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Privacy Policy

Last updated 9 July 2026

This policy explains how the Toll iPhone app handles information. Toll is designed so that your photos, selected apps, Screen Time activity, and cleaning history remain on your device. Toll does not operate a server that receives this content.

Limited purchase and technical information is processed by Apple and RevenueCat so Toll can start the free trial, validate the one-time unlock, prevent duplicate trials, and restore purchases.

The short version

• Your content stays local. Toll does not upload your photos, selected apps, Screen Time activity, or photo-review history.
• No Toll account. There is no email signup, password, or user profile.
• No advertising or behavioral tracking. Toll contains no advertising SDK and does not track you across apps or websites.
• No behavioral analytics. Toll does not record which photos you review, which apps you pause, or how you use those apps.
• Purchases use Apple and RevenueCat. Limited purchase information is processed to provide and restore the trial and one-time unlock.

Information handled on your device

Your photos

Toll requests access to your photo library so it can show photos for you to review. Photo previews and review decisions are processed on your device. Toll does not upload, copy, or transmit your photos to us or to RevenueCat.

A photo is only selected for deletion when you choose that action. Apple’s Photos interface asks you to confirm the deletion. Deleted photos may remain in the Recently Deleted album according to your iPhone’s Photos settings.

You can change Toll’s Photos access at any time in your iPhone’s Settings. Restricting access may prevent the photo-review feature from working.

Screen Time and selected apps

Toll uses Apple’s Screen Time and Family Controls frameworks to pause apps you select. Apple provides Toll with protected selection tokens rather than readable bundle identifiers. Toll does not receive a readable list of your selected apps or a history of what you do inside them.

Screen Time selections, shield state, unlock-window information, and related settings are stored locally in an Apple App Group shared by Toll and its Screen Time extensions. This allows the app and extensions to apply and remove the pause you configured.

You can revoke or change Screen Time authorization through Toll or your iPhone’s Settings. Revoking access prevents Toll from pausing your selected apps.

Notifications

Toll may request permission to send notifications related to the app-pause and photo-review flow. Notification preferences are managed by iOS. Toll does not use notifications for advertising or transmit notification interactions to an analytics service.

Local app information

Toll stores information needed to operate the app locally on your device. This can include:

• Your selected Screen Time tokens and pause settings
• Your photo-review decisions and cleaning statistics
• Your current scroll-window and trial state
• Onboarding, notification, and app-preference settings
• A locally cached copy of your purchase entitlement

This information is not sent to Toll’s developer. Deleting Toll removes its locally stored app information from that device, subject to normal iOS backup and system behavior.

Purchase information

Apple App Store

The free three-day trial and one-time unlock are processed through Apple’s App Store. Apple handles your Apple Account, payment method, billing information, and App Store purchase history. Toll does not receive your payment-card details.

Apple’s handling of this information is governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy.

RevenueCat

Toll uses RevenueCat, Inc. as a purchase-management service. RevenueCat helps validate purchases, determine whether the trial or unlock is active, prevent duplicate trial use, restore purchases, and provide purchase reporting.

Toll does not provide RevenueCat with your name, email address, Apple Account, photos, selected apps, Screen Time activity, advertising identifier, or a custom Toll account identifier.

RevenueCat automatically generates an anonymous app user identifier. To provide its purchase service, RevenueCat may process:

• The anonymous RevenueCat app user identifier
• Apple purchase receipts and purchase history
• Product, entitlement, trial, and restoration status
• Device type and operating-system information
• Locale and App Store currency information
• The last time the purchase service communicated with the app

RevenueCat uses purchase history for app functionality, including receipt validation and entitlement access, and for purchase analytics such as customer history and aggregate revenue reporting. Toll does not use RevenueCat purchase information for advertising or tracking across other companies’ apps or websites.

RevenueCat processes this information on Toll’s behalf and may store it in the United States. For more information, see RevenueCat’s Privacy Policy.

What Toll does not collect

Toll does not collect or receive:

• Your photos or videos
• A readable list of the apps you selected
• Your Screen Time or browsing history
• Your contacts, messages, or files
• Your name, email address, or phone number through the app
• Your precise or approximate location
• Your payment-card or bank-account information
• Advertising identifiers
• Crash reports or behavioral analytics

How information is used

Locally stored information is used only to provide Toll’s photo-review, app-pause, scroll-window, onboarding, and settings features.

Purchase information processed by Apple and RevenueCat is used to:

• Start and validate the free three-day trial
• Confirm the one-time unlock
• Restore purchases on eligible devices
• Support Apple Family Sharing where available
• Prevent duplicate trials and purchase fraud
• Provide aggregate purchase and revenue reporting

Toll does not sell personal information and does not share information for targeted advertising.

Retention and deletion

Information stored on your device

Toll’s local settings and activity history remain on your device until you delete the app or the information is removed through an available in-app control. Deleting the app removes Toll’s local data from that device, subject to normal iOS backup and system behavior.

Deleting Toll does not restore photos you previously chose to delete. Photo deletion and the Recently Deleted album are controlled by Apple’s Photos app.

Purchase records

Deleting Toll does not erase your App Store purchase history. Apple retains purchase records under its own policies and legal obligations.

RevenueCat retains anonymous purchase-validation information according to its privacy policy and as needed to provide purchase restoration, prevent fraud, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce its agreements.

To request access, correction, or deletion of information RevenueCat processes on Toll’s behalf, email hello@thetoll.co. We will work with RevenueCat to handle the request where applicable. Some purchase records may need to be retained by Apple or RevenueCat for legal, fraud-prevention, or transaction-record purposes.

Your choices

You can:

• Decline or limit Photos access
• Change or revoke Screen Time authorization
• Disable Toll notifications in iPhone Settings
• Choose not to begin the free trial or buy the unlock
• Delete Toll to remove its locally stored app information
• Contact us about purchase information processed on our behalf

Security

Toll minimizes privacy risk by keeping photos, selected apps, Screen Time information, and app activity on your device. Communications with Apple and RevenueCat use encrypted network connections. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but Toll limits external processing to the information needed to provide purchase functionality.

Changes to this policy

If Toll changes in a way that affects this policy, we will update this page and the “last updated” date above. Material changes will be reflected before or when the affected feature becomes available.

Contact

Questions or privacy requests can be sent to hello@thetoll.co.