Terms of use
In effect since 25 August 2026. Applies to Bollard for iPhone, version 1.0.
Bollard includes free features and optional Pro purchases. No account is required, there is no advertising, and there is no trial. Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies to your use of it.
Purchases and subscriptions
Three optional purchases unlock the same Pro features. The names below are the ones the App Store shows, which is what you will see in your subscription list when you go to cancel:
- Pro, monthly, an auto-renewable subscription lasting one month.
- Pro, yearly, an auto-renewable subscription lasting one year.
- Pro, one payment, a one-time purchase that does not renew or expire and has nothing to cancel.
The price of each option is the price shown by the App Store in your local currency. A subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Apple charges the renewal during the 24 hours before that period ends. You cancel in your Apple Account settings, not in Bollard. Cancelling stops a future renewal; it is not a refund request.
Use Restore Purchases on the purchase screen or in Settings to recover an eligible purchase. Bollard does not take payment and cannot issue a refund. Refund requests go through Apple using its Request a refund process.
What remains free
- Quick blocks for any apps, for any duration, as often as you like.
- One saved profile, with blocklist and allowlist modes.
- Weekly schedules, countdown timers and daily allowances.
- Website controls: Apple’s adult-content filter, blocked domains and allowed domains that you enter.
- Every strictness option: cooldown, PIN and locked until the end, including controls that block deleting Bollard or installing apps during a block.
- Screen Time figures for today and this week, plus Bollard’s own figures.
What Pro unlocks
Pro lets you save more than one profile and create rules driven by places or named Wi-Fi networks. If a subscription ends, every rule you already created keeps running. You lose the ability to create new Pro rules; Bollard does not lift an existing block because a payment stopped.
What Bollard is
A tool for constraining your own phone, by your own earlier decision. You choose what to block, when, and how hard it should be to stop. A rule stays editable even while it is blocking, because one that could not be repaired in the middle would stay broken; what the strictness you chose can hold back is ending a block early. A block with a length or a schedule ends by itself at the time you set, and one with no end, which the app labels “Until you stop it”, lasts until you stop it or until the place or the network it watches stops matching.
What Bollard is not
- Not a security product. Bollard can make stopping inconvenient. It cannot make it impossible. Anyone who can unlock your iPhone, which includes you, can end any block by turning off Bollard’s permission in Settings › Screen Time, and a PIN can be removed from Bollard’s own settings without knowing it. That is deliberate: a cooldown and a PIN are friction against an impulse, not a lock against an adversary, and an app you cannot get out of is not something anyone should install.
- Not parental control and not device management. There is no second account, no remote administration and no reporting to anyone. Do not install it expecting to restrict somebody else’s phone.
- Not a substitute for care. If your relationship with your phone is causing you real harm, an app is a useful thing to have. It is not the answer, and it is not treatment.
Limits worth expecting
Bollard works through Apple’s Screen Time system and inherits its limits. Each of these is also stated inside the app, at the screen where it applies.
- Blocking covers apps and web domains on this iPhone only. It does not reach your other devices, a desktop browser, or a site opened inside an app that ignores the Screen Time content filter.
- A daily allowance is counted by iOS, not by Bollard, and its thresholds arrive on a best-effort basis, so a limit can land a little after the minute it names. That is why the smallest allowance Bollard offers is fifteen minutes: below that, iOS does not deliver reliably, and promising it would be promising something we do not control.
- A Wi-Fi rule is re-checked when Bollard is awake, because iOS gives an ordinary app the current network name while that app is in front, and in the background only with location set to Always. A network rule can therefore start late, and without that grant it changes state the next time you open the app.
- A place rule relies on iOS region monitoring, which trades precision for battery life and can report an arrival minutes after it happened.
- A rule needs Screen Time permission to do anything at all. Without it Bollard blocks nothing, and says so on its home screen rather than looking as though it were working.
No warranty
Bollard is provided as it is, with no warranty of any kind. It will not always block exactly what you hoped at exactly the moment you hoped. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for what follows from a block that held or did not hold: a message you did not see, a notification you missed, or work you did or did not do.
Nothing here limits rights that the law where you live gives you and does not let anyone sign away.
Changes
If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them. Continuing to use the app after that is how you accept the new version. If you would rather not, stop using Bollard and cancel any subscription in your Apple Account settings. Deleting the app does not cancel an App Store subscription.
Contact
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