Last updated: 4 October 2026
Your block lists, focus sessions, statistics and lock configurations stay on your Mac; they are never uploaded. To buy FocusDragon Pro or an AI Focus plan you create an account; we then store your email, display name, optional age range and your plan. If you use AI Focus, then only while a block you started is running, a screenshot of your screen is sent every 10 to 20 seconds (less often once your monthly allowance is used up), with your goal and the name, window title and web address of what is in front, through our server to our AI model provider, OpenAI, to be judged. Our server never stores or logs those screenshots, and they are never used to train any model. The two screenshots behind each thing AI Focus closes stay on your Mac for 7 days. Outside AI Focus, nothing about what you block, when you focus or what is on your screen is sent anywhere. You can export or delete everything we hold about you at any time from Settings → Account → Delete account, or by emailing hi@focusdragon.app.
When you sign in (Google or Apple sign-in, via our authentication partner), we store your email address, display name, and an optional age range you choose during onboarding. This is held by our authentication partner on EU-hosted infrastructure. It is used only to: (1) identify you across devices, (2) attach your subscription entitlement to a stable identity, and (3) personalise the in-app greeting. Auth tokens (refresh tokens) are kept on your Mac in macOS Keychain; a Secure, first-party session cookie is set on the website when you sign in there to complete checkout.
If you buy FocusDragon Pro, payment is handled entirely by our payments partner. They collect and store your card number, billing address, and any other payment-method information directly. We never see your card number. We store only: a customer ID linking your account to your billing record, and your entitlement. Receipts and chargeback records are retained by our payments partner for 7 years to satisfy accounting law (we cannot delete them earlier even on request).
Every block list, every lock configuration, every focus-session log, every minute of statistics and the blocks you've created are stored in macOS Application Support and never leave your computer. AI Focus also keeps these on your Mac only: its log of each thing it closed, with the two screenshots behind that decision, your goal and the reason, for 7 days and then deleted; the list of tabs you had open during a block, so they can be offered back after a cooldown, kept until they are restored or for 24 hours; and the goal and lists for the block that is running, until it ends. Every other AI Focus screenshot is discarded once it has been judged and is never written to disk. The only thing that leaves your Mac is what AI Focus sends while a block you started is running, described in the AI Focus section below.
The Chrome / Safari / Firefox extensions read only the URL of pages you visit and match them against your block list. No page body text, no DOM, no cookies, no form contents — just the URL string. The extension communicates with the local FocusDragon app on your Mac via the browser's native-messaging channel; nothing it reads is sent to our servers.
Our hosting partner keeps standard HTTP access logs for FocusDragon's server and focusdragon.app for up to 30 days. These contain timestamp, IP address, request path, response code, and user-agent — used for debugging and abuse prevention. They are not joined to your account or used to profile you.
focusdragon.app sets these first-party cookies: a Secure session cookie when you sign in (readable by the site's own code so you stay signed in, therefore not HTTP-only), a short-lived HTTP-only `fd_post_auth_redirect` cookie that remembers where to send you after sign-in, and `fd_landed_at`, which records when you first arrived. The site also uses Google Analytics 4 to measure page views and referrers; it sets its own `_ga` cookies and receives your IP address (which Google truncates), page URL, referrer and coarse device information. It runs only on focusdragon.app — never on preview deployments — and we do not send it your email, name, account ID, or anything you type into a form. We also use the Meta Pixel to measure our Facebook and Instagram ads. It sets Meta's `_fbp` cookie, and when you arrive from one of our ads we store the ad's click ID in a first-party `_fbc` cookie and the campaign tags (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content, utm_term) in a first-party `fd_utm` cookie, each for 90 days. The Pixel sends Meta the pages you view, when you start a checkout, and when a purchase or trial completes, with your IP address and browser details. When a purchase or trial completes, our server also tells Meta about it directly, with the amount, your email address in hashed (SHA-256) form, the click ID and those browser details, so Meta can match it to the ad; we never send Meta your name, your card details, or anything about what you block or focus on. Both run only on focusdragon.app. You can block them with any content blocker or your browser's tracking-protection setting, and the site works identically without them.
Inside the Mac app you can opt in to anonymous product analytics handled by our optional analytics partner. It is OFF by default. If you enable it, we receive aggregate, non-identifying event names ("a block started", "AI verdict returned") with no block contents, no app names, no URLs, no page text, and no PII. You can disable it from Settings → General → Privacy at any time; existing events are not retroactively deleted but new events stop.
If FocusDragon crashes, a stack trace is sent to our error-monitoring partner with all personal context stripped (no block data, no file paths beyond the bundle, no clipboard, no environment). You can disable crash reporting in Settings → General → Privacy. Crash reports help us fix bugs that would otherwise silently affect users.
We use the following providers, each performing the role described: our authentication partner (auth + accounts + entitlements DB; EU-hosted infrastructure); our payments partner (billing, including the card saved for the AI Focus free trial; US/EU); OpenAI (AI Focus only: judges screenshots and their details during blocks you start, never used for training); our hosting partner (hosting; servers in the US and the EU, with AI Focus requests processed in Frankfurt, Germany); our error-monitoring partner (crash reports; EU-hosted infrastructure); our optional analytics partner (optional analytics; EU-hosted infrastructure); Meta Platforms (advertising measurement on the website: the Meta Pixel, plus purchase and trial events sent from our server with a hashed email address; US/Ireland). Where data is transferred outside the EEA we rely on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
If you are in the EU (GDPR Article 15–22), UK, or California (CCPA / CPRA) you have the right to access, correct, port, or delete the personal data we hold about you, and to receive an export in a machine-readable format. You can export all data we hold about you anytime via Settings → Export my data in the Mac or iOS app — you'll receive a ZIP archive containing every row tied to your account (subscriptions, entitlement history, attribution, cancellations, AI usage totals, and any waitlist record). You can also email hi@focusdragon.app to request the same. We will respond within 30 days as required by GDPR Article 15. Account deletion is also self-serve from inside the Mac and iOS apps: Settings → Account → Delete account permanently removes your account record, your subscription, and any entitlements. Records of past payments held by our payments partner are retained as required by accounting law (typically 7 years).
FocusDragon is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 13. EU users under 16 require parental consent. If we learn we've inadvertently collected data from a minor, we delete it.
When we materially change this policy we update the "last updated" date at the top, list the change in the in-app changelog, and — for changes that expand what we collect — surface a notice in the app the next time you open it. Continued use after that notice constitutes acceptance.
Privacy questions, deletion requests, DSARs, or concerns: hi@focusdragon.app. For anything else, use our support page at focusdragon.app/contact. We aim to respond within two business days.
AI Focus watches your screen only while a block you started is running. Every 10 to 20 seconds (less often once your plan's monthly allowance is used up) it takes a downscaled screenshot of your whole screen, every display if you have more than one, and sends it through FocusDragon's own server, which never stores or logs it. Each screenshot goes with your goal, the name of the app in front, its window title and, in a browser, the page's address.
The screenshot and its details are then judged by our AI model provider, OpenAI. The answer is a yes or no on whether you look distracted from your goal, with a short reason. Nothing you send is used to train any model. We have asked OpenAI for zero data retention; until that is in place, OpenAI may keep requests for up to 30 days solely to detect abuse, then deletes them. FocusDragon uses one AI model provider at a time and never sends your screenshots to another provider automatically.
Because AI Focus judges whatever is on screen, that can include other people's messages, emails and video calls. AI Focus never takes a screenshot while a password field is focused.
Each time AI Focus quits something, it keeps the two screenshots behind that decision on your own Mac for 7 days, so you can see why, then deletes them. That log never leaves your Mac.
When AI Focus closes something, the card that explains it has a “Wrongly judged? Tell us” button. If you use it, we receive only what the card shows: your goal, the reason AI Focus gave, the app, the page title and address, the AI model and prompt version that made the call, any note you add and the time of the call, with your account and the time you sent it. A report never includes a screenshot. We use reports only to find and fix wrong calls, and each one is deleted automatically after 90 days, or sooner if you delete your account.
To run your monthly allowance we record, for each day, how many AI Focus checks you made and what they cost us. We count the checks in your free hour, and if you start the AI Focus free trial we keep a record of it (the plan you chose, when it ends, and whether it was cancelled or charged) so each account gets one free hour. These records are numbers and dates only; they never include a screenshot or anything else that was on screen.
AI Focus is for people 18 and over. This is a declared limit; we do not ask for or verify your age.