Privacy Policy

Effective date: 22 October 2026 · Last updated: 22 October 2026

Focus Angler (the "App") is a focus app: you cast a line, focus, and a fish bites when the time is up. This policy explains what information the App handles, where it is kept, and what is left to your choice. It covers the Focus Angler iPhone and iPad app, its widgets, Live Activities, controls and Siri shortcuts, and its Apple Watch app.

1. Who is responsible

Focus Angler is made and run by Mert Çelik, an individual developer ("we", "us"), who is the data controller for the information described here.

Contact: celik.mert58@hotmail.com. A postal address is available on request.

2. What stays on your device

Your catches, focus sessions and statistics, the tasks you focus on, the angler, companion, rod and style you pick, the name and short line you write, your badges and your settings are saved in the App's own folder on your device. The widgets, the Live Activity and the control read a small summary of them (for example the time left in a focus) from a storage area shared only with Focus Angler's own extensions. Your paired Apple Watch receives the same summary directly from your iPhone.

Purpose: to run the App. Legal basis (GDPR / KVKK): performance of our agreement with you.

3. iCloud sync (optional)

If iCloud sync is on, your save is written to the private CloudKit database of your Apple Account, so your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch stay the same. Only you can see this database; we cannot. Apple stores it under Apple's privacy policy.

Purpose: syncing your devices. Legal basis: performance of our agreement with you.

4. Friend rooms (optional)

When you open or join a room with a 6-digit code, the following is written to the public CloudKit database of Focus Angler so the people in the room can see it: a random identifier made on your device (not linked to your Apple Account), the room code, the name you typed, your angler, companion, rod and art style, whether you are focusing, paused, on a break or idle, when your focus began and ends, today's focus minutes and fish count, the kind of your latest fish and when you caught it, and, if you opened the room, the place, season and time of day you chose.

Anyone who knows the room code can see this. We, as the developer, can also read the public database, and only use that to keep rooms working and to act on misuse. When you leave the room (or erase your data) your record is deleted; records older than 12 hours are no longer shown. When a friend casts, you get a notice through Apple's CloudKit and Push services.

Please don't put your real full name or other personal details in your name.

Reporting and blocking. Each person's row in a room has a flag. If you report someone, a report record is written to the public CloudKit database that only we can read: the room code, the reported person's random identifier and name, your random identifier and the time. If you block someone, their random identifier is kept on your device only, and they are no longer shown to you in any room.

Purpose: shared focus with friends. Legal basis: performance of our agreement with you; our legitimate interest in preventing misuse.

5. SharePlay (optional)

If you fish together in a FaceTime call, the same room information as above is sent to the other people in the call through Apple's SharePlay. It is not stored by us and disappears when the session ends.

6. Game Center (optional)

If you are signed in to Game Center, your weekly focus minutes are sent to the weekly leaderboard and your achievements are reported to Game Center. Your Game Center identity and these results are handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy, and you can manage them in Game Center settings.

7. Apple Health and Calendar (optional, write-only)

With your permission, your focus time is written to Apple Health as mindful minutes, and finished sessions are added to your calendar as events. Focus Angler never reads your Health data or your calendar. What it writes stays in those apps, where you can delete it. You can turn off either permission at any time in iOS Settings.

Data from Apple Health is never used for advertising, never shared with third parties and never stored in iCloud by the App.

Legal basis: your consent.

8. Focus shield (Screen Time, optional)

If you turn on the focus shield and allow Screen Time, iOS covers your apps and websites with a shield while a focus runs, and lifts it for a break, when a fish bites and when you stop. With Focus Angler+ you can pick, in Apple's Screen Time picker, the apps that stay reachable. iOS hands the App your choice only as opaque tokens, which are kept on your device and are not synced to iCloud. We cannot see which apps you chose or how you use any app, and none of this is ever sent anywhere.

Legal basis: your consent (the Screen Time permission).

9. Music

The App plays its own music and nature sounds on your device. If you choose Apple Music, the App asks for access to your media library only to start and pause what you last played in the Music app when a focus starts and ends; it does not read or send your library or listening history. If you choose Spotify, the App only opens the Spotify app; nothing is shared with Spotify.

10. Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight and Apple Intelligence

So that you can ask Siri about your catches and find them in Spotlight, the App adds your catches and fish kinds to your device's on-device search index and tells the system when you cast or catch (donations). Requests you make to Siri are processed by Apple under Apple's privacy policy.

Where Apple Intelligence is available, the short look back on your week and the tale of a biggest catch are written by Apple's on-device model from your own statistics. Nothing is sent to us or to a server for this.

11. Notifications and alarms

The end of a focus, the end of a break and the daily reminder are scheduled on your device as local notifications or, on iOS 26 and later, as an alarm (AlarmKit). Friend-room notices arrive through Apple's CloudKit and Push services; Apple handles the push tokens.

12. Purchases

Focus Angler+ is bought through the App Store. Apple processes the payment; we never receive your card or payment details. The App only learns from Apple whether Focus Angler+ is active.

13. What we do not do

• No analytics, advertising or tracking frameworks, and no third-party SDKs.
• No tracking across apps or websites, so the App never asks for App Tracking Transparency.
• No location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone access.
• No selling or sharing of personal information for advertising ("sale" or "sharing" as U.S. state laws define them).

The App's privacy manifest (PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy) and its App Store privacy label match this policy: no tracking, and the only data collected is what a friend room holds (the name you type, a random identifier made on your device, your room activity and any reports, section 4), used only to run that feature and not linked to your identity.

14. Who sees your information

• People in your room or SharePlay call: what is listed in sections 4 and 5.
• Apple: as the provider of iCloud/CloudKit, SharePlay, Game Center, Push, Siri, Health, Calendar and the App Store, under Apple's privacy policy (apple.com/legal/privacy).
• Authorities: only if the law requires it, or to protect the safety of users.

Nobody else. We do not share information with advertisers, data brokers or analytics companies.

15. How long it is kept

• On your device and in your private iCloud: until you delete it, erase it in the App, or remove the App (iCloud copies follow your iCloud settings).
• Friend room records: until you leave the room or erase your data; they stop being shown after 12 hours.
• Reports: as long as needed to review them and to prevent repeated misuse, then deleted.
• The people you blocked: on your device, until you erase your data.
• Game Center, Health and Calendar entries: in those Apple apps, until you remove them there.

16. Deleting your data

Delete account and reset at the bottom of Settings deletes your save on this device and in iCloud, your friend-room record, the App's search index entries, scheduled notifications and widget pictures, and brings the App back to its first day. Your Focus Angler+ purchase stays with your Apple Account and comes back with "Restore purchases". Entries already written to Game Center, Apple Health or Calendar can be removed in those apps.

17. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example the EU/EEA and UK under the GDPR, Türkiye under the KVKK (Law No. 6698), or California under the CCPA/CPRA), you may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your personal data, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time. Because almost everything is on your device or in your own iCloud, you can do most of this yourself in the App and in iOS Settings. For anything else, write to celik.mert58@hotmail.com and we will answer within the time the law sets (30 days at most). You can also complain to your data protection authority (in Türkiye, the KVKK Board).

18. International transfers

iCloud, CloudKit, Game Center and SharePlay data is stored and processed by Apple, which may be in data centres outside your country. Apple handles these transfers under its own safeguards.

19. Children

Focus Angler is suitable for all ages and asks no one for personal information. The only thing others can see is the name typed for a friend room, and only by people who have the room code. We recommend that children use a nickname and join rooms only with people they know, with a parent's help. If you believe a child shared personal information in a room, contact us and we will delete it.

20. Security

Your data is protected by your device's encryption and by Apple's iCloud and CloudKit security. We run no servers and collect no passwords or payment data, so there is very little of your data in our hands. No system is perfectly secure, but the App is designed to hold as little as possible.

21. Changes

If we change this policy, we update the text in the App and the date at the top. If a change is important, we let you know in the App.

22. Contact

Mert Çelik · celik.mert58@hotmail.com