Privacy Policy

Pauseling: Kids Screen Time · Developer and operator: Sudarev Daniil · Last updated: October 28, 2026

Pauseling: Kids Screen Time (“the app”) is free parental control with no ads, purchases or account. It runs on the child’s phone and never connects to the internet: it contains no network code, and on Android it does not even have the internet permission. So we receive no data at all — neither about the child nor about the parent.

1. What is stored on the phone

The child’s name (a nickname is fine) and age, the rules (limits, sleep and study schedules, always-allowed apps), pauses and stars, “more minutes” requests and the parent’s answers, the family agreement with signatures, and minutes per day for the report. The parent PIN is stored only as a salted hash. Reports are kept for 60 days and then deleted automatically.

All of this lives in the app’s folder and nowhere else. System backups (iCloud, Google) may include that folder together with the rest of the phone — you control this in the phone’s settings.

2. iPhone and iPad: Screen Time

On iOS the app uses Apple’s Family Controls (Screen Time). You pick apps for limits in the system list; Apple gives the app only opaque tokens without app names. The system itself counts the minutes, and the “Time is up” screen is drawn by a system extension on the device. Screen Time data never leaves the system and is not available to us.

3. Android: usage access

To count minutes the app asks for “Usage access” and sees which app is open and for how many minutes. To show “Time is up” it asks for “Display over other apps”. While rules are on, a service runs with a permanent notification, so the child always sees that the app is working.

The list of apps on the phone is used only to choose rules right here. Accessibility services and device administrator rights are not used.

4. What the app does not do

It does not read messages, calls, websites or browser history, take screenshots, know the location, or open the camera, microphone, photos or contacts. Face ID or fingerprint is checked by the system — the app only gets “yes” or “no”.

5. No ads or tracking

The app has no advertising, analytics, crash reporting, trackers, in-app purchases or third-party SDKs that collect data, and does not use the advertising ID.

6. Children

The app is meant for parents and guardians; the child uses it on their own phone under their rules. We collect no data from children: no data is transmitted at all. The rules are visible to the child, and the parent area is protected by a PIN.

7. Deletion

Settings → “Delete all data” erases the rules, reports, stars, the agreement and the PIN and removes all limits; deleting the app does too. There is nothing to delete on servers: nothing ever gets there.

8. Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page. Contact: [email protected].