Privacy Policy — Added Time

Added Time is a focus app that helps you set aside time to concentrate and, if you choose, shield distracting apps while you focus. It's free to download, with an optional paid tier called Added Time Plus. This policy explains how Added Time handles your information.

The short version

Added Time collects nothing about you, and nothing you do in the app ever leaves your device.

At a glance

No data collection. We don't collect, store, or receive any personal information.
No servers of ours. Added Time has no backend, no cloud, and nowhere to send your information. The only network activity in the app is Apple's own App Store purchase system, described under Purchases below — it goes to Apple, never to us.
No accounts. There's no sign-up, login, or profile — on either tier.
No analytics or tracking. No usage analytics, no advertising, no third-party SDKs, no tracking of any kind.
Everything stays on your device. Your subjects, focus history, schedules, limits, and settings live only on your iPhone.

What the app stores on your device

So the app works and remembers your setup, Added Time saves the following locally on your device only:

The subjects you create, and what each one asks for — hours per day, hours per week, or a habit.
Your focus history — completed blocks, banked tallies, streaks, and your focus ratio.
Any standing windows, per-app daily limits, or screen-time (reclaim) goals you set up.
Counts of what the scheduled shield did — the nights a window held, and the honest exits you took — and, for screen-time goals, a yes-or-no fact per day: whether the day stayed under its budget, and whether a quiet morning was kept. These are day-by-day facts kept on your device — never your usage minutes — so the app can show you your own record.
Your preferences, such as the sound and haptics toggles.
If you use app-shielding, the private, non-identifying references (“tokens”) to the apps you chose to block.
A local note of whether your Added Time Plus subscription is currently active, so the app and its extensions work the same way when you're offline.

This information never leaves your device. It is not transmitted anywhere, and we have no way to see it. Deleting the app removes it — so if you want to keep your record, export it first from Settings → Export the record, which writes every block to a spreadsheet you keep.

Screen Time permission

If you choose to block or limit apps, Added Time asks your permission to use Apple's Screen Time features (Family Controls, Device Activity, and Managed Settings). Here's what that means for your privacy:

The permission lets the app shield the apps you pick and notice when a usage limit is reached — entirely on your device.
When you pick apps to block, Apple hands the app only opaque, non-identifying tokens. The app cannot read which specific apps or websites these are, and the tokens stay on your device.
The screen-time dashboard is drawn inside a separate report extension, which Apple's Device Activity framework seals off from the rest of the app. Your usage numbers are displayed to you there and are never passed back out — so we could not see them even in principle.
Apple mediates this permission. Added Time uses it solely to provide the blocking and limit features you turn on. It is never used to monitor you or to send anything off your device.
You can revoke this permission at any time in Settings → Screen Time on your iPhone.

What we don't do

We don't collect analytics or crash reports.
We don't use advertising or advertising identifiers.
We don't track you across apps or websites.
We don't share, sell, or rent data — because we don't have any.
We include no third-party code, SDKs, or services.

Purchases and Added Time Plus

Added Time is free to download and free to keep using. Added Time Plus is an optional upgrade, sold only through the App Store — as an auto-renewing subscription (monthly or yearly) or as a one-time lifetime purchase. The billing terms are set out in the Terms of Service.

Apple handles the money. Every purchase, renewal, and refund is processed by Apple under Apple's own privacy policy. We never receive or store your payment details, your card, your billing address, or your Apple Account.
We get no personal information from your purchase. Apple pays out and reports sales in aggregate. We can't identify you as a customer, and we're not told who bought what.
What the app checks, and with whom. Two things, both handled by Apple's own App Store software and both going only to Apple. When the app opens it asks the App Store for the current Plus prices, so the paywall can show them if you ever look — that happens whether or not you have bought anything. And to know whether your Plus features should be switched on, it asks whether an active Added Time Plus purchase exists for the Apple Account signed in on the device, and gets back a yes or a no. Neither sends anything about your subjects, blocks, schedules, history, or app usage — none of which ever leaves your phone.
Still no account. Your purchase lives with your Apple Account. There is nothing to register with us, no password, and no email address for us to hold.
Family Sharing. If you share the purchase with your family group, Apple manages that entirely. We aren't told who is in your family.

If your subscription lapses, nothing you created is deleted or sent anywhere. The paid features simply stop enforcing, and your record stays exactly as it is, on your device.

Children's privacy

Added Time does not collect personal information from anyone, including children. Because the app collects no data at all, it collects none from children under 13 (or the equivalent age in your region).

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, we'll update the date at the top and post the new version at this page. Because the app collects no data, we don't expect material changes.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email us at support@addedtime.app.