Privacy policy
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Your fasts stay on your iPhone and in your iCloud. The app collects no data.
Who we are
The Pause app and this website are published by Tessel (SIREN 830 081 410), the data controller under the GDPR. Contact: pause.support@tesselapps.com.
What the app doesn't do
- No account, no sign-up, no questionnaire.
- No usage statistics, no analytics, no third-party crash reporting.
- No ads, no trackers, no tracking across apps.
- No data sold or shared.
- The app sends nothing to our servers: we don't have any.
What the app stores, and where
Your fasts (start and end times, plan, how you felt, notes), the water you drink and your settings are stored in a file on your iPhone. The app also keeps backup copies on the iPhone (one per day, for 14 days). Widgets and the Lock Screen Live Activity read this data on the iPhone, with no connection.
If your iPhone is signed in to iCloud, this data is synced to the private database of your iCloud account (CloudKit), so you find it on your other devices. It is stored by Apple, in your iCloud storage; we have no access to it. Without iCloud, it stays on your iPhone only.
If you delete the app, the data on the iPhone is erased. The iCloud copy stays in your account: you can erase it in the app (see below) or in Settings, your name, iCloud, Manage Storage.
Apple Health (optional)
Pause only accesses Health if you turn it on in the app's settings, and after you allow it in Apple's permission sheet.
- Weight: Pause reads your weight entries in Health to show them, and saves the ones you add there. Weight is stored in Health only: it is not copied into Pause's file, not synced by Pause, and not exported.
- Water: if you turn it on, each glass you add in Pause is also saved in Health, and removed from Health if you delete it in Pause. Pause doesn't read water logged by other apps.
Health data is never used for advertising and is never shared with anyone. You can remove access at any time: iPhone Settings, Health, Data Access & Devices, Pause.
Notifications
Reminders (end of fast, start time) are scheduled on your iPhone, with no server. Pause never sends marketing notifications. For iCloud sync, Apple may tell the app that something changed on another device; this signal is invisible and doesn't go through us.
Export and erasing
You can export your fasts and water (CSV file) at any time; you choose where it goes. Erase All My Data, in the app's settings, erases your fasts, water, notes and settings on the iPhone (backups included) and in iCloud. If iCloud is unavailable at that moment, the app tells you and the iCloud copy stays. Erasing doesn't touch your Health data or your purchase.
Purchases
The free trial and Lifetime Access are in-app purchases processed by Apple. We never receive your name, email address or payment details. The app only asks Apple whether the trial or the purchase exists on your Apple Account. Apple's privacy policy applies to these purchases.
Crash reports
If you agreed to it in your iPhone settings (Share With App Developers), Apple may send us anonymous crash reports. We use them only to fix bugs. You can turn this off in Settings, Privacy & Security, Analytics & Improvements.
If you email us
If you email us, we use your address and message only to reply. This processing is based on our legitimate interest in answering requests. We keep these exchanges for at most 3 years after the last message, then delete them.
This website
This website uses no cookies, no analytics and no external fonts or scripts. It is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc. (United States), which processes technical logs (IP address, date, page requested) for security and to run the service, for a short time. Cloudflare is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, which covers this transfer.
Your rights
The GDPR gives you the right to access, correct, erase, object to, restrict and port your data. To use these rights, write to pause.support@tesselapps.com. We reply within one month. You can also complain to your data protection authority (in France, the CNIL, cnil.fr).
Children
The app collects no data, including about children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with its date. If the app ever needed to collect data, it would ask you first.