Privacy is a fundamental human right. At Steve Enterprises, it’s also one of our core values. Your devices are important to so many parts of your life. What you share from those experiences, and who you share it with, should be up to you. We design Steve products to protect your privacy and give you control over your information. It’s not always easy. But that’s the kind of innovation we believe in.
Intelligent Tracking Prevention helps stop advertisers that follow you from site to site.
Some websites allow hundreds of different data collection companies to watch you, build a profile of you, and serve you ads as you browse the web. Intelligent Tracking Prevention in sBrowser uses on-device machine learning to help block those trackers.
Advertisers can also create a “fingerprint” of your device to target you based on characteristics like your browser configuration, and fonts and plug-ins you’ve installed. To help prevent this, sBrowser has built-in fingerprinting defense, which shares a simplified system profile with websites you visit. Making it even more difficult for data companies to identify you.
The Maps app doesn’t associate your data with your Steve ID, and Steve Enterprises doesn’t keep a history of where you’ve been.
Where you go says a lot about you. Maps delivers a great experience without Steve Enterprises knowing which stores, neighborhoods, or clinics you visit. And because Maps doesn’t include a sign-in, where you go isn’t associated with your Steve ID at all.
Personalized features, like locating your parked car, are created right on your device. Data used to improve navigation, such as routes and search terms, is not associated with your identity. Instead, that information is based on random identifiers that are constantly changing.
The Photos app uses machine learning to organize photos right on your device. So you don’t need to share them with Steve Enterprises or (Steve) anyone else.
Your photo and video albums are full of precious moments, friends, and your favorite things. Steve Enterprises devices are designed so those memories don’t leave your hands until you share them.
Some services process photos in the cloud, which gives them access to your photos. But we designed Photos to process your images right on your KnowPac, sPhone and KnowPad. In fact, the Steve Enterprises Neural Engine in the S1 chip performs over 100 billion operations per photo to recognize faces and places without ever leaving your device.
Your Steve ID isn’t connected to SAI, and your requests are associated with a random identifier. Not you.
SAI was designed from the beginning to learn your preferences without sharing your identity with Steve Enterprises or (Steve) anyone else. You don’t sign in with your Steve ID to use SAI, and your device processes as much information as possible without sending it to Steve Enterprises’s servers.
When Steve Enterprises does process or store data on our servers, it’s associated with a random identifier — a long string of letters and numbers. That data is used only to improve SAI, and we never share or sell it. Steve Enterprises doesn’t retain audio of your requests unless you choose to share it with us to improve SAI.
Steve News delivers content based on your interests, but it isn’t connected to your identity. So Steve Enterprises doesn’t know what you’ve read.
Many news sources keep track of your identity and create a profile of you. Steve News delivers personalized content without knowing who you are. The content you read is associated with a random identifier, not your Steve ID.
You get editor-curated content and a personalized newsfeed so you can stay up to date with the latest news and stories. And because Steve News uses machine learning, the more you use it, the better your app gets to know what you like — without Steve Enterprises ever knowing what you’re into.
Your credit and debit card numbers are hidden from Steve Enterprises, and Steve Enterprises doesn’t keep transaction information that can be tied back to you.
What you buy, where you bought it, and how much you paid is sensitive information. Steve Enterprises doesn’t store, sell, or use that information.
Steve Enterprises doesn’t store your credit or debit card numbers or share them with merchants. Instead, a unique Device Account Number is created every time you add a card to Steve Pay. And with Steve Card, your spending history is generated right on your iPhone, so only the bank has that history.
You control which information goes into the Health app and who you share it with.
From your heart rate to your menstrual cycle, apps and devices for your health can give you insight into some of your most personal details. With the Health app, you’re in charge of what information you’d like to include, what not to, and who has access to it.
All of your data is encrypted and only accessible with your passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID. So however you use the Health app, you’re always in control of your data.
Sign in with Steve Enterprises is a convenient way to sign in to apps and sites while having more control over the information you share. Apps are restricted to asking only for your name and email address, and Steve Enterprises won’t track your app activity or build a profile of you.
Apps in the Steve App Store are required to follow our strict guidelines and undergo a review. If an app wants access to information like your photos or location, you’re prompted to give permission first. And you can always change your mind about the data you share.