Your data stays yours.

Data on your device

Watcher saves timers, timer history, routines, preferences, imported audio, selected dial photos, and any accountability contacts you choose locally. These items are used to provide the app’s features, not uploaded to a Watcher server.

Apple’s Screen Time frameworks manage your selected app restrictions and display usage reports on your device. Watcher does not upload your Screen Time activity. The app and its extensions share the local information needed for timers and restrictions.

Permissions and messages

Screen Time access is optional and used for App Lock and usage reports. Notifications and Live Activities show timer or access-session information. Use iOS Settings to manage these permissions.

You choose which photos, audio files, and contact details to provide through system pickers. Accountability contacts are stored locally. Messages open in Apple’s message composer and are sent only after you confirm. Your recipient, Apple, and your carrier handle the resulting communication; messages are not sent through a Watcher server.

Optional product analytics

If you enable Share product analytics in Settings → About, Watcher sends a small set of usage and purchase-flow events to PostHog in the United States. Events use a random installation identifier and describe actions such as opening Watcher or viewing an upgrade. They may include the app version, platform, environment, selected plan, and purchase outcome.

Events do not include timer names, photos, audio files or filenames, contact details, Screen Time selections, message contents, payment details, or Apple transaction identifiers. We do not use session recordings, automatic interaction capture, advertising identifiers, or cross-app identity linking. Location enrichment is disabled. PostHog still receives standard network request information such as an IP address when handling a request.

You can switch analytics off at any time. This stops new requests and removes the local analytics identifier; it does not automatically delete events already received. Contact [email protected] for data questions.

Purchases

Optional Watcher Plus purchases are processed by Apple. Watcher checks Apple-verified purchase entitlements to unlock features. We do not receive your payment card details. You can restore purchases in Watcher and manage subscriptions through your Apple account.

This website

Optional website analytics are off by default and controlled separately from the app. Use Analytics choices in the footer. When allowed, page views and selected Watcher link or dial-preview actions go to PostHog using a random identifier for this browser tab. Your choice is saved in local storage; the identifier is saved in session storage. We do not send query strings, fragments, referrers, form content, or session recordings, and we honor Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track. The 123 Cheese Online privacy hub has the full website details.

Support and external services

If you contact [email protected], we receive your email address, message, and any attachments you send so we can respond. Do not include passwords or information you do not want to share. Our email provider processes that correspondence.

Links to recording credits or other websites open external services, which handle information under their own policies. Apple may process device backups, App Store transactions, or diagnostics under its policies and your settings. Device backups may contain Watcher’s local data.

Your choices

You can remove saved items and imported audio in Watcher, remove accountability contacts in Settings, and revoke permissions in iOS Settings. Deleting the app removes its local app data; device backups and messages you have already sent are managed separately.

To ask about support correspondence or request its deletion, email [email protected]. We use support correspondence to address your request and retain it only as needed for support or applicable obligations.

Changes and contact

We will update this policy when Watcher’s practices change. The date above identifies the latest revision. For questions about this policy or your data, contact [email protected].