Privacy Policy

• Airblock has no accounts, analytics, advertising or third-party code.
• We do not sell or share your personal data. Airblock sends us nothing about you: on its own it only checks our site about once a week for newer tracker lists, which you can switch off.
• Everything Airblock records stays on your iPhone, including an App Privacy Report you open in it.
• Only if you turn on app names and icons on the Apps page, the app IDs in your App Privacy Report are looked up on Apple's App Store.
• While Airblock is on, website lookups that are not blocked are answered by a public DNS service (Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 unless you choose another), over an encrypted connection where the network allows.
• The only thing we ever receive is feedback you choose to send, and only what you put in it.

This policy explains how the Airblock app for iPhone ("Airblock", "the app") handles information. Airblock is made by Acific Labs LLC ("Acific Labs", "we", "us").

Airblock keeps the following only on your device, inside the app's own storage:

• Traffic log. While Airblock is on, the names of the internet addresses your iPhone looks up (for example graph.facebook.com), how many times, when, whether Airblock blocked them, and the server addresses the answers pointed to (the servers' own addresses, not yours). It does not record page contents, messages, or which app made a lookup.
• Your exceptions. Companies you chose to always allow and sites you chose to block.
• Deep Clean progress. Which checklist steps you marked as done.
• Your phone's name, if you type one into the app.

The traffic log and Ghost mode's tally are kept out of iCloud and computer backups, so they stay on this iPhone. We never receive any of this. You can delete it at any time with Privacy & About → Erase all Airblock data, or by deleting the app.

When you turn Airblock on, iOS asks you to add a VPN configuration. This VPN runs entirely on your iPhone; it is not connected to any server of ours. Except in Ghost mode, described below, it receives only your iPhone's domain name (DNS) lookups. Lookups for known advertising, analytics and tracking services, and any you blocked yourself, are answered on your device so the connection never happens.

Lookups that are not blocked are passed to Cloudflare's public DNS resolver (1.1.1.1) so websites and apps keep working. Like any DNS provider, including the one your network uses when Airblock is off, Cloudflare receives the name being looked up and your IP address. Cloudflare's commitments for this service are described in its 1.1.1.1 privacy policy. Airblock sends nothing else.

These lookups are sent encrypted (DNS over HTTPS), so the Wi-Fi network or mobile carrier you are on cannot read them. If a network blocks encrypted lookups, Airblock falls back to ordinary DNS to Cloudflare for a few minutes so the internet keeps working, and the app stops saying lookups are encrypted until ten minutes have passed without any ordinary lookup.

Choosing another DNS service. In Airblock Settings you can have these lookups answered by Quad9 (9.9.9.9) or Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) instead of Cloudflare. Whichever you choose receives the names being looked up and your IP address, under its own privacy policy: Quad9, Google Public DNS.

Tracker list updates. About once a week, when you open the app, Airblock asks airblock.acific.com whether newer tracker lists exist and downloads them if so. The request contains nothing about you or your lookups. Like any web request it reaches our host, Cloudflare, from your IP address. You can switch this off in Airblock Settings.

Extra blocklists. If you add a blocklist by its web address, Airblock downloads it from the site you chose, when you add it and about once a week after. That site sees your IP address, like any site you visit. Airblock sends it nothing else. We don't run those sites and don't see which lists you use.

Ghost mode. If you turn on Ghost mode, the VPN on your iPhone takes all of the phone's internet traffic, not only its lookups, and drops it there, so apps cannot reach the internet until Ghost mode ends. None of that traffic is read, kept or sent anywhere. Airblock keeps, on your iPhone only, a count of the attempts it stopped and the server names that were asked for. Ghost mode does not switch off the phone's radios: calls, texts, Bluetooth and AirDrop still work, connections that were already open can last a moment, and iOS lets a few of its own services go round a VPN.

Connections and Total air gap. The Flow page and the Total air gap page read, on your iPhone, whether a mobile network, Wi-Fi, a hotspot or cable, a route to the internet and Location Services are on, along with details such as the kind of mobile network and this iPhone's own network addresses. They are shown to you and sent nowhere. This needs no permission, with one exception: Bluetooth. Without asking, Airblock can see a Bluetooth device only while sound is going to it. If you tap Check if Bluetooth is on, iOS asks you for Bluetooth access, and Airblock then reads only whether Bluetooth is switched on. It never scans for or connects to devices. If you tap Test it, Airblock tries to open one connection to Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 to see whether the internet can be reached, and sends nothing over it; Cloudflare sees your IP address if it gets through.

Explanations written by your iPhone. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, Airblock can ask the phone's own language model to explain a company or sum up your week. The model runs on your iPhone through Apple's software; the text Airblock gives it and its answer are not sent to us or to anyone else. Its answers can be wrong.

Weekly summary notification. If you turn it on, the notification is created and scheduled on your iPhone. It does not go through our servers or a push service.

Content filter and iCloud sync. The optional adult and gambling filters use lists stored on your iPhone. If you turn on Sync your exceptions with iCloud, your allow and block rules are kept in your own iCloud account, under Apple's privacy policy, so your other devices can use them; we never receive them. It is off unless you turn it on.

Siri, Shortcuts and the Control Center switch only turn Airblock on or off, or pause it, on your iPhone. If you choose to share your count, the picture contains only the number and your latest milestone, and goes only where you send it.

The My Phone tab can count your photos, videos, screenshots and contacts, and show a map of where your photos were taken. This happens only after you tap and allow access in the iOS prompt. Counting is done on your iPhone and the results are not stored or sent anywhere. The photo map is drawn with Apple Maps, which downloads map images for the area shown, under Apple's privacy policy. You can turn access off at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security.

The My Phone tab displays details iOS makes available to every app, such as your model, iOS version, storage, battery level, language and time zone. Airblock reads them only to show them to you. They are not stored or sent.

Airblock's widgets read the same on-device traffic log to show today's count. They send nothing.

If you turn on Airblock's Safari content blocker (Settings → Apps → Safari → Extensions), Airblock gives Safari a fixed list of ad and tracking addresses to block and ad boxes to hide. Safari applies the list itself; Airblock never sees which pages you visit.

iOS can record which domains each app contacted, and when apps used your microphone, camera, location, photos or contacts: the App Privacy Report. If you save it from Settings and open it in Airblock, Airblock reads and keeps it only on your iPhone to show you which apps contacted tracking companies. It is never sent to us. You can remove it on the Apps page at any time.

App names and icons are optional. The report only names apps by their ID (for example com.example.app). If you turn on Show app names and icons, Airblock asks Apple's App Store (itunes.apple.com) for the name and icon of each app ID in your report, which tells Apple which apps are in it, along with your IP address, under Apple's privacy policy. Nothing goes to us. It is off unless you turn it on, and turning it off deletes the saved names and icons.

Airblock has a Send feedback screen. Nothing is sent unless you write a note and tap Send. When you do, we receive:

• What you wrote, and whether you marked it as a problem, an idea or something else.
• Your email address, only if you add one so we can reply.
• App and device details, only if you switch them on before sending: Airblock's version, your iPhone model, iOS version, language setting, and whether Airblock was on and blocking.

Feedback never includes your traffic log, your exceptions, your Deep Clean progress, your photos or your contacts.

Your note passes through a small service of ours on Cloudflare, which keeps no copy of it, and is stored as an item in Acific Labs' private issue tracker on GitHub. To stop one sender flooding us, that service counts notes per network address for ten minutes. It holds the count under a scrambled form of the address, not the address itself, and the count then expires. We use your feedback only to fix problems and improve Airblock, and we use AI tools (Anthropic's Claude) to help us read, group and act on it. It is never used for advertising, sold, or shared for any other purpose. We keep feedback for up to 12 months after we have dealt with it, then delete it, or sooner if you ask.

If the app can't reach us, it offers to send the same note by email instead, which then reaches us through our email provider.

Airblock has no accounts and is suitable for all ages. The only information we receive is feedback someone chooses to send. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if you believe a child sent us feedback, write to us and we will delete it.

Because Airblock's data stays on your iPhone, you are always in control of it: you can see it in the app and delete all of it at any time. Apart from feedback you choose to send, we hold no copy, so there is nothing for us to give you, correct or delete. If you sent feedback, write to us and we will send you a copy of it or delete it. We never sell or share personal information, including for targeted advertising. This applies wherever you live, including under the GDPR, UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act and Nevada's privacy laws. If you have a question about your rights, write to us and we will answer.

Who is responsible. Acific Labs LLC, 732 S 6th St #7978, Las Vegas, NV 89101, United States, is the controller for the feedback described above. Everything else Airblock handles stays on your iPhone and is not processed by us.

Why we may use it (for the GDPR and UK GDPR): we read and keep your feedback, and reply if you give an email, because you asked us to and in our legitimate interest in fixing and improving Airblock. The short-lived count per network address is in our legitimate interest in keeping the feedback service from being flooded.

This website. airblock.acific.com is served by Cloudflare, which processes visitors' IP addresses to deliver and protect the site, in our legitimate interest in running it. The site sets no cookies and has no analytics or advertising.

Where it goes. Cloudflare, GitHub and Anthropic are based in the United States. Feedback sent from the EU, the UK or Switzerland is transferred there under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework (and its UK and Swiss extensions) where the company is certified, and otherwise under the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.

Representative. We have not named a representative in the EU or the UK, because the feedback we receive is occasional, small in scale and not sensitive (GDPR and UK GDPR Article 27(2)).

Complaints. Write to us first and we will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days and answer it. You can also complain to the data protection authority where you live or work (in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office).

If this policy changes, we will update this page and its effective date. If a change ever means data leaves your device in a new way, the app will tell you before it happens.

Acific Labs LLC · 732 S 6th St #7978, Las Vegas, NV 89101, United States · [email protected]. See also the terms of use and Airblock support.