Privacy Policy
What Stevo collects, why, and how to delete it. Stevo records who owes whom; it never holds, moves, charges or pays out money.
1. Account Information
You create a Stevo account with an email address and a password. We store your email address so you can sign in and so we can send you account email such as a password-reset code. That email is sent through a third-party email delivery service, which receives your address only to deliver it. Sign-in is handled by our authentication service; the app never stores your password, and your session is kept in your device's secure storage.
2. Your Profile
When you set up your account you choose a username, a display name and an avatar, and you can add a short bio later. Your avatar is either one of our built-in icons or a photo you pick from your library; uploaded photos are held in the app's image storage and served over a public link so your friends' apps can display them. Your username, display name, bio and avatar are visible to other Stevo users.
3. Phone Number
We ask for your phone number when you set up your account. It is used so friends who already know your number can find you, and to keep one phone number tied to one account. It is never shown to other users and is never returned by a search; looking someone up by number returns only their username, display name and avatar. The Stevo app on a friend's phone receives your number only to match it against that friend's own contacts (below), and never displays it. You can change your number in Settings; Stevo does not send a code to confirm it, and a number can belong to only one account. If you choose Match names from Contacts and allow access, Stevo reads the names and phone numbers in your contacts on your device and compares them with the numbers of people who are already your Stevo friends, so it can show each friend under the name you saved for them. The match happens on your phone: your contact list is never sent to our servers, and the matched names are kept only on that device. You can decline the permission, or turn it off later in Settings, and nothing else in the app changes.
4. Payment Handles
You can optionally save a Venmo username, a Cash App cashtag, a PayPal handle, a Zelle email or phone, and an Apple Cash phone number, along with which of them you prefer. These are shown to a friend you are settling up with so they can open that app and pay you there. Stevo never asks for and never stores card numbers, bank account details or a balance, and no money moves through the app.
5. Your Activity in Stevo
We store what you create in the app: bets and their outcomes, Face Offs, poker games and season standings, Squares boards and their scores, pools and their picks and results, golf rounds and their scores, crews and crew posts, the comments and reactions you leave on posts, your friend list and your settle-up records. This activity is visible to the friends and crew members you share it with. GIFs in comments come from Giphy, a third-party GIF service: opening the GIF picker loads popular GIFs from Giphy, and a GIF search sends the words you type to Giphy to find matches. Giphy sees your device's internet address, as any server your phone contacts does, and nothing about your Stevo account.
6. Push Notifications
If you allow notifications, we store a push token for your device on your profile so we can send alerts about bets, games, crews and settling up. Notifications travel through a third-party push delivery service and then the phone maker's notification service (Apple's on an iPhone, Google's on an Android phone), which receive the push token and the text of the notification in order to deliver it. You can turn categories off in Settings, and signing out removes the token from your profile.
7. Microphone and Voice Input
If you tap the microphone to speak a bet instead of typing it, the phone's own speech recognition (Apple's on an iPhone, Google's on an Android phone) turns what you say into text. Depending on your device, Apple or Google may process that audio on its servers to do so, under that company's own privacy terms. Stevo keeps only the text you go on to use; Stevo itself does not record, upload or store audio.
8. Diagnostics and Crash Reports
When the app hits an error it sends us a diagnostic record so we can fix it: the error message and stack trace, where in the app it happened, the app version and build number, the phone system you use (iOS or Android), and your user id. The same crash and error reports are also sent to a third-party crash-reporting service that we use to be told when the app breaks, along with your device model and operating system version. Before anything leaves your phone we remove personal details from it: your email address and any phone number are redacted out of the report, and you are identified only by your user id, never by your email address, username or IP address. We do not use this service to track what you do in the app. Separately, when the app opens it checks our update service for a newer version of the app; that check sends a random identifier for this installation of the app, the app version and your platform, and nothing about your account. The app also tells our own servers, once each time it opens while you are signed in, which update your account is running: the update's identifier and publish time, the app version, the build number and your platform. We use that to know when an older version is no longer in use.
9. How We Use Your Information
We use it only to run the features described above and to keep the app working. We do not sell or rent your data, we show no ads, and the app carries no third-party advertising or analytics trackers. Stevo does not track you across other companies' apps or websites, so it does not respond to a browser's Do Not Track signal. Stevo records who owes whom; it never holds, moves, charges or pays out money.
10. Where Your Data Is Stored
Your account, profile, activity and uploaded images are held in a hosted database and file storage operated for us by a third-party infrastructure provider, and are transmitted over encrypted connections. Access rules in the database limit who can read each record, but no service can promise perfect security.
11. Age Requirement
You must be 18 years of age or older to use Stevo. The app is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.
12. Data Retention and Deletion
We keep your information for as long as your account exists. You can delete your account yourself, from inside the app: Profile (tap your picture at the top right), then Delete account. Deleting removes your name, username, photo, bio, phone number, payment handles, push token, friend list, invites and diagnostic records, and stops you signing in. It is immediate and cannot be undone. Records that other people share with you, such as a settled bet, a poker game or a crew post, are kept for them, with your name replaced by "Deleted user". Deletion is blocked while something is still open between you and another person (an unsettled balance, an accepted bet that has not finished, a Face Off with an accepted bet, a live poker night you are hosting, a poker night from the last two weeks that you played in and that the host has not settled yet, a Squares board you are hosting that is still open or in play, squares you hold on a board whose numbers are drawn, a pool you host or hold a seat in that is drafting or in play, or a golf round you are playing in that is under way), because the other person is counting on that record. A pending bet offer (yours or one made to you), a poker night you host that has not started, a pool or a golf round still being set up, and squares you hold on a board whose numbers are not yet drawn do not block it: deleting takes the offer back, calls off the night and the pool or round you host, gives up your seat in the pool, declines your invitations to golf rounds, and puts the squares back on sale. Crash reports already sent to the crash-reporting service carry only your user id and stay there until that service's own retention period ends. You can also email support@stevoapp.com and we will delete the account for you.
13. Who We Share It With
Your information goes to the people you share it with in the app and to the service providers described above, which receive it to run Stevo for us: hosting, sign-in, email delivery, push delivery, crash reporting and app updates. We may also disclose information when the law requires it, such as a court order, or when it is needed to protect someone's safety or our legal rights. If Stevo App LLC is sold or merged, your information would pass to the new owner under this policy.
14. Your Choices
You can see and change your profile, phone number and payment handles in Settings, turn notification categories and the Contacts match off, and delete your account. To ask for a copy of the information we hold about you, or for a correction you cannot make yourself, email support@stevoapp.com.
15. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy as the app changes. The date below shows when it was last revised.
16. Contact
Stevo is operated by Stevo App LLC. Questions about this policy? Email us at support@stevoapp.com.
Website traffic measurement (added October 7, 2026)
The stevoapp.com homepage uses a first-party cookie containing a random browser ID, and browser storage containing a random visit-session ID, to count pageviews, visits and unique browsers. This tracker does not store names, IP addresses, full URLs, or device fingerprints. Cloudflare hosts the traffic records, which are retained for up to 90 days. Different browsers or cleared cookies can be counted separately. HQ and other pages are excluded from this tracker. Browsers used to open HQ receive an exclusion cookie so the owner’s visits are removed from these counts. Separately, since October 9, 2026, the short links on stevoapp.com that printed cards, flyers and ads point to (such as stevoapp.com/get) keep a daily count of how many times each was opened. That count stores no cookie, ID, IP address or other detail about the visitor. This website measurement is separate from the app’s account data.
Email support@stevoapp.com. The other document is here: Terms of Service.