Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 29, 2026

Cognitta is built on a simple principle: what you do in the app is largely none of our business. Your scores, streaks, settings, and the problems and answers themselves stay on your device. Two categories of third party receive limited data on our behalf: our subscription provider, if you buy Cognitta Pro, and our analytics provider, which helps us understand broad usage patterns like how many people open the app, which screens they visit, and how features are used.

The short version: There is no account to create, and Cognitta has no servers of its own. Your scores, streaks, settings, and the problems and answers themselves stay on your device — we never see them. We do use a standard analytics tool to understand how the app is used, including some in-app events such as when an app is added to your guarded list or a problem is solved (by category, not the problem itself). This is not used for advertising, and we don't build advertising profiles or track you across other companies' apps or websites. If you purchase Cognitta Pro, our payments provider also processes your purchase record and a device identifier so your subscription works across reinstalls. Nothing is sold.

Who we are

This policy applies to the Cognitta mobile application ("Cognitta," "the app," "we," "us") published for iOS and Android. If you have questions, contact us at hello@cognitta.app.

Information stored only on your device

The following stays on your phone and is never visible to us:

This data is held in your device's private application storage. If you uninstall Cognitta, it is removed with the app.

We do not collect, at any time: your name, email address, or phone number; precise location data; your contacts, photos, files, or messages; the specific problems you solve or the answers you give; or the contents of any app you guard. The next section describes the limited analytics events we do collect.

Information processed when you purchase Cognitta Pro

Cognitta is free to download and use. If you choose to purchase Cognitta Pro, we use Adapty (Adapty Tech Inc.) to manage subscriptions and verify entitlements. All payments are processed by Apple or Google — we never see or handle your payment card, billing address, or App Store or Google account credentials.

To make purchases work, Adapty processes on our behalf:

This data is used for one purpose: to determine whether your Cognitta Pro features should be unlocked. It is not used for advertising, for tracking you across other companies' apps or websites, or for building an advertising profile. We have not enabled any advertising or attribution integrations.

Adapty acts as our data processor and is bound by its own privacy commitments, available at adapty.io/privacy.

Information processed for analytics

We use Firebase Analytics, a service provided by Google, to understand broad, aggregate patterns in how Cognitta is used — for example, how many people open the app, and which screens they visit. This helps us build a better app. It works automatically in the background; there is no separate opt-in step, though you can limit it through your device's own privacy settings (see below).

Firebase Analytics may process:

These events tell us how features are used in aggregate — not the content of your activity. They do not include the specific problems you are shown or the answers you give, your scores, your detailed statistics, or your settings, all of which remain on your device. We have not enabled any advertising or cross-app tracking integrations with Firebase, and Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt does not appear because we don't use Firebase in a way that requires it.

We also use Firebase Crashlytics to receive crash reports if the app fails unexpectedly, which helps us fix bugs. A crash report may include your device model, OS version, app version, and the technical details of what the app was doing when it crashed.

Firebase acts as our data processor and is bound by Google's own privacy commitments, available at firebase.google.com/support/privacy. You can limit ad personalisation and some analytics collection at the operating-system level: on iOS, in Settings → Privacy & Security; on Android, in Settings → Google → Ads.

How Cognitta guards apps

On iOS, Cognitta uses Apple's Family Controls framework (also known as the Screen Time API), including the ManagedSettings and DeviceActivity frameworks. You authorise this yourself when you first set up the app, and you may revoke it at any time in iOS Settings. Apple's design deliberately prevents Cognitta from learning which specific apps you have selected — your selections are handled by the operating system through an opaque token and are never readable by us. Cognitta cannot see the contents of any app you guard, and no Screen Time data is transmitted anywhere.

On Android, Cognitta uses the Accessibility Service for a single, narrowly defined purpose: to detect when you open an app you have chosen to guard, so it can display a problem before that app loads. This is the only reliable way on Android to detect foreground app changes in real time, and it is the core function of the app.

On neither platform does Cognitta:

These permissions run only while you have explicitly granted them, and you can revoke them at any time in your device settings. When revoked, Cognitta cannot present problems and no app detection occurs.

Data sharing and selling

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We have no advertising networks or data brokers integrated into Cognitta. The only third parties that process any data on our behalf are Adapty and Firebase (Google), both described above. We may disclose information if required to do so by law or valid legal process.

Data retention and deletion

Data held on your device persists until you delete it — you can clear the app's data in your device settings, or uninstall Cognitta to remove it entirely.

Purchase records held by Adapty are retained for as long as needed to support your entitlements and to meet our legal, tax, and accounting obligations. To request deletion of your purchase record, email hello@cognitta.app and we will action it within 30 days. Note that deleting a purchase record may prevent an active subscription from being restored.

Analytics data held by Firebase is retained according to Google's standard retention settings for Firebase Analytics, after which it is automatically deleted or anonymised.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or port your personal information, to object to or restrict its processing, and to withdraw consent. If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, our legal basis for processing purchase data is performance of a contract with you; for analytics, our legal basis is our legitimate interest in understanding and improving the app; for all other described processing, we also rely on legitimate interest in operating and securing the app.

If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information is collected, to request its deletion, to correct inaccurate information, and to opt out of sale or sharing — though as stated above, we do not sell or share personal information. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

To exercise any right, email hello@cognitta.app. Because Cognitta has no account system, we may be unable to identify you from a request alone; where that is the case we will tell you what information we would need to proceed. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

International transfers

Adapty and Firebase (Google) both process data on servers that may be located outside your country of residence, including in the United States. Where required, such transfers are made under appropriate safeguards, including the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

Children's privacy

Cognitta is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact hello@cognitta.app and we will delete it.

Security

Data on your device remains in the app's private storage, protected by the operating system's standard application sandbox. Data transmitted to Adapty and Firebase is encrypted in transit using industry-standard TLS. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Changes to this policy

If we change how Cognitta handles data, we will update this page and revise the "last updated" date above. If a future version introduces materially different data collection, we will disclose it clearly and request your consent where required.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email hello@cognitta.app.

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