Privacy policy
In effect since 25 August 2026. Applies to Bollard for iPhone, version 1.0.
Nothing Bollard measures about your blocks leaves this iPhone. No account is required, there are no analytics, and no Bollard server receives your app usage. The only network exchange is StoreKit contacting the App Store when you buy or restore. Apple handles that exchange.
What Bollard does not do
- No account is required to use Bollard or to buy Pro. Bollard does not ask for your email address or sign-in details.
- No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, no tracking, no third-party SDK of any kind.
- No Bollard server receives your rules, app selections, usage figures, places, Wi-Fi network names, unlocks or PIN. None of that is uploaded.
- Bollard does not sell, share or disclose the information it measures on your iPhone.
What stays on your iPhone
Everything Bollard knows lives in its own container on the device, shared only with Bollard’s own four app extensions through a private App Group: your rules and their names, schedules, place coordinates and radii, Wi-Fi network names, your app and category selections, the counters behind the statistics screen, and your settings.
- Your app selections are opaque. iOS mints them as tokens for this app on this iPhone, and they are meaningless anywhere else. That is also why a selection restored from another iPhone’s backup blocks nothing, and why Bollard tells you to choose the apps again when it detects one.
- Screen Time figures never reach the app. Usage totals are drawn inside Apple’s report extension, which is the only process Apple lets see them. The Bollard app process never receives them, and neither do we.
- A PIN is not stored. What is stored is a SHA-256 digest of it with a 32-byte random salt, in the iPhone’s keychain, marked available only on this device and only while it is unlocked. It never travels to iCloud or into a backup restored onto another phone. There is no route back from the digest to the digits, for anyone.
- Wi-Fi network names are never written to the log, because the name of a network is the name of a place you were. Bollard reads the network you are on only if you have a Wi-Fi rule, and forgets the last name it read the moment you delete the last such rule.
Purchases
When you load prices, buy Pro or restore a purchase, StoreKit contacts the App Store. Apple handles the storefront, Apple Account and payment. Bollard receives only the verified entitlement information needed to unlock Pro on this iPhone, and stores that entitlement in its private App Group so its extensions can honour it. Bollard receives no payment-card or bank details and sends neither the transaction nor your blocking data to a Bollard server.
Location
Only if you create a rule that needs it, and two kinds do. A place-based rule asks for Always location, because that is what lets iOS wake Bollard when you arrive at or leave a circle you drew, which is how such a rule switches itself on and off. A Wi-Fi rule needs the same grant for a different reason: iOS names the network you are on to an app that is either in front of you or authorized for location, so without Always such a rule can only change state while Bollard is open. Coordinates are stored on this iPhone and are never transmitted. What Bollard records afterwards is one word per place, whether the phone is inside it or outside it, so there is no location history on the device at all.
Refuse it and the rest of the app is untouched: schedules, timers, daily allowances, quick blocks and every strictness setting work exactly the same, and a Wi-Fi rule still does its job whenever you open the app.
Notifications
Only ever about your own blocks: one has started, one has ended, one is approaching a daily limit you set. Refusing them changes nothing about how blocking works.
Children
Bollard does not collect app usage or blocking data from anyone of any age. No account is required, and the current version does not let another person remotely view what you do on your iPhone.
Your rights
Bollard sends no blocking or usage data to a developer server, so we hold no copy to show, correct, export or erase. Apple separately holds your App Store purchase history under its own privacy terms. Two things are entirely in your hands:
- Deleting Bollard removes its local data from your iPhone. A purchase remains in your Apple Account so you can restore it later.
- Turning off Bollard’s Screen Time permission in Settings › Screen Time releases every block immediately.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the App Store listing is updated on the same day.
Contact
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