Privacy

What leaves your phone, and why

Backup of your focus history

So your progress is not lost, the app copies your focus history to our server and can bring it back. The copy holds:

• When each focus session and break started and ended, how long you planned, and how it ended.
• Which island you were building and which milestones you reached.
• The names and colours of the tags you made, such as "Study" or "Work". Tag names are whatever you type, so please do not put private details in them.
• Your time zone, and the kind of device ("iPhone").

To know which backup is yours without an account or password, the app uses:

• A random account ID and a random ID for each install, made by the app.
• An ID that Apple gives this app for your purchase of it (Apple calls it the app transaction ID). It lets the app find your backup when you install it again or move to a new iPhone with the same Apple Account. It does not tell us your Apple Account name, email or anything else about it.

We use this only to store and restore your history. We do not look at it to profile you.

How you use the app

To learn what works and what to improve, the app sends us usage events. They describe what you do in the app, for example:

• Opening the app, and starting, pausing and finishing focus sessions, with their length.
• Reaching milestones and finishing islands.
• Screens you open, some buttons you tap, and settings you change.
• How often you look at a session and touch the island, counted on your phone and sent once when the session ends.
• That you sent feedback or rated an island, with the kind and topics you picked, never your words.

Each event also carries the app version, the iOS version, the iPhone model, the local hour and your random account ID, so we can count people rather than taps. Events never include your tag names. PostHog does not keep your IP address, so it cannot work out where you are.

This starts when you tap Show me on the first screen, and nothing is sent before that. You can turn it off at any time in Settings, Privacy, Share usage data. The app then sends one last note that you turned it off, and nothing more.

Crash reports

If the app crashes or freezes, it sends a report so we can fix the problem. A report holds technical details: what went wrong in the code, the app version, the iOS version and the iPhone model. It does not hold your account ID, your tags, your island or screenshots. The app removes your IP address from the report.

Feedback you send

When you send feedback from the app, we store it on our server with your random account ID, so we can follow up and delete it with the rest of your data. It holds:

• The topic you picked and anything you type.
• Your email, only if you add it. We use it only to reply to you.
• App details, sent with every message so we can find the problem: the app version, iOS version and iPhone model, the island and how far it is built, whether a session is running or on a break, how warm the phone got during the session, whether Low Power Mode is on, and whether the app crashed the last time it ran. You can see all of it in the sheet before you send.
• For "Timer is off" and "Lost progress" only: when the current session started, its breaks and the time left, so we can check the clock.

Island ratings

When you rate an island, we store the island, the stars and any reasons you pick on our server with your random account ID, to learn which islands people like. The rating is also sent as a usage event (above). Ratings are sent whether or not backup is on.

Stories and sounds

The app downloads island stories and sounds from our server. These downloads send nothing about you. Like any website, the server sees your IP address when your phone connects, and keeps it in its logs for a short time.

What stays on your phone

Your settings, such as sounds and notifications, stay on your phone. We only learn which setting you changed, as part of usage events. Notifications and the Live Activity are scheduled on your phone too.

What we never do

• Show ads.
• Sell or rent your data.
• Track you across other companies' apps or websites.
• Collect your location, contacts, photos, microphone or health data.

Who we are

Worthwhile is made by Abhishek Tigga, an individual developer based in India. In this policy "we" means that person. You can reach us at support@tryworthwhile.app.

Who helps us run the app

• SupabaseStores the backup, feedback and ratings, and serves stories and sounds. India (Mumbai).
• PostHogReceives usage events. United States.
• SentryReceives crash reports. European Union (Germany).
• AppleDistributes the app and provides the app transaction ID. Once a day the app also asks the App Store whether a newer version is out; that request sends nothing about you beyond what any connection does. See Apple's privacy policy.

These companies process data only on our instructions, under data processing agreements. They store data in India (Supabase), the United States (PostHog) and the European Union (Sentry), so your data may travel outside the country you live in.

How long we keep it

• Backup: while you use the app. It is deleted when you delete your data.
• Usage events: up to 1 year.
• Feedback and ratings: until you delete your data.
• After you delete your data: if the account is also on another iPhone, we keep only a bare marker (the random account ID and the date) until that iPhone opens the app and clears itself.
• Crash reports: up to 90 days.
• Server logs: a few days.

Your choices

• Stop sharing usage: Settings, Privacy, Share usage data.
• Turn backup off: Settings, Privacy, Back up my progress. New history then stays only on your phone. What was already backed up stays on our server until you delete your data.
• Delete your data: Settings, Data, Delete my data. This deletes your backup, feedback, ratings, account and usage events from our services, and clears the app on your phone. Your usage events can take a few days to be fully removed from PostHog. It cannot be undone.
• Ask us: email support@tryworthwhile.app to get a copy of your data, correct it, or delete it. Say it is about your privacy. We may ask you to confirm the request from inside the app, so we know the data is yours. We reply within 30 days.

Deleting the app from your phone does not delete the backup on our server. Use Delete my data first, or email us.

Age

Worthwhile is for people aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly hold data about anyone under 18. If you think someone under 18 is using the app, email us and we will delete their data.

Keeping it safe

Data travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS). On our server, each account can read and write only its own backup. No method is perfect, but if a breach ever affects your data, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires.

Grievance officer (India)

Under India's Information Technology Rules, our grievance officer is Abhishek Tigga, support@tryworthwhile.app. We reply to complaints within one month.

Changes to this policy

If we change what the app collects, we update this page and its date first. If we start collecting a new kind of data, we update this page before the app sends it, and tell you in the app.

Contact

Abhishek Tigga
support@tryworthwhile.app