Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 10, 2026
Claim ("Claim", "we", "us") is an iPhone app that blocks the apps you choose until you speak your affirmations out loud. It is built so that the most sensitive things it touches — your voice and the list of apps you block — never leave your iPhone. This policy explains what little data the app does handle, and how.
The short version
- Your voice is never recorded. Affirmations are checked by Apple's on-device speech recognition. No audio and no transcript is ever stored or sent anywhere.
- No camera, ever. Claim does not use the camera and never asks for access to it.
- We cannot see which apps you block. Apple's Screen Time technology keeps your selection on your device in a form that is unreadable to us.
- No account required. Everything works on-device. If you do sign in, your affirmations, schedules, and progress sync to your account — and you can delete it all, in the app, at any time.
- No ads, no trackers, no selling data. Ever.
Who we are
Claim is developed by David Cohen. For anything in this policy, contact cohend863@gmail.com.
What never leaves your iPhone
Your voice
When you unlock by speaking your affirmations, the microphone audio is processed by Apple's speech recognition running entirely on your device, using a language model installed locally. The audio is analyzed in the moment and discarded: no recording is made, no transcript is saved, and nothing about what you said is transmitted off the device — whether you match your affirmation or not.
Your camera
Claim does not use the camera at all — it never requests camera permission, so it cannot see you. The unlock ritual is voice-only.
The apps you block
Claim uses Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) technology to block apps. Apple designed this so that your app selection is represented by opaque tokens: Claim itself cannot read which apps they are, and the selection never syncs to our servers. Which apps you block is between you and your iPhone.
Data stored on your device
The app keeps its working data in its own sandboxed storage on your iPhone: your routines and schedules, your affirmation sets (including ones you write), a history of lock and unlock moments (the kind of event, the routine's name, and the time — never audio or transcripts), your settings, and your subscription status. If you never sign in, this data exists nowhere else, and deleting the app deletes it.
If you create an account (optional)
You can use all of Claim without an account. Signing in with Apple creates an account so your practice can be backed up and synced across your devices. When signed in, we store:
- Account details: an account identifier and the email address your Apple ID shares with us (which may be Apple's private relay address if you choose to hide your email).
- Your affirmations: the affirmation sets you use and the custom affirmations you write.
- Your routines: routine names and schedules — but not the apps they block (see above; those never leave the device).
- Your progress: history events (event type, routine name, timestamp) that power your streaks and stats.
- Your settings: app preferences, including the answers you gave during onboarding (such as your goals), which personalize your experience.
This data is stored in our database hosted by Supabase, protected in transit by TLS and isolated per account at the database level, so your data is only ever readable by your own signed-in account.
Anonymous usage analytics
To understand whether Claim is helping, the app can report a small set of anonymous usage events: app opened, ritual completed, emergency unlock used, lock started manually, and routine created. Each stored event is only the event name, the app version, and a timestamp — no account identifier, no device identifier, and no content is attached to it. Separately, a simple per-account daily counter (containing no event details) protects the service from abuse.
You can turn this off any time in Settings → Privacy → Share anonymous analytics; when off, nothing is sent.
Subscriptions and payments
Premium is billed by Apple through your Apple ID. We never see or store your payment details. We use RevenueCat to manage subscriptions: it processes your purchase information together with a random app-specific identifier. To keep Premium active across your devices, we record your subscription's status (including Apple's transaction identifiers) against your account, and Apple notifies our server about subscription events such as renewals and refunds.
Service providers
We use a small number of providers to run Claim, each only for the purpose described:
- Apple — Sign in with Apple, App Store billing, and on-device technologies (speech recognition, Screen Time).
- Supabase — hosts our database and authentication.
- RevenueCat — subscription management.
We do not sell or rent your personal information, and we do not share it with anyone for advertising. There are no advertising or tracking SDKs in the app.
Retention and deletion
- Delete your account in the app: Settings → Account → Delete Account. This permanently erases your account and all synced data from our servers.
- Local data: deleting the app from your iPhone deletes everything stored on the device.
- Analytics: events are stored without identity, so they cannot be linked back to you; we keep them only as aggregate usage history.
- You can also email us at cohend863@gmail.com and we will delete your data for you.
Security
Data syncs over encrypted connections (TLS). Server-side, every record is bound to your account and enforced row-by-row at the database level. Sign-in sessions are kept in the iOS Keychain. The most sensitive data — voice, camera, and app selections — is protected the strongest way we know: it is never collected in the first place.
Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR, UK GDPR, or California law), you may have rights to access, correct, export, restrict, or delete your personal data, and to object to certain processing. You can exercise the most important ones directly in the app (deletion, analytics opt-out) or by emailing us. If you are in the EU/UK you also have the right to complain to your data-protection authority. We do not sell or "share" personal information as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act.
Children
Claim is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will update this page and the date at the top. For material changes we will let you know in the app.