Privacy Policy

Information kept on your iPhone

Beat the Blanket stores the following locally on your device:

• your alarm settings, including times, repeating schedules, sounds and labels
• your alarm history, wins and streaks
• your saved home location and the location used to calculate sunrise
• your reference mirror selfie

Sunrise times are calculated on your iPhone from your saved location. None of this information is sent to us, and the app does not sync it to a cloud service.

Mirror photos

Your reference selfie

When you set up the app, you save one reference mirror selfie. It is stored on your iPhone with iOS file protection and is excluded from device backups. You can view it or remove it in the app's settings. Removing it may be unavailable while an alarm or challenge depends on it, for example until you turn off the morning alarm.

Photos taken to stop an alarm

To complete an alarm challenge, you take a fresh mirror selfie. That photo is processed on your iPhone, compared with your reference selfie, and discarded after the check. It is not uploaded, not sent to us, and not saved to your Photos library.

How matching works

The comparison uses Apple's Vision framework to measure how similar the two images are. It is not facial recognition and does not verify who you are. It does not guarantee that a photo is live, and it cannot prevent every attempt to reuse an earlier photo. We do not create or store a face template or any biometric identifier.

Location and sunrise

Beat the Blanket needs a location to work out when sunrise is. You can either allow location access or type a city or ZIP code instead.

• When you save your current location as home or refresh your sunrise location, Apple Maps receives your coordinates to look up the address or city.
• When you search for a city or ZIP code, Apple Maps receives the text you enter.

Apple handles these requests under the Apple Privacy Policy. We do not receive your coordinates or searches.

Location permission is optional for sunrise. It is required if you want to use your current location, or to end an alarm by confirming you are away from your saved home.

Permissions the app asks for

• Camera, for mirror checks. Without it, mirror-checked alarms can't be completed.
• Alarms, so the app can schedule alarms through Apple's AlarmKit.
• Location (optional), for current-location sunrise and away-from-home checks.

You can change any of these at any time in the iOS Settings app.

Subscriptions and payments

Blanket Plus is sold through the App Store. Apple processes the purchase and your payment details. The app checks Apple's transaction information on your device to know whether Plus is active. We do not receive your full card number or other payment details.

What we don't collect

• There are no accounts, profiles or sign-in.
• There are no social features, rankings, friends or groups, and no cloud sync of your progress. Breakfast Club, a planned community feature, is not available in the app.
• The app does not include third-party analytics, advertising or tracking software.
• We do not sell personal information, and we do not use it for advertising or to track you across other apps and websites.

Who receives information

The only third party involved is Apple, which provides the App Store, subscriptions, AlarmKit and Apple Maps lookups under its own terms. If you email us, we receive what you choose to send and use it only to answer you.

Retention and deletion

• Local settings, history and saved locations stay on your iPhone until you delete them or remove the app.
• You can remove your reference selfie in the app's settings, subject to the alarm restrictions above.
• Deleting the app removes its data from your iPhone. Your settings and history may also exist in your device backups, which are kept under your Apple backup settings. The reference selfie is never included in backups.
• Support emails are kept as long as needed to help you and meet legal obligations. You can ask us to delete them.

Deleting the app does not cancel a Blanket Plus subscription. See managing your subscription.

Security

Keeping data on your device, protecting the reference selfie with iOS file protection and leaving it out of backups all limit what can be exposed. No method of storage is completely secure, so we can't guarantee absolute security.

Children

Beat the Blanket has no accounts or social features and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, contact us and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

If the app starts handling information differently, for example if a community feature launches, we will update this policy before that change and revise the date at the top. Where the law requires it, we will give you additional notice.

Contact

For privacy questions or deletion requests, email founder@deenfirst.tech.

Deen First Tech LLC