Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Pom (“the app”) is an anti-sleep and focus timer app for macOS, developed and published by an independent developer. This policy explains what information the app handles and where it lives. We designed Pom to keep its core features offline. Except when Apple verifies, sells or restores Pro access, your focus data belongs to you and never leaves your device.

2. Data stored on your device

Pom stores the following information locally, using standard macOS storage (Core Data and UserDefaults):

• Focus session records — start time, duration, and the name of the app you focused in (used for Auto Focus and per-app stats).
• Preferences — focus durations, rest themes, sound and volume, shortcuts, and other settings.
• Aggregate statistics computed from the records above, such as your focus heatmap and total deep-work time.

This data is stored only on your Mac, in your user account, and is never transmitted anywhere.

3. What Pom never does

• No analytics, no usage tracking, no crash reporters.
• No advertising and no third-party SDKs of any kind.
• No accounts, no sign-in, no email or personal identifiers required.
• No developer-controlled servers; StoreKit contacts Apple only to load, purchase or restore Pro access.
• No selling, renting, or sharing of data with anyone.

4. App Store & purchases

Pom is free to download from the Mac App Store and offers a one-time Lifetime Pro in-app purchase (¥18 in China; other storefronts show their local price). Apple handles purchases, refunds and payment details; the developer never receives or stores card numbers, billing addresses or other payment details. Pom uses StoreKit to ask Apple for current entitlements and to restore purchases. People who paid to download Pom before it became free automatically keep Lifetime Pro after the app verifies Apple’s signed original download record, with no second purchase required. Apple may also provide anonymized, aggregate download and sales data under its privacy policy.

5. Permissions & system access

Pom uses standard, public system APIs to keep your display awake and to observe which application is frontmost, so that Auto Focus and per-app stats work. This observation happens locally through system notifications, requires no special permissions, and is never recorded outside your Mac or transmitted anywhere.

6. Your choices

Pom has no developer-side account or cloud data to delete. You can clear all focus statistics at any time from Settings. Removing the app may leave macOS-managed preferences or sandbox data on the device; you can remove those through macOS storage or file management. Purchase records remain associated with the Apple Account used to buy them and can be restored in the app.

7. Children’s privacy

Pom is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone, including children.

8. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new “last updated” date. Because the app collects nothing, any future change would only add clarity — not collection.

9. Contact

Questions about privacy? Email bearapps@163.com.