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What FlowBreak does
FlowBreak slows the apps you choose once the minutes you set are used. It does this with a filter that runs on your phone, built with the tools your phone’s system provides. Your traffic is not routed through, inspected by or copied to any server of ours.
What we collect
- No account. We hold no name, email address or password for you. If you write to us, we use your email address and message only to reply.
- No advertising, and no sale of data. The apps contain no advertising, and we do not sell user data.
- No content. FlowBreak does not read your messages, pictures, videos or anything you view inside an app.
- Anonymous diagnostics, which you can switch off. They are described below.
- No screen reading. FlowBreak does not use Android’s Accessibility permission or any feature that reads your screen.
What the app connects to
- Our hosting provider, for information FlowBreak needs to work.
- A public DNS provider, which looks up web addresses for FlowBreak and, while an app is being slowed, answers some lookups made by other apps on your phone, a browser included.
- The App Store, which handles purchases.
These services see your network address, as any website does, and our hosting provider also sees basic details such as your phone’s language and system version. None of this tells us who you are. The public DNS provider handles the lookups it answers under its own privacy commitments.
Diagnostics, and how to switch them off
Both apps can send anonymous diagnostics so we can see where people get stuck and which features they use. They contain usage events from a fixed list (such as the app being opened or a setting being changed), random identifiers that are not linked to any account, basic device and app details (such as the model, system version and language), whether you use FlowBreak free, in a trial or with Pro, and your country, worked out from your network address, which itself is not stored.
They never contain the names of the apps you chose, your Screen Time figures, whether anything was slowed, anything you view, the name you type during setup, the addresses your phone connects to, or your precise location.
On iOS, diagnostics are on unless you switch them off, and you are told before anything is sent; the switch is on the setup screen and in Settings, under Privacy. We rely on our legitimate interest in improving FlowBreak, and switching off is how you object. Switching off sends one final event saying so, and nothing after that. On Android, diagnostics are off until you switch them on, and crash reports are also sent so faults can be fixed.
Our analytics provider processes diagnostics only on our instructions, under a data processing agreement. Those from the iOS app are stored in the European Union and kept for up to 12 months.
What stays on your phone
FlowBreak keeps these only on your phone, in its private storage and in any backups you make: your settings (the apps you slow, your limits, schedules, rooms and windows, and the first name you type during setup), server information the filter has learned, the records behind Insights (kept for up to 90 days), and a short technical log for explaining problems. None of it is sent anywhere, except that diagnostics may note some of your settings without naming any app. Deleting the app deletes all of it, apart from a marker iOS keeps to show that FlowBreak has run on the phone before.
The network filter
Your phone asks you to approve FlowBreak’s filter and shows an indicator while it is active. The filter runs on your phone. It is not a VPN service and does not send your traffic to us. While an app is being slowed, the filter handles traffic headed to servers that app uses, which other apps sometimes share; only the app you chose is slowed. It looks only at where connections are going, never at their content. What it sees stays on your phone and is used only to slow the apps you chose and to explain problems on your phone, and we do not sell or share it.
Screen Time, on iOS
With your permission, FlowBreak uses Apple’s Screen Time to know when a limit you set is reached and to run your schedules. Apple does not give FlowBreak your usage data: the figures on the Home and Insights screens are drawn by a part of the app that Apple controls, which can show them to you but cannot store them, send them or pass them to FlowBreak. Nothing FlowBreak receives from Screen Time leaves your phone.
Purchases
On iOS, FlowBreak Pro is sold through the App Store; on Android, it will be sold through Google Play. The store handles payment under its own privacy policy, and we receive no card details or billing identity. The app learns only whether Pro is active, on which plan, when a trial or subscription ends, and whether a purchase was refunded. The store sends us sales reports that do not name buyers.
Children
FlowBreak is not directed at children under 13. It collects nothing from a child beyond the diagnostics described above, which can be switched off.
Your rights
You can ask to see, correct or delete personal data we hold about you, or object to how we use it, by writing to support@flowbreak.com. We hold nothing that tells us who you are. Diagnostics are kept under a random number the app never shows, so we cannot find yours to return or erase it; switching diagnostics off stops new ones. You can also complain to the data protection authority where you live.
This website
flowbreak.com is run by our hosting provider, which counts visits by page, country, and type of device and browser. The site sets no cookies, does not follow you across other sites, and has no forms or accounts.
Changes to this policy
When we change this policy, we update this page and the date at the top.
Contact
FlowBreak is made by ELBOURNE (OPC) PRIVATE LIMITED, A9, 2nd Main Road, Anna Nagar, Chengalpattu 603001, India. Questions about this policy can be sent to support@flowbreak.com.