Privacy Policy

Last updated 11 August 2026

JobLock collects nothing.

There is no account, no server, and no analytics. The app has no code that sends anything anywhere. Every job application you log, and every setting you choose, is written to storage on your iPhone and stays there. Delete the app and it is all gone.

That is the whole story, but the rest of this page spells out exactly what is stored, which permissions the app asks for, and why — because "we respect your privacy" is easy to write and hard to check.

What JobLock stores on your device

All of this lives in a database inside JobLock's own storage on your phone. None of it is transmitted.

What	Why it exists
Your job application log — company, role, job link, which board, and any notes you write	It is the log. Showing it back to you is the point of the app.
Pay, location, work arrangement, employment type and posting age, read from your confirmation screenshot	So an entry tells you what you actually applied for, months later.
The text JobLock read from the screenshot	So a wrong guess at the company or role is fixable, and so you can see for yourself what the app read.
Two fingerprints of each confirmation — one of the image, one of the text	To stop the same screenshot being logged twice. They are one-way hashes; the image itself is not kept.
Where you said you heard about JobLock, during onboarding	Nothing yet. There is no analytics service for it to go to, and it has never left your phone.
Which apps you chose to shield	Apple stores this as opaque tokens. See "Screen Time" below — JobLock cannot read which apps you picked.

What JobLock does not do

It does not keep your screenshots. A confirmation screenshot is read once — to check it really shows a submitted application and to fingerprint it — and then discarded. No copy is saved.
It has no servers. There is nowhere for your data to be uploaded to, and no code in the app that could upload it.
It has no account. You never give JobLock a name, an email address, or a password.
It contains no analytics, crash reporting, advertising or tracking SDKs. Nothing measures how you use the app.
It does not sell or share anything, because it does not have anything to sell or share.

On the App Store, JobLock's privacy label reads Data Not Collected. That is not a technicality — it is accurate.

Permissions, and what each one is really for

Photos

When a session is running, JobLock looks for the confirmation screenshot you just took, reads the text out of it on your device, and — if it counts — removes that screenshot from your camera roll for you. Deleted photos go to Recently Deleted, where iOS keeps them for 30 days, so nothing is irreversible.

Being straight with you: iOS grants photo access to your whole library, not to a slice of it. JobLock only ever looks at images created after you started a session, and only deletes ones it logged for you. That restriction is the app's own rule, not something iOS enforces — so you are taking JobLock's word for it. Nothing it reads leaves your phone either way.

Camera

Only used if you choose to photograph a confirmation shown on another screen — a laptop, say. The photo is read on your device and is not saved to your camera roll or anywhere else.

Screen Time

JobLock uses Apple's Screen Time framework to shield the apps you pick while you are applying. Apple deliberately hands the app opaque tokens rather than app names: JobLock can raise a shield over your selection and count how many things are in it, but it is never told which apps you chose. That selection is stored on your device and is never transmitted.

Other software inside JobLock

Google ML Kit Text Recognition reads the text in your screenshots. The model is bundled inside the app and runs entirely on your device — your images are not sent to Google or anyone else.
Apple Screen Time (Family Controls and Managed Settings) provides the app shielding described above.
Apple's rating prompt. If you tap "Rate JobLock", iOS shows its own rating sheet. Apple handles it end to end; JobLock is never told whether you rated it or what you said.
Links out. Tapping "Go to job posting" opens your browser or the relevant app. Once you leave JobLock, that site's privacy policy applies, not this one.

Deleting your data

Clear job list, on the home screen, erases every logged application immediately and permanently.
Deleting the app removes everything — the log, your settings, and your shielded-app selection — in one step. Because none of it was ever anywhere else, that is genuinely all of it.

There is no "request my data" process, because there is no copy of your data for anyone to send you. It is on your phone, and you already have it.

Children

JobLock is not directed at children under 13 and is not designed for them. It collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.

Changes to this policy

If the app's behaviour changes in a way that affects your privacy, this page gets updated and the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will also be called out in the app's release notes rather than slipped in quietly.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does, go to privacy@thejoblockapp.com.