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Privacy, in plain language

Last updated: 9 July 2026

The short version: Dovvi has no accounts, no sign-up, no analytics, and no servers of its own. Everything you do in Dovvi lives on your two iPhones and in Apple's iCloud (CloudKit). We couldn't sell your data if we wanted to — we never have it.

What Dovvi stores on your phone

• The display names you and your partner type in during setup.
• Your list of blocked apps — stored as opaque system tokens. Apple's Screen Time framework never tells Dovvi (or us) which apps you actually picked; only your phone can render their names and icons.
• A random pair code and a shared secret used for offline unlock codes, kept in the iOS Keychain. The secret never leaves your devices.
• Simple counters, like how many times a blocked app was opened today.

What travels between your phones

When you ask your partner for the key, Dovvi writes a small unlock request to Apple's CloudKit so your partner's phone can see it. That request contains:

• your random pair code (a meaningless ID that links your two phones),
• the display name you chose,
• a generic label like “a blocked app” — never the app's identity,
• the requested duration, and the answer (granted or denied).

There is no email address, no phone number, no location, and no real-world identity in these records. Requests expire after a few minutes and become meaningless. This traffic goes through Apple's infrastructure, subject to Apple's privacy policy — not through any server we run, because we don't run any.

What we never collect

• No accounts, emails, phone numbers, or passwords.
• No analytics, telemetry, or crash-reporting SDKs — in the app or on this website.
• No advertising, no tracking, no third-party SDKs of any kind.
• No record of which apps you block or how you use your phone.

Apple services Dovvi relies on

• Screen Time (Family Controls): you grant Dovvi permission to shield apps on your own phone. You can revoke it any time in Settings — Dovvi will simply let your partner's app know that blocking is paused, because honesty is the product.
• iCloud (CloudKit): carries unlock requests between your phones.
• App Store (StoreKit): handles payment for Dovvi Plus. Apple processes the purchase; we never see your payment details.

This website

This site is static. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads nothing from third parties — every font, image, and script is served from this domain. That's why there's no cookie banner: there's nothing to consent to.

Deleting your data

Unpair from Settings inside the app: it wipes the pair code, the shared secret, your blocklist, and stops all syncing. Unlock requests in CloudKit expire on their own. Then delete the app — nothing remains anywhere else, because nothing was anywhere else.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top. Since we collect nothing, don't expect much news here.

Questions?

Write to us: CONTACT_EMAIL