Clam Privacy Policy
Clam is a screen-time app for iPhone that locks apps you choose for a period you choose. It is built so that it does not need your data.
Who is responsible for your data
Clam is published by Nick Soderstrom, an independent developer trading as Clam. For data-protection purposes that is the data controller. There is no other company behind the app, and no third party we share your data with beyond the processor named under Analytics.
Reach the controller at support@getclam.app. That address is read by a person, not a ticket robot.
What Clam collects
Nothing that identifies you. Clam has no accounts, no sign-in and no server of its own.
What stays on your device
- The apps you choose to lock. Apple's Screen Time framework gives Clam opaque tokens for these; Clam cannot see which apps they are and never sends them anywhere.
- Your session history, streak and onboarding answers. These are stored locally in the app's container and are deleted when you delete the app.
What Clam can't see
Clam does not read, record or report which apps you open, what you do in them, your messages, your browsing or your location.
Purchases
Subscriptions and purchases are handled by Apple through the App Store. Apple's privacy policy applies to payment information. Clam only receives confirmation that a purchase is active.
Analytics
Clam may record anonymous, aggregated events about how the app itself is used (for example, "onboarding completed" or "session started") to improve the product. These events are processed by PostHog on our behalf. They contain no personal information, no account, and nothing that identifies you or your device to us, and they never include which apps you lock. Clam does not use advertising identifiers, does not track you across apps or websites, and does not sell data. Session recording and screen capture are switched off.
PostHog is the only processor Clam uses, and the only third party any data reaches. Events are sent to PostHog's United States cloud, so if you are in the UK or the EU they leave your region; because the events carry nothing that identifies you, no personal data is transferred. Where any of this is treated as personal data under your local law, the legal basis is our legitimate interest in knowing which parts of the app work, and you can object using the contact address above.
Notifications
If you allow notifications, Clam uses them only to tell you a session has ended or that a free trial is about to end. They are scheduled on your device.
Children
Clam is for personal use by the device owner and is not a parental-control product. It is not directed at children under 13.
How long anything is kept
- On your phone: your session history, streak and onboarding answers stay until you delete them in the app or delete the app. Clam does not expire them on your behalf, and nothing is uploaded first.
- Analytics events: retained for 12 months and then deleted by PostHog. Aggregate counts derived from them (how many sessions were started in a week, say) may be kept longer; they describe no one.
- Support email: kept while we are helping you and for up to 12 months afterwards, in case you write again about the same thing.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you have the right to ask what personal data is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to get a copy of it, and to object to it being used. Those rights apply here, with one honest caveat.
Clam holds no identifier for you. There is no account to look up, and the analytics events carry nothing we could match to you even if you asked us to. So a request to access or delete "your data" has nothing to retrieve from our side — which is the point of building it this way, not a way of avoiding the question. Two things you can act on directly:
- Everything on your phone is deleted by deleting the app. Nothing survives that, because nothing left the device.
- Analytics can be switched off for your device: Settings inside Clam, under Privacy, turn off “Anonymous analytics”. Nothing is sent after that.
If you believe personal data about you is being handled wrongly, write to support@getclam.app. In the UK or the EU you can also complain to your national data-protection authority; you do not have to contact us first.
If you are in California: Clam does not sell or share personal information, and does not use it for cross-context behavioural advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions: support@getclam.app. See also the terms of use, or go back to the Clam app blocker home page.