Privacy Policy

What Odak stores on your device

• The list of apps you chose to lock, and your lock and break settings.
• Your wait-escalation state: how many times you have opened a locked app today.
• On Android, usage statistics are read with your permission and computed on your device. On iOS, Apple’s Device Activity report extension displays usage reports on the device; the host app does not receive the raw report data. Usage reports are not sent to us or RevenueCat.
• Your Focus programs: their times and days, plus their per-program app scope on Android. On iOS, Apple applies the complete private Screen Time selection.
• A passive “time saved” counter based on local wall-clock timestamps.
• A local record of deterrent attempts, breaks and completed skip purchases, including each skip’s store-provided price and currency.

This app-usage and commitment information stays in the app’s private storage or the Android device backup described above. The separate purchase, entitlement and technical information processed by RevenueCat is described below. We do not run a product-usage analytics or crash-reporting service.

What Odak does not do

• No login, and no collection of your name, email address or phone number.
• No advertising identifiers or device identifiers for advertising or tracking. Odak does not request GPS or device-location permission. RevenueCat may infer a country from a network connection, as explained below.
• No advertising, product-usage analytics or behavioural profiling. RevenueCat processes purchase history for the payment purposes described below.
• No selling or sharing of your app-usage data or locked-app list.
• The Accessibility service does not inspect screen text, typed input, controls or descriptions; take screenshots; or perform actions.
• If notification tidying is enabled, Odak uses only the source app. Notification words are never saved, transmitted or seen by us.

Permissions Odak uses, and why

Each permission is explained in the app before the system sends you to grant it. Each is used only for the purpose stated here, and each can be withdrawn at any time in your system settings.

On iOS

• Screen Time authorization (Family Controls): Odak uses Apple’s Screen Time APIs to shield the apps you chose and to show its own block screen when you open one. You grant this in the system prompt and can withdraw it in Settings → Screen Time.
• What Apple’s design means for your privacy: the apps you select reach Odak as opaque, privacy-preserving tokens issued by the system — not as a readable list of your installed apps. Activity and shield events are handled on-device by app extensions and are never transmitted to us.
• Notifications — optional: weekly summaries, reminders and a user-initiated handoff after you tap “Open Odak” on Apple’s block screen. That local notification lets you open Odak and continue to the friction gate. If notifications are denied or silenced, opening Odak yourself reaches the same gate.

On Android

• Usage Access: detects when a locked app is opened and creates on-device usage statistics. Nothing is transmitted.
• Display over other apps: shows Odak’s own block and wait screen over a locked app. It never covers system navigation or Settings.
• Notifications: shows the ongoing protection notification and gentle reminders.
• Run at startup: resumes protection after the device restarts.
• Foreground service: keeps enforcement running so the block screen can appear promptly.
• Accessibility service — optional: closes a Recents-screen detection gap. Odak uses only foreground package and window identity metadata. It does not read accessibility nodes, screen content, text or controls, and performs no gestures.
• Notification access — optional: dismisses notifications from apps you locked. Android supplies the full notification, but Odak reads only which app posted it. Calls, navigation, music and Odak’s own notification are not touched.
• Internet: required for Google Play billing and RevenueCat’s Premium payment-verification SDK. Your locked-app list and usage data are not transmitted.

You can revoke any permission through Android Settings without contacting us.

Payments

Skip purchases are processed by the Apple App Store on iOS or Google Play on Android, under that store’s own terms and privacy policy. Odak never sees or stores your card details, billing address or store account information. It records a completed skip only in local statistics, together with its store-provided price and currency.

Apple or Google processes Premium purchases. RevenueCat acts as our processor for Premium status checks, purchase verification and restores, and can be initialized before a purchase. RevenueCat receives available store purchase history and a pseudonymous app user ID so it can report whether thepremium entitlement is active and provide subscription analytics to us. We use those analytics only to understand purchase and subscription performance—not how you use Odak. RevenueCat does not receive your locked-app list, usage statistics, contacts, messages, GPS coordinates or payment-card details.

RevenueCat also processes technical information such as device and operating-system details, locale, currency and connection timestamps. Its customer country can come from the store transaction or, when unavailable, from the last-seen IP address. RevenueCat states that it discards that IP address after determining the country. A pseudonymous app user ID is not a promise of complete anonymity. These connections can occur during Premium status checks before you make any purchase.

Apart from Apple or Google purchase processing and RevenueCat purchase verification and subscription analytics, Odak does not use advertising or product-usage analytics services.

Honesty about blocking

Odak is a commitment aid, not an unbreakable lock. Because it runs as a normal app, blocking depends on the operating system. On Android it can be bypassed by force-stopping, restarting or uninstalling Odak, or disabling its permissions. On iOS it can be bypassed by removing Odak, withdrawing Screen Time authorization or changing the selection in system controls. We do not prevent you from removing the app or changing its permissions.

On Android, reinstalling Odak may restore selected safe data from your private Google-backed device backup, including your journey, statistics, locks, Focus programs, settings and the current day’s wait-escalation counter. Active break or session grants and pending unlock handoffs are excluded and are never restored. Android controls backup timing and restore availability, so a restore may be stale or absent and is not a guaranteed anti-reinstall system. On iOS, removing the app deletes Odak’s local app data; a reinstall starts without that local wait state.

Data security

Your locked-app, commitment, usage and settings data is protected by remaining in the app’s private on-device storage (and, on iOS, its private App Group shared with Odak’s Screen Time extensions). If Android device backup is enabled, selected durable data may also be held in your private Google-backed device backup. Standard device protections such as screen lock and encryption apply. Purchase verification travels over the network to Apple or Google and, for Premium, RevenueCat, which apply their own security practices.

Data retention and deletion

Uninstalling Odak deletes its local private storage from that device. On Android, if device backup is enabled, selected durable data may remain in your private Google-backed device backup and may be restored later; you manage that through Google and Android backup settings. Active break or session grants and pending unlock handoffs are never backed up. There is no Odak-operated server copy and no Odak account to close. Store purchase history is held by the store. RevenueCat processes purchase, entitlement and related technical data on our behalf; uninstalling Odak does not automatically delete those records. To request deletion, contact odakapp@ome-marketing.com. We may ask for a store order or transaction reference to locate the relevant record; do not send card details or passwords. Store-held transaction records remain subject to Apple’s or Google’s own retention requirements. Deleting a record does not itself cancel a store subscription.

Your privacy rights

Laws including the EU and UK GDPR, Turkey’s KVKK, and the California CCPA/CPRA provide rights over personal data. You can control Odak’s local data by revoking permissions or uninstalling the app, and can manage any remaining Android device backup through Google and Android backup settings. For Premium payment-verification data processed by RevenueCat, contact us and we will help with your request. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, and we make no automated decisions about you.

Children

Odak is a self-control tool intended for adults and is not directed at children under 13, or the equivalent minimum age in their country. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

If Odak changes how it handles data, we will update this policy and the relevant store disclosures before that version ships. A version described by this policy will never silently begin collecting data.

Contact

The data controller is OME MARKETING L.L.C-FZ, Meydan Grandstand, 6th floor, Meydan Road, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Questions, requests or complaints can be sent to odakapp@ome-marketing.com. You also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.