Privacy policy

SlopShield has no account and no ads. The text it reads on your screen is processed on your phone and never leaves it. Anonymous usage statistics are sent to Google Analytics unless you switch them off in Settings. We do not sell personal data.

Who we are

SlopShield is published by MHQ Softech. For any question about this policy, write to [email protected].

What SlopShield reads, and why

SlopShield uses Android’s Accessibility API. While a short-video feed that you switched on in SlopShield is open, it reads the text shown on screen: the account name, the caption, hashtags and any label the app shows saying a video is AI-generated.

It uses this text for one purpose: to compare the video with the rules you turned on and, when a video matches, to swipe to the next video.

It does not read apps you did not switch on, messages, comments, passwords or payment screens. It does not take screenshots or record the screen. It never acts on ads. You agree to this in the app before it can be turned on, and you can turn it off at any time in Android’s Accessibility settings.

What is stored on your phone

• A history of evaluated videos: the time, the app, the account name, the first 160 characters of the caption, the score, the reasons and the action taken. It is kept for the period you choose in Settings (30 days to 10 years, 90 days unless you change it), then deleted automatically.
• Daily totals used for statistics: counts and times only.
• Your settings: block and allow lists, your own keywords, schedules and, if you use parent mode, a salted and keyed hash of the PIN. The PIN itself is not stored.

This data stays in the app’s private storage and is excluded from Android cloud backup. Uninstalling the app deletes it. You can export your history or back up your rules to a file you choose; the app never uploads those files.

What leaves your phone

• Purchases. Subscriptions are bought through Google Play Billing under Google’s own privacy policy. Google tells us when a subscription starts, renews, is cancelled or expires. We keep that record (the plan, its dates and status, the country, and a one-way hash of Google’s purchase token) on our own secure server to run the subscription and count subscribers. It holds no name, no email address and nothing read from your screen. Google’s billing library, included in the app, also sends its own diagnostic logs to Google.
• Rule updates. This version uses the rules built into the app and downloads nothing. If rule updates are switched on in a later version, the app will download signed rule files; nothing about you or your feed is sent, though like any download the host sees your IP address.
• Usage statistics. On unless you switch them off in Settings → Privacy. The app sends which SlopShield screens you open, which feeds you switch on or off, whether you open the Pro offer, and what Google Analytics for Firebase collects on its own (a random app-instance ID, device model, Android and app version, language, approximate country, app opens and session length, and in-app purchase events). It never includes anything read from your screen: no account names, captions, hashtags, videos or skip reasons. It does not use the advertising ID and is not used for advertising. Google processes it under its own privacy policy and keeps it for up to 14 months.
• Crash reports. This version contains no crash reporting. If it is added later it will be off unless you opt in, and reports will never include text read from the screen.

This website

This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics. It is hosted on GitHub Pages, which, like any web host, receives your IP address when you load a page.

Children

SlopShield is not directed at children. Parent mode lets an adult lock SlopShield’s settings on a device a child uses; it collects nothing.

Your choices

Turn the service off in Accessibility settings, switch off usage statistics in Settings, pause protection, switch off any app or rule, delete history by lowering the retention period, or uninstall to delete everything on the phone. To have a subscription record deleted after the subscription has ended, write to us.

Changes

We will update this page and the date above if the app’s data use changes, and ask for your consent in the app again if it changes what is read.

Not affiliated

SlopShield is not affiliated with the apps it works with.