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Privacy policy

This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the manner of collecting, retaining, and other processing of personal data by MobileSoft s.r.o., a company with its registered office at Českoskalická 650, 549 41 Červený Kostelec, Czech Republic. identification no.: 025 73 857, registered in the Commercial Register administered by the Regional Court in Hradec Králové, section C, file 33165 (“Operator”), in connection with the use of xBlock application and service (“Application”) and the website www.appblock.app (“Web Interface”), the purpose of which is the temporary blocking of other applications – by the Users (“Service”).

This Privacy Policy supplements and is incorporated by reference in the Conditions of Use of xBlock Service (“Conditions”). The definitions/capitalized terms specified in the Conditions have the same meaning herein.

The protection of privacy and personal data processing is a priority for the Operator and the processing of personal data is regarded as strictly confidential. Personal data are treated in compliance with the valid and effective laws and regulations in the field of personal data protection, including the General Data Protection Regulation EU 2016/679 (“Regulation”).

The Operator may change this Privacy Policy at any time with immediate effect. We will inform you of such changes. Should this Privacy Policy be changed in a manner that requires your consent, we will request your consent again.

The latest version hereof is available in the footer of the Web Interface and through a link in the relevant section of the Application.

If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy.

1. General information

Under the Regulation, the Operator is the controller of your personal data, i.e. the Operator collects, stores, and uses (and otherwise processes) your personal data in connection with its business activities (the individual purposes for which the personal data are processed are specified below).

Without your consent, we may only process such personal data that are necessary for the performance of the contract (i.e. the provision of the Service) and other contracts we may make with you or for the purpose of meeting our legal obligations, and/or for the purpose of legitimate interests. In other situations, we process your personal data only if you give us your consent to the processing of your personal data.

Personal data are processed by us both manually and by automated means. Personal data are processed by automated means for the purpose of performance of a contract (the provision of the Service), in particular, to secure internal procedures of the Operator and its contractual partners that are necessary for the provision of the Service.

This Privacy Policy describes the purposes of personal data processing and the manners of processing, it provides information regarding individual categories of personal data to be processed, individual recipients of personal data, the storage period of personal data, and your rights regarding the protection of personal data.

2. Information Collection and Use

MobileSoft s.r.o. does not collect or store any Personal Information except data needed for login to Academy, nor does it share any such information with third parties. This data is voluntary and other services may be used without creating an account. xBlock uses Apple’s Screen Time technology to block apps. This technology does not provide xBlock or MobileSoft s.r.o. with the ability to read, collect nor modify the list of apps installed on the user’s device. The apps selected for blocking are identified by a randomly generated identifier which cannot be used to discover the name or any other details about the app by xBlock, MobileSoft s.r.o, or any other third party. All statistics and related configurations available through the Service are provided by the Screen Time technology as well, and as such are stored locally on the user’s device for their use only and are not accessible by xBlock, MobileSoft s.r.o. and its affiliates. However, we use third-party services for analyses, advertisement, and bug reporting. These services are managed by their own Privacy Policy:

3. Purposes of personal data processing

Your personal data may be processed by the Operator for the following purposes:

Performance of a contract with the User (fulfillment of mutual contractual relationship based on which the Service is provided to the User);
Fulfillment of legal obligations;
Protection of the controller’s legitimate interest (protection of the rights and legally protected interests of the Operator, e.g. creating statistics concerning the behavior of the Users of the Service);
Distributing commercial communications and offering of services and goods (the Operator may send you commercial communications regarding the Service via e-mail or push notifications);
Dealing with requests of the Users (e.g. using the possibility to contact the Operator through the Application).

5. Processing of personal data on the basis of consent

If you give us consent to the processing of personal data for the purpose of sending personalized marketing communications (in these cases, profiling may also occur) or for the purpose of addressing offers of services and products of the Operator via e-mail or push notifications, you acknowledge that granting of this consent is voluntary and that consent may be withdrawn at any time via a link provided in the message with the commercial communication. Consent is provided until revoked. Failure to give consent does not affect the provision of the Service.

6. Recipients of data

We disclose your personal data only to authorized employees or to individual processors of personal data contracted by the Operator, or to other controllers. However, we always disclose your data only to the extent necessary to fulfill the individual purposes of the processing, and on the basis of an appropriate legal title for the processing of personal data. The categories of recipients of personal data are as follows:

Public authorities;
Web service providers and IT solutions;

We will be glad to provide you with a list of recipients of personal data by email upon request at: support@appblock.app

Personal data may also be transferred to entities established in countries that do not provide an adequate level of protection within the meaning of the Regulation. In such cases, the Operator concludes with the recipients’ standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission to ensure an adequate level of personal data protection.

Under certain conditions, we are entitled, or even obliged, to transfer certain personal data on the basis of applicable and effective legislation, for example to law enforcement authorities or other public authorities.

7. Personal data of third parties

Personal data of third parties, which means personal data of employees of customers or other business partners of the Operator and other natural persons participating in cooperation with the Operator, or other data received by the Operator from the business partner in connection with the conclusion or performance of a contract will be processed in accordance with applicable and effective data protection laws. The Operator will use this personal data to perform contracts with business partners. The business partner hereby acknowledges that the Operator will process personal data of third parties for the duration of the contractual relationship and for the period stipulated by special legal regulations if there are any. Personal data of third parties will then be kept for a longer period of time if there is a need to keep such data on the basis of a particular case. The Business Partner is obliged to duly inform its employees, customers and other natural persons involved in the business partner’s cooperation on the processing of personal data by the Operator.

8. Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you use our Service, we may collect data and information, called Log Data, (through third party products) on your device in case of an error occurring in the app. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing our Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics. This data is used solely for the purpose of improving the Service and providing reliability, does not hold any information about the user and cannot be used to identify the user.

9. Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies (see the complete list under Information Collection and Use) due to the following reasons:

To facilitate our Service;
To provide the Service on our behalf; To perform Service-related services; or
To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

We want to inform users of this Service that these third parties have access to your anonymous information as per their specifications and policies. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

If you wish to exercise your rights, you can do so:

by a letter addressed to the registered office of the company at Českoskalická 650, 549 41 Červený Kostelec, Czech Republic;
by e-mail to: support@appblock.app.

The Operator reserves the right to verify the identity of the applicant in connection with the rights exercised in a reasonable manner in compliance with Article 12 (6) of the Regulation.

If you have any questions, you can contact the Operator using the contact information above.

This Privacy Policy was updated on 20/4/2023.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.