Privacy
In short
- Your learning lives on your device. An account is optional, and it exists to sync your devices and to share progress with people you invite.
- What you learn is encrypted on your device before it is synced. Our servers store it but cannot read it.
- No advertising, no analytics trackers, no sale of data. The app contains no analytics or crash-reporting software.
- You can export everything and delete your account from inside the app.
- Steady Hare is for adults. Accounts require a date of birth showing you are 18 or older.
Who we are
Steady Hare is operated by the maker of the app. Write to hello@steadyhare.ai for anything in this notice.
On your device
The app keeps your material, your plan, your answers and your progress in a database on the device. Page photos you take are processed on the device by Google's document scanner and text recognition. Nothing on the device is sent anywhere unless a feature below says so.
If you create an account
Sign-in uses an email address and a password, handled by Google Cloud Identity Platform, which stores the address and a hash of the password. We store the display name you choose and your date of birth, which is used only to confirm you are an adult. If the date of birth shows you are under 18, the account is not created and we keep only a salted hash of the attempt, so the same person cannot simply try again.
Each device you pair gets its own record and its own keys. We keep a log of actions in your account (who paired a device, who was invited, when access narrowed) as metadata only. It never contains your material or your answers.
Syncing between your devices
Your learning record is sealed on the device with keys that stay with you before it is synced. The server stores the sealed data and can see only what it needs to move it: which device sent it, when, and in what order. The facts about access (whether you were on track, when the apps you chose were narrowed) are stored readably, so that people you invite can see them.
AI processing
When the app writes questions from your material or checks an answer, the relevant text, and page photos you choose to send, go through our server to an AI provider's API (currently OpenAI). The provider's API terms do not permit it to use this data to train its models. Page photos are stored in a private bucket in our Google Cloud project and are removed when you delete your account. Spending on AI calls is capped per day and per month on our side.
People you invite
A partner, parent or instructor sees only what you chose to share, in reports computed on your device: progress, the state of your plan, and whether access narrowed. Individual answers are never shown to anyone else. You can revoke sharing at any time, and it stops at once.
Android permissions and why
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Usage access | To see which app is in front, so that the apps you chose can be narrowed when your plan says so. The app reads only which app is open, never what is inside it. |
| Display over other apps | To show the focus screen over an app you chose to narrow. |
| Camera | To photograph pages of your material. Asked when the camera first opens. |
| Notifications | To tell you about your daily step and your plan. |
| Internet | To sync and to reach the AI service when you use those features. |
This website
The site is served by Firebase Hosting, part of Google Cloud, which keeps standard request logs (address, browser, time) under Google's retention. The site sets no cookies and runs no analytics.
Keeping, exporting and deleting
Your data stays as long as your account does. You can export your complete learning record from the app at any time; the export is yours. Deleting your account, from the app, revokes every device and every share at once, and the server copies are purged afterwards, including backups once their retention window (30 days) passes. A small deletion marker, a salted hash with no name or email, is kept so that a restore from backup cannot bring the account back.
Children
Steady Hare does not knowingly create accounts for anyone under 18. The app itself can be used without an account at any age, but sharing and sync require one.
Changes
If this notice changes, the version number at the top changes with it, and the app will tell you when it matters. Questions: hello@steadyhare.ai.