Focus Four — Privacy Policy for Android and iOS
Effective date: 31 October 2026
App: Focus Four for Android and iOS (bundle ID / package com.vericodestudio.focusfour)
Brand: VeriCode — Independent Software Studio
Responsible party: VeriCode, operated by its proprietor in India
Privacy contact: [email protected]
1. Scope and summary
This policy applies to Focus Four on both Android and iOS, and to the support emails you send us. Unless a platform is named, the practices and controls described below apply to both versions. Focus Four is a planner. You write tasks, and the app keeps them on your device. It has no account, no advertising, no analytics and no crash-reporting service. The app's code does not send your tasks or settings to us or to anyone else.
Local storage is still data handling, so this policy describes what the app stores and what controls you have. Visits to this policy and the landing website, including links opened from the app, are described in section 8.
2. Information the app stores on your device
| Information | Why the app keeps it |
|---|---|
| Task titles, priority, status, carry setting, creation and update dates, board date and carry count | To show and organise your Today board and History |
| Subtasks you add to a task | To show them with the task |
| A log of changes to tasks (for example created, edited, completed, archived, reopened or carried forward), with times and the planning time zone | To power History, weekly totals and Insights, and to support Undo |
| Preferences: theme, default carry behaviour, completion animation, completion haptics | To apply your choices |
| Your device's time zone, read when the app sets up the board or when you repair the date | To decide which day a task belongs to |
| Unsaved drafts of a task you are writing | To restore them if you leave the screen |
| Whether you have finished the introduction | To avoid showing it again |
| On iOS, a copy of up to eight of today's open task titles with their priority, today's completed and total counts, your theme choice, and widget ticks not yet saved. It is kept in a shared container on your device that only Focus Four and its widget can read | To let the Home Screen and Lock Screen widget show today's tasks and record a tick |
Task text is whatever you type. Do not enter information you would not want stored on your device.
The app does not ask for your name, email address, phone number, contacts, location, photos, microphone, camera or calendar. It does not use an advertising ID or any account identifier. It generates random identifiers for tasks and events inside the database. These are not linked to you or your device.
3. Permissions and device features
- Vibration. Used for optional completion haptics on supported Android and iOS devices. You can turn it off in Settings.
- Internet. Android lists an Internet permission because of the framework used to build the app; iOS has no equivalent permission prompt. Planning, History and Insights work offline. Opening Privacy Policy or Terms of Service loads a website through your browser and requires an internet connection. Task data is not included in those links.
- Files. The app asks for no broad storage permission. Export and restore use the system Share sheet and file picker, and only touch the file you choose.
- Widget (iOS). Focus Four offers a Today widget for the Home Screen and Lock Screen. It shows today's open task titles and counts and lets you tick a task off without opening the app. The widget reads the shared container described in section 2, not the internet. A tick is saved to your board the next time you open the app, dated when you made it. A tick for a task that has changed since, or from an earlier day, is not saved, and the app tells you.
- Home-screen shortcuts. Long-pressing the app icon on Android or iOS offers Add task, Today and This week. A shortcut only opens that screen in the app and stores nothing.
Android automatic cloud backup is disabled in the app configuration. On iOS, the app marks its database directory and the widget's shared container for exclusion from iCloud and computer backups. These settings do not remove backup files you export yourself; device backup and transfer behaviour also depends on the operating system.
4. How we use information
We use it only to run the planner on your device. We do not sell it, share it for advertising, profile you, or use it to train AI.
5. Sharing, export and recipients
The app does not transmit your data automatically. There are two user-controlled paths:
- Export backup. When you tap Export, the app creates a JSON file of your tasks, subtasks, history, board settings and preferences. It briefly holds this file in the app's private cache, opens the system Share sheet, and deletes the cache copy when the sheet closes. You pick the destination. That destination (for example an email app, cloud drive or messaging app) receives the whole file and handles it under its own terms and privacy policy. The file is not encrypted.
- Restore backup. You choose a JSON file. The app reads it on your device, shows a preview, and replaces your current tasks, history, drafts and settings only if you confirm.
We have no access to exported files and cannot recover or delete copies held elsewhere.
6. Storage and security
Data sits in an app-private database on your device and is protected by the Android or iOS app sandbox and your device's lock and encryption settings. The app adds no encryption or app lock of its own. Anyone who can unlock your device and open the app can see your tasks. On iOS, if you add the Focus Four widget, today's open task titles appear on your Home Screen, and on your Lock Screen if you place it there, where anyone who can see your screen can read them without unlocking the device. The widget always shows task names; remove the widget if you do not want them shown. Backup files are plain JSON, so protect them as you would any personal document. No method of storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
7. Retention and deletion
- Delete individual items. Archiving moves a task out of the active board and keeps it in History; it does not delete the task. Use the task deletion action to remove a task. Use Delete all data to clear the complete local history as well.
- Delete everything. Settings leads to "Delete all data". It removes all tasks, history, saved drafts and settings from the app and resets preferences to defaults. Weekly totals disappear with them. On iOS, the widget's copy is updated to match the empty board. Deletion happens on your device only.
- Uninstall. Removing the app causes Android or iOS to delete its stored data. On iOS this includes the widget's shared container. Removing the widget from your screen does not delete that copy; it keeps following your board until you uninstall the app. The operating system and your device maker control how completely this happens.
- Exported copies. Deleting data in the app does not delete files you exported earlier. Delete those where you saved or sent them.
- Support email. If you write to us, the message goes to a monitored Gmail mailbox handled by one person. We retain correspondence for one year, unless the law requires longer. We have not verified the provider's storage location or an automated deletion schedule.
We keep no server-side copy of your tasks, so there is nothing for us to export or delete on your behalf. To ask a question about your data, email the privacy contact.
8. Service providers and other parties
The app contains no analytics, advertising, crash-reporting, payment or login provider. Google Play on Android, the Apple App Store on iOS and your device maker handle app distribution, updates and any store or operating-system diagnostics under their own policies. If you email us, Gmail processes the message. This policy and the Focus Four landing page are hosted through Cloudflare. Visiting these pages, including from the app, sends technical request information such as your IP address, browser information, requested URL and request time to the hosting provider for delivery and security. These website requests do not include your tasks, subtasks or planner history. Website processing is also described in the VeriCode website privacy policy. See also Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
9. Your choices and rights
You can use the app without giving us any information. You control exports, restores and deletion as described above. Depending on where you live, the law may give you rights over personal data we hold, such as access, correction, deletion or objection. Because the app keeps your tasks only on your device, we cannot access those local records. We can respond to requests about correspondence you send us and website information to the extent it is available to us. Write to the privacy contact to ask about it. We will reply as the law requires. Nothing here limits rights you cannot lawfully waive.
10. Children
Focus Four is a general-audience planner. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. The app has no age check. If you believe a child under 13 sent us personal information by email, write to the privacy contact and we will delete it.
11. International use
Your planner records stay on your device unless you choose to export them. Export destinations, our email provider and website hosting provider may process information in other countries. The developer operates from India.
12. Changes
We may update this policy. Changes will appear on this page with a new effective date. If the law requires further notice or consent for a material change, we will provide it.
13. Contact
Questions, privacy requests or deletion questions: [email protected].
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