Settled — Privacy Policy

FBG START LTD · Last updated 19 August 2026

The short version

Settled collects nothing. No account, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. Everything the app knows about you lives on your phone and never leaves it.

What the app stores — on your device only

• Screen-time counts for the apps you chose to watch, measured on the device.
• Your goals, activity history and written notes, kept in the app's private storage.
• Your alarm, bedtime and settings.

Settled has no camera feature and never uses your camera or microphone. Proof of an activity is one line of text you write yourself, stored only on your device.

What never happens

• No data is transmitted to us or to anyone else. Settled has no servers.
• No third-party analytics or advertising SDKs are included in the app.
• Your app list and usage are never shared, sold, or uploaded.

Permissions, and why each exists

• Usage access — to count minutes in the apps you chose. Processed on the device.
• Display over other apps — to show the shield when your own limit is reached.
• Notifications — the alarm, the timer, the evening reminders you configure.
• Physical activity — the phone's step counter verifies walks and runs, on the device.
• Set alarm — to place an optional backup alarm in your Clock app.

The accessibility service

Settled offers an optional accessibility service whose only job is to notice, the moment it happens, which app has come to the front of your screen — so that a watched app can be closed instantly once your allowance is spent, without a battery-draining background process.

• It is configured so it cannot read the content of your screen — no text, no passwords, no messages. It receives only the technical name of the app that opened.
• That signal is processed on the device and discarded immediately. It is not recorded, stored, or transmitted — to us or to anyone.
• The service is enabled only by you, in Android's own Accessibility settings, after the app explains what it does. Turning it off there stops it completely; the app then falls back to periodic checking.

The accessibility service is not used to collect any data whatsoever.

Purchases

The supporter pass (one-time) and the £4.99 monthly plan (auto-renewing) are sold through Google Play or the Apple App Store. The store processes the payment and holds the record of your purchase or subscription; Settled only stores a yes/no ownership flag on your device and asks the store to confirm it. We never see your payment details.

Deleting your data

Uninstall the app. That erases everything, immediately and permanently — because nothing was ever stored anywhere else.

One exception, in your own hands: if you use Android's Google backup, a single tiny file holding your free-trial start date is included in your device backup, so a reinstall doesn't restart the trial. Only your Google account can restore it; we can never read it. Your goals, history and notes are excluded from backup entirely.

Children

Settled is a general-audience productivity app and is not directed at children under 13.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this address with a new date.

support@thesettledapp.com

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