HOLD

Privacy Policy

Effective 12 October 2026

1. What stays on your iPhone

All data you create in HOLD stays in the app's sandboxed storage on your iPhone, and in the shared storage the HOLD widgets read:

• Holds — the holds you start, their durations and timestamps.
• Pads and date countdowns — the pads you save and the dates you count down to, with their reminders.
• History — your most recent sessions, shown in Recents. Clearing history in the app, or deleting the app, removes it permanently.
• Pro entitlement — whether you have purchased HOLD Pro, as reported by Apple's StoreKit, and the last answer StoreKit gave, so a Pro user without signal is still recognised.

HOLD never sends any of this anywhere. There is no server of ours, so there is no copy of your data for anyone to request, export or delete.

2. Ads in the free version

Your first 5 holds are ad-free. After that, the free version plays a short full-screen ad from Google AdMob after each hold starts — never before it, and never on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, in notifications or in widgets. HOLD Pro removes all ads. Installs that were already using HOLD before its free-hold limit arrived (version 1.1.0) never see ads.

Ads are delivered by the Google Mobile Ads SDK. While it runs, Google may collect:

• device identifiers (HOLD never asks for permission to track you, so iOS does not give Google your advertising identifier);
• approximate location derived from your IP address;
• information about the ads shown and how you interact with them;
• diagnostic and performance data about the ad software.

Google uses this to deliver and measure ads and to prevent fraud. HOLD asks Google for non-personalized ads only, limits ads to content suitable for all ages, and never shows the "Allow tracking?" prompt.

If you are in the EEA or the UK, Google's consent form asks for your choice before any ad is requested. You can change it at any time in HOLD under Menu → AD PRIVACY CHOICES.

The ad software is never started for HOLD Pro users, or for installs that never see ads. Google's own policy is at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

3. Reporting an ad

If you see an inappropriate ad, use Menu → REPORT AN AD in HOLD, or email us at the address below.

4. Information HOLD does not collect

• No account, email address or login is required or offered.
• No analytics, crash reporting or behavioural telemetry of HOLD's own.
• No location of HOLD's own (Google's ad software may derive an approximate one, as above).

5. In-app purchases

HOLD Pro is a one-time purchase processed entirely by Apple through StoreKit. We never see, receive or store your payment card details, billing address or Apple Account credentials. Apple handles purchase validation under the Apple Privacy Policy.

6. Apple system frameworks

• Live Activities and Dynamic Island — a hold's countdown is rendered on your Lock Screen by Apple's ActivityKit framework, on device. No push server is involved.
• Local notifications — alerts are scheduled locally on your iPhone and are never routed through a remote server.

7. Children

HOLD is not directed at children. Ads are limited to content rated for all ages.

8. Changes to this policy

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

9. Contact

Questions about this policy: JfDevIos@gmail.com