Privacy policy

Last updated: TODO date. Draft: everything marked TODO is still to be confirmed.

The short version: Focus Pals keeps what it needs to run your meadow and show your friends that you're focusing. It never sees which apps you block, and nothing you type is recorded.

Who we are

Focus Pals is made by TODO legal entity or maker name, TODO address and country. Write to SUPPORT_EMAIL about anything on this page.

What the app stores to work

Your account: a sign-in with Apple identifier, the display name you choose, and your pet, outfits, coins and room. Without these there is no meadow to come back to.
Your focus sessions: when each one started and ended, its length, and the label you gave it ("Thesis", "Spanish"). Labels are visible only to you.
Your friends: which meadow groups you are in. People in your groups can see your display name, your pet, and whether you are focusing right now, which is the point of a shared meadow. They cannot see your labels.
Focus rules: the days, hours and name of each rule, so your bonus can be paid when a window runs to its end.
Push address: a token Apple gives us so your phone can be told when a friend starts focusing. It identifies a device, not a person.

This lives on servers run by Supabase in TODO data location (the project region).

Screen Time and the apps you block

Blocking uses Apple's Screen Time. When you pick the apps to block, Apple gives Focus Pals hidden tokens for them, not their names. We cannot tell which apps they are, and the selection is stored only on your phone, in the app's own storage that its blocking extensions share. It is never uploaded.

How we learn what to improve

The app uses PostHog, a product analytics service, to record how people use Focus Pals' own screens: which screens open, taps, and a replay of the app's screen as a series of pictures. Anything you type is hidden before it leaves your phone. The recording covers only Focus Pals; it never includes other apps, your home screen, or Apple's own Screen Time screens. Recordings are tied to your account identifier, not your name or email. We use this to find where the app confuses people or breaks.

Recordings are kept for TODO retention (PostHog's default is 30 days; confirm).

This website

Visits: the site counts page views with PostHog without cookies and without storing anything in your browser, and honours your browser's Do Not Track setting. No session recording.
The waitlist: if you leave your email, we keep it to send you one message when the app launches, and nothing else. The form also records which link brought you here (the campaign tags in the address), so we know which videos people came from. Reply to any email to be removed, or write to SUPPORT_EMAIL.

Waitlist emails are stored with TODO the form provider.

What we never do

No ads, and nothing is sold or shared for advertising.
No reading of your other apps, messages, contacts or location.
No email collection inside the app; sign-in is with Apple.

Deleting your data

In the app, the Start over option removes your pet, items and coins. To delete your whole account and every session, email SUPPORT_EMAIL from any address and name the account; it is gone within TODO days. TODO confirm whether an in-app Delete account button ships at launch (App Review expects one when the app has account creation).

Age

Focus Pals is for people aged TODO minimum age and over.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the app will say so the next time you open it.