Balpum

Privacy Policy

Effective September 13, 2026 · Last updated September 13, 2026

Balpum is an app where walking earns screen time. Every step adds minutes to your balance, and when the balance runs out, a lock screen covers the apps you chose yourself.

Balpum has no server and no feature that sends or receives anything over the internet. Your step, health, and screen-time records live only on your device. There is no account and no sign-in, and the developer cannot see your data.

1. Information stored only on your device

The information below never leaves your device. Deleting the app deletes it too.

Type	What it contains	Where it lives
Daily records	Date, step count, minutes earned, Watch session bonus, number of times the lock was bypassed	On-device database
Lock settings	Whether the lock is on, the set of apps you picked (opaque tokens), automatic deduction totals	App group storage
Rate settings	Price of one minute, daily free minutes, carryover cap, Zone 2 heart rate threshold	On-device settings
Weekly Nag	The single most recent generated sentence	On-device settings

There is no backup, sync, or account feature. If you change devices or delete the app, the records cannot be recovered.

2. Health data

Balpum reads data from the Apple Health app to convert your steps into screen time. The iPhone app and the Apple Watch app ask for different permissions.

App	Reads	Writes	Purpose
iPhone	Step count, heart rate	None	Turning steps into screen-time balance
Apple Watch	Heart rate, step count, active energy	Workouts (indoor walking)	Zone 2 bonus during a session, filling your Activity rings

Health data never leaves your device. Balpum does not use health data for advertising or marketing, and never sells or shares it with anyone.

You can withdraw access at any time in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Health. Withdrawing stops step earning, but existing records remain.

3. Screen Time data

When you turn on the lock, Balpum uses Apple's Family Controls and Device Activity frameworks. This access is used only so you can manage your own device; it is never used to supervise a family member's or anyone else's device.

What is recorded

Time spent in the apps you picked — a total in minutes
How many times you bypassed the lock screen — the action shown as “Open anyway” in the app

What cannot be recorded

Balpum cannot know which apps you picked. iOS hands the selection to the app only as opaque tokens that cannot be interpreted; the app cannot read an app's name or identifier from them, and cannot send them off the device. This is not a policy Balpum chose — it is a constraint iOS enforces structurally.

This information is never used for advertising, ad measurement, or user profiling, and is never provided to data brokers. It is written only to on-device storage shared between the app and its extensions.

4. Weekly Nag and on-device AI

Weekly Nag summarizes your last seven days. It is computed from values already on your device — steps, minutes earned and spent, how many times the lock was bypassed — and turned into sentences. No outside service is involved.

On devices that support Apple Intelligence, a one-sentence comment is added on top. That sentence is produced by the on-device language model Apple ships as part of the operating system, and the entire process finishes on your device. On devices without support, only the summary is shown, without the comment.

In no case is any information sent over the internet.

5. Permissions

Permission	Requested by	If you decline
Health	iPhone, Apple Watch	Step earning and the Zone 2 bonus will not work
Screen Time	iPhone	Only the lock will not work; earning continues as usual
Motion & Fitness	Apple Watch	Live step haptics during a session will not work

Balpum does not request notification, location, contacts, camera, photo, or microphone access.

6. Sharing with third parties and international transfers

None. Balpum does not provide any information to third parties and does not transfer it across borders. The app contains no feature that communicates with the outside world.

7. Analytics and advertising

Balpum includes no usage analytics tool, no crash-reporting tool, and no advertising SDK. It does not read the advertising identifier.

8. Retention and deletion

On-device information — kept until you delete it. Deleting the app deletes it too.
Workouts saved to the Health app — remain in the Health app. They are not removed when you delete Balpum; you can delete them directly in the Health app.
Server storage — there is no server, so nothing is stored.

9. Your rights

Information on your device disappears when you remove the app. You can withdraw Health and Screen Time access at any time in iOS Settings.

Because Balpum collects nothing that identifies you and keeps nothing on a server, there is nothing you would need to ask us to access, correct, or delete. Everything is on your device, under your direct control.

10. Children's privacy

Balpum is intended for users aged 13 and over.

Under the Personal Information Protection Act of the Republic of Korea, processing personal information of a child under 14 requires consent from a legal guardian. Users under 14 should use the app only with a guardian's consent.

Balpum has no separate age-verification step and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 14. Since everything is stored only on the device, a guardian can erase all of it by deleting the app from that device.

11. Contact

Business name	Fount Lab
Representative	Taegyun Lee
Address	301, 12 Sangdo-ro 47ra-gil, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Privacy officer	Taegyun Lee
Email	contact@fountlab.co.kr

For privacy complaints in Korea, you may also contact the Personal Information Infringement Report Center (privacy.kisa.or.kr, 118) or the Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee (kopico.go.kr, 1833-6972).

12. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will let you know through the app or the App Store listing.

This English version is provided for convenience. If it differs from the Korean version, the Korean version prevails.