Privacy

Draft · last updated September 19, 2026

Everything about you stays on your phone. The only thing we learn from you is a number with no name on it.

If a feature would ever make that sentence untrue, the sentence wins and the feature goes.

What we never touch

• Your browsing history. Your screen time. What other apps you use.
• What you looked at. The app never records it and never asks.
• Your contacts, photos, microphone or location. The app never asks for those permissions.
• Advertising identifiers. There are no ad, analytics or tracking kits from other companies in the app.
• An email address or an account. You don’t need either to use the app.
• Reports to a partner, a spouse, a church, a sponsor or an employer. There is no way to turn this on, because it was never built.
• A journal. The app has no diary and no free-text mood log, so there is none to leak.
• Training an AI model on anything you write. Not now, and not later without asking you separately.

We don’t sell your data, rent it, or trade it. There are no ads in the app.

This website

This site sets no cookies and runs no scripts. It loads no fonts, trackers or analytics from anyone. Opening a page here makes one request, to the site itself.

The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. Like any web host, GitHub receives the IP address of each visit and keeps its own logs for security. We are not given those logs. GitHub’s privacy statement covers what GitHub does with them.

If you email us

When you write to hello@squito.com or support@squito.com, we get your email address and whatever you wrote. Our mail runs on Google Workspace. We use your message to answer you. We don’t add you to a mailing list, and nothing in your email is ever connected to the app on your phone. There is nothing in the app to connect it to.

Ask us to delete your messages and we will.

The app: what stays on your phone

The app works with no network at all. Everything personal lives on the phone and nowhere else:

• The days you logged, and what you said they were.
• What you set up: your window, your triggers, your Kit, your plan.
• Which lessons and practice sessions you finished, and how the practice went.
• The first name you typed, if you typed one.

You can change any day you logged. It is your record.

If you lose the phone, your iPhone’s own encrypted backup is what brings this back, under your Apple account. We don’t run a sync service and we never hold a copy.

The app: what leaves your phone

Counts with no name on them

Squito counts how the app is doing: which lessons people finish, where people get stuck, what they search for and don’t find, which tools get used when it’s bad. It’s how this gets better.

Your phone adds these up itself and sends one summary a week. The summary is built so it can’t point back to you:

• No user ID, install ID, device ID or advertising ID.
• No dates or times. It carries a week number counted from install, and the upload is sent at a random time.
• Ranges, never exact figures. “1–2” or “7–29 days”, never your number.
• The same fixed form for everyone, every week. Nothing you typed is in it.
• Country only. Nothing finer.
• Your IP address is dropped when the summary arrives. It is never logged.

These counts are on for everyone from the moment you tap Start. The link to this notice sits right above that button. There is no switch for them, because there is nothing in them that is you.

Four places in the app are never counted at all: the page about finding a professional and the crisis numbers behind it, the ninety seconds right after a bite, the community guidelines page, and the control that lets you mark a lesson done. Nobody should have a count of how many men opened the crisis page. We don’t.

Field Notes, if you join

After launch, the app will invite you to join Field Notes, around a month in. It is how we find out whether any of this works over months. Joining is your call. No is a completely fine answer, and the app works exactly the same either way.

If you join, your phone sends one record a month under a random ID. No name, no email. You can replace the ID whenever you like, which cuts the link to everything sent before. Leave, and the whole history is deleted, not only what would have come next.

Before anything from Field Notes is published, people in it are told, with time to pull their numbers out first. Joining does not give any outside researcher the use of your data.

Things you type

Two boxes in the app send what you typed: the ask box, when it has no answer for you, and the “something else” write-ins in your profile. The app tells you at the box, at the moment it happens. What you typed is scrubbed of anything identifying, stored with no link to you or your phone, and read by a person, so we know what to write next.

The records the service needs

Purchases go through Apple. We never see your card. We keep which product you hold against a random ID, so the app can unlock it and restore it.

If you take part in the community, we keep one record that you accepted the community guidelines: the random ID, the version you accepted, and when. Nothing else is in it. The App Store’s rules for community features require it.

How long we keep it

The detail of a logged day

Twelve months on your phone, then it becomes a number. You can change that, or wipe it any time.

Your running numbers

On your phone for as long as you keep the app. Wipe them any time.

The counts with no name

Indefinitely. There is no person in them.

Field Notes records

Two years, rolling. Leave and the whole series is deleted.

What you typed into the ask box or a write-in

Six months.

Deleting and exporting

Both are in the app: Settings, then Data & privacy. Delete my data removes everything on the phone, and your Field Notes history if you joined. You can also save your own record as a plain file. Neither one needs an email to us.

Two things we can’t delete on request, because they were never attached to you: the counts with no name on them, and what you typed into the ask box or a write-in. Nothing in either one points back to you. That is the same reason they are safe.

Adults only

Squito is for men 18 and over. The app asks you to confirm it. Nothing we make is aimed at anyone younger, and we don’t knowingly collect anything from anyone under 18.

Where

Squito is launching in the United States only. If that changes, this page changes first.

Still open in this draft

• The name of the hosting company whose server receives the weekly counts. It will be named here before the first public version.
• How long community posts are kept. That section is added here before the community opens.
• An attorney’s review of the whole page.

When this page changes

The date at the top changes, and we say what changed. If a change affects what leaves your phone, the app tells you before it takes effect.

Who we are

Questions about any of this: support@squito.com. A person reads it.