Last Updated: August 2026
Focus Flow is a focus and break timer for iPhone and iPad. It is free, and it is paid for by advertising. This policy explains exactly what stays on your device, what our advertising partner receives, and how to control it. In short: we operate no servers, you never create an account, and the only company that receives any data about you is Google, which serves the ads.
None. Focus Flow has no account, no sign-up and no login. We never ask for your name, email address or phone number. The timer presets, goals, session history and settings you create are written to storage on your device and are not transmitted anywhere.
None. Focus Flow contains no analytics, crash-reporting or attribution SDK. We receive no usage data, no diagnostics and no personal information from the app, because there is no server of ours for it to be sent to.
Focus Flow displays advertising supplied by Google AdMob. To serve and measure those ads, Google may collect:
We never see this data. It flows from the Google Mobile Ads SDK inside the app directly to Google. We receive only aggregate, anonymous revenue reporting, which cannot identify you or your device.
On your device, your data is used to run timers, remember your presets, calculate your streaks and statistics, draw your progress charts, and generate ambient sound. All of this happens locally.
By Google, the data described in section 1.3 is used to select and deliver ads, limit how often you see the same ad, measure ad performance, and detect advertising fraud.
Because Focus Flow is free, banner advertising served by Google AdMob supports its development. You are in control of how those ads are personalised.
On first launch, iOS asks whether Focus Flow may track you across other companies' apps and websites. This is Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt, and your answer is binding:
Every feature of the app works identically either way. Nothing is withheld, restricted or degraded if you decline. You can change your answer at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, Focus Flow presents a consent form from Google's User Messaging Platform before any personalised advertising is served, as required by the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive. You may grant or refuse consent for each purpose, and you may change your choices later from the privacy options in the app's settings.
Google's handling of advertising data is described in the Google Privacy & Terms, and you can adjust your Google ad personalisation at adssettings.google.com.
We do not sell your personal information, and we could not: we do not hold any. We have no databases, no customer records and no marketing lists.
Google acts as an independent controller of the advertising data it collects through the Google Mobile Ads SDK, under its own privacy policy. We are not a party to that processing and cannot access, export or delete it on your behalf.
We would disclose information if compelled by valid legal process, but in practice we hold nothing about you that could be disclosed.
Your focus sessions, presets, streaks, statistics and preferences are stored only in the app's own storage on your device. There is no cloud copy and no backup on our systems.
Deleting the app deletes the data. Removing Focus Flow from your device removes everything it stored, permanently and immediately. No copy survives elsewhere, so there is nothing left for you to request the deletion of.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or port your personal data, or to object to its processing, under laws such as the GDPR, the UK GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act.
You are never required to pay, view more ads, or lose functionality for exercising any of these rights.
Focus Flow carries a 4+ age rating because it contains no objectionable content, but it displays advertising and is not directed to children. It is not part of Apple's Kids Category and is not designed for use by children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided information through this app, please contact us and we will act on it.
These are the only third-party components in Focus Flow. Each operates under its own privacy policy, which we encourage you to read.
For the avoidance of doubt, and because earlier versions of this page described a different app, Focus Flow does not:
Focus Flow keeps your data on your device, wherever you are, so using the app does not itself transfer your personal data across borders. Google may process advertising data internationally under the safeguards set out in its own privacy policy.
We may update this policy to reflect changes to the app or to the law. Material changes will be posted here with a revised "Last Updated" date. If a future version of Focus Flow collects data differently, this page will say so before that version ships.
If you are a California resident, the CCPA gives you the right to know what personal information is collected, to have it deleted, and to opt out of its sale or sharing. We do not sell or share your personal information, and we collect none of it ourselves. Advertising data collected by Google is governed by Google's own CCPA disclosures, and declining App Tracking Transparency (section 3) is the most direct way to limit it.
Questions about this policy, or about anything Focus Flow does with your data:
Email: williamdalston@gmail.com
Support: Focus Flow Support