Privacy policy
In short
Burrow creates no account, shows no ads, uses no audience measurement tool and has no server. Your sessions, blocks, subjects if you turn on Study mode, and progress stay on your iPhone. The publisher receives none of it.
Your data never trains any AI.
The only data the publisher receives is what you send yourself, for example when you write to support.
The full text follows, part by part. Use the contents list to jump to what you need.
1. Who is responsible
Burrow is published by Alex Gerard (a natural person resident in Belgium; [BCE/KBO NUMBER if applicable]), Rue Saint-Martin 87, 6860 Ebly (Léglise), Belgium. For any question about your data: support@burrowfocus.app.
Because the app sends no personal data to the publisher, the publisher is a data controller only for the messages you send (part 7) and for this website's technical logs (part 8). [TO BE CONFIRMED BY THE LAWYER: GDPR analysis and whether a data protection officer is needed]
2. Data that stays on your iPhone
Burrow stores on your device:
- your presets and, if you turn on Study mode, your subjects and exams;
- your session history (lengths, subject, a reflection note if you write one);
- your block profiles, as opaque tokens provided by Apple (see part 3);
- your progress: streaks, goals, Gaston's burrow, finds;
- your preferences and your subscription status, read from Apple;
- where the law requires it, the age range your iPhone shares with the app (see part 10).
This data lives in the app's protected storage on your iPhone and in a space shared only with Burrow's own extensions (widgets, blocking screen). It is not sent to any publisher server, because none exists.
3. Screen Time
To block apps, Burrow uses Apple's Screen Time tools (Family Controls, Managed Settings, Device Activity) with "individual" authorization: it covers only your own iPhone.
- When you pick apps, categories or websites, iOS gives Burrow opaque tokens. Burrow cannot work out the names of the apps from them. Names and icons are drawn by Apple's own components.
- You can remove the authorization at any time in Settings, Screen Time.
4. Spotlight and Siri
Burrow uses two Apple features that keep a small index on your iPhone, handled by iOS and never sent to the publisher:
- Spotlight. If you turn on Study mode, Burrow adds your subjects and exams to Spotlight search so you can find them from the Home Screen. Entries stay on your iPhone.
- Siri and Shortcuts. When you start a session in Burrow, the app tells iOS ("donation") so Siri can suggest it at the right time. The suggestion is computed on your iPhone.
You can turn both off in the iOS Settings, in Burrow's Siri and Search options. "Delete all my data" in Burrow also removes these entries and donations.
5. Notifications
Burrow's notifications are local: the iPhone schedules them itself, without a server. They cover the end of a focus phase, unlocking and, for subscribers, subscription reminders. Burrow never sends promotional notifications. Streak and goal reminders stay off until you turn them on.
6. Purchases
Purchases go through the App Store with your Apple Account. Burrow receives neither your payment method nor your identity: the app only checks, on your iPhone, whether you are entitled to Pro. The publisher sees aggregated sales in Apple's reports, not linked to an identified person.
7. When you write to support
| Data | Your email address, the content of your message and what you attach (iOS version, screenshot...). Do not include sensitive information. |
|---|---|
| Why | To answer your request and fix the problems you report. |
| Legal basis | Your request (pre-contractual steps or performance of the service) and the legitimate interest in helping users. [TO BE CONFIRMED BY THE LAWYER] |
| Recipients | The publisher and its email provider, [EMAIL PROVIDER]. No sale, no advertising use. |
| Retention | [RETENTION PERIOD, for example 12 months after the last exchange], then deletion. |
8. This website
This website uses no cookies, no audience measurement tool and no third-party script or font. The host, [HOSTING PROVIDER], may keep technical logs (IP address, date, requested page) for [PERIOD] to keep the service secure.
9. What Burrow does not do
- No account and no advertising identifier.
- No tracking across apps or websites, no ads, no sale of data.
- No third-party SDK in the app, no usage analytics.
- Your data never trains any AI: your sessions, notes, subjects, exams and block lists are never used to train any model, by the publisher or anyone else. Nothing is sent to an artificial intelligence service.
If, in Settings, Privacy & Security, Analytics & Improvements, you chose to share data with developers, Apple may send the publisher anonymized crash reports. That setting belongs to Apple, not to Burrow.
10. Minors
Burrow is made for high-school and university students. It does not ask your age, collects no personal data from anyone and offers the same features at every age. Burrow is not intended for children under 13. [TO BE CONFIRMED BY THE LAWYER: COPPA, GDPR article 8, French Data Protection Act article 45]
In regions where the law requires Apple to share an age range with apps, Burrow receives it through iOS, keeps it on your iPhone and uses it only to follow that law. No feature, price or notification depends on your age.
Apple never gives Burrow your birth date, only a range such as 13 to 15 or 18 and over. Where the law requires it, Burrow asks for that range each time it opens and waits for it before showing its screens; the range is erased when you use "Delete all my data" in Settings.
Purchases depend on the Apple Account. In a Family Sharing group, the organizer can approve them with Ask to Buy.
11. Your rights
For the data the publisher holds (parts 7 and 8), you can ask for access, correction, erasure or restriction, object to the processing or ask for portability by writing to support@burrowfocus.app. We answer within one month. You can also lodge a complaint with the Belgian supervisory authority, the Data Protection Authority (Autorité de protection des données, APD / Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit, GBA), rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels (autoriteprotectiondonnees.be), or with the data protection authority of your EU country of residence.
For the data on your iPhone, you control it directly:
- erase everything from Settings in Burrow ("Delete all my data");
- delete the app, which deletes its local data;
12. Security and transfers
Because the data is on your iPhone, its security depends first on your device: passcode, iOS updates. Burrow relies on iOS data protection. The publisher sends no app data outside the European Union, since it receives none. Processing done by Apple follows Apple's policy.
13. Changes to this text
If Burrow changes how it handles data, this text will be updated before the affected version ships, with a new date at the top. An important change will also be announced in the app and in the release notes.
14. Contact
Alex Gerard
Rue Saint-Martin 87, 6860 Ebly (Léglise), Belgium
support@burrowfocus.app