Privacy Policy

What Bracer does with Screen Time

Bracer asks for Screen Time access on your own iPhone, in the mode Apple provides for limiting yourself. It uses Apple’s Screen Time frameworks for four things:

• to show you Apple’s own picker, where you choose the apps to lock;
• to put a shield over those apps until you open them from your Apple Watch;
• to schedule when the shield returns after you open a window;
• to learn when the minutes you chose have been used up inside the apps you opened.

Bracer is a self-control tool. It is not parental control: it cannot manage another person’s device, and it does not offer to.

What Bracer knows about your apps

Less than you might expect. When you pick apps, iOS hands Bracer opaque tokens, not names. Bracer does not learn which apps you chose; when it shows their icons on its home screen, iOS draws them. The shield you see over a locked app is drawn by a small extension that iOS hands the app’s name for that purpose alone. That extension records nothing, and Apple’s sandbox for it allows no writing at all.

Bracer never receives how long you use any app. The one thing Screen Time tells it is a single signal: the minutes you chose have run out inside the apps you opened, and the shield should come back.

What it stores, and where

On your iPhone, in a container that only Bracer and its extensions can read:

• your choice of apps, as the opaque tokens described above;
• your settings: the length of a window and how strict the key is;
• your history: when windows were opened and closed, when you set a hard lock, and how often your watch said not yet. The screens with your keys, your rest and your week are computed from it;
• a short diagnostic log of the shield’s own events, visible under Settings → Diagnostics.

On your Apple Watch: the last status received from the phone, so the watch app and its complication can show whether your apps are resting, how many keys you used today and when a window ends.

Deleting Bracer deletes all of it, on both devices. Settings → Diagnostics → Reset everything clears it sooner.

Between your iPhone and your Apple Watch

The two talk over Apple’s direct link between a paired watch and its phone. What travels is the command from your wrist to open, lock or hold, and the status back. Nothing else travels, and no one else is on the line.

Purchases

Bracer Pro is sold through the App Store. Apple handles the payment; Bracer receives no name, card number or address. To know whether your plan is active, the app asks the App Store on your device and keeps the answer there. Restore purchase does the same. Apple’s privacy policy governs the purchase itself.

What it never does

• No servers, no uploads, no telemetry, no crash reporting.
• No account, no login, no device or user identifier.
• No analytics and no advertising, of any kind.
• No tracking across apps or websites.
• Nothing is sold, rented or shared. There is no third party involved to share it with.

Children

Bracer is not directed at children and is not a parental control tool. It collects no personal information from anyone, at any age.

Changes

If this policy changes, the effective date above changes with it. Anything material will be called out on this page rather than slipped in quietly.

Contact

Questions about this policy: yo.kononov@gmail.com.