FocusHound
Privacy Policy
FocusHound is made by 3 Step Chef LLC (“we”). This page explains what the app and website collect and why. The short version: there’s no account, we don’t track you for advertising, and your name, the apps you block and your steps stay on your phone.
What we don’t collect
FocusHound has no sign-up and no login. We don’t collect your contacts or your precise location, and we see your email address only if you write to us. The app has no advertising, we don’t sell your information or share it with advertisers, and nobody follows you across other apps or websites through FocusHound.
What the app sends us
As you use FocusHound, the app sends us analytics through PostHog. It helps us see what works, fix what breaks and learn which ads and posts bring people in. It covers:
- Your answers to the app’s questions, like which apps on our list pull you in and when, your age range, how you heard about us and how FocusHound is going.
- How you use FocusHound: the screens you open, your settings, your focus sessions, breaks and weekly emergency pass, and which of our notifications you tap.
- Your schedules: the hours and days each one runs, and whether it’s on or Strict.
- How many apps, categories and websites you block, and whether Screen Time access is on. Never which ones.
- Your subscription: the subscription screens you see, whether you start a free trial or a plan, which plan, and whether it’s set to renew.
- Anything you type: a note you add to an answer (it’s sent when the question closes), an idea from Settings, your own words for what you’d rather be doing, and your schedules’ names. It reaches us as you wrote it.
- Device details, like your iPhone model, iOS and app version, language and time zone, plus crash reports and how fast the subscription screen loads. Like most apps, our analytics service also receives your IP address.
- If one of our ads brought you here: which ad it was (the network, campaign, ad and keyword), when you tapped or saw it, whether it was a first download, and the country it ran in. It tells us which ad worked, not who you are.
Apple tells us about your purchases and, if an Apple ad brought you here, which one. All of this is tied to a random ID the app makes and to Superwall’s own random ID, never to your name or email. We keep this analytics for up to 12 months.
Earlier versions also sent your work hours and break plan, and before 1.3, your business description and the tasks you typed. We keep those for the same 12 months.
What stays on your phone
Your name, your steps and the list of apps and websites you block stay on your phone. Apple’s Screen Time keeps that list on your iPhone, and we only see the counts. The app counts your steps from your iPhone’s motion sensor, with your permission, and they’re never sent to us or anyone else. None of it reaches us unless you type it into something you send, like a note or a schedule’s name. One exception from before 2.0: those versions gave Superwall your first name and setup answers. Newer versions clear them when they open, and if you never updated, email us and we’ll remove them. We don’t record your screen, and deleting the app removes everything it stored on your phone.
Subscriptions
Apple bills your subscription through the App Store, and we never see your payment details. To show the subscription screen and confirm your subscription, including a family plan, the app uses Superwall. Superwall gets its own random ID, the ID Apple gives our apps on your iPhone, device details, when you open the app, an approximate location (country, region and city) it works out from your IP address, your purchases and subscription status from Apple, the subscription screens you see and close, whether you came in for yourself or as a parent, your answer to its one-question survey if you give one, and the ad details above. It doesn’t get your name, your setup answers or your steps. Superwall keeps what it receives while we use its service, and we can have it erase your records when you ask.
Website analytics
On our guides and How FocusHound works page, we count page views, how far you read and taps on App Store links, and note the site that sent you. We use no cookies, store nothing in your browser and don’t connect any of it to you or the app. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, we count nothing at all.
Service providers
The app uses two service providers: PostHog, for analytics, and Superwall, for the subscription screen. Cloudflare hosts our website and forwards our email. They use your information only to provide their service to us, keep it secure and don’t sell it. PostHog and Superwall are in the United States, so your information is stored there. For people in the EU, UK and Switzerland, PostHog takes part in the Data Privacy Framework, and Superwall’s terms include the EU’s standard contractual clauses and the UK’s addendum.
Children
FocusHound is not directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. If you’re a parent and think your child under 13 has used it, email us and we’ll delete what we hold.
Your choices and rights
Deleting the app stops everything it sends. You can change Screen Time, notification and Motion access in iOS Settings. For your age you can pick Prefer not to say, how you heard about us has a Skip, and anything you type is up to you.
To see, correct, export or delete what we hold, including analytics and subscription records, email hello@focushound.app. There’s no account, so tell us your iPhone model, your country and roughly when you installed, to help us find your records.
If you’re in the EU or UK, you can also ask us to restrict how we use your information, and you can complain to your local data protection authority. We use your information to run the app and your subscription, which is our contract with you. We also use it to understand and improve FocusHound, fix what breaks and learn which ads work, which is our legitimate interest. You can object at any time: email us and we’ll delete what we hold, and deleting the app stops anything new.
Changes
If this policy changes, we’ll post the new version here with a new date.
Contact
3 Step Chef LLC, hello@focushound.app