Privacy Policy
Effective 9 August 2026
The short version: there's no account and no login. Your goal, your reasons, and your gate history stay on your phone. We do receive anonymous product-usage events (screen views, button taps, purchase status) through a third-party analytics processor so we can see where the app is confusing people — never the words you actually write.
01Who we are
Goal Lock ("the app," "we") is an iOS app that stands your own stated goal in front of apps you've chosen to gate, published at goallock.talismandaily.com by the makers of TALISMAN. Questions: support@talismandaily.com.
02What stays on your device only
The following never leaves your phone, is never sent to us, and is not visible to us at any point:
- Your goals — the what, the deadline, the why, and what achieving it would mean to you.
- Your onboarding journal answers (the wall, the fear, the anchor, the scenario you picked).
- Which specific apps you've chosen to gate. Apple's Screen Time frameworks (FamilyControls) hand your selection to the app as an opaque, non-identifying token — by design, not even Goal Lock can read back which literal apps you picked.
- Your gate history: turn-backs, unlocks, streaks, and the ledger.
- Your first name, if you entered one for personalization.
This data lives in local app storage on your iPhone. Deleting the app deletes it. If you use iCloud device backups, Apple may include it in your own backup under Apple's terms — that backup is yours, not ours.
03What we do collect: anonymous product analytics
Goal Lock sends anonymous behavioral events — app opened, which onboarding screen you're on, a plan was selected, a purchase succeeded, a gate fired — to PostHog, a third-party product-analytics processor, so we can see where people drop off and fix it. These events carry only structural metadata: screen names, counts, timestamps, button IDs, and in a few cases the length of what you typed (e.g. "43 characters"), never the content itself. Your goal text, your why, your fear answer, and anything else you write are excluded from every event by design.
We also use RevenueCat in observer mode to track subscription revenue. It observes the same purchase transactions Apple already processes (see below) for reporting — it does not run your purchase flow and does not receive your payment details.
04Purchases
Subscriptions and the lifetime unlock are processed entirely by Apple through your Apple Account. We never receive your card number, billing address, or identity — only anonymized transaction and revenue reporting via StoreKit and RevenueCat. Apple's handling of your purchase data is governed by Apple's Privacy Policy.
05Notifications
The evening reminder and trial-ending nudge are local notifications scheduled by your phone itself using Apple's on-device notification framework. No push-notification server is involved — enabling them shares nothing with us.
06Children
The app is intended for adults and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children, and the identifiable-content categories above (goal text, journal answers) are never collected from anyone regardless of age.
07Your choices
You can use Goal Lock with no personalization at all by leaving your name blank. You can disable the evening reminder in iOS notification settings at any time. Deleting the app removes every piece of on-device data described in Section 02; there is no server copy to also delete, because none exists.
08Changes to this policy
If a future version of the app changes what's collected — adding a new analytics vendor, for instance — we'll update this page first and move the effective date above. Material changes will also be noted in the app's App Store release notes.
09Contact
For any privacy question or data request, write to support@talismandaily.com.