Open After Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 2026

1. Introduction

Open After ("we," "our," or "us") is a self-imposed screen-time app. You choose apps to hold, and you unlock them for a set number of minutes by first doing a small habit — a short breathing pause, a glass of water, a few minutes of focus, a short walk. This Privacy Policy describes what information the Open After mobile application handles and how.

We comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other applicable privacy laws.

2. Information That Stays on Your Device

The following is stored only on your device and is never transmitted to us or to any third party:

• Your app selection. Apple's Screen Time framework gives Open After only opaque tokens for the apps you choose. The app itself cannot see which apps they are, and the tokens never leave the device.
• Schedules, habit settings, and history. Which schedules you enabled, which habits you turned on, your reward minutes, and the record of habits you completed.
• Step counts. With your permission, Open After reads your step count from Apple Health, read-only, to check a walking habit. Steps are counted from the moment you start the habit. Open After never writes to Apple Health and never sends health data anywhere.
• Journal text. Anything you type in the journal habit is not saved by the app and is not transmitted.

Deleting the app deletes all of this data.

3. Anonymous Usage Analytics

Open After uses TelemetryDeck, a privacy-focused analytics service, to understand how the app is used in aggregate — for example, how many people reach the habit list from the shield, which habit types are chosen, and where people stop. Specifically:

• Signals contain only fixed identifiers such as a screen name, a habit type ("water", "steps"), or a plan name. They never contain journal text, app names, step counts, or any free-form input.
• TelemetryDeck receives a salted, non-reversible hash derived from a device identifier so that repeat use can be counted. Neither we nor TelemetryDeck can turn this back into your identity.
• No names, email addresses, location, advertising identifiers, or IP addresses are collected by us. We do not use cookies and we do not track you across apps or websites.

Analytics never gate any feature: the app works the same whether or not a signal is delivered.

4. Screen Time and Apple Health Permissions

Screen Time (Family Controls). Open After asks for Screen Time authorization for your own device only. This lets the app hold the apps you chose and release them when you complete a habit. There is no parent/child, family, or device-management component, and the app cannot hold anything you did not select yourself. You can revoke this authorization at any time in iOS Settings.

Apple Health. Open After asks for read access to your step count only when you open a step habit. If you decline, the step habits are simply hidden and everything else keeps working. You can change this at any time in the Health app under Data Access & Devices.

5. Purchases and Payments

Open After offers optional in-app purchases (auto-renewing subscriptions and a one-time lifetime unlock) processed entirely through Apple's App Store. We do not receive or process payment information. Apple shares with us only an anonymized transaction identifier, which the app uses on-device to verify your purchase status — we cannot link this to your name, email, or any personal detail.

For Apple's payment privacy practices, see Apple's Privacy Policy.

6. Third-Party Services

The only third-party service the app talks to is TelemetryDeck, as described in Section 3. Open After does not integrate advertising, social media, or any other data-sharing service. We do not sell data.

7. Data Security

Data on your device is protected by iOS's standard application sandboxing. The small shared store the app uses to coordinate with its own Screen Time extensions is likewise private to Open After. Analytics are sent over HTTPS.

8. GDPR and CCPA

The analytics data we receive is anonymous and cannot be linked to you, so there is no personal data for us to access, rectify, export, or delete on request. Everything that could identify you stays on your device under your control, and deleting the app removes it. We do not sell personal data. If you have a question about your rights, contact us at the address below.

9. Children

Open After is intended for adults managing their own screen time. It is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect any information from them. Screen Time authorization is requested for the device owner only.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy occasionally. Material changes will be reflected in the "Last Updated" date above. Continued use of the app after such changes constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

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