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Privacy policy
Lockout is a self-control app. It is built so that your data stays on your phone. The developer does not operate a server, does not receive your data, and has no way to see how you use the app.
What the app stores, and where
Everything below is stored only in Lockout's private storage on your device:
- Lapses you log (“slips”), including the tag you choose and the time.
- Urges you ride out on the hold-the-line timer: when you started, how long you stayed with it, whether you made it to the end, and the tag. Your stats screen uses these to show which hours and days are hardest for you.
- Which apps you selected to lock. These are stored as opaque tokens provided by Apple — the app cannot read the names or icons of your apps, and neither can the developer.
- Your lockout history and settings (durations, multiplier, break length).
- The optional note you write to yourself.
- Step counts, workout durations, and optional body and recovery metrics read from Apple Health (see below).
Deleting the app removes all of it. There is no account, no sign-in, and no developer-side copy.
Health and fitness data
With your permission, Lockout reads the following from Apple Health:
- Step count, to show how many steps remain before a lockout ends.
- Workouts, to check whether you completed one long enough to claim a break.
- Resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep, active energy and VO2 max, shown back to you in your own stats so you can see what being more active is doing for you. If you wear a Whoop, Oura, Garmin or Apple Watch, this is the data those devices already write into Apple Health.
You can allow some of these and refuse others — iOS asks per type. Anything you refuse is simply not shown; the rest of the app is unaffected. Lockout does not interpret these figures or give health advice; it reports the numbers and how they changed.
We read only. Lockout never writes to Health, never stores health data in iCloud, and never uses health or fitness data for advertising, marketing, or sale to anyone. You can revoke access at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Health, and the rest of the app keeps working.
Screen Time (Family Controls)
Lockout uses Apple's Screen Time APIs to shield the apps you chose and to notice when you pass a usage threshold you set for yourself. Authorization is for your own device only. Apple's design means the app receives tokens, not information: it can shield an app you picked, but it cannot see which apps you have installed, what you do in them, or your actual usage figures.
Optional sync — your server, not ours
Lockout has an optional setting where you can enter the address of a server you run yourself. It is blank by default and nothing is transmitted while it is blank. If you fill it in, the app sends your slips, lockout windows, usage marks and earned fitness unlocks to that address so you can keep your own records.
That server is yours. The developer does not host it, cannot access it, and receives
nothing. If you use the open-source backend from this project, it provides
GET /export to download everything it holds and DELETE /data to
erase it permanently.
What we never do
- No analytics, telemetry, or crash-reporting services.
- No advertising and no ad identifiers.
- No tracking, and no sharing of data with data brokers or any third party.
- No third-party SDKs of any kind — the app has zero external dependencies.
Children
Lockout is designed for adults managing their own behaviour. It is not a parental-control product and has no features for monitoring another person.
Changes and contact
Material changes to this policy will be published at this address. Questions: kyansukhram@gmail.com.