Easylock Parental Controls Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 1, 2026

Easylock Parental Controls ("Easylock") is an iPhone app that lets a parent limit the apps on a child's phone and answer the child's requests for more time. It is published by Avram E. Frisch. Easylock is designed to work without accounts, servers of our own, analytics or advertising, and to keep as little information as possible.

Information Easylock stores

Easylock keeps two kinds of information, both of which stay under your control.

On the phones themselves

Settings such as which apps are limited, the daily limit, lock times, how often a child may ask for more time, the parent PIN (stored only as a salted hash), and the family code are stored on the phone where they were entered. They are never uploaded. Which apps are limited is stored using Apple's Screen Time tokens, which are opaque identifiers that only the child's phone can interpret.

In your iCloud account

When a child asks for more time, and when a parent answers, Easylock writes a small record to Apple's CloudKit public database under a random family identifier that is part of your family code. Each record contains:

Field	What it is
Family identifier	A random value created when the family was set up. It does not identify a person or an Apple Account.
Device identifier	A random value created by Easylock on each phone. It is not the phone's hardware identifier or advertising identifier.
Child's first name	Only if a parent typed one during setup, so the parent's phone can say who is asking.
Minutes requested or granted, the decision, and a timestamp	The content of the request or answer.
Signature	A code that lets the child's phone verify an answer came from a parent in the family.

These records are deleted automatically about 48 hours after they are created. Records are stored by Apple as part of iCloud and are subject to Apple's privacy policy. We do not operate any server of our own and cannot read these records.

Information Easylock does not collect

No Screen Time data. Easylock never reads how long apps are used, which websites are visited, or anything else about activity on the phone. It only applies the parent's limits.
No contact details, location, photos, contacts, messages, or browsing history.
No analytics, crash reporting services, advertising, or tracking of any kind.
No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for.

Notifications

Easylock uses Apple Push Notification service, through iCloud, so a parent's phone learns about a new request and a child's phone learns about an answer. Apple handles delivery. Notification contents are limited to the fact that a request or answer exists.

Screen Time and Family Controls

Easylock uses Apple's Family Controls, Managed Settings and Device Activity frameworks solely to apply the limits a parent has chosen on the child's phone. Information from these frameworks is used only on the device and only for that purpose. It is not transmitted, sold, or used for advertising, and it is not shared with anyone.

Children

Easylock is made for parents. The only information about a child it handles is the optional first name a parent enters and the time requests described above. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and the app has no features that ask a child for information about themselves.

Your choices

Leave the child's name blank during setup and no name is ever stored or sent.
"Reset this phone" or "Remove all limits and reset" in the app deletes everything Easylock stored on that phone.
Request and answer records in iCloud expire on their own within about 48 hours.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with an updated date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: frischa@avifrischlaw.com