providers and sharing
StepCat may use service providers for hosting and database services, subscriptions, support, diagnostics, moderation, and similar operations needed to run the app.
Service providers may process data only on StepCat's instructions and only as necessary to provide their services. They may not use health or activity data for their own advertising or marketing purposes.
StepCat does not sell health or activity data, share it with data brokers, or use it for advertising, marketing, advertising-related profiling, or advertising-related data mining.
Controls and permissions
You can change health and notification permissions through your device settings, and some richer metrics may stop updating if those permissions are removed.
If you no longer want to interact socially, you can use in-app relationship controls such as remove, block, and report where supported.
You can request account or personal-data deletion by contacting hum@getstepcat.com.
Retention and security
Health and activity records, activity-derived information, app progress, and social or account data are retained only for as long as reasonably necessary to operate StepCat, provide support, maintain security, prevent abuse, and meet legal obligations.
StepCat uses reasonable technical and organizational safeguards to protect account, activity, and progress data.