Privacy Policy

BookLock stores the following only on your iPhone, in the app’s local storage. We don’t receive it and can’t access it:

• Your first name, which the app uses to greet you.
• Your onboarding answers, such as your age range, reading habits and screen time estimates, which the app uses to build your reading plan.
• Your reading plan and settings, including your daily allowance, lockdown window and enforcement mode.
• Your reading activity, including which chapters you’ve completed, your quiz answers and scores, your streak, your level, and your banked and spent minutes.
• Your blocked apps selection (see section 2).

This information is deleted when you delete the BookLock app. If your iPhone is backed up to iCloud or your computer, this app data may be included in that backup under Apple’s terms, as with any other app.

BookLock uses Apple’s Screen Time frameworks (Family Controls, Device Activity and Managed Settings) to block the apps you choose and to unblock them when you spend earned minutes.

• You choose which apps and categories to block using Apple’s own app picker. Apple gives BookLock your choices as opaque tokens. These tokens let BookLock apply a block, but they don’t reveal to us which apps you picked.
• BookLock does not collect or read your app usage, browsing history, screen time statistics, or the content of any app.
• Your selection is stored on your device, in storage shared only between BookLock and its own Screen Time extensions, so blocks keep working when the app is closed.
• You can revoke BookLock’s Screen Time access at any time in your iPhone’s Settings. Doing so removes BookLock’s blocks.

BookLock is offered as an auto-renewing subscription through Apple’s App Store.

• Apple processes all payments. We never receive your name, Apple ID, card number or billing address.
• RevenueCat (revenuecat.com) is the service we use to check whether your subscription is active. When you open the app, start a trial, subscribe or restore purchases, RevenueCat receives:
  • a random, anonymous identifier created by the app (not your name, email or Apple ID),
  • your purchase and subscription history for BookLock (for example, which plan you chose, trial status, renewal and expiration dates, price and currency, and App Store country),
  • basic technical information such as your device’s iOS version, the app version, and your IP address as part of normal network requests.

We use this only to give you access to the features you’ve paid for, to restore purchases, and to handle billing issues. We don’t use it for advertising or link it to your identity. RevenueCat processes this data on our behalf under its own privacy policy: https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy.

BookLock includes one book in the app and downloads additional books from files hosted on GitHub Pages. When the app downloads content, GitHub receives standard technical information that any website receives, such as your IP address and the time of the request. The app doesn’t send any personal information with these requests. GitHub handles this under its own privacy statement: https://docs.github.com/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-general-privacy-statement.

• We don’t have user accounts or sign-in.
• We don’t use analytics or advertising SDKs.
• We don’t track you across other companies’ apps or websites, and we don’t ask for tracking permission.
• We don’t sell or share your personal information for advertising.
• We don’t collect your contacts, photos, location, microphone, camera or health data.

If you’re in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we rely on:

• Performance of a contract: to provide the subscription you purchased, check its status and restore it (section 3).
• Legitimate interests: to deliver book content (section 4) and to keep the app secure and working.

Information that stays on your device (sections 1 and 2) isn’t collected by us.

We share information only with the service providers described above (Apple, RevenueCat and GitHub), only as needed to run the app, or when required by law. If BookLock is ever transferred to another owner, the limited information described here may be transferred as part of that, and this policy will continue to apply to it.

RevenueCat and GitHub may process information in the United States and other countries. Where required, these providers use recognised safeguards, such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, for international transfers.

• On-device data stays until you delete the app.
• Subscription data held by RevenueCat is kept as long as needed to provide and verify your subscription and to meet legal, tax and accounting obligations, under RevenueCat’s retention practices.
• Download request logs are handled under GitHub’s retention practices.

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR, UK GDPR, or California privacy law), you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal information, to object to processing, to data portability, and to complain to your local data protection authority.

Because we don’t have accounts and most data never leaves your device, you can delete your on-device data at any time by deleting the app. For subscription records held by RevenueCat, contact us at support@booklockfyb.app and we’ll help with your request. We may need you to share purchase details (such as an Apple receipt) so we can find the right record, because we don’t know who you are.

We don’t sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

BookLock is not directed to children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Users under 18 should use BookLock with a parent or guardian’s permission. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, contact us and we’ll delete it.

On-device data is protected by your iPhone’s built-in security, such as your passcode and data protection. Communication with RevenueCat and GitHub uses encrypted connections (HTTPS). No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but we keep the information we handle to a minimum.

If we change this policy, we’ll update the effective date above and, for significant changes, let you know in the app or on this page.

Questions or requests about privacy:

BookLock Support
Email: support@booklockfyb.app