Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 12, 2026

PowerLock turns workouts into screen time. Each verified gym session adds minutes to your bank, using the apps you choose spends them, and those apps lock when the bank reaches zero. This policy covers the PowerLock app for iPhone and this website. This policy is provided by the developer of PowerLock ("we", "us").

1. What PowerLock keeps on your iPhone

To build your plan and run your locks, PowerLock saves the following in its own storage on your device:

• Your answers from setup: your goal, timeline, training experience, training days and your lock settings.
• Your minutes bank: the minutes each workout earns (you set this), your current balance, and the minutes you've earned and spent this week. The bank resets at the end of each week.
• Your plan: the workouts PowerLock generated for you.
• Your gym: its name, its map coordinates and the distance used to check you're there. The same goes for a one-day gym you set while traveling, which is saved at your location when you set it.
• Your history: for each session, the date, start and end times, minutes verified and the result. It also includes changes you make to your rules, and the emergency unlocks you use with the reason you typed.
• Bodyweight entries, if you choose to log them.

None of this is sent to us. It's kept in app storage that PowerLock's own Screen Time extensions can also read, which lets your lock work when the app is closed. If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or a computer, Apple may include this data in the backup, according to your backup settings.

2. Screen Time (the app lock)

PowerLock uses Apple's Screen Time frameworks (Family Controls, Managed Settings and Device Activity) to lock apps. When you choose apps to lock, Apple gives PowerLock only anonymous tokens that stand in for them. We can't see the names of the apps you pick or what you do in them, and we can't see your browsing.

To spend your minutes, iOS tells PowerLock's Screen Time extension on your iPhone when you've used those apps for the length of your balance, so it can update the balance and lock them. That count stays on your iPhone. Apple doesn't allow Screen Time data to leave your device, and PowerLock doesn't try to send it anywhere.

You can turn off PowerLock's Screen Time access at any time in iOS Settings → Screen Time. The lock stops working when you do.

3. Location

PowerLock asks for location access only while using the app. It checks your location at two times:

• When you pick your gym, to show gyms near you.
• During a workout session you start, to check that you're within your gym's radius and count the minutes you're there. While a session is running, iOS may show the location indicator even when PowerLock is in the background.

All of these checks run on your iPhone. PowerLock saves the result of a session, for example "verified, 45 minutes". It doesn't save a trail of where you were. We never receive your location.

To list nearby gyms, PowerLock uses Apple Maps. Apple Maps receives your approximate location for that search. Apple's privacy policy governs how Apple handles it.

4. Notifications

Training-day reminders and the "Tap to start your session" alert are created on your iPhone. We don't use a push notification service, and we can't send you messages through the app.

5. Purchases

Apple processes subscriptions through your Apple ID. We never receive your name, your email, your Apple ID or your payment details. The app gets a receipt from Apple (the product, its dates and a transaction number) so it can unlock your subscription. Apple may share anonymous sales reports with us through App Store Connect.

6. When you contact us

If you email us, including through the app's "Report a problem" link, we receive your email address and whatever you write. Some reports include technical details to help us fix a verification problem: your app version, your gym radius, your last measured distance and GPS accuracy, and the minutes verified. They never include your gym's location or your coordinates. You can read and edit the email before you send it. We use these emails only to help you. We keep them only as long as needed to resolve your request and handle any follow-up.

7. What we don't do

• We don't sell or rent personal information, and we don't "share" it for targeted advertising.
• We don't show ads or use ad networks, and we don't track you across other companies' apps or websites.
• We don't use third-party analytics or crash-reporting tools in the app.
• We don't use HealthKit, your contacts, your camera or your photos.

This website doesn't use cookies or analytics.

8. Keeping or deleting your data

Your data stays on your iPhone until you delete it. To erase it, open Settings → Reset all data in PowerLock, or delete the app. We don't hold a copy, so we can't recover it for you either.

9. Security

Your data is protected by your iPhone's built-in encryption and passcode. Because we don't collect it, a breach on our side can't expose it. No system is perfectly secure, so keep your iPhone locked and up to date.

10. Children

PowerLock isn't directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them. If you're under 18, use PowerLock with a parent's or guardian's permission. If you think a child has sent us personal information, email us and we'll delete it.

11. Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live (for example California, the EU, the UK or Canada), you may have the right to access, correct, delete or move your personal information, or to object to how it's used. Almost all of PowerLock's data is only on your device, so you can see, change and delete it yourself in the app. For anything we do hold, like an email you sent us, write to us at the address below. We'll respond within the time the law requires. We won't treat you differently for exercising a right. If you're in the EU or UK, you can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Where EU or UK law applies, we handle support emails on the basis of our legitimate interest in answering you. When you consent to location and Screen Time access, that data is processed only on your device, to give you the service you asked for.

12. Changes to this policy

If we change how PowerLock handles data, for example by adding an optional account or analytics, we'll update this page and the "Last updated" date before the change takes effect. We'll also update the App Store privacy label. If a change is significant, we'll tell you in the app before it applies.

13. Contact

The developer of PowerLock
Email: support@powerlock.app