Bounce Privacy Policy
In short: Bounce is a Screen Time focus app. Your app-usage and blocking data is processed on your device by Apple's Screen Time system and is never visible to us. We store only what the app needs to work — your account, your limits and focus-session stats, and (if you use the Coach) the minimum needed to answer you. We don't show ads, don't sell data, and don't track you across other apps.
1. Screen Time and app blocking
Bounce uses Apple's Screen Time frameworks (Family Controls and Device Activity) to let you block, limit, or intent-check distracting apps. Which apps you use, for how long, and which apps you choose are handled by Apple's system on your device. Apple gives apps like Bounce only opaque tokens for your selections — your app choices and usage history are never collected automatically, and none of this data is sent to our servers on its own.
One deliberate exception: when Bounce's block or Intent Check screen interrupts an app and you choose to talk to the Coach about it, the name of that one app or website (for example "Instagram") is included in that chat message so the Coach knows what it's talking about — exactly like anything else you tell the Coach (see section 4). If you don't start a Coach chat from a block screen, no app name leaves your device.
2. Your account
You can sign in with Apple, Google, or an email address and password. We store your name and email address (as provided by the sign-in method you choose) so you can sign in on your devices and so your data syncs. Authentication is handled by Google Firebase.
3. Data we sync to keep the app working
The following is stored in our backend (Google Firebase / Firestore), tied to your account and accessible only to you:
- Your limits and modes — the rules you set up (times, durations, labels). App selections themselves remain opaque tokens (see section 1).
- Focus sessions and stats — when you ran focus sessions, streaks, and similar progress numbers.
4. The Coach (AI assistant)
Bounce includes an optional Coach you can chat with. When you send the Coach a message, your message — along with any context you've chosen to share (see section 5) — is sent to our server, which forwards it to our AI provider, Anthropic (anthropic.com), to generate a single reply. Under Anthropic's commercial API terms, this data is not used to train their models.
Your Coach conversation history is stored on your device only — we do not keep a copy of your chats on our servers.
5. Optional Coach context — you choose what to connect
To give more useful answers, the Coach can use context you explicitly turn on in Coach → Connections. Every source is optional, off by default, and can be disconnected at any time.
Notes and to-dos
"What I'm working on" notes and to-dos you type into Bounce are included in your Coach chats so it knows what you're trying to get done.
Bounce activity
Your Bounce stats for today — focus sessions run, focused minutes, your current streak, and the names you gave your limits (for example "Social Media") — can be included when you chat so the Coach knows how your day is going. This also includes the short reasons you pick or type on Bounce's pause and Intent Check screens (for example "Just scroll" or "Reply to someone"), which are stored on your device and shared with the Coach the same way. This is the same data described in section 3; no Apple Screen Time usage data is involved (see section 1).
My Goals
If you tell Bounce what you're working toward (in onboarding or the Goals editor), your goal text is stored on your device and, when the Goals connection is on, included in your Coach chats so its advice points at what you actually care about. Like every source here, it can be switched off in Coach → Connections at any time.
Apple Reminders
If you grant access, Bounce reads your incomplete reminders and their due dates on your device. A short summary of them is included only in the moment you send a Coach message; it is not stored on our servers.
6. Subscriptions and purchases
Purchases are processed by Apple. We use RevenueCat to manage subscription status (which plan you're on and whether it's active). We never see your payment card details.
7. Service providers
We share data only with the services that make Bounce work, only for the purposes above:
- Google Firebase — authentication, database, and server functions.
- Anthropic — generates Coach replies.
- RevenueCat — subscription management.
- Apple — payments and Screen Time (on-device).
Each provider is bound by its data-processing and API terms to protect your data to at least the same standard described in this policy, and may use it only to provide its service to us — never for its own advertising or other unrelated purposes.
8. What we don't do
- No advertising, and no advertising SDKs.
- We do not sell your data — to anyone, ever.
- We do not track you across other companies' apps or websites.
9. Data retention and deleting your data
Your data is kept while your account is active. You can delete your account at any time in Settings inside the app, which deletes your account and its synced data from our backend. Coach chat history lives on your device and is removed when you delete the app or clear it in the app.
10. Children
Bounce is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
11. Changes to this policy
If we make material changes, we'll update this page and the effective date above, and note the change in the app where appropriate.
12. Contact
Questions or requests about your data: support@flowtechnicalsolutions.com