Privacy, plainly
Effective date: [DATE — set at publish]
The Amish App is built on a promise: your Kin see your requests — never your activity. A privacy policy is where that promise gets written down carefully. Here is ours, in plain language.
One honest note before anything else: the app hasn't shipped yet. Right now this site does very little with data, and this policy says so. Before the app launches, we'll update this page to describe exactly what the finished product does, and the sections below marked "when the app launches" describe what we're building toward.
Who we are
The Amish App ("we," "us") makes kin controls for your phone — boundaries you choose, held by a few people who love you. Questions about anything on this page can go straight to a person: hello@theamishapp.com.
What we collect today
Today, before launch, the only information we collect is what you give us through the early-access form:
- Your email address
- Whether your interest is for yourself or for a community
- When you signed up
That's stored with Cloudflare (in Workers KV), the same company that hosts this site. We use it for exactly one thing: writing to you about early access. No newsletters you didn't ask for, no sharing with anyone else. If you'd like off the list, email us and we'll delete your entry.
This website has no third-party trackers, no analytics scripts, and no advertising cookies. We didn't remove them for this page — they were never here.
When the app launches: what stays on your phone
This section describes the upcoming product, so you can see where we're headed.
Your screen-time usage, your browsing, and your app activity stay on your device. This isn't just a policy choice — it's how Apple's Screen Time framework works. The operating system keeps usage data inside a sandbox that our app cannot read out, export, or send anywhere. We couldn't build activity reports for your Kin even if we wanted to. We don't want to.
When the app launches: what we'll store
Some things have to travel — your Kin can't answer a request that never reaches them. When the app ships, we will store:
- Account basics — your name and email address
- Your Rule of Life configuration — the boundaries you've chosen (categories, time budgets, night window, and so on)
- Your Kin relationships — who is in your Kin, and whose Kin you belong to
- Pass requests and responses — the category you asked about, the duration, any note you attached, and how your Kin answered
The weekly digest your Kin receive is computed from that request metadata — how many passes you asked for, whether you stayed within your limits — never from usage logs, because usage logs never leave your phone in the first place.
What we never do
- We never sell your data. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone.
- We never show ads.
- We never run third-party trackers or analytics on this site.
- We never send your Kin your activity. They see what you asked for — the category and the duration — and nothing more.
Keeping and leaving
Leaving the app is designed to be a door, not a wall — and the same goes for your data. When you depart, your covenant record closes; it isn't weaponized, published, or held over you. If you want a copy of your data, email us and we'll send you an export. If you want it gone, email us and we'll delete it. hello@theamishapp.com — a person reads that inbox.
Children
The Amish App is for adults — people eighteen and older choosing their own accountability. It is not a parental-control product and is not directed at children under thirteen. If you believe a child has given us personal information, email us and we'll delete it.
Changes to this policy
We'll update this page as the product grows — including a fuller version before the app ships. When we make meaningful changes, we'll update the effective date above, and if you're on our list for the app, we'll tell you directly. We won't quietly loosen a promise.
Requests, never activity. That's the whole policy, really — the rest is detail.