Privacy Policy

1. Information Stored on Your Device

Pause Before may store information locally on your device, including onboarding answers, screen time estimate, goals, obstacles, presence score, commitment preference, preferred lock time, mindful reminder preference, selected app settings, Screen Time selection count, unlock state, streaks, saved quotes, quote history, trial state, and subscription state.

2. Screen Time Selections

If you grant Apple Screen Time or Family Controls permission, app selection and blocking are handled through Apple's system frameworks. Pause Before does not send the exact names of apps selected through Apple's Screen Time picker to PostHog or OpenAI. We may process selection counts or broad app categories needed to operate, debug, secure, or improve the app.

3. AI Reflection Requests

If the AI reflection service is enabled, Pause Before may send limited ritual context to a Vercel-hosted proxy that uses OpenAI to generate an original reflection. This context may include selected quote text, quote source, quote theme, presence score, streak count, a random freshness value, and intention text. Requests may also include an App Attest key identifier, assertion, challenge, IP address, and related security metadata used to verify the app and prevent abuse. If the AI service is unavailable or not configured, the app uses an on-device fallback reflection instead.

OpenAI's API does not use submitted API data to train its models by default unless Broadn LLC explicitly opts in. OpenAI may retain prompts, responses, and related metadata in abuse-monitoring logs for up to 30 days by default, unless a different approved retention control applies or longer retention is legally required.

4. PostHog Analytics

Pause Before uses PostHog to collect product analytics to understand activation, reliability, subscriptions, and feature usage. Events may include onboarding completion, trial starts, subscription starts, app selection counts, quote selection themes, ritual completion, feature usage, app version, device model, iOS version, language, region, application lifecycle events, and performance or error data.

Analytics may include summarized onboarding choices, such as goal count, obstacle count, screen time estimate, commitment answer, presence score, preferred schedule, selected app count or broad category, streak totals, quote theme, subscription status, product identifiers, and purchase or restore results. Pause Before does not intentionally send exact Screen Time-selected app names, private journal text, intention text, full generated reflection text, or payment card details to PostHog.

5. Payments and Subscriptions

Apple processes in-app purchases and subscription billing. Pause Before does not receive your full payment card number. We may receive transaction status, entitlement status, renewal state, product identifiers, and related subscription information needed to unlock Premium features, provide support, prevent abuse, and understand conversion.

6. Support Messages

If you contact us for support, we may receive your email address and the information you choose to include in your message. Please avoid sending sensitive personal, medical, financial, or account information unless it is necessary for your request.

7. How We Use Information

Broadn LLC uses information to provide and personalize Pause Before, generate reflections, maintain subscriptions, operate Screen Time features, measure product usage, troubleshoot errors, provide support, prevent fraud and abuse, comply with law, and protect users, Broadn LLC, and service providers.

8. Service Providers

Pause Before currently uses PostHog for analytics, Vercel for website and server hosting, and OpenAI for AI-assisted reflections. Pause Before also relies on Apple services for iOS, Screen Time, the App Store, and in-app purchases. Vercel-hosted services may use infrastructure subprocessors or configured Redis-compatible storage for App Attest records and short-lived rate-limit counters. These providers process information according to their own privacy practices and Broadn LLC's configuration of their services. Provider policies are available from PostHog, Vercel, and OpenAI.

9. Selling, Sharing, and Advertising

Broadn LLC does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. Pause Before does not use private journal text, selected app names, intention text, or reflection text to build advertising profiles. Pause Before does not currently display third-party advertising.

10. Retention and Deletion

Local data remains on your device until you delete it, reset local state where available, or uninstall the app. Short-lived rate-limit records expire after their applicable security window. App Attest key records may remain while needed to verify the app and prevent abuse. PostHog analytics, Vercel logs and security records, OpenAI processing records, Apple transaction information, and support messages may be retained according to Broadn LLC's configuration, provider policies, and as needed for security, billing, debugging, legal compliance, and product improvement.

Because Pause Before does not require an account in the current version, deletion of analytics data may require an available device identifier, user identifier, receipt information, email address, or other information that lets us locate the relevant records.

11. Your Choices and Privacy Rights

• You can decline optional permissions.
• You can change Screen Time and notification access in iOS Settings.
• You can cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID settings.
• You can uninstall the app to remove local Pause Before data from your device.
• You can contact us to request access, correction, deletion, or information about applicable privacy rights.

Rights vary by location. Broadn LLC may need information reasonably necessary to verify and fulfill a request. Because Pause Before does not require an account, Broadn LLC may be unable to locate records that cannot be linked to the information you provide.

12. Security and International Processing

Broadn LLC uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information. No system is completely secure. Pause Before and its providers may process information in the United States and other countries where they operate, subject to applicable safeguards and law.

13. Children's Privacy

Pause Before is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information through Pause Before, contact us so we can review and delete it where required.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The effective date will show when the policy last changed. We will provide reasonable notice of material changes when required.

15. Contact

Broadn LLC is responsible for Pause Before. Privacy questions or requests can be sent to support@bodhilock.app.