GoodBully privacy policy

Which apps you block and how many minutes you spend in them never leave your iPhone. GoodBully has no analytics, no advertising and no tracking, and it does not sell anything about you. There is no account unless you choose to put money on a goal, and then only that goal’s daily results are sent.

What GoodBully reads from Screen Time

When you allow it, iOS shares the following with GoodBully through Apple’s Screen Time framework. Where iOS doesn’t offer app usage access, GoodBully reads only what’s needed to shield the apps you pick with Apple’s app picker.

• Which apps are installed, identified by their App Store identifiers. GoodBully uses this to suggest which of your apps belong to each problem you tell it about, such as doom scrolling or online shopping.
• How long you use each app, per day. GoodBully adds this up for each problem to count your minutes against the daily limit you set, and to see whether you’ve met a goal you set for an app you want to use more.

What GoodBully keeps on your iPhone

• Your setup. The problems you picked, the apps in each, your daily limits, any schedules, any goal for an app you want to use more, and when each 30-day run started.
• Daily totals. Minutes per day for each problem, kept for up to 120 days so it can show how your goals went. It keeps totals per problem, not a record of each app.
• Today’s counts. How many times you opened a shielded app today and which check-ins you’ve seen, used to choose what the shield says.
• Your passes. A record of each time you chose “Let me in anyway,” kept for 30 days.
• Your settings, such as how firmly GoodBully speaks, and whether a subscription is active.

This is kept in storage on your device that only GoodBully and its own Screen Time extensions can read. The Screen Time history screen is drawn by iOS inside its own sandbox; GoodBully can’t copy or keep what it shows.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, GoodBully schedules them on your iPhone — for the end of a run, and for a goal you asked to be reminded about. They’re created and delivered on the device. No notification server is involved.

What leaves your iPhone

Nothing, unless you put money on a goal. Staking is optional, and everything else in GoodBully works without it.

When you stake money on a goal, GoodBully needs an account and a server, and the following is sent:

• Sign in with Apple. You’re asked to sign in only at the moment you stake. GoodBully asks Apple for no name and no email address; it receives the identifier Apple issues for you and this app.
• That goal’s daily results. For each day of a staked run: whether your limit was reached and at what time, the time zone the day was judged in, and flags such as Screen Time access being turned off or the goal’s apps being edited mid-run. No app names and no per-app minutes are sent. This is what settles the stake and what an appeal is judged on.
• A device check. Each install creates a key that Apple vouches for once (App Attest), used to sign those daily results so they can’t be forged.
• Your bank link, through Stripe. You connect an account in Stripe’s own screen. Stripe receives your banking details under its own privacy policy; GoodBully keeps only Stripe’s identifiers, never your account number. Stripe is also told where you accepted the debit authorization, which the rules for bank debits require.

None of this is used for advertising, shared with anyone else, or sold. If a stake is forfeited, the money goes to the charity or anti-charity you picked; Meline LLC keeps only the fee you paid when you set the stake, whether you win or lose.

If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone’s settings, Apple may provide Meline LLC with crash reports and aggregate usage statistics. Apple collects and anonymizes those under Apple’s own privacy policy; GoodBully does not.

Subscriptions

A subscription unlocks features such as stricter shields and goals for apps you want to use more. Purchases are handled by Apple, under Apple’s privacy policy. GoodBully receives from Apple whether a subscription is active and when it expires, and keeps that on your device. It never sees your payment details.

Screen Time access

GoodBully asks for Screen Time access to manage your own device. It is not a parental-controls app and does not manage anyone else’s device. You can remove the access in your iPhone’s Screen Time settings, or by deleting GoodBully.

Financial information

Connecting a bank account is optional and only needed to stake money on a goal. The connection is made through Stripe, and GoodBully never stores your account number. Your money is either returned to the account it came from or paid to the destination you chose.

Children

GoodBully is not directed to children under 13 and is not a parental-controls tool.

Deleting your data

Deleting GoodBully from your iPhone deletes everything it stored there and removes its shields.

If you created an account by staking, Delete account in GoodBully’s settings ends every session, unlinks any bank account, deletes your customer record at Stripe and cancels the Apple sign-in. It is refused while a stake is still unsettled, because money is in flight. Records of stakes that have already settled are kept as financial records.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Meline LLC · support@meline.biz