Privacy Policy for Focus - Screen Time Control

Effective Date: July 8, 2026

Effective Date: August 20, 2026

Focus - Screen Time Control is designed with a privacy-conscious, local-first approach. Your focus sessions, selected restrictions, preferences, and activity insights are stored on your device by default. We do not operate servers that collect or host your Screen Time selections, app usage history, intention notes, focus session history, or TrueDepth face-tracking data as part of normal app use. We use privacy-minimized product analytics through AppMetrica to understand app launches, screen flow, trial/subscription state, and where users leave the App.

Focus - Screen Time Control is designed with a privacy-conscious, local-first approach. Your focus sessions, selected restrictions, preferences, and activity insights are stored on your device by default. We do not operate servers that collect or host your Screen Time selections, app usage history, intention notes, focus session history, or TrueDepth face-tracking data as part of normal app use. We use privacy-minimized product analytics through AppMetrica to understand app launches, screen flow, trial/subscription state, and where users leave the App. We use RevenueCat for subscription-event processing, purchase analytics, and entitlement reporting based on information Apple sends through App Store server notifications.

This Privacy Policy explains how Focus - Screen Time Control ("Focus," "we," "us," or "our") handles personal information when you use the Focus iOS application (the "App").

Data Controller

Focus is operated by Dilshodi Kahori. For privacy questions or requests, you can contact us through the support email listed on the Focus App Store page. We handle privacy requests in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

1. Introduction

This Policy applies to your use of Focus on iOS worldwide, including where laws such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA), and Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) apply. By using Focus, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Our Privacy Principles

• Focus data is stored locally on your device by default.

• We minimize personal data collection wherever possible.

• We do not operate servers that host your Screen Time selections or focus session history.

• We use privacy-minimized analytics events to improve the App and understand onboarding, trial, paywall, and feature usage.

• TrueDepth face-tracking data is processed locally on your device only for the guided reset exercise and is not stored or transmitted by Focus.

• Screen Time, Family Controls, Device Activity, and Managed Settings features are handled through Apple system frameworks.

• We use trusted platform providers, such as Apple, only where needed to provide features you request.

• We use trusted service providers, including Apple, AppMetrica, and RevenueCat, only for the purposes described in this Policy.

• We aim to provide clear, specific, and up-to-date privacy disclosures.

2. Information We Collect

A. Data categories, including Apple Privacy Label categories

1. Purchases

Examples: Subscription product IDs, transaction verification results, and entitlement status.

Examples: Subscription product IDs, transaction identifiers, purchase and renewal dates, expiration or cancellation status, offer type, price and currency information, transaction verification results, and entitlement status.

Purpose: Enable premium features, restore purchases, and verify subscription access.

Purpose: Enable premium features, restore purchases, verify subscription access, measure subscription performance, and understand purchase lifecycle events such as trials, renewals, cancellations, billing issues, and refunds.

Shared with: Apple App Store / StoreKit.

Shared with: Apple App Store / StoreKit and RevenueCat. Apple may send signed subscription transaction and lifecycle-event information directly to RevenueCat through App Store server-to-server notifications. Focus does not provide RevenueCat with your Apple ID, email address, selected apps or websites, focus-session content, or TrueDepth data.

2. User Content

Examples: Intention notes, session labels, focus preferences, selected focus presets, session configuration, and other information you enter in the App.

Purpose: Provide focus sessions, personalize your experience, and display your local session history and insights.

Shared with: Not sent to our developer-operated servers as part of normal app use.

3. Usage Data

Examples: Focus session duration buckets, selection count buckets, screen and journey stage events, event sequence number, trial/subscription state, purchase or restore result, session completion status, interruption/reflection event flags, app version, build number, and distribution channel.

Purpose: Provide focus insights, session history, App functionality, product analytics, feature improvement, funnel analysis, and subscription/trial measurement.

Shared with: Limited analytics events are sent to AppMetrica. We do not send selected app names, website/domain names, Screen Time history, intention notes, reflection text, raw session IDs, or user-entered content through analytics.

4. Device Information

Examples: Device and app metadata processed by Apple systems, where required for App Store, StoreKit, Screen Time, TrueDepth camera permission, or operating system functionality.

Purpose: Platform compatibility, subscription management, security, permission handling, and operation of Apple system features.

Shared with: Apple, where applicable. Limited app metadata such as app version, build number, and distribution channel may be included in analytics events sent to AppMetrica.

5. Identifiers

Examples: A random anonymous analytics install ID generated by the App, AppMetrica device/app analytics identifiers, and event sequence numbers.

Examples: A random anonymous analytics install ID generated by the App, AppMetrica device/app analytics identifiers, RevenueCat-generated anonymous customer identifiers, transaction identifiers, and event sequence numbers.

Purpose: Product analytics, one-install event timeline analysis, fraud/abuse prevention where applicable, measuring active trial and subscription flows, and understanding where users leave the App.

Shared with: AppMetrica. The App-generated analytics install ID resets when you delete and reinstall the App. It is not your email address, Apple ID, advertising ID, selected app list, website list, Screen Time history, or a raw focus session ID.

Shared with: AppMetrica and RevenueCat as described in this Policy. The App-generated analytics install ID resets when you delete and reinstall the App and is not sent to RevenueCat in the current no-SDK configuration. RevenueCat assigns an anonymous customer identifier when Apple does not provide an App Account Token. These identifiers are not your email address, Apple ID, advertising ID, selected app list, website list, Screen Time history, or a raw focus session ID.

6. Advertising Data

Current status: Focus does not enable third-party advertising in this app version.

If advertising is enabled in a future release, this Privacy Policy and App Store privacy disclosures will be updated.

B. Screen Time and permission-related data

Depending on the features you use, Focus may process:

• Apps, websites, or categories you select for restriction.

• Focus session schedules, timers, and duration settings.

• Device Activity and Managed Settings data required to apply temporary shields or restrictions.

• Local session history and focus insights.

• User-provided intention notes, preferences, and reflections.

Apple's Screen Time, Family Controls, Device Activity, and Managed Settings frameworks are designed to protect sensitive app and usage information. Focus uses these frameworks only after you grant the required authorization.

C. TrueDepth and face data

Focus includes an optional guided reset exercise called "Eye and Head Reset." If you choose this exercise, Focus uses Apple's TrueDepth camera and ARKit face tracking to process temporary face-tracking values on your device.

Information processed during the exercise may include:

• Eye blink values, such as whether the left or right eye appears open or closed.

• Eye gaze direction values, such as looking up, down, left, or right.

• Head pose or orientation values used to detect guided head movement.

• A temporary neutral head pose used only as an in-memory reference during the current exercise.

Focus does not collect, store, transmit, or share:

• Photos or videos of your face.

• Camera captures or screenshots.

• Depth maps.

• Face meshes.

• Facial images.

• Biometric identifiers.

• Face data used to identify, recognize, authenticate, or track you.

D. Data We Do Not Collect

We do not collect or store on our own servers:

• Your full Screen Time history.

• Your selected blocked apps, websites, or categories.

• Exact selected app, category, website, or domain identifiers in analytics.

• Your local focus session history.

• Your intention notes or reflections.

• User-entered content.

• Raw focus session IDs.

• TrueDepth face-tracking values.

• Face, camera, reset, blink, gaze, or head-pose values in analytics.

• Photos, videos, depth maps, face meshes, facial images, or biometric identifiers.

• Payment card numbers or card security codes.

• Precise geolocation.

• Contacts.

• Photos, camera captures, scanned documents, or files.

3. How We Use Information

We use information to:

• Provide core app functions, including focus sessions, app/site/category restrictions, timers, and session configuration.

• Request and manage Apple Screen Time-related permissions.

• Apply temporary shields or restrictions using Apple system frameworks.

• Provide local focus history and insights.

• Verify guided reset exercise completion using on-device TrueDepth face tracking when you choose the Eye and Head Reset exercise.

• Verify and manage subscription entitlements through Apple StoreKit.

• Verify and manage subscription entitlements through Apple StoreKit and process subscription analytics and lifecycle events through RevenueCat.

• Understand product usage, onboarding drop-off, trial activity, paywall performance, subscription access state, and App reliability through privacy-minimized analytics.

• Maintain App reliability, security, and functionality.

• Respond to support requests.

• Comply with legal obligations.

TrueDepth use limitation

TrueDepth face-tracking values are used only to verify that you completed the guided Eye and Head Reset exercise before ending a locked focus session. Focus does not use TrueDepth or face data for identification, facial recognition, authentication, advertising, analytics, profiling, tracking, sale, or cross-context behavioral advertising.

Legal bases under GDPR, where applicable

• Contract necessity: To provide features you request.

• Consent: For permissions, such as Screen Time authorization, camera access for the TrueDepth reset exercise, or notifications where applicable.

• Legitimate interests: Security, reliability, debugging, product analytics, App improvement, subscription/trial measurement, and abuse prevention.

• Legal obligation: Compliance with tax, accounting, regulatory, or legal requirements.

4. Permissions We Request

Focus requests only permissions tied to specific App functionality. Permissions are optional unless required for a feature, and they can be managed or revoked in iOS Settings.

1. Screen Time / Family Controls Authorization

Why: To allow Focus to help you select and temporarily restrict apps, websites, or categories during focus sessions.

Control: You can manage or revoke permissions through iOS Settings, Screen Time settings, or system permission controls.

2. Device Activity and Managed Settings

Why: To schedule focus sessions, monitor configured limits where applicable, and apply temporary shields or restrictions to selected apps, websites, or categories.

Control: These features depend on Apple system permissions and platform availability.

3. Camera / TrueDepth Camera

Why: To allow Focus to use Apple's TrueDepth camera and ARKit face tracking for the optional Eye and Head Reset exercise.

Consent: Focus requests camera permission through the iOS system permission prompt before using the camera. The App does not start TrueDepth face tracking unless camera access is granted and you open the exercise verification screen.

Control: You can deny camera permission, revoke it later in iOS Settings, or choose a non-camera reset exercise where available. If camera permission is denied or TrueDepth face tracking is unavailable, the Eye and Head Reset verification cannot be completed through TrueDepth.

4. Notifications, if enabled

Why: To send focus session reminders, session completion alerts, or other App-related notices.

Control: You can disable notifications in iOS Settings at any time.

5. Local-First Focus Data Handling

1. Stored locally by default

Focus session data, settings, selected restrictions, preferences, intention notes, and insights are stored on your device by default.

2. No developer hosting of focus data

We do not upload or store your Screen Time selections, session history, intention notes, or focus insights on developer-operated servers as part of normal App use.

In the current version of Focus:

• We do not operate a backend server that collects Focus app data.

• We do not include custom backend upload code for Focus app data.

• We do not use URLSession or similar app networking code to upload your Focus sessions, selected restrictions, intention notes, local insights, or TrueDepth face-tracking values to developer-operated servers.

• We use AppMetrica for privacy-minimized analytics events. These events do not include selected app names, website/domain names, Screen Time history, intention notes, reflection text, raw session IDs, user-entered content, or TrueDepth/face/camera/reset values.

• We do not embed the RevenueCat SDK in the current App version. Apple sends subscription transaction and lifecycle-event information directly to RevenueCat through App Store server-to-server notifications. RevenueCat does not receive Focus session content, selected restrictions, intention notes, local insights, or TrueDepth face-tracking values.

3. TrueDepth processing stays on device

TrueDepth face-tracking values used for the Eye and Head Reset exercise are processed locally on your device in memory only while the exercise verification screen is active. Focus does not save these values to persistent storage, upload them to our servers, or share them with third parties.

The ARKit session is paused when the exercise is complete, the exercise screen is dismissed, or the view is no longer active.

4. When data may leave your device

Data may leave your device only when:

• You contact support and choose to share information with us.

• Apple processes subscription, App Store, StoreKit, Screen Time framework, camera permission, ARKit/TrueDepth, notification, or operating system data as part of its platform services.

• AppMetrica processes privacy-minimized analytics events for app usage, journey stage, trial/subscription state, purchase/restore result, app version/build, distribution channel, anonymous install ID, and event sequence.

• Apple sends subscription transaction and lifecycle-event information to RevenueCat for purchase validation, subscription analytics, entitlement reporting, and purchase-event processing.

• You use iCloud, device backup, or other Apple services that may back up or sync App data according to your Apple settings.

• You share screenshots or other information using iOS sharing tools or third-party services.

5. On-device processing

Focus session configuration, restriction setup, local insights, and TrueDepth reset verification are processed on-device whenever possible. We do not use developer-operated servers to analyze your focus behavior or TrueDepth face-tracking values.

6. Third-Party Services

We use platform and infrastructure providers. Their policies also apply to their processing.

1. Apple App Store / StoreKit

Use: In-app subscriptions and purchase restoration.

Data: Apple processes payment, billing, and transaction data.

We receive: Subscription and entitlement status and transaction verification results, not full payment card details.

2. Apple Screen Time, Family Controls, Device Activity, and Managed Settings

Use: Permission requests, app/site/category selection, scheduling, activity monitoring, and temporary restrictions or shields.

Data: Apple system frameworks process information necessary to provide Screen Time-related functionality.

Developer access: We do not receive unrestricted access to your full Screen Time history.

3. Apple ARKit / TrueDepth Camera

Use: Optional guided Eye and Head Reset exercise verification.

Data: Apple system frameworks process camera and face-tracking information necessary to provide ARKit face tracking on supported devices.

Developer access: Focus receives temporary face-tracking values needed to determine whether the exercise cues were completed. Focus does not receive or store photos, videos, depth maps, face meshes, facial images, or biometric identifiers, and does not send TrueDepth face-tracking values to developer-operated servers.

4. Apple iCloud / Device Backup, where applicable

Use: Apple may back up or sync App data depending on your device, iCloud, and backup settings.

Data: App data and metadata may be included in Apple-managed backups or sync services.

Provider processing: Apple manages iCloud and backup infrastructure under its own privacy terms.

5. Apple Push Notification service (APNs), if notifications are enabled

Use: Push notification delivery.

Data: Push token and notification routing metadata.

Provider processing: Apple may process this information to deliver notifications.

6. AppMetrica analytics

Use: Product analytics, funnel analysis, one-install event timelines, trial/subscription measurement, App version/build analysis, and understanding where users leave the App.

Provider: AppMetrica, a service provided by Yandex. Focus is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or controlled by Yandex.

Data: Event names, screen/journey stage, event sequence, anonymous analytics install ID, app version, build number, distribution channel, privacy-safe duration and selection count buckets, trial/subscription state, purchase/restore result, and similar analytics metadata.

Data not sent through AppMetrica: selected app names, website/domain names, Screen Time history, intention notes, reflection text, TrueDepth values, face/camera/reset/blink/gaze/head-pose values, raw focus session IDs, or user-entered content.

Provider processing: AppMetrica and Yandex may process analytics data under their own terms and privacy documentation. We configure and use AppMetrica for product analytics, not for third-party advertising or cross-app behavioral advertising. We do not control how Yandex independently operates its services beyond the settings and integrations we choose for Focus.

7. RevenueCat subscription infrastructure

Use: Subscription-event processing, purchase validation, entitlement reporting, revenue and subscription analytics, and purchase lifecycle measurement.

Provider: RevenueCat, Inc.

Data: Apple-signed subscription transaction and lifecycle-event information, which may include product and transaction identifiers, purchase and renewal dates, expiration or cancellation status, offer information, price, currency, store country, environment, and entitlement status. RevenueCat may create an anonymous customer identifier for a transaction when no App Account Token is available.

Data not sent to RevenueCat: Your Apple ID or payment-card details; selected app, website, or category restrictions; Screen Time history; focus-session history; intention notes; reflection text; TrueDepth, face, camera, gaze, blink, or head-pose values; local insights; or other user-entered Focus content.

Provider processing: RevenueCat processes subscription data on our behalf under its service terms and data-processing commitments. In the current no-SDK configuration, Focus does not use RevenueCat to identify you by email, serve advertising, or track you across apps or websites.

Third-party policy references:

• Apple Privacy Policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/

• Apple App Store Privacy Information: https://www.apple.com/app-store/privacy/

• AppMetrica: https://appmetrica.yandex.com/

• RevenueCat Privacy Policy: https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy

7. Advertising

8. Advertising

Focus currently does not enable third-party advertising.

Advertising features may be introduced in future versions of the App, and this Privacy Policy and App Store privacy disclosures will be updated if advertising practices change.

If advertising is enabled in a future release:

• Advertising identifiers may be used by advertising providers, together with limited device/network data for ad delivery, measurement, and fraud prevention.

• Ads may be personalized or non-personalized depending on your consent choices and applicable law.

• For users in the EEA/UK/Switzerland and other required jurisdictions, consent will be requested where legally required before personalized advertising.

• You can opt out of personalized advertising through your device settings.

• We will update this Policy and App Store privacy disclosures if ad practices change.

TrueDepth face-tracking values are never used for advertising.

Future marketing, personalization, and additional improvement uses

In a future version, Focus may introduce additional data collection or processing to support marketing, product personalization, feature recommendations, or similar purposes. If we decide to introduce these practices, we will update this Privacy Policy and our App Store privacy disclosures before or when the changes take effect. Where required by law or Apple policy, we will request your consent before collecting or using information for these new purposes.

Any future data collection for marketing, personalization, or recommendations will be limited to the purposes described in the updated policy. TrueDepth face-tracking values, facial images, biometric identifiers, and face data used to identify you will not be used for marketing, advertising, analytics, profiling, or cross-context behavioral advertising.

8. No Sale of Personal Information

Focus does not sell personal information. We do not trade, broker, or sell your personal information to third parties.

Focus does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising in this app version.

TrueDepth face-tracking values are not sold, shared, rented, traded, disclosed for advertising, or used for cross-context behavioral advertising.

9. Subscriptions and Payments

Subscriptions are handled through Apple's in-app purchase system.

1. Apple manages billing and payment information.

2. We do not receive your full payment card details.

3. We receive transaction outcomes and entitlement status required to unlock premium features.

4. Subscription management, cancellation, and refunds are governed by Apple's billing policies and your Apple account settings.

10. Data Retention

We retain information only as long as needed for the purposes described above.

1. Local focus data

Focus settings, preferences, selected restrictions, intention notes, and session history are stored locally until you delete them, delete the App, reset your device, or clear related data through available App or system controls.

2. TrueDepth face-tracking values

TrueDepth face-tracking values are processed in memory only during the active Eye and Head Reset verification flow. Focus does not persist these values. They are discarded when the exercise ends, the screen is dismissed, the ARKit session is paused, or the App no longer needs them for the current verification.

3. Analytics data

AppMetrica analytics events are retained by AppMetrica/Yandex according to their service settings and policies. The App-generated anonymous analytics install ID and event sequence are stored locally and reset when you delete and reinstall the App.

4. Support communications

If you contact support outside the App, such as through the support email listed on the App Store page, we retain communications as needed to respond, resolve issues, and satisfy legal obligations.

5. Subscription records

Entitlement state is processed as needed to provide premium access. Transaction handling and primary billing records are maintained by Apple.

Entitlement state is processed as needed to provide premium access. Transaction handling and primary billing records are maintained by Apple. RevenueCat retains subscription transaction, entitlement, and lifecycle-event information according to our RevenueCat service configuration and RevenueCat's applicable service and data-processing terms.

11. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards, including:

• iOS platform security controls, app sandboxing, and secure Apple APIs.

• Least-privilege access to permissions.

• Apple Screen Time and Family Controls frameworks for sensitive app restriction functionality.

• Apple ARKit and TrueDepth system permission controls for optional camera-based reset verification.

• Local, in-memory processing for TrueDepth face-tracking values.

• Encrypted communication where applicable.

• Operational safeguards to reduce unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or loss.

No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we implement measures appropriate to the risks.

12. User Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights regarding personal information.

A. GDPR, EEA/UK where applicable

You may have rights to:

• Access personal data.

• Correct inaccurate data.

• Delete data.

• Restrict or object to certain processing.

• Data portability.

• Withdraw consent at any time, where processing is based on consent.

• Lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.

B. CCPA/CPRA, California

You may have rights to:

• Know/access categories and specific personal information.

• Request deletion.

• Request correction.

• Limit use/disclosure of sensitive personal information, where applicable.

• Opt out of sale or sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Current statement: We do not sell personal information and do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising in this app version.

C. PIPEDA, Canada

You may request:

• Access to personal information.

• Correction of inaccuracies.

• Information about how your data is used and disclosed.

• Withdrawal of consent, subject to legal or contractual limits.

D. TrueDepth and face data rights

Focus does not persist TrueDepth face-tracking values, so we cannot access, export, correct, or delete those temporary values after an exercise session ends. You can prevent future TrueDepth processing by denying or revoking camera permission in iOS Settings or by choosing a non-camera reset exercise where available.

E. How to submit a privacy request

Submit requests using the support contact listed on the Focus App Store product page, with the subject line: "Privacy Request".

Please note that much of your Focus data is stored locally on your device. We may not be able to access, export, or delete local data on your behalf. You can delete local App data by using available App controls, deleting the App, or managing device backups and iCloud settings through Apple system settings.

13. International Transfers

If you use third-party services, such as Apple App Store, StoreKit, iCloud, backups, notification services, Apple system frameworks, or AppMetrica, your information may be processed in countries other than your own.

If you use third-party services, such as Apple App Store, StoreKit, iCloud, backups, notification services, Apple system frameworks, AppMetrica, or RevenueCat, your information may be processed in countries other than your own.

Where required, service providers apply transfer safeguards under their legal frameworks, such as contractual safeguards and comparable protection mechanisms.

Focus does not transfer TrueDepth face-tracking values to developer-operated servers, AppMetrica, or other third-party analytics services.

14. Children’s Privacy

Focus is not directed to children under 13 and is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If you are under the age of majority where you live, you should use Focus only with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian.

If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us through the support contact listed on the App Store page, and we will take appropriate steps.

15. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect legal, technical, or product changes.

When we make material changes, we will update the "Effective Date" and, where required, provide additional notice.

If we later decide to collect or use additional information for marketing, app improvement, analytics, personalization, recommendations, or similar purposes, we will describe the categories of data, purposes, storage, sharing, retention, and user choices in an updated version of this Privacy Policy and in our App Store privacy disclosures where applicable.

16. Contact Information

For privacy questions or rights requests, use the support contact listed on the Focus App Store product page and include:

• Your request type, such as access, deletion, correction, or consent withdrawal.

• Your country/state of residence.

• The email address associated with your Apple account communication, if relevant.

• A description of the Focus-related data or issue involved.

This helps us process your request efficiently and in compliance with applicable law.