Provider and contact
Stewfolk is a game by JourneyBit Studio, a games label of schukai. The responsible provider is Ingrid Schukai & Volker Schukai GbR, Eichenstraße 26, 82290 Landsberied, Germany. For privacy questions and app support, contact hey@schukai.com. Provider information: https://www.schukai.com/de/impressum. The game is designed for adults aged 18 and over.
Your game stays on your device
You do not need a Stewfolk account. The game stores meal titles, dates and optional notes, everyday moments, optional photo copies, the Folk’s name, furnishing and story choices, saved dishes and ingredient preferences, and settings in its private Android app storage. These entries let the app show your memories and continue your game.
Stewfolk operates no game server and does not send these entries to schukai. It contains no advertising, analytics or crash-reporting service. It does not request location, contacts, microphone or camera access. Automatic seasons use the device’s time zone and locale or your selected setting, without GPS. Android’s app-storage protection applies; Stewfolk does not add its own database encryption.
Optional photos
If you choose a photo in Android’s photo picker, Stewfolk processes only that selected image. It creates a smaller, colour-adjusted JPEG copy without the original metadata for your local memory or wall frame. Your original is unchanged. The app does not request general access to your photo library.
Your selected photo provider may retrieve the original from its own cloud storage. Its data handling is governed by that provider’s policy. Stewfolk does not automatically upload the resulting photo copy.
Backups and other providers
You can explicitly export your game as a JSON file and import it again. This file can contain notes and photo copies. Stewfolk does not encrypt exported backups. Choose a destination you trust and protect access to the file.
Android’s document picker lets you choose the destination or source, including a cloud provider. That provider handles the selected file under its own terms and privacy policy. Stewfolk does not synchronise your game itself; automatic Android cloud and device backups are disabled. Private recipe links are stored as text and are not fetched by the app.
Retention and deletion
Your local entries remain until you remove them using the available controls, reset the game or clear the app’s storage in Android. You can remove individual meals, moments, photo copies and saved dishes through the corresponding controls. Removing a meal can also remove its associated furnishing, as the confirmation explains. Resetting clears the local game.
Uninstalling normally removes the private app data. Independently exported backups, original photos and copies kept by a document or photo provider are not removed by Stewfolk; you manage these separately. No remote Stewfolk account exists to delete.
When you contact support
If you email us, we receive your email address and the information you include. We use it to answer your request. Do not send a complete game backup or personal photos unless they are needed for your request and you choose to share them. Support information is not collected from the game automatically.
We handle correspondence to respond to requests concerning the app or a contract (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR), or on the basis of our legitimate interest in responding to other enquiries (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). We keep correspondence for as long as needed to resolve the request and fulfil applicable legal retention duties. Information about the support services and their providers is available at https://www.schukai.com/de/datenschutz.
Your data protection rights
Where the GDPR applies and its conditions are met, you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests. If processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent for the future. You can also complain to a competent data protection supervisory authority.
Contact hey@schukai.com to exercise these rights for data held by schukai. We cannot read or remotely delete the game data stored only on your device. Use the app’s deletion controls or Android’s app-storage settings for those entries.
Website and future changes
Opening a website or sending an email is an explicit action outside the local game. Website requests are handled under the website privacy policy at https://www.schukai.com/de/datenschutz. The in-app text remains readable offline.
This version offers no purchases. A fuller-game unlock and optional paid expansions are planned for future updates. If future features change how data is handled, the privacy information and store declarations will be updated to describe those features.