Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 14, 2026

Tregua works on your iPhone and has no accounts. We run no servers, show no ads, and use no analytics or tracking tools. A few things do leave your device, each only for the feature that needs it: purchase records and basic device information go to RevenueCat, which checks Tregua Pro; the coordinates of your weather city go to Apple Weather if you use a weather widget; app searches and icon requests go to Apple’s public App Store directory; and, only if you turn on iCloud sync (Pro), your profiles and rules go to your own private iCloud.

1. Introduction

Tregua (formerly named Dumbphone) is an iOS app for intentional phone use: a text-based launcher and widgets, plus rules that pause the apps you choose. This policy describes what version 2.1 of the app stores, what it sends and to whom, and how you can delete it. It is written from what the app’s code actually does.

Tregua is made by Mike Pulgar Olguin, an individual developer. “We” and “us” below mean him.

2. What Tregua Stores on Your iPhone

Everything you create in Tregua is stored on your iPhone, in a private App Group container shared only by the app and its own extensions (widgets, the shield, the schedule monitor, and the usage report):

  • Profiles: name, description, icon, color, whether the profile is active, the look of your launcher (fonts, colors, backgrounds), and widget settings, such as the text of the Thought widget, the city of a weather widget and its coordinates, and the labels of the Classic Phone widget.
  • Rules and schedules: rule names, days and times, time limits, the pause exercise and unlock settings you chose, pause state, custom shield messages, and the app selections you make (see section 3).
  • Launcher views and items: view names, the labels you give apps, and the app links you add.
  • Never Allowed list: the websites you type and whether the adult-content filter is on.
  • Your activity in Tregua: daily counts used by the Analytics tab, such as pauses completed or abandoned, times you respected a shield, unlocks, how long a profile was active, and time used from a daily limit. These counts never leave your iPhone and are never synced.
  • Settings and onboarding answers, such as your estimate of your daily screen time. They stay on your iPhone.
  • Caches: downloaded app icons, the latest weather forecast, and Apple Weather’s attribution image.

A few small technical records are kept in the iOS Keychain: the timers of temporary unlocks, and the identifiers of the restriction groups the app has created. Tregua uses the second list to clean up leftover restrictions when it is reinstalled.

3. Screen Time

Tregua uses Apple’s Screen Time frameworks (FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, DeviceActivity):

  • Tregua uses individual authorization, not parental controls. You restrict apps on your own iPhone, for yourself.
  • When you choose apps, iOS gives Tregua opaque tokens. Tregua’s code cannot read app names or bundle identifiers from them; iOS draws the names and icons for the app.
  • The tokens are stored with your rules on your iPhone. If you turn on iCloud sync, they are included in the synced rules in your private iCloud (section 8). They are never sent to us or to RevenueCat.
  • Restrictions are applied by iOS itself (ManagedSettings) and schedules are run by iOS (DeviceActivity).
  • The Screen Time usage figures shown in Analytics are drawn by an extension that Apple isolates from the internet. Tregua does not store or send them.
  • If you turn on the Never Allowed adult-content filter or add websites to it, iOS applies Apple’s filter and turns off Safari Private Browsing while it is on.
  • You can remove Tregua’s Screen Time access at any time in iOS Settings > Screen Time. Doing so lifts every restriction Tregua has set.

4. What Leaves Your iPhone

We have no servers. Only these services receive data from Tregua, and only for the feature listed:

  • RevenueCat (a US company that manages in-app purchases): every time you open Tregua. See section 5.
  • Apple App Store: payments for Tregua Pro, handled entirely by Apple.
  • Apple Weather (WeatherKit) and Apple Maps: only if you use a weather widget. See section 6.
  • Apple’s public App Store directory (itunes.apple.com): when you pick apps for the launcher, Tregua downloads app icons from it for a fixed catalog of apps, not a list of the apps you have installed. If you search the App Store from inside Tregua, the text you type and your App Store region are sent to it. No identifier of yours is included, and searches are not saved.
  • Apple iCloud: only if you turn on iCloud sync (Pro). See section 8.

Any connection to the internet also reveals your device’s IP address to the server it reaches.

5. Purchases and RevenueCat

Tregua is free to use, with an optional Tregua Pro upgrade (monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase). Payments are processed by Apple. We never see your name, your Apple Account, or your payment details.

To know whether you have Tregua Pro and to restore purchases, Tregua uses RevenueCat. Its software starts each time you open Tregua, even if you never buy anything, and sends RevenueCat:

  • a random, anonymous user ID created on your iPhone;
  • your purchase and subscription records, if any: product, dates, price, currency and App Store country;
  • technical details: device model, iOS version, app version, preferred languages, and Apple’s “identifier for vendor” (an ID that iOS assigns to one developer’s apps on your device).

No name, email address or Apple Account is sent. We use this information to unlock Pro features, to restore purchases, and to see sales and subscription figures in RevenueCat’s dashboard. We do not use it for advertising or to track you across other companies’ apps or websites. RevenueCat processes it in the United States under its own privacy policy.

If you start a free trial and have allowed notifications, Tregua schedules a reminder on your iPhone before the trial ends.

6. Weather and Location

The weather widgets are optional. If you use one:

  • Choosing a city by hand: the text you type in the city search is sent to Apple Maps to suggest cities.
  • “Use my location” (optional): Tregua asks for location permission only when you tap it. It asks for “While Using the App” access with approximate location (Precise Location off), never “Always”. It takes one reading per tap and never tracks you in the background. Apple’s geocoder turns that reading into a city name.
  • Tregua saves the city and its coordinates, and sends the coordinates to Apple Weather (WeatherKit) to get the forecast: when the widget needs it, and in periodic background refreshes allowed by iOS. Background refreshes reuse the saved coordinates; they do not take a new location reading.
  • If iCloud sync is on, the widget’s city and coordinates sync with your profile (section 8).

We never receive your location. Apple’s privacy policy covers Apple Weather and Apple Maps. You can turn location off at any time in iOS Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services > Tregua; the widgets then use the city you pick by hand.

7. Camera

The camera is used only by the “Move a little” exercise, an optional Pro pause that counts your repetitions (for example, squats) before an app opens. Tregua uses the front camera and Apple’s on-device Vision framework to detect your body position. No photo or video is recorded, stored or sent. Tregua asks for camera permission only when this exercise starts, and you can revoke it in iOS Settings > Tregua.

8. Optional iCloud Sync (Pro)

iCloud sync is off by default. If you turn it on (Settings > Sync with iCloud), Tregua copies these records to your private iCloud database through Apple’s CloudKit service:

  • profiles, including whether each one is active and its launcher and widget settings (for example, a weather city and its coordinates);
  • rules and schedules, including the Screen Time app tokens described in section 3;
  • launcher views and items.

Your Analytics counts, the Never Allowed list, friction presets, default distractions and app settings are not synced.

Synced data lives in your own private iCloud database, which only your Apple Account can access; we cannot read it. Because the active state of a profile syncs, activating or deactivating a profile on one device can change it on your other devices. Turning sync off stops sending new changes; data already in iCloud stays there until you delete it (section 11). Apple’s privacy policy applies to iCloud.

9. Other Permissions and Features

  • Photos (add only): if you save a Tregua wallpaper, iOS asks permission to add photos. Tregua can add that image but cannot see your photo library.
  • Notifications: notifications about your rules, sessions and free trial are scheduled on your iPhone. Tregua does not send push notifications from a server.
  • Contacts, microphone, health data, advertising identifier: Tregua does not ask for them.
  • Emailing support: if you email us from Settings > Support, we receive your email address and your message. The draft includes the app version, device model, iOS version and app language, which you can delete before sending. We use your email only to reply.
  • Crash reports: if you have turned on “Share With App Developers” in iOS Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements, Apple may share anonymous crash reports with us. Apple controls this.

10. What We Do Not Do

  • No analytics SDKs (no Firebase, Mixpanel or Google Analytics).
  • No crash-reporting SDKs (no Crashlytics or Sentry).
  • No advertising, and no advertising identifier.
  • No tracking across other companies’ apps or websites.
  • No user accounts, registration or login.
  • We do not sell your data or share it for advertising.

11. Deleting Your Data

  • Profiles and rules: deleting one in the app removes it and lifts its restrictions. With iCloud sync on, it is also deleted from iCloud.
  • Settings > Erase All Data: deletes your profiles, rules, schedules, launcher views, Analytics activity counts, friction presets, default distractions and settings; lifts every restriction, including the Never Allowed list; cancels scheduled notifications; clears the Keychain records; and deletes Tregua’s data from your private iCloud. If your iPhone is offline at that moment, the iCloud copy may remain; you can also delete it from your iCloud storage settings.
  • Deleting the app removes Tregua and the data it stores on your iPhone, except the small Keychain records, which iOS may keep. Restrictions that are active when you delete the app can stay in place, because iOS applies them, not the app. Before deleting Tregua, deactivate your profiles or use Erase All Data. At any time, removing Tregua’s Screen Time access in iOS Settings > Screen Time lifts all of them. If you reinstall Tregua, it clears the leftover restrictions it can identify.
  • iCloud: synced data stays in your iCloud until you use Erase All Data or delete it from your iCloud storage settings.
  • RevenueCat: to have your purchase record deleted, email us. Because the record is anonymous, we may ask for details from your App Store receipt to find it.

12. Wellness Disclaimer

Tregua is a general wellness and productivity tool for intentional phone use. It is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. If you have concerns about your relationship with technology, consult a qualified professional.

13. Children’s Privacy

Tregua is designed for adults who want to manage their own phone use. It uses individual Screen Time authorization, not parental controls. It has no accounts, no social features and no user-generated content shared with others, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

14. Your Rights by Jurisdiction

European Union / EEA (GDPR): Most of your data never leaves your iPhone, and data synced to iCloud is stored in your private iCloud database, which we cannot access. The data we can access is the anonymous purchase record held by RevenueCat (section 5) and any email you send us. Data controller: Mike Pulgar Olguin, individual developer, Spain. Legal bases: performance of a contract (providing and restoring purchases), your consent (approximate location, which you can withdraw in iOS Settings), and legitimate interest (making the app’s features work and understanding sales). RevenueCat acts as our processor and processes data in the United States. To exercise your rights (access, rectification, erasure, portability, objection), contact mike@mikeastwood.dev. Supervisory authority: AEPD, C/ Jorge Juan 6, 28001 Madrid, Spain.

United Kingdom (UK GDPR): UK residents have the same rights as under the GDPR. Supervisory authority: ICO, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF, United Kingdom.

California, USA (CCPA/CPRA): We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not use sensitive personal information for purposes other than providing the app.

Brazil (LGPD), Canada (PIPEDA), South Africa (POPIA), Japan (APPI): You have the rights these laws give you. Most of them you can exercise directly: your data is on your iPhone and in your iCloud, and you can delete it as described in section 11. For the RevenueCat purchase record, contact us.

15. Changes to This Policy

If what Tregua collects or sends changes, we will update this policy and the date at the top of this page before, or together with, the app update that makes the change.

16. Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy or your data:

Developer: Mike Pulgar Olguin (individual developer), Spain.