CONSEQ Privacy Policy
CONSEQ helps you restrict your own phone. Your onboarding answers, habit records and activity log stay on your device. This policy also explains subscription and paywall data processed by Apple and Superwall.
No CONSEQ account is required. App versions that include Superwall use it to display subscription offers and measure how those offers perform. Superwall receives subscription, paywall interaction and technical data described below. Versions released before this integration do not contain Superwall. We do not send it your onboarding answers, habit records, activity log, camera frames or Screen Time selections.
What the app keeps on your phone
Everything you tell CONSEQ stays on the phone you typed it into. You do not need a CONSEQ account; the personal content listed here is not uploaded to our services or Superwall.
The app writes these to a file on your phone:
- Your age.
- What you picked when it asked what you want back.
- What you picked when it asked what you had already tried.
- The total of your answers to the five questions about your own behaviour, and which of four groups that total puts you in.
- Your answers to the two questions that come after those, kept as the numbers you picked, because the app reads them to decide what to say to you next.
- One line the app writes for you out of what you said you wanted back. It shows that line back to you later. You do not type it, and in this version you cannot edit it.
- The day your run started, and the day you accepted the terms.
- Your log. That means every check in you made, every panic session you finished or walked away from, every minute of breathing you started from the home screen, every time you told the app you broke your own rules, and every time a block you had asked for stopped you.
- Whether you granted Screen Time access.
- What each day was made of, which is what draws the day's level on the home screen. No figure from it is ever printed or read out.
These are kept on the phone by the system, for the app:
- Which apps and categories you chose to block, and the daily time you allowed each one. Apple hands these to the app as sealed tokens. The next section explains what that means.
- The wait you chose before the Protocol page can be edited.
- Which of the five daily habits you ticked today, and the run of days you have kept them going.
- The last day you tapped to say you were in, and the day that run of taps started.
- The last milestone the app has already shown you, so it does not show you the same one twice.
- Two on or off markers about your subscription. See the subscription section below.
Your individual answers to the five questions are never written to disk. Only the total, and the group that total falls into. Which boxes you ticked is gone the moment setup ends.
About those questions
They are CONSEQ's own questions. The number they add up to is only there to decide which words the app shows you next. It is not a test result, not a rating of how bad anything is, and not a diagnosis. Nobody gets diagnosed by an app.
Screen Time and blocking
CONSEQ applies its restrictions through Apple's Family Controls, Managed Settings and Device Activity systems. You grant Screen Time access once, and everything after that happens on your own phone.
Four things happen there:
- Sites meant for adults are filtered out, in every browser on the phone.
- The apps and categories you picked are blocked.
- Any of those can have a daily time limit you set. When the time is used up, that app is blocked for the rest of the day.
- If you switched it on, apps cannot be deleted from the phone while CONSEQ is running. That covers every app on the phone, not only the ones you picked. Apple's system offers no narrower version of it.
We cannot see what you browse or which apps you use. Apple designs that system so an app like this one is handed sealed identifiers that mean nothing outside your phone. We never learn which apps they are, and we are never told which sites you visited or tried to visit. That information is not available to us at any price.
You can take Screen Time access away at any time in the iOS Settings app. That clears every restriction CONSEQ applied, including the one on deleting apps.
The camera and the motion sensor
One of the panic tasks uses the camera, and you choose whether to start it.
The object task turns on the back camera and names one ordinary thing to go and point it at: a fridge, your shoes, a couch or a microwave. Your phone works out what it is looking at using Apple's Vision framework, which runs entirely on the phone. Frames are read and dropped in the same instant. No image is saved, and no image is sent anywhere, and no camera frame is uploaded.
iOS asks you for camera permission the first time that task starts. You can say no. If you do, the other panic tasks still work.
The breathing task uses no camera. It draws a line for you to follow with a finger, and it reads nothing about you while you do it.
The shake task reads the phone's motion sensor. That needs no permission, and the readings are counted and dropped as they arrive.
Subscriptions and payment
Some of the app is behind a subscription, offered in two lengths: yearly and weekly. The yearly plan carries a free trial of three days for Apple Accounts that are still eligible for one.
We never see your payment details. Buying, renewing, cancelling and refunding all happen through your Apple Account and Apple's App Store. Your card, your billing address and your Apple Account details never reach the app and never reach us. The app has no billing system of its own and no server to run one on.
The app asks Apple's own on-device StoreKit system two things: what the plans cost in your country, and whether this Apple Account currently has a subscription. Answering those means the phone talks to the App Store, in the same way it does for any other purchase. Nothing about you, your answers, your log or your blocking is included in that, because none of it is ever given to StoreKit in the first place.
What the app writes down afterwards is two on or off markers, kept on the phone: the last clear answer it got about whether this Apple Account has a subscription, and whether you have used the Skip control on the plan screen. Subscription status is also shared with Superwall in versions that include its SDK. The local Skip marker is not sent.
Apple gives us sales and subscription reports about the app. Those reports are Apple's, they describe the app rather than you, and they do not tell us who you are. Apple's own privacy policy covers what Apple does with your purchase.
If you email us
The Settings tab has a Get support button and a Request a feature button. Both of them open your own Mail app with a message addressed to conseqapp@gmail.com, already filled in with the app's version number, its build number and your iOS version. You write the rest, and you decide whether to send it.
If you do send it, we receive your email address and whatever you wrote, the same as with any other email. We read it to answer you and we use it for nothing else. Nothing from inside the app is attached to it, and the app cannot send one on its own.
Superwall and subscription analytics
Versions with Superwall contact Superwall to load paywalls and report app sessions, paywall views and interactions, purchase attempts and subscription events. Apple subscription notifications are forwarded to Superwall to measure purchases, trials, renewals, cancellations and refunds.
This data includes SDK-generated user or installation identifiers, the device vendor identifier, product and transaction identifiers, subscription status, timestamps, app and SDK versions, device model, operating-system version, language, locale and time zone. Superwall may also derive an approximate region from your IP address. We use this information to operate the subscription screen, troubleshoot it and understand conversion and revenue. We do not identify you to Superwall by your name or email address.
Superwall acts as a service provider. Its servers may process data outside your country. See Superwall's privacy policy for information about its handling of data. We do not send onboarding responses, browsing history, selected apps, journal or habit content, camera frames or motion readings to Superwall. Firebase Analytics is not included.
Other connections and notifications
Your phone connects to Apple's App Store for product prices, purchases and subscription verification. Opening this policy or the terms loads a web page; the website provider receives the normal technical information needed to serve that page. Sending support email shares your email address and the message you choose to send.
For an eligible trial, CONSEQ may ask permission to schedule a local reminder before billing begins. You can decline or change notification permission in iOS Settings. The reminder is scheduled on your phone.
No sale or advertising tracking
We do not sell personal data or use it for targeted advertising. We do not share your habit records or onboarding answers with advertisers or data brokers. Superwall is used for subscription functionality and analytics, not to track you across other companies' apps or websites for advertising.
What we keep, and for how long
The personal app content listed above remains on your device until you erase it or delete the app. Subscription and technical records processed by Apple and Superwall are held separately and are not removed by the app's local erase control. We retain service records only for subscription operation, analytics, support and applicable legal requirements; contact us to request access or deletion of records associated with you. Deletion may require information that lets us locate those records.
We keep support email for as long as needed to answer you, and no longer than 12 months, then delete it. You can request earlier deletion.
Deleting everything
Inside the app: open the Settings tab, scroll to the bottom, and tap Erase everything and start over. You then hold a button to confirm. That lifts every restriction CONSEQ applied and deletes your answers, your run, your whole log, your habits, your daily taps and your milestones from the phone. The app returns to how it was the first time you opened it.
The local erase control does not reach:
- The two subscription markers described above. They are about your Apple Account rather than about you, and erasing does not clear them. Deleting the app from your phone does.
- Subscription and analytics records held by Apple or Superwall. Contact us about records processed on our behalf; Apple manages its own purchase records.
- An email you sent us, which sits in our mailbox rather than in the app. Write to us and we will delete that too.
Erasing does not cancel a subscription, and neither does deleting the app. Cancel in your App Store settings.
Children
CONSEQ is for adults. It is rated 18+ and is not directed at anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.
The app asks your age and will not let you pick a number below 18. That is your own answer and we have no way to check it. If someone under 18 emails us, we delete the message once we know.
Your rights
Depending on where you live you may have the right to see, correct, delete or export what we hold, and to object to how we use it. Use the erase option for local app content and contact us about support, subscription or analytics records. We may need information to locate your records, and legal obligations may limit deletion of purchase records. We will not treat you any differently for asking. Email conseqapp@gmail.com with any question about this.
Changes
If this policy changes materially we will update the date at the top and note the change in the app's release notes.