Your mornings stay on your phone.

This policy explains what the Snooze Control app ("Snooze Control," "we," "the app") stores, what leaves your iPhone, and the choices you have. Snooze Control is an alarm clock that plays comedy lines from fictional characters and gives you a report card when you get up.

The short version

There is no account and no sign-in. Your alarms, your wake-up history and anything you type stay on your iPhone. The only thing that leaves it is anonymous usage counts sent to TelemetryDeck, an analytics service built to work without identifying people. There are no ads, no advertising identifiers and no tracking across apps or websites, so iOS never needs to ask permission to track you.

What stays on your iPhone

Snooze Control keeps the following in its own storage on your device. None of it is sent to us or to anyone else.

• Your alarms: time, repeat days, chosen character, roast level and snooze length.
• Your wake-up history: for each morning, the scheduled time, the time you tapped I'm up, the number of snoozes, the character, and the grade and superlative on your report card. This is what the Hall of Shame shows.
• "What do you wake up for" (optional): if you type something in this Settings field, it is stored on your device and used only to personalise your report card, as described below.
• Alarm sound files: the app assembles each alarm's sound from recordings built into the app and saves the result in its own folder, because iOS can only ring an alarm from a sound file.
• Settings: your default character and your toggles.

Like any app's data, this is included in your iPhone's own backups if you use iCloud Backup or back up to a computer. We have no access to those backups.

On-device AI

On iPhones with Apple Intelligence turned on, Snooze Control can write a personal "Most likely to..." line for your report card using Apple's on-device language model. The model is given only your snooze count for that morning and the text in "What do you wake up for," and it runs entirely on your iPhone. Neither is sent to us, to Apple's servers or to any other company. You can switch this off in Settings, under "Personal report cards." Without Apple Intelligence, the app uses superlatives written in advance and nothing is generated.

Anonymous usage analytics

To learn which parts of the app people use, Snooze Control sends short anonymous messages ("signals") to TelemetryDeck. A signal names an event and carries a few coarse values. It never contains your name, email address, phone number, location, contacts, the text you type, or the content of your alarms' lines.

The complete list of signals the app sends:

• an alarm was created or edited, with the character chosen, whether it repeats, and the roast level;
• your first alarm was set;
• an alarm was snoozed, with the snooze level;
• you got up, with the character and the number of snoozes;
• the Roast Simulator was started or finished, with the character and the snooze count;
• a character's sample was played;
• a report card was opened, or its Share button was tapped, with the grade and whether it came from the Simulator;
• a Home Screen quick action was used, and which one;
• an alarm failed to schedule, with the first 80 characters of the error iOS reported;
• an app session started.

With each signal, the TelemetryDeck software also includes general technical details: device model, iOS version, app version and build, screen size, time zone, language and region settings, light or dark mode, text size and similar accessibility settings, and whether the app came from the App Store or a test build. To count unique users without knowing who they are, it uses a random identifier that iOS assigns to our apps on your device, scrambled on your iPhone with a one-way hash (SHA-256, with a value unique to this app) before it is sent. That hash cannot be turned back into the identifier or matched with data from other apps. TelemetryDeck processes signals under its own privacy policy.

Permissions the app asks for

• Alarms. Required. This lets Snooze Control schedule system alarms that ring through silent mode and Focus. iOS asks the first time you save an alarm.
• Notifications. Optional. Used for one local notification after you get up, linking to your report card. It is created on your iPhone; we run no notification server.
• Photos, add only. Asked only if you choose "Save Image" from the share sheet on a report card, so iOS can save that one image. The app cannot see your photo library.

The app never asks for your location, microphone, camera, contacts, calendar or health data.

Sharing

Your report card is shared only when you tap Share, through the standard iOS share sheet, to the place you choose. We don't receive a copy.

Siri and Shortcuts

If you set or turn off alarms with Siri, Apple processes your request under Apple's privacy policy. Snooze Control receives only the result, such as the time you asked for.

What Snooze Control does not do

• No account, sign-in, email address or phone number.
• No advertising, advertising identifiers or ad networks.
• No tracking across other companies' apps or websites, and no data brokers.
• No sale or sharing of data for advertising. There is no personal data for us to sell.
• No use of your data to train AI models.

Deleting your data

In Settings, "Erase wake-up history" deletes every report card, the Hall of Shame and your "What do you wake up for" text, immediately. Your alarms stay. Deleting an alarm removes it. Deleting the app removes everything Snooze Control stored on your iPhone.

Analytics signals are anonymous, so we have no way to find the ones that came from your phone. If you'd like no more signals sent, delete the app.

Children

Snooze Control is a comedy app for teenagers and adults and is not directed at children under 13. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights over personal data held about you. Because Snooze Control keeps your information on your device and sends only anonymous analytics, we hold no personal data that could be tied to you. If you have a question or request anyway, email us and we'll answer it.

Terms

Snooze Control is licensed under Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement. It is an entertainment app. Please don't rely on any single alarm, this one included, for anything you can't afford to miss.

Changes to this policy

If a future version changes what the app stores or sends, this page will be updated before that version is released, with a new date at the top. If a change ever involves sending anything beyond anonymous analytics, the app will ask you first.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@hearthlyapps.com.