Your data, explained.

Last updated: September 26, 2026

Website and support privacy notice

This section applies to applimiter.garbarz.eu and email enquiries. The mobile application policy follows below. The website and email services process information separately from the data that stays on your iPhone.

Controller and contact

Paweł Garbarz, Poland, is responsible for handling website and support information. For privacy questions and requests, email pawel@garbarz.eu.

Website requests and browser storage

When you visit, the hosting infrastructure receives technical information needed to deliver the page, including your IP address, requested URL, request time, and browser information. Hosting and security providers may process request logs to deliver the website and prevent abuse. The purpose and legitimate interest are operating a secure, available website (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

We use local storage to remember your separate analytics and marketing consent choices after you save them in the cookie banner. Read the cookie policy for storage details and tracking technologies.

Website analytics and marketing

We use Google Analytics and marketing technologies to measure website visits, page views, interactions, referral sources, conversions, and campaign effectiveness, and to support remarketing or interest-based advertising where enabled. Depending on the tools and settings selected, data may include browser and device information, cookie or device identifiers, page URLs, and interaction and campaign events.

The basis for optional analytics and marketing processing is your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). Analytics and marketing require separate choices and must remain disabled until you consent to the relevant purpose. You can refuse optional tracking and still use the website. Use “Cookie settings” in the footer to change your preferences or withdraw consent with “Reject optional”.

With consent, analytics and advertising providers, including Google for Google Analytics, may receive tracking information. See Google’s explanation of data use on partner sites and Google’s privacy policy. For questions about recipients, retention, or international transfers, contact us using the details above.

Support emails

If you email us, we receive your email address, the message, and any details or attachments you choose to send. We use them to answer your enquiry and troubleshoot your issue. For support needed to provide a service you requested, the basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR; for general enquiries, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR applies, with the legitimate interest of responding to correspondence.

Providing information by email is voluntary, but without an address and enough detail we may be unable to respond. Do not send your PIN, payment credentials, or sensitive information. Email providers process correspondence to deliver and store messages; hosting and security providers process technical website requests.

How long information is kept

Your cookie consent choices are remembered for 180 days from your last saved choice, or until you clear site data. If browser storage is blocked, the choice is remembered only while this page remains open. Technical website logs are retained for up to 90 days. Support correspondence is kept for as long as needed to handle the enquiry and any follow-up; if information must be retained for a legal obligation or a dispute, it is limited to the applicable obligation or limitation period.

Your rights

Where the GDPR applies, you may request access, rectification, erasure, or restriction, object to processing based on legitimate interests, and request data portability where processing is automated and based on consent or a contract. If processing is based on consent, you can withdraw it at any time without affecting earlier lawful processing. Marketing tools may build interest or audience profiles for advertising when you consent; we do not use this information for automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.

Contact us at the email above to exercise your rights. We normally respond within one month; if a lawful extension is needed, we will explain it within that month. You can lodge a complaint with the Polish supervisory authority, Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych (UODO), or the supervisory authority in the EU country where you live or work.

External services

Links to Apple and other websites lead to services with their own privacy notices. The app’s local-only storage statements below do not describe hosting or email infrastructure.

Full Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Paweł Garbarz ("we", "us", "our", or the "Developer") handles information when you use the mobile application AppLimiter (the "App") on iOS.

This Policy explains information handling; it does not request consent or make the use of the App consent to personal-data processing.

1. Who is responsible for your data

The data controller is:

Paweł Garbarz
Poland
pawel@garbarz.eu

2. Summary

AppLimiter helps you limit how often selected apps can be opened. It uses Apple’s Screen Time frameworks to apply limits on your device.

The App:

• does not require an account;
• does not ask for your name, email address, telephone number, or location;
• contains no advertising or third-party analytics SDK;
• does not operate its own server or push-notification service;
• does not make network connections of its own, except where Apple services are involved in an App Store purchase or entitlement check, if applicable;
• stores its configuration and locally generated usage information in the App’s private container on your device.

3. Information stored locally by the App

The App stores the following information locally on your device:

• limits and schedules, including daily opening limits, session lengths, protected hours, and exclusions;
• cooldown settings;
• protected-hours settings;
• application settings;
• counts of openings used and other locally generated usage history or statistics;
• anonymous tokens representing the apps or categories you selected for limiting;
• PIN-protection settings and related local configuration.

This information is stored in the App’s private container. The Developer does not receive a copy of this information.

4. Retention period

Daily opening counts and locally generated usage history are retained on the device for up to 90 days so that the App can provide local history, streak, and trend features. Older records are removed or become unavailable as part of the App’s local data-retention process.

App configuration, PIN settings, and other settings may remain on the device until you change or delete them, remove the App, or otherwise clear the App’s local data through iOS.

5. Screen Time data and selected apps

AppLimiter uses Apple’s Family Controls, Managed Settings, and Device Activity frameworks. These frameworks provide important privacy protections.

Anonymous app tokens

When you select apps or categories to limit, iOS provides the App with opaque tokens rather than app names or bundle identifiers. AppLimiter cannot determine the names of the selected apps from these tokens.

The tokens are meaningful only within the relevant device and App installation. They are not transmitted to the Developer and are not used to identify you.

System Screen Time statistics

The Developer does not read or receive Apple’s system Screen Time data. Where system usage figures are displayed, they are rendered by iOS in a sandboxed view.

AppLimiter cannot read, store, or transmit those system usage values. Any figures shown elsewhere in the App, such as openings used, minutes granted, streaks, or weekly trends, are AppLimiter’s own counters generated locally on your device.

Screen Time permission is used to apply and remove limits for the apps you selected. You can revoke this permission at any time in iOS Settings under Screen Time. When permission is revoked, the App’s ability to apply or remove those limits stops.

6. Notifications

If you allow notifications, AppLimiter schedules and delivers them locally on your device.

Notification content does not pass through the Developer’s systems or a third party. AppLimiter does not operate an APNs-based push-notification server or any other push-notification backend.

7. Apple services and StoreKit

If the App offers a purchase or subscription, Apple processes the transaction through the App Store and StoreKit. Apple may store information necessary to process, validate, and provide the purchase.

AppLimiter reads only the local entitlement or purchase status needed to enable the relevant feature, for example whether an entitlement is active. The Developer does not receive your payment card details or other payment credentials.

Apple’s processing of purchase-related information is governed by Apple’s privacy policy.

8. Information we do not collect

The Developer does not collect through AppLimiter:

• your name, email address, telephone number, or postal address;
• precise or coarse location;
• contacts, photos, camera contents, or microphone recordings;
• health or fitness data;
• financial account details or payment credentials;
• browsing history, messages, or the content of other apps;
• Apple’s system Screen Time usage statistics;
• the names of apps or categories selected for limiting;
• your device’s advertising identifier (IDFA).

The App uses no advertising SDK and no third-party analytics SDK.

9. App Tracking Transparency

App Tracking Transparency does not apply to AppLimiter because the App does not use advertising or tracking SDKs and does not access your device’s advertising identifier for tracking.

The App therefore does not request permission to track you across apps or websites owned by other companies.

10. How information is used

Locally stored information is used only to operate AppLimiter and provide its features, including:

• applying opening limits, cooldowns, schedules, and protected hours;
• showing locally generated opening counts, history, and trends;
• scheduling local notifications, if you enable them;
• protecting selected settings with a PIN;
• determining whether a locally available StoreKit entitlement is active, if the App offers purchases or subscriptions.

The Developer does not use this information for advertising, profiling, sale, or unrelated marketing.

11. Legal bases under the GDPR

Where the EU General Data Protection Regulation applies, the relevant legal bases are:

• performance of a contract or provision of the requested service, because locally stored information is needed to provide AppLimiter’s features;
• consent, where you grant permissions such as Screen Time access or local notifications;
• legitimate interests, where necessary to maintain, secure, and improve the App without using the information for advertising or profiling.

You can withdraw permissions through iOS Settings and can delete locally stored App data by removing the App, subject to how iOS manages backups or Apple services outside the Developer’s control.

12. International transfers

The Developer does not operate servers and does not otherwise transfer your AppLimiter data internationally.

If the App offers purchases or subscriptions, Apple may process purchase-related information on servers outside your country as part of Apple’s global infrastructure. That processing is governed by Apple’s privacy policy.

13. Security

App data is stored in the App’s private container and protected by standard iOS system protections, including file-level encryption when the device is locked, where supported by the device and iOS configuration.

The App does not transmit locally stored configuration or usage history to the Developer. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, so absolute security cannot be guaranteed.

14. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights under applicable data-protection law, including rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to processing and to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Because AppLimiter is designed not to collect personal data on the Developer’s systems, the Developer may be unable to identify or retrieve locally stored App data. For questions or requests, contact the Developer using the address below.

15. Children and family use

AppLimiter may be used by families and may be configured on a child’s iPhone by a parent or guardian. The App does not create child profiles or transmit children’s personal data to the Developer.

Parents and guardians are responsible for configuring the App appropriately and for ensuring that its use complies with applicable law.

16. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, by providing an in-app or website notice.

If a change requires your consent under applicable law, we will request it separately before the relevant processing begins.

17. Contact

Questions or requests regarding this Privacy Policy can be sent to:

Paweł Garbarz: pawel@garbarz.eu