Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 2, 2026

1. Who we are

EarnScreen is an iPhone app for families. A parent sets tasks, and a child earns screen time when the parent approves them. EarnScreen is run by Hugo Janssens ("we").

Hugo Janssens (EarnScreen)
Flat 2, Chester Court, High Level Road, Sea Point, Cape Town, 8005, South Africa
+27 72 052 3582
privacy@earnscreenapp.com

2. What we collect

From a parent or caregiver:

• Email address and password. Our sign-in service stores only a scrambled (hashed) form of the password.
• That you are 18 or older, your role in the family, and family settings such as your time zone.
• The email address of a caregiver you invite. We store only a hashed form.
• Problem reports you send from your iPhone: your text, an optional picture, and the app version, iOS version, iPhone model and open screen.
• Emails you send us, including a signed consent form.
• If you ask for a beta invite on our website: your first name and email address.
• If you book a setup call: your first and last name and email address.
• During the beta, from Apple's TestFlight: your name and email address, and any feedback, screenshots and crash reports from your iPhone.

About a child, entered by a parent:

• First name or nickname, and whether the child is under 13 or 13 to 17.
• A cartoon avatar. Never a photo.
• Tasks, daily screen time rules, and a parent's reason for sending a task back.
• The time record: minutes earned or changed, by whom, when, and why.

From the child's iPhone:

• A random account number that links the iPhone to your family.
• When the child marks a task done, and whether the iPhone applied the latest rules (with an error code if it did not).
• During the beta: the iPhone's device ID (UDID), model and iOS version. Apple needs these so we can install the beta on that iPhone.

For a child under 13, we collect nothing until a parent gives consent. Children cannot make any information public. We never receive which apps a child uses or for how long. Apple's Screen Time keeps that on the iPhone.

Our hosting provider also logs IP addresses and request times, to keep the service secure.

3. How we use it

Only to run EarnScreen for your family: accounts, tasks, approvals, earned time, the rules on the child's iPhone, account emails, fixing problems, security and consent records. Never for ads, profiles or AI training. We never sell it.

4. Who receives it

These service providers handle information only to run EarnScreen for us. They must protect it as this policy does.

• Supabase (database and sign-in, in Ireland): all app information, including children's.
• Resend (account emails): a parent's email address and the email text.
• Google Workspace (our email and files): emails you send us, signed consent forms and our consent records.
• Netlify (beta install pages): the child's iPhone's device ID, during the beta.
• Apple (TestFlight and beta installs): the child's iPhone's device ID, to register it for the beta.
• Netlify (our website): what you enter in the website's invite form.

We do not disclose children's information to anyone else, unless the law requires it. During the beta, the install file lists the device ID of every beta iPhone, so other beta families could see that number, but not whose it is.

The app has no ads, analytics or tracking tools. No other company collects information about your activity across apps or websites through EarnScreen. Our website uses only the cookies it needs to work.

5. How long we keep it

• Child information: until a parent deletes the child's profile or the family, or withdraws consent. We then delete it within 30 days.
• Parent and caregiver accounts: until deleted, then within 30 days.
• Beta device IDs: deleted from our records within 30 days of registering the iPhone with Apple. We remove the iPhone from our Apple account when the beta ends, or sooner if you ask. Older install files may list it until we replace them.
• Beta family information: deleted within 30 days of the beta ending, unless you ask us to keep your family.
• Problem reports: 90 days.
• Backups: deleted information leaves our backups within 90 days.
• Consent records (the signed form and our note of the call): 3 years, to show that we had consent.

6. Your choices

At any time, a parent can see, change or delete their child's information, delete the family or their own account, and withdraw consent. Withdrawing consent stops all collection about that child. Use Settings in the app, or email privacy@earnscreenapp.com.

7. Changes

When this policy changes, we update the date at the top. If a change affects children's information, we tell parents by email first and ask for consent again where the law requires it.