FocusVault Privacy Policy

Effective: July 27, 2026

Your personal data (focus sessions, habits, streaks, and drive records) is stored on your device first. Our servers are involved only for your private account backup and for generating audio and coaching content. This policy explains exactly what leaves your device and your choices.

What stays on your device

• Focus sessions, habits, streaks, goals, settings, themes are stored in the app's local storage on your iPhone.
• Motion and location readings: drive detection and hands-free credit are computed entirely on-device. Raw motion and location data (coordinates, routes, speed traces) are never transmitted anywhere.
• Your voice: when you answer the drive companion by voice, speech is recognized on-device using Apple's speech framework. The microphone is active only during short listening windows, audio is never recorded or transmitted, and nothing you say leaves the phone.
• Distraction Shield choices (which apps you block) are managed by Apple's Screen Time framework on-device; we never see your app list.
• Notifications are scheduled locally on your phone; no push servers.

What leaves your device

1. Account sign-in. FocusVault uses Firebase Authentication (a Google service) to create your account (including guest sessions). Firebase processes your email address and issues the sign-in token. See Google's Firebase privacy documentation for their handling.
2. Account backup (signed-in users). So your data can follow you to a new phone, the app backs up your habits, focus sessions, settings, and drive summaries (date, duration, distance, and hands-free credit, never coordinates, routes, or any map of where you went) to our server. Backups are private to your account and are erased from our server when you delete your account in the app.
3. Drive audio (podcasts, briefings, stories, books, music). When you request an episode, the app sends your sign-in token and your content choices (category, voice, style) to our server, which generates the audio from public news feeds and our own catalog. We keep a daily request counter to enforce usage limits. We do not build a profile of what you listen to; your play history is stored on your phone.
4. Listen to Anything and read-aloud. When you ask for a summary or cloud voice for an article or document you provide, the app sends that text to our server, which processes it transiently to produce your summary or audio. Our server never visits the link itself, and the text is not stored, not shared, and not used to train models. Full-article read-aloud uses the on-device voice, so the article never leaves your phone.
5. AI Focus Coach (Premium). When you tap "Get this week's coaching," the app sends your sign-in token plus four aggregate numbers (total focus hours, streak length, sessions this week, and your best day's name, e.g. "Tue") to our server, which asks an AI model to write your coaching note. No free text, no habit names, no location, and no driving data are sent.

What we never do

• No ads. No third-party analytics or tracking SDKs. No data brokers.
• We never sell or share your personal data.
• We never send your raw location, your voice, or your article text anywhere except as described above, and we do not use your data to train AI models.

Purchases

Subscriptions are processed by Apple. We never see your payment details. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app deletes all locally stored data. To delete your account (and with it the sign-in record, account backup, and rate-limit counters), use Settings → Account → Delete Account in the app, or contact us at the address below.

Children

FocusVault is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them. Kids mode is a content filter operated by the account holder; it collects nothing from children.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, we'll note it in the App Store release notes and update the effective date above.

Contact

Questions or requests: mss04132020@gmail.com