Privacy Policy for Offbeat

Last Updated: August 22, 2026

Introduction

Offbeat ("the App," "we," "our") is a digital wellbeing and focus tool designed to help you understand and reduce addictive phone habits. Your privacy is not an afterthought for us — it is the core design principle of this App.

Offbeat is built as an offline-first application. This means the App is designed from the ground up to function entirely on your device, without sending your personal usage data to any external server. We built it this way because an app whose entire purpose is helping you regain control over your digital life should not, itself, be quietly harvesting your data. This Privacy Policy explains exactly what the App accesses, why, and — most importantly — what we do not do with it.

Data Collection & Use

What the App accesses

To provide its core functionality, Offbeat accesses app usage statistics on your device, including:

• Which apps you open

• How long you use each app (session duration)

• How many times you open each app (pickup/open count)

This data is used exclusively to power the features you see inside the App: your usage dashboard, addiction score, focus sessions, streaks, and AI-generated insights.

What we do with this data

All usage statistics and personal data collected by Offbeat are stored locally on your device, in a private, encrypted local database (Isar). This data:

• Is never transmitted to, or stored on, any Offbeat server

• Is never collected, viewed, or accessed by us in any form

• Is never sold, rented, or shared with any third party, including advertisers, analytics providers, or data brokers

We do not operate a backend server that receives your usage data. There is, quite simply, nowhere for this data to go except your own device.

Permissions Justification

Offbeat requests the following Android permissions. Each one is required for a specific, user-facing feature, and none of them are used to collect data for our own purposes.

Usage Access (PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS)

This permission allows the App to read how long other apps are used and how many times they are opened. This is the foundation of the App's core purpose — without it, Offbeat cannot show you your usage dashboard, calculate your addiction score, generate insights, or track progress toward your goals. This data is read directly from Android's system-level usage statistics and processed entirely on-device.

Display Over Other Apps (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW)

This permission allows the App to show the "Focus Shield" overlay when you reach a limit you have set for a specific app, or during an active Focus Session. This is how Offbeat actually intervenes to help you step away from an app in the moment, rather than just showing you statistics after the fact.

Foreground Service (FOREGROUND_SERVICE)

This permission allows the App to reliably monitor your active app usage in real time, so that limits and Focus Sessions are enforced accurately even while Offbeat is running in the background. Android requires apps performing this kind of continuous, user-initiated monitoring to run as a visible foreground service, rather than a hidden background process, for transparency and battery-management reasons.

AI Insights ("AI Summary" and "Pulse")

Offbeat's AI Summary and Pulse features generate personalized insights about your usage patterns — for example, identifying when you tend to use certain apps most, or noting changes in your habits over time.

These insights are generated entirely on-device. The underlying analysis runs locally against the usage data already stored in your local database. Your usage data, patterns, and history are not sent to any external AI service, cloud API, or third-party server to produce these insights.

Data Retention

Your data remains on your device, within the App's private local storage, for as long as you have Offbeat installed. Because we have no server-side copy of your data, there is nothing for us to retain or delete on our end.

• If you uninstall the App, all locally stored data is permanently deleted by the Android operating system as part of the standard app-uninstall process.

• If you wish to clear your data without uninstalling, you may do so via the App's settings or via Android's system App Info screen (Clear Data).

Third-Party Sharing

We do not share, sell, rent, transfer, or otherwise disclose your data to any third party, for any purpose. This includes advertisers, analytics companies, data brokers, and any other external entity. Since your data never leaves your device or reaches our servers in the first place, there is no data in our possession that could be shared even if we wanted to.

Offbeat does not currently integrate third-party advertising SDKs or third-party analytics SDKs that transmit personal or usage data off-device. Should this change in a future version of the App, this Privacy Policy will be updated accordingly, and you will be notified via an in-app notice and/or an update to the App's Play Store listing.

Children's Privacy

Offbeat is intended for a general audience aged 13 and older. We do not knowingly collect, solicit, or store personal information from children under the age of 13, in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

Because Offbeat does not collect or transmit personal data to any server regardless of the user's age, no personal data from any user — including children — is ever received, processed, or retained by us. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information through the App in a manner inconsistent with this policy, please contact us using the information below so we can investigate.

For users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and United Kingdom, this same architecture — no server-side collection or processing of personal data — means Offbeat does not act as a data controller or processor of your usage data for purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as no such data is transmitted to us.

Security

Because your data is stored exclusively on your device and never transmitted over a network, its security depends primarily on the security of your device itself, provided by the Android operating system. We recommend:

• Keeping your device's operating system and security patches up to date

• Using a device lock screen (PIN, password, biometric, etc.) to prevent unauthorized physical access to your device and, by extension, the data stored within Offbeat

Offbeat's local database is stored within the App's private, sandboxed storage area, which — per standard Android security architecture — is not directly accessible to other apps on your device without root access.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, for example to reflect new features or changes in applicable law. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date. Material changes affecting how the App handles your data will be communicated via an in-app notice where practicable.

Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact us at:

Email: support@castorlabs.com

This policy describes Offbeat's data practices as of the date listed above. Offbeat is designed to function entirely offline with respect to your personal usage data, and this document should be read together with the permissions disclosures presented to you within the App and on its Google Play Store listing.