Privacy at Reclaim
Reclaim is designed to help you manage distracting apps without building a profile of which apps you use or why you reclaim access.
Information Reclaim keeps on your device
Reclaim stores the information needed to provide its core features locally on your device and, where required for app-extension coordination, in its Apple App Group container. This can include:
- the apps and categories you choose to protect;
- your recurring protection schedules and manual protection state;
- temporary reclaim state and expiry information;
- reclaim reasons you enter;
- recent repeated-reclaim history used to decide when to show mindful friction;
- local reading-history state used to rotate reading alternatives.
Analytics
Reclaim uses PostHog for limited, anonymous product analytics so we can understand whether core features are working and being used.
Analytics events are intentionally designed not to include the identity of protected apps, app names, bundle identifiers, application tokens, reclaim-reason text, schedule names, book titles, authors, or reading-content identity.
Examples of analytics Reclaim may record include app launches, schedule creation or enablement, aggregate protected-selection counts, reclaim success or failure, use of Protect Apps Now, automatic reclaim expiry, and whether a reading alternative was shown or continued. These events may also include standard technical metadata such as app version, device/OS information, and event timing.
Reclaim does not use analytics to create an advertising profile, and the app does not use analytics to identify you by name or account.
Screen Time and protected-app data
Reclaim uses Apple’s Family Controls, Managed Settings, and Device Activity frameworks to implement app protection. Reclaim does not read the content of protected apps or monitor what you do inside them.
The identity of apps you select for protection is not sent to Reclaim analytics.
Accounts
Reclaim does not currently require an account or sign-in.
Support communications
If you contact us by email, we receive the information you choose to include in your message, such as your email address, device details, screenshots, and problem description. We use that information to respond to your support request.
Data sharing
Reclaim does not sell your personal information. Limited analytics data may be processed by PostHog as our analytics service provider. Information may also be disclosed if required by law or necessary to protect the security and integrity of the service.
Data retention
Most Reclaim state is stored locally on your device. Some local history is automatically bounded or pruned as part of the product design. Analytics and support-email retention may be governed by the retention settings of the services used to process them.
Children
Reclaim is not specifically directed to children. If you believe personal information has been provided to us inappropriately, contact us and we will review the request.
Your choices
You can stop using Reclaim at any time. You can revoke Screen Time authorization through iOS settings. Deleting Reclaim removes app data stored in the app’s local container, subject to how iOS manages app and shared-container data.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as Reclaim changes. The effective date at the top of this page will be updated when we make material revisions.
Contact
Questions about privacy can be sent to reclaimbeta@gmail.com.