Mindscape: Focus Village
Privacy Policy
Last updated: 9 November 2026
The short version: Mindscape has no accounts and no ads. Almost everything the app knows stays on your iPhone. The exception is usage statistics (like how many tickets and focus sessions are used), which are tied to a random id instead of your name and which you can switch off in Settings. We never sell your data.
Who we are
Mindscape: Focus Village is made by Digisaga v/ Emil Skotner (Norway). Questions about privacy: kontakt@digisaga.no.
What the app stores, and where
Mindscape saves the following only on your device (in the app's own storage):
- Your answers from the welcome screens (for example the name you typed and your estimate of daily phone time), and the character you picked.
- Your village: coins, items you bought and where you placed them, neighbors, your streak, tickets and focus sessions.
- A random id created on your phone, used only inside your neighbor code (see below).
- Your settings, such as light or dark mode.
Your name, your village and your neighbors are never sent to us or to anyone else. The only things that leave your phone are the usage statistics described below, including the answers you picked from the lists in the welcome screens.
Screen Time
To lock the apps you choose, Mindscape uses Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) framework, and only with your permission. Apple gives the app anonymous tokens for the apps you pick, not their names, and never what you do in them. Mindscape does not read your usage history. The tokens stay on your device and are used for one thing only: locking and unlocking those apps.
You can withdraw this any time: turn Mindscape off in the app's Screen time tab ("Turn off"), or in iOS Settings → Screen Time.
Camera
The camera is used only when you choose to scan a friend's neighbor code. The image is read on your phone to find the code, and it is never saved or sent anywhere.
Notifications
If you allow them, Mindscape shows local notifications about your tickets and focus sessions. They are created on your phone; no push service is involved.
Neighbor codes
Your neighbor code (and its QR code) contains your random id, your character and, in the QR code, the name you typed. It is shared only when you show or send it to someone yourself. A friend who adds it stores a copy on their own phone.
Feedback by email
If you use "Send feedback", your Mail app opens a message to us with the app and iOS version filled in. If you send it, we receive what you wrote, your email address and those version numbers. We use them only to reply and to fix problems, and we delete them if you ask.
Usage statistics
To learn which parts of Mindscape help and which don't, the app sends usage events to PostHog, an analytics service, on servers in the EU (Frankfurt). An event is an action in the app plus a few numbers, for example "a ticket was started (ticket 2 of 3) and lasted 12 minutes", "a 25-minute focus session was completed", "an item was bought in the Shop", "the day ended with this many coins and this streak", "the list of locked apps was changed" or "this onboarding step was reached".
Events carry a separate random id created by the app, the app and iOS version, and the answers you picked from the lists in the welcome screens (your phone-time estimate, apps, moments and goals), plus which character you picked. The random id lets us see that events came from the same install. It is not your name, email, Apple ID or advertising id, and we do not try to find out who is behind it.
Events never contain your name, your neighbor code, anything you type, or your location. They never contain anything from Screen Time: not which apps you lock, and not how you use them. We do not store your IP address with the events.
We use this only to improve Mindscape, based on our legitimate interest in making the app work better (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). You can switch it off any time in Settings > Privacy in the app; it then sends nothing more and drops anything not yet sent.
Tracking and third parties
Mindscape contains no advertising or tracking SDKs and does not track you across apps or websites. Apart from PostHog (above), we do not share data with third parties. PostHog processes the usage events only on our behalf, under a data processing agreement that requires it to protect them at least as well as this policy does.
Apple provides us with aggregated, anonymous statistics about the app, such as downloads and crashes, through App Store Connect. These cover only users who have chosen to share diagnostics and usage with app developers in iOS, are processed by Apple under Apple's privacy policy, and cannot be used by us to identify you.
Your rights
Apart from emails you choose to send us, the only data we hold is the usage statistics above. They are tied to a random id that is shown nowhere and is not connected to your name, so we cannot find your events from an email or a name. If you want to see, correct or delete an email you sent, write to kontakt@digisaga.no. You can also complain to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet).
Deleting your data
Delete the app, and everything it stored is removed from your phone. Usage events are deleted automatically after about one year. The small profile kept with the random id (your latest list answers, streak, ticket choice and number of neighbors) stays for as long as Mindscape uses PostHog, or until we delete it. To stop new events, switch off usage statistics in Settings > Privacy before you delete the app.
Children
Mindscape is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal data from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, for example if we add accounts or friends, we will update this page and the date above before those features launch.