App Privacy Policy
This is a convenience translation. The German version is binding.
This policy covers the iPhone app I Have No Self Control. The website has its own privacy policy.
Controller
Michael Fuchs
Erich-Schmidt-Straße 5
09113 Chemnitz
E-mail: michael@derfuchs.net
The short version
The app collects no data. It has no server, no account, no network access, and it embeds no third-party software that collects data. Everything the app knows stays on your iPhone and is deleted with the app.
What the app stores on the device
- Your settings: which apps belong to a Pool, the daily time budget, the prices for more time, and the extra time you have earned.
- A log of what happened in the app: when a budget was used up, which price was chosen and whether it was completed. It serves the app itself.
The app can neither store nor pass on which apps you selected: wherever it can store or send anything, Apple hands them over only as opaque identifiers. You still see the apps’ icons and names in the app, because iOS itself puts them on the screen; the app cannot read them.
System permissions
The app asks for a permission only when a feature needs it, and explains beforehand what for.
- Screen Time (Family Controls): so that the app can shield the apps of a Pool once the budget is used. Usage data stays with Apple and on the device.
- Motion: the Walk price counts your steps from the moment you choose it. Nothing else is read.
- Microphone: the Vacuum price listens for a vacuum cleaner while the price runs. Nothing is recorded, and nothing leaves the phone.
- Camera: a price that ends at a code reads that code through the camera, only while the scanner is open. No picture is kept.
The beta test through TestFlight
While the app is in beta, you install it through TestFlight, a service of Apple. What TestFlight records is recorded by Apple, not by the app; Apple describes it in TestFlight & Privacy. Apple passes part of it on to me:
- Without anything you do: how often you installed and opened the beta, which version you have, the model of your device and a device identifier, its iOS version and language, and crash logs. If you joined through the public link, I see neither your name nor your e-mail address.
- When you send feedback through TestFlight: your comments and screenshots, with technical details of that moment such as mobile carrier, time zone, connection type, free storage, battery level and screen resolution. Your e-mail address reaches me only if you add it yourself.
I use this only to find faults and improve the app, and I pass none of it on. I read it in Apple’s developer portal and keep no copy of it anywhere else. The legal basis is my legitimate interest in finding faults before the app is released (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
No sharing, no tracking
The app passes no data to third parties, contains no advertising and no tracking.
Your rights
You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection (Art. 15 to 21 GDPR), and the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). For everything on your device you are the fastest yourself: delete the app and it is gone. For everything else, write to michael@derfuchs.net.
Changes
If something about the app changes that concerns this policy, the policy is updated here first. The date above shows its state.