Privacy

Information we collect

Filtering happens on your device. GazeGuard blocks harmful and explicit sites, short-video feeds, and chosen apps using filters that run on your phone, not on a server we operate. The sites you visit, the searches you make, the videos you are shown, and which sites or apps were blocked for you are not transmitted to us as part of this filtering. If you use GazeGuard without signing in, the app has no account or progress data to send anywhere. You can see this for yourself: turn your internet off, and the guard keeps working.

Information you choose to give us. If you sign in with Google or Telegram, we receive and store a provider-issued identifier for your account (never your password), your name and profile photo as provided by that service, and, only if you sign in with Google, your email address, because Google includes it in the sign-in response. Signing in is entirely optional; protection, the timer, and the timer-lock all work fully without an account. An account exists for one reason: to keep your progress safe if you change phones.

Information generated by using the app. If you are signed in, GazeGuard periodically syncs your progress numbers (days guarded, streaks, blocked-attempt counts, paused Reels/Shorts, and paused apps), your settings (which protections are on and which apps you have chosen to pause), your Focus Lock statistics, and, if you gave one during setup, your chosen intention, so this can be restored on a new device.

Device and diagnostic information. To keep the app working correctly across many devices, we collect your device model and manufacturer, Android version, app version, language setting, and time zone. Your time zone is used only to show an approximate country in aggregate usage statistics; we do not collect GPS or precise location of any kind. If the app crashes, a diagnostic report is sent directly to our own server. We use no third-party crash or analytics service.

How we use this information

We use account and progress information only to operate the service: to sign you in, to restore your progress on a new phone, to keep the blocklist current, and to understand, in aggregate, how the app is performing so we can fix problems. We do not use your information for advertising, and we do not build a profile of you for any purpose beyond running GazeGuard.

How we share information

We do not sell your information, rent it, or share it with data brokers or advertisers. We work with a small number of service providers strictly to operate GazeGuard:

• Google and Telegram, for sign-in, if you choose to use them.
• CleanBrowsing, a family-safe DNS resolver, which handles ordinary lookups for sites that are not blocked, the same way any network's resolver would. It receives nothing from us beyond the standard DNS query your phone would send regardless of which app you were using.
• MongoDB Atlas, a managed database provider, which stores account and progress data on our behalf, under contract, and does not use it for its own purposes.

We may also disclose information if required by law, or to protect the rights, safety, or property of GazeGuard, our users, or the public.

How long we keep it

Data that stays on your device (settings, filtering decisions) is removed the moment you uninstall the app. Account and progress data on our server is kept for as long as your account is active, and is deleted on request, as described below. Diagnostic crash reports are kept only long enough to investigate and fix the issue they describe, then removed.

Your rights and choices

You are always in control. You can see your own progress numbers at any time inside the app (access), and change your display name and photo from your profile (correction). You can permanently delete your account and all associated data yourself, at any time, right inside the app: open your Profile and tap Delete my account. This immediately and permanently removes your profile, your synced stats, and your login sessions from our servers; it cannot be undone and requires no email to us (deletion). On request, we will provide a copy of your stored data in a common, machine-readable format (portability). You can sign out at any time (withdrawing consent); signing out does not itself delete your synced data, so use in-app deletion for that. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or a jurisdiction with similar data-protection law, these rights are provided to you under that law as well as under this policy.

This website

The site you are reading is static files. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics scripts, and includes no third-party trackers or embeds. Fonts and images are served from this domain.

Children

GazeGuard is often installed by a parent or guardian to protect a child's device, and the app itself collects nothing from any user, of any age, unless an account is created. We do not knowingly collect personal information from a child under 13 through the account sign-in flow. If you believe a child has created an account without appropriate consent, contact us and we will remove it.

Security

Account credentials are never stored by us; sign-in is handled entirely by Google or Telegram. Session tokens are stored on our server as a one-way cryptographic hash, not as plain text, so a database compromise alone could not be used to sign in as you. Traffic between the app and our server is encrypted (HTTPS). No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable, industry-standard measures to protect the limited information we hold.

Changes to this policy

If we make a material change to this policy, we will update the date above and, where appropriate, notify you inside the app. Continuing to use GazeGuard after a change takes effect means you accept the updated policy.

Contact

Questions, requests, or concerns about this policy or your data: ifactstudios@gmail.com or t.me/GazeGuardCommunity.

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