Privacy Policy

Last updated: 25 June 2026

Ascend is built around one promise: your data stays on your phone. Ascend has no accounts, no servers, no analytics, and no third-party trackers. It cannot sell or share your information, because it never collects or receives any.

In one line: Ascend reads your Android screen-time data on your deviceto know when you've passed a daily limit you set for an app, then shows a challenge over that app. All of it happens locally.

What Ascend accesses on your device — and why

Ascend asks only for what it needs to enforce the limits you set. Each permission is used solely for the purpose below, and nothing it reads is uploaded.

• Usage access (screen time) — Ascend reads how long you spend in each app using Android's usage statistics. This is how it knows when you've hit a limit and how it shows your stats. Read and processed on your device.
• Display over other apps — Lets Ascend show the full-screen challenge on top of the app you're using, and lets its background checker bring that screen up. No data is collected through this.
• Background service & restart-on-boot — A lightweight background service watches for the moment you cross a limit, and restarts itself after a reboot so protection keeps working. It only processes usage on-device.
• Notifications — Android requires an ongoing notification for that background service. Ascend uses it only to show that the limit checker is running.
• Your installed apps — To build the app picker, Ascend asks Android for the list of apps that have a launcher icon. It does notuse the broad "query all packages" access, and the list is used only to let you choose which apps to limit.
• Vibration — Short haptic feedback inside the app.
• Internet — Ascend includes the standard Android internet permission that nearly all apps declare, but it does not use it to send your data anywhere — the app works fully offline.

What Ascend stores on your device

Everything below is saved in Ascend's private on-device storage and never transmitted:

• Your limits — The apps you chose to monitor and each app's daily time budget.
• Your preferences — Challenge type (math, trivia, logic, or typing), grace-period length, a display name you pick, and whether notifications are on.
• A baseline figure — Your average daily usage of the monitored apps, measured once on your device, used to show how much you've cut down.
• Your day-to-day progress — The current challenge difficulty, any active grace period, whether you've chosen to stop an app for the day, and simple counts of answers and skips. This resets each day.

What Ascend does not do

• No account or sign-up — You never give Ascend an email, phone number, password, or any name beyond the display name you type.
• No servers — Ascend has no backend. Your information has nowhere external to go.
• No analytics or tracking — There are no analytics tools, advertising IDs, crash-reporting services, or third-party trackers in the app.
• No selling or sharing — Ascend does not sell, rent, or share your information with anyone, because it never collects it.

Your controls

• Clear everything — Open Settings → Clear all data inside Ascend. This erases all of the above, stops the background checker, and returns the app to a fresh state.
• Uninstall — Removing Ascend deletes all of its on-device data.

Children

Ascend does not knowingly collect data from anyone, including children, because it collects no data at all.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date above will change with it and the new version will be posted on this page.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Reach us at usaidanzer@gmail.com.