Privacy Policy

Last updated: 22 October 2026 · Applies to the FocusEdge apps for Android, iPhone and iPad, and focusedge.app

FocusEdge is built on a simple idea: a study switch for your own phone should not need to know anything about you or your child. This policy lists everything we handle, and what we never collect.

What the app does NOT collect

• No browsing history and no record of websites visited
• No record of which apps were opened or for how long
• No screenshots, screen recordings, keystrokes or notifications
• No GPS or precise location
• No contacts, messages, photos or files

Study Mode is enforced entirely on your device. Blocking decisions are made on the phone in your hand and are never logged or transmitted.

Your account

You sign in with Google, with Apple (on iPhone and iPad), or with your email address and a password. We keep your email address (and your name, if Google or Apple gives it to us) and use them only to sign you in, to email you a code if you forget your PIN or password, to tell you if FocusEdge has been switched off on your phone, to remind you (twice at most) if you made an account but did not finish setting FocusEdge up, and to manage your subscription. Passwords are stored only as a secure hash by our sign-in provider; we cannot read them.

If you sign in with Apple and choose to hide your email, we keep the private address Apple gives us instead. We also keep a token from Apple, used for one thing only: to remove FocusEdge's access to your Apple Account when you delete your FocusEdge account.

What the app sends us

About twice a day, and when you sign in, move through setup or a permission changes, the app sends a short report so we can keep FocusEdge working on your phone and fix problems. It contains:

• Your phone's maker, model and Android or iOS version, and the app version
• Your phone's language, and the language you chose in FocusEdge
• Which setup step you are on, until setup is finished
• Whether each permission FocusEdge needs is on (on iPhone and iPad, Screen Time access), whether it is running, and on Android why the phone last closed it
• Your study apps and study websites lists, and whether web protection is on. On iPhone and iPad we receive only how many study apps you chose: Apple does not tell FocusEdge which apps they are.
• For each day: how many times Study Mode was turned on, and for how many minutes in total. Never when it was on, and never what was opened.
• A code made with a secret key from your phone's Android ID or, on iPhone and iPad, from a random number FocusEdge makes on the phone. We cannot turn it back into the original; it lets each phone have one free trial.

With each report we also note roughly where the phone is: the country, state and city that our server provider (Vercel) works out from the report's internet (IP) address. We keep only those place names, not the IP address, and use them to see which places FocusEdge is used in. The app never reads your phone's GPS or location.

Separately, from the first time you open it until setup is finished, the app tells us which screen it reached (for example "opened", "signed in", "PIN chosen"), so we can see where setup is hard and fix it. This is counted without your account: it is sent with a random number the app makes when first opened, which is not a device ID, is never linked to you, and is replaced if you reinstall. With it we keep the app version, the app language and the same rough place (country and city) as above.

Measuring our ads (Android)

We advertise FocusEdge on Google. So that Google can tell which ads bring parents who actually set FocusEdge up, the Android app uses Google Analytics for Firebase to tell Google three things: that the app was opened for the first time, that you signed in, and that setup was finished. These go with your phone's advertising ID and Firebase's own app ID, and Google also notes basic details such as the phone model, Android version and rough location. Nothing else from FocusEdge goes to Google: not your email, your study lists, your Study Mode use or anything about your child. We have turned off screen tracking and ad personalisation. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's Settings, under Google > Ads (on some phones, Privacy > Ads). Google handles this under its own privacy policy. The iPhone and iPad app does not do this.

That is the complete list. We do not sell this information or use it for anything other than running FocusEdge and measuring our ads as described above. It is stored with Supabase (database) and Vercel (servers), and our emails (PIN reset codes, the notice that FocusEdge was switched off or has stopped checking in, and the setup reminder) are sent through Twilio SendGrid.

What stays on your phone only

• Your PIN, stored as a salted cryptographic hash on the device (we could not read it even if we wanted to)
• The database of website categories used to block inappropriate websites — it comes with the app, so blocking works even when you're offline. On iPhone and iPad, Apple's own filter does this, with a short list of websites that comes with the app.
• On iPhone and iPad, which apps you chose as study apps

Purchases

Subscriptions are processed by Google Play on Android and by Apple's App Store on iPhone and iPad. We receive confirmation that a subscription is active, with its price and the country of the store, but Google or Apple handles your payment details; we never see your card, UPI or bank information.

The website (focusedge.app)

The website collects nothing itself, except the email address you enter on the delete-account page, which is used only to send you the deletion link. Standard web server logs (IP address, browser type) may be retained briefly for security.

Children's data

FocusEdge is installed and operated by a parent on the parent's own phone. Children have no accounts, and the app collects no personal information about them: nothing a child opens, types or browses is recorded or sent.

Permissions the app asks for, and why

On Android:

• Accessibility — to detect which app or website is opening so Study Mode can allow or block it. Used for enforcement only; nothing is logged or transmitted.
• Display over other apps — to show the block screen when a non-study app is opened.
• Ignore battery optimisation — so the phone maker's battery saver doesn't switch protection off mid-session.
• Installed apps — to list the apps on your phone, so you can choose your study apps and FocusEdge can block the rest.
• Notifications, and running in the background — Android requires a notification while FocusEdge runs in the background; it shows whether Study Mode and web protection are on.
• Start when the phone starts — so protection comes back on after a restart.
• Internet — to sign you in, send the report described above, and email PIN reset codes.

On iPhone and iPad:

• Screen Time access — to lock apps and block websites. Apple does not tell FocusEdge which apps or websites are opened, so there is nothing for us to log or transmit.
• Face ID or Touch ID (only if you turn it on) — to unlock in place of your PIN. Your iPhone or iPad does the check; FocusEdge never sees your face or fingerprint.
• Internet — to sign you in, send the report described above, and email PIN reset codes.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date above changes with it, and material changes will be noted in the app's update notes. To delete your account and everything stored with it, use Account > Delete account in the app or focusedge.app/delete-account. Questions: admin@qrcall.com.au.

FocusEdge is operated by ParentalEdge.