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Privacy Policy

Effective 4 November 2026

Save Your Time blocks the apps and websites you choose on an iPhone or an Android phone. This policy describes what data the app and this website handle, why, and what control you have. The short version: we never see which apps or websites you block, what you name your rules, or how you use your phone.

Who is responsible

The data controller is Better Things Oy, a limited company in Tampere, Finland (Business ID 3656952-2). You can reach us about anything in this policy at hello@save-your-time.app.

What stays on your phone

The apps, categories and websites you pick, your rule names and schedules, the message on your block screen, your history, unblock records and block counts are stored on your phone. None of it is sent to us or to any service below, in error reports or anywhere else. On iPhone, Screen Time gives the app sealed references to the apps you pick, so the app itself can’t read their names. The on-device history is kept for 90 days and then removed.

If you back up your phone to iCloud or Google, the backup carries the app’s data like any other app’s, under your own account. We never receive it.

On Android, the app knows the package names of the apps you pick (such as com.example.app), and uses an accessibility service to see which app is in front, so it can cover a blocked one with its block screen. In a browser it also reads the address bar, to cover a website you blocked. It reads nothing else on screen, keeps nothing it reads, and what it sees stays on your phone like everything above.

What leaves your phone

  • A subscription ID — created by RevenueCat on first launch, with no name, email or account behind it. It ties your subscription to this install. Under the GDPR the ID and the purchase records below still count as personal data, because we can find them from the order ID of your purchase. With every request RevenueCat’s software also sends Apple’s vendor identifier for our apps on your phone (a code your iPhone resets when you delete them all), the device model, the system and app version, your preferred languages and App Store country, and, as with any internet request, the address your phone connects from. On Android it sends the device brand and model, the Android and app version, your preferred languages and Google Play country, and that address, and no device or advertising ID.
  • Subscription status and purchase records — whether you are in the free week or subscribed, when that ends, and the purchase record from the App Store or Google Play. Payment details are handled by Apple or Google and never reach us.
  • Crash and error reports — technical details of what went wrong, also when the app froze or stopped responding: code stack traces and the app version. The app strips them on your phone before they are sent: no device or install ID, no error text, no screenshots and nothing you typed.

There is no analytics tool in the app and it sends no usage events of its own. RevenueCat records when each subscription ID last used the app, and we read totals from its dashboard: how many installs have opened the app, how many are active, and how many have started a free week or bought. There are no advertising identifiers, no ads, no tracking across other apps or websites, and no sale of data.

Why, and on what basis

  • If you buy a subscription, its status and purchase records, and the subscription ID that ties them to you, are needed to give you what you bought and to restore it on a new phone: performance of a contract (GDPR Article 6(1)(b)).
  • The subscription ID of an install that hasn’t bought anything, RevenueCat’s check when the app starts, the device details and address sent with it, and the totals we read from its dashboard let us offer the subscription and see whether the app is in use and how purchases are going. We process them on our legitimate interest in running and improving the product (Article 6(1)(f)). You can object to this at any time: deleting the app stops it sending anything.
  • Error reports and this website’s server logs keep the app and the site working. They carry no name or account, and we process them on our legitimate interest in a reliable product (Article 6(1)(f)).
  • If you email us, we use your message and address to answer you, on the same legitimate interest, and keep the exchange while we handle it.
  • If you asked for early access before launch, we use your address only to write to you once, now that the app is on the App Store, because you asked us to: consent (Article 6(1)(a)). You can take it back any time by emailing us.

Who receives it

  • Apple — the App Store, payments, and the Screen Time system that does the blocking. For purchases Apple acts under its own terms and privacy policy, not on our behalf.
  • Google — Google Play and its payments, on Android. For purchases Google acts under its own terms and privacy policy, not on our behalf.
  • RevenueCat — subscription management, and the totals described above: everything listed under the subscription ID above, when it last used the app, subscription status and the store’s purchase records.
  • Sentry — crash and error reports, hosted in the European Union, set not to store the address a report comes from.
  • Vercel — hosting for this website.
  • Google Workspace, our email — messages you send us, early-access requests included.

Where a provider processes data outside the European Economic Area, transfers rely on safeguards such as the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses.

How long we keep it

Sentry deletes error reports within 90 days. RevenueCat keeps purchase records for as long as they are needed to honour and restore your subscription, or until you ask us to delete them. It keeps the subscription IDs and device details of installs that never bought anything until we delete them or our agreement with it ends. Our host’s server logs live only as long as its own security and operations need; we keep no copies. Email stays with us while we handle it, and an early-access request until we have written to you, or until you ask us to delete it.

This website

This website sets no cookies, runs no product analytics, and has no forms. Its App Store links carry a label, so Apple can show us how many downloads came from here, as totals. On an iPhone, Safari may also show Apple’s banner for the app, which it asks Apple for. Before launch, its buttons opened an email to us; we keep those emails only to write to you once, now that the app is on the App Store, and delete them after, or sooner if you ask. Sentry in the EU receives technical error reports with code stack traces, without request data, user profiles, error text or session replay. Our host keeps standard server logs, such as IP addresses, for security and operations.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app removes everything it stored on your phone. Nothing the app sends us carries your name, email or account, so the subscription ID and purchase records RevenueCat keeps can be found only from the purchase itself: email us the order ID from your Apple purchase history or Google Play order history and we will have them deleted. If you never bought anything, nothing you could send us shows which ID is yours, so we can’t look it up; deleting the app stops it sending anything more. A subscription is managed by the store it was bought in: cancel it in your Apple Account settings or in the Play Store; you can restore it later.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can access, correct and delete your data, receive a copy of it in a portable form, object to or restrict certain processing, withdraw a consent you gave, and complain to a supervisory authority (in Finland, the Data Protection Ombudsman). The app has no accounts, so to act on your data we usually need the order ID of a purchase. For anything about your data, email hello@save-your-time.app.

Using the app needs no account, name or email from you; a purchase needs the records above. We make no automated decisions about you.

Children

The app isn’t aimed at children. It has no accounts and we hold no profile of anyone, so we knowingly collect no personal data from children.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the effective date above changes. The links in the app, on the App Store and on Google Play always open the current version.