SteepSlate Privacy Policy

Your tea lots, teaware, infusion sessions, inventory events, observations, and backups stay on your device. The only network feature is feedback you choose to submit.

Last updated: August 12, 2026

SteepSlate

Private tea infusion ledger

The short version

Your SteepSlate ledger is stored in the app's private container on your iPhone or iPad.

Optional feedback sends only the message, diagnostics, email address, and screenshots you choose.

You can correct records, export or restore a backup, clear the ledger, or remove the app whenever you choose.

Tea Data SteepSlate Handles

SteepSlate stores the tea-lot names, types, origins, producers, harvest years, batches, storage notes, selected tea photos, teaware details, inventory events, infusion parameters, observations, scores, tags, and immutable correction history that you enter. These facts are used only to maintain your private tea ledger.

Local Storage

Your core ledger and selected tea photos are stored locally in SteepSlate's private app container. SteepSlate has no account, cloud sync, advertising, or analytics and does not upload the ledger to ApplyAI servers.

Backups, Imports, and Sharing

Readable summaries, CSV files, and checksum-verified complete backups are created only when you request them. You choose where to save or share each file. SteepSlate reads an import only after you select it, validates its schema and checksum, and shows a preview before merging or replacing local records.

Optional Feedback

If you submit in-app feedback, SteepSlate sends your message, optional email address, selected screenshots, app version, operating-system version, device model, locale, and App Attest security proof to the ApplyAI support service. We use this information only for support, defect investigation, abuse prevention, and app improvement.

Images You Select

SteepSlate can access only images you explicitly select with Apple's system photo picker for a tea lot or feedback report. Removing or cancelling a feedback draft requests deletion of uploaded draft screenshots; unattached draft uploads are automatically removed after 24 hours.

Diagnostics and App Attest

SteepSlate includes no third-party analytics or advertising SDK. App Attest supplies app and device integrity evidence for optional feedback submissions and is used for abuse prevention, not cross-app tracking.

Paid App Store Download

SteepSlate is a USD 0.99 paid App Store download, with Apple-equivalent prices in other regions. Apple completes the purchase before installation. The app contains no in-app purchase, subscription, paywall, receipt, or transaction verification, so SteepSlate sends ApplyAI no purchase data.

Retention and Deletion

Local SteepSlate data remains until you clear it, replace it with an import, or remove the app. Exported files remain wherever you chose to save them. Submitted feedback is kept only as reasonably needed to respond, investigate defects, prevent abuse, and meet legal obligations.

Permissions

The core ledger requires no camera, contacts, Health, location, microphone, notifications, broad photo-library, Bluetooth, motion, or account permission. Apple's system photo picker appears only when you choose a tea photo or feedback screenshot.

Children

SteepSlate is a general-audience tea record utility and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect children's personal information.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when SteepSlate or its data handling changes. The current version will remain available on this page with a revised update date.

Contact us

For questions about SteepSlate privacy or on-device data handling, contact support@applyai.tech.