Privacy policy

This policy explains what the I Need a Break app does with information. It covers the app on Android and iPhone.

The short version

The app runs on your phone. Which apps you use and for how long, your steps, your wallet of minutes, your history and your receipts stay on the phone. There is no account, no ads, and no tracking of how you use the app. In this version we do not run a server that receives any of it.

The only information that leaves the phone because of the app is what is needed to run subscriptions (purchase records that Apple or Google share with RevenueCat), and, on Android, the technical metrics that Google's on-device pose model may send to Google (see Camera).

Who we are

The app is published by the developer named in the details at the top of this page. For any question about privacy, or to use your rights, write to the email address given there.

Usage access, Screen Time and the block screen

To close the scroll apps you choose, the app needs to know which app is on screen.

• On Android you switch on Usage access in the system settings (after a clear explanation in the app). The app checks which app is in front about once a second and how long you used it. The app does not use Accessibility access and does not read what is on your screen.
• On Android, Display over other apps lets the app draw the block screen over a scroll app when your minutes run out or a break is on. Nothing else is drawn or read.
• On iPhone the app uses Apple's Screen Time framework (Family Controls). Apple does not tell the app which apps you used; the system applies your limits and shows the shield. The app receives only the signal that your minutes are used up.

All of this stays on the phone and is never sent anywhere. You can switch each permission off at any time in the phone's settings, and blocking then stops.

Camera

The camera is used only during a push-up or squat session that you start. The app computes body joint positions on the phone to count repetitions; frames are processed and dropped. Nothing is recorded, saved or sent, and there is no face recognition.

On Android the counting uses Google ML Kit pose detection, which runs on the phone. Google states that ML Kit may send performance and usage metrics to Google; see https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/android-data-disclosure.

Steps and physical activity

With your permission (Physical activity on Android, Motion & Fitness on iPhone) the app reads your step count from the phone to give you minutes. It is read and used on the phone and is not sent anywhere.

Focus, reading and breathing

Focus blocks, reading and breathing sessions are timed on the phone. The app stores the minutes you earned, not anything about what you read.

What the app stores on your phone

• your choices: the apps you limit, your daily allowance, scheduled breaks and settings;
• your wallet of minutes, what you earned and spent, and the history behind your weekly Time Receipt.

The app has no backup to the cloud of its own, and on Android it switches off Android's automatic backup for its data. If you delete the data or uninstall the app, it is gone. We cannot see or recover it. On iPhone, your own device backup may include it under your settings, which is covered by Apple's policies.

Time Receipt and sharing

The weekly Time Receipt is made on the phone. If you tap Share, the image goes only where you send it from the share sheet. We never see it.

Subscriptions and RevenueCat

Subscriptions are sold by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). They handle the payment, and we never see your card or bank details. Their own privacy policies apply to the payment.

To know which plan is active on your phone, the app uses RevenueCat, Inc. (United States). RevenueCat receives:

• a random ID that the app creates on the phone (it is not your name, email or phone number);
• the store's records of purchases in this app: which plan, when it started and renews, trial status, price, currency and store country;
• basic technical details needed to answer, such as the app version and the phone's language. Like any internet request, it also sees the IP address the request comes from.

RevenueCat never receives your app usage, steps or anything else from the app. RevenueCat's privacy policy: https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, the app works them out on the phone (for example a heads-up before a scheduled break) and the phone shows them. Nothing is sent to a server, and the app does not register for push messages. Each kind has its own switch, and there is no marketing.

Friends features

Features that involve other people (gifts, duels, squads) are not part of this version and do nothing. If they are added later, this policy will be updated first and you will be told in the app before anything about them is switched on.

Your choices and rights

In the app, Settings, Delete everything (also reachable from the plan screen as Delete my data) removes your wallet, history, receipts, settings and blocks from the phone. A store subscription is cancelled in the Apple or Google subscriptions page.

Because we hold no personal information about you on a server, there is usually nothing for us to delete. You can still write to the contact email to ask what, if anything, we hold, or to correct or delete it. We answer within 30 days. This covers rights under the GDPR, Israel's Privacy Protection Law (including Amendment 13) and the CCPA/CPRA. We do not sell or share personal information, and we do not use it for advertising.

Children

The app is meant for people 18 and over. It does not knowingly collect information from anyone younger. If you believe a younger person used it, write to the contact email.

Security

Information that leaves the phone for subscriptions travels encrypted (TLS). Everything else stays on the phone, protected by the phone's own security.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the new version is published here and the date at the top changes. A change that adds collection of new information is shown in the app first.