Privacy Policy for Limit: Screen Time & Focus

Effective date: October 20, 2026
Developer: Connection Lab
Contact: connectionlabapps@gmail.com

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how Limit: Screen Time & Focus ("Limit"), an Android app by Connection Lab, handles your information.

The short version

• Limit has no account and no server of its own. Your usage history, the apps you limit and your reel counts stay on your phone.
• Limit uses Google's Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics to learn how Limit itself is used and to find and fix crashes. They never receive what Reel Count reads, how you use other apps, or which apps you limit.
• Limit shows ads from Google AdMob. Google's ads software collects some device information, such as your advertising ID and IP address, to show and measure ads.
• Limit Pro, an optional subscription, removes the ads. Google Play handles the payment, and we never see your payment details.
• Reel Count, an optional feature, uses Android's Accessibility service to count the short videos you watch. It only reads, and nothing it reads leaves your phone.

Information that stays on your phone

Limit keeps the following in its private storage on your phone. None of it is sent to us or to anyone else, apart from the few general facts listed under "Analytics and crash reports" below.

• Your settings: the apps you choose to limit, your daily budget, reset time, activities, scroll cost settings, timer position and Reel Count settings.
• Your usage history: time spent in the apps you chose, your breaks, your streak and the daily totals shown in Stats.
• Reel Count data, if you turn Reel Count on: how many short videos you watched in each app each day, the time spent on them, one-way codes (hashes) of recent videos so the same video is not counted twice, and a log of counting decisions.
• Subscription status: whether Limit Pro is active, as reported by Google Play.

To know which app you are using, Limit reads Android's usage statistics and the list of apps on your phone. It uses them on your phone only.

Limit's data is not included in Android backups or in transfers to a new phone, so a new phone starts Limit fresh.

Analytics and crash reports

Limit uses two Google services, Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics, to understand how Limit is used and to fix problems. Google provides them to us as a service provider.

Firebase Analytics collects:

• which of Limit's own screens you open and which of its features you use, such as finishing setup, changing a setting (but not what you changed it to), turning a feature on or off, or opening the Limit Pro screen;
• whether you use Limit for free or with Limit Pro, and roughly how many apps you limit (0, 1, 2 to 4, or 5 or more), never which ones;
• Limit Pro purchases, with the product and its price, and whether a purchase was started, restored or not completed;
• general app events, such as the first time you open Limit, how long you use it, app and Android updates, and ads being shown in Limit;
• device and app details, such as your phone model, Android version, Limit's version and your language, and an approximate location worked out from your IP address;
• a random ID for this installation of Limit, used to count users.

Firebase Analytics does not collect your advertising ID or your phone's Android ID, and Limit tells it not to use your data for personalized ads.

Firebase Crashlytics collects:

• when Limit crashes or hits an error: which part of Limit's code failed, the state of the app at that moment, and device details such as your phone model, Android version, free memory and storage;
• each time you open Limit: the time, Limit's version, your Android version, phone model and network type, so crash rates can be worked out;
• a random ID for this installation of Limit, used to count how many users a crash affects.

Neither service receives what Reel Count reads or counts, what is on your screen, how you use other apps, which apps you limit, anything you type, or your name or contact details. Reel Count appears in analytics only as its switch being turned on or off, its screens being opened, and the Limit Pro screen being opened from them.

Google keeps Analytics data linked to your installation for up to 14 months, and crash reports for 90 days, and then deletes them. Google handles this information under its own policies, explained at Privacy and Security in Firebase.

Reel Count and the Accessibility service

Reel Count is optional and stays off until you turn it on. It uses Android's Accessibility service to count the short videos (reels, Shorts, TikToks) you watch in other apps, and how long you spend on them, so those numbers can feed the daily limits you set.

While it is on, it reads the structure of what is on screen: which app is open, whether a full-screen video feed is showing, and whether you have scrolled to a new video. To tell one video from the next, it turns on-screen labels into a one-way code and discards the text.

It only reads. It never taps, swipes, types or changes anything in any app. It does not record what the videos are, who posted them, or anything you write. Nothing it reads leaves your phone, and it is never shared, sold or used for advertising.

You can turn Reel Count off at any time in Limit or in Android's Accessibility settings.

Permissions and why Limit needs them

• Usage access: to see which app is open, so your limits apply to the right app.
• Display over other apps: to show the block screen and the break timer.
• Accessibility (optional): for Reel Count, as described above.
• Notifications and foreground service: to show the break timer while a break runs.
• Run at startup and battery optimization exemption: so your limits keep working after a restart and are not stopped in the background.
• Internet access and advertising ID: internet access is used by Google's ads, billing, update, analytics and crash-reporting services, described in this policy. The advertising ID is used only by Google's ads.

You can review or revoke these permissions at any time in Android settings. Without usage access or display over other apps, Limit cannot enforce your limits.

Advertising

Limit shows ads through Google AdMob. To show and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google's Mobile Ads SDK collects the following from your phone and shares it with Google:

• your advertising ID, app set ID and, where applicable, other identifiers for accounts signed in on your phone;
• your IP address, which can be used to estimate your approximate location;
• how you interact with ads and the app, such as app launches, taps and video views;
• diagnostic information about how the app and the ads SDK perform, such as launch time, hang rate and energy use.

Google handles this information under its own policies, explained at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services. You can reset or delete your advertising ID, and opt out of personalized ads, in your phone's settings. Limit Pro removes all ads.

Purchases and updates

Limit Pro is sold and billed by Google Play. We never see your payment details. Limit only receives the status of your subscription from Google Play so it can unlock Pro, and Firebase Analytics records Limit Pro purchases as described above. You can manage or cancel the subscription in the Google Play Store.

Limit also asks Google Play whether a newer version is available, so it can ask you to update. Google Play receives your app version and basic device details for this check.

Google's privacy policy applies to both: policies.google.com/privacy.

Sharing

Google is the only company that receives information from Limit, for the ads, billing, update checks, analytics and crash reports described above. We do not sell your information. From Firebase we see reports on how Limit itself is used, and crash reports. We never receive your usage history, the apps you limit or your reel counts.

How long data is kept, and how to delete it

• Everything Limit stores stays on your phone until you delete it. Uninstalling Limit, or clearing its storage in Android's app settings, deletes all of it. It also replaces the random IDs Firebase uses, so later analytics and crash reports are not linked to earlier ones.
• To stop Reel Count counting, turn it off in Limit or in Android's Accessibility settings.
• Limit's data is not included in Android backups or device transfers, so there is no copy of it in your Google Account.
• Google keeps Firebase Analytics data linked to your installation for up to 14 months and Crashlytics crash reports for 90 days, then deletes them.
• Information collected by Google's ads SDK is kept and deleted under Google's policies. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings.

Security

Limit's data sits in its private app storage, which other apps cannot read. Google's services, Firebase included, send their data over encrypted connections. Reel Count keeps only one-way codes of on-screen labels, never the text itself.

Children

Limit is made for adults aged 18 and over. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

If Limit changes in a way that affects your privacy, we will update this policy and the effective date above before the change reaches you.

Contact

Connection Lab
Email: connectionlabapps@gmail.com
Website: worldconnectionlab.blogspot.com