What Hurdle does
Hurdle helps you manage screen time by blocking apps you choose behind tasks you choose. All of it happens on your device.
Data we collect
Hurdle has no accounts, analytics, advertising, tracking, or background telemetry. If you choose to send feedback from Settings, your message and, if you opt in, the app version, iOS version, and device model are transmitted to our private issue tracker. The developer reads that information only to improve Hurdle; it is not linked to an account, sold, or shared for advertising. If you use workout music, the app talks to Apple's MusicKit using your Apple Music account; Hurdle sends Apple none of your hurdle, Screen Time, or Health data. Everything else stays on your devices. If you use Hurdle on Apple Watch, hurdle and task progress sync over Apple's encrypted device-to-device channel.
Screen Time data
Hurdle uses Apple's Screen Time frameworks (Family Controls, Managed Settings, Device Activity) to block and unblock apps. By Apple's design, the apps you select are represented by opaque tokens — Hurdle cannot see which apps you picked. Usage summaries shown in the app are rendered inside an Apple-sealed extension; the numbers are never readable by Hurdle's own code, never stored by us, and never transmitted anywhere. Hurdle does not use Screen Time data for advertising or share it with anyone, in accordance with Apple's Screen Time API policies.
Health data
If you create a fitness-goal task, Hurdle reads today's totals (such as steps or exercise minutes) from Apple Health, with your permission, solely to check whether you've met the goal you set. During a guided workout, Hurdle may also read your heart rate on Apple Watch — shown live on your wrist and nowhere else — and save the finished workout to Apple Health so it counts toward your rings. Health data is read on-device, compared against your target, and discarded. It is never stored by Hurdle, never transmitted, and never used for any other purpose. You can revoke access at any time in the Health app.
NFC tags
Tag-tap tasks read an NFC tag's serial number to verify it's your registered tag. That identifier is stored only on your device.
Accountability codes
"Ask a friend" tasks store only a cryptographic hash of your partner's code, on-device. The code itself is never stored or transmitted.
Children
Hurdle is designed for individuals managing their own screen time. It has no accounts, advertising, tracking, or background data collection. Optional feedback is handled as described above regardless of the sender's age.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date above.
Contact
Questions? support@gethurdle.app — or visit Support.