Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11 August 2026

Hardstop does not collect any data.

That is the whole policy, but the detail matters, so here it is in full.

What Hardstop stores

Hardstop stores the following on your iPhone, and nowhere else:

• The blocking schedules you create — their names, times and days.
• Which apps and categories you chose to block. These are stored as opaque

tokens issued by iOS. They are meaningful only to your device, they cannot be

turned back into a list of app names by Hardstop or by anyone else, and they

are not portable to another device.

• Your settings: strict mode, the length of the wait, and whether the one-time

unlock has been purchased.

• A count of how many blocking windows you have completed, used only to decide

whether to ask you for an App Store rating.

All of it lives in a container shared between Hardstop and its own extensions on

your device. None of it is transmitted anywhere.

What Hardstop does not do

• No account. There is no sign-up, no sign-in, and no profile.
• No server. Hardstop has no backend of any kind.
• No network requests. Hardstop makes none, other than the purchase and

restore requests that Apple's own App Store framework performs on your behalf

when you buy or restore the unlock. Those go to Apple, not to us, and we

receive no personal information from them.

• No analytics, no tracking, no advertising, and no third-party SDKs. There

is no code in Hardstop from anyone other than Apple and its developer.

• No usage data. Hardstop does not request Apple's app and website usage

entitlement and cannot see how long you spend in any app.

Screen Time

Hardstop uses Apple's Screen Time frameworks — FamilyControls, DeviceActivity

and ManagedSettings — to block the apps you choose. These run entirely on your

device. Hardstop requests access for you as an adult managing your own iPhone;

it is not a parental-controls app, and it cannot see, manage or report on anyone

else's device.

Purchases

The one-time unlock is sold through Apple's In-App Purchase system. Apple

handles the payment and tells Hardstop only whether the purchase exists.

Hardstop never sees your payment details. Apple's own privacy policy governs

that transaction.

Children

Hardstop is intended for adults managing their own device. It collects nothing

from anyone, of any age.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the revised version will be published here with a

new date. Since Hardstop collects nothing, any change would be a clarification

rather than a new use of data.

Contact

Questions about this policy: [email protected]