Anchol

Anchol — Privacy Policy

Effective: 16 October 2026

Anchol (আঁচল) is made by Enso Labs LLC. It helps parents keep their children away from harmful websites and content on the child's iPhone. This page explains, in plain words, what information the app uses and how.

In short

What stays on your child's iPhone

Screen Time. Anchol uses Apple's Screen Time system (Family Controls) for parental controls only: keeping websites and apps closed, bedtime, daily limits and the block screen. A parent grants this permission with their own Apple Account password. The apps and categories you pick are given to Anchol by Apple as sealed tokens; Anchol can't even see their names. We never use Screen Time data for anything else, never sell it and never share it.

Usage numbers. How much time went to which app is drawn by Apple itself in a separate, sealed-off view. Even Anchol can't read those numbers, let alone send them.

Rules and settings. The age band, bedtime, limits, the websites you add, your child's “more time” requests and a record of when the parent PIN was used are kept in Anchol's own storage on your child's iPhone (an App Group), so the block screen and the schedules can read them. They never leave the phone.

Parent PIN. The PIN itself is never stored; only a one-way salted hash of it is kept, in your child's iPhone's Keychain. It doesn't sync to iCloud and never goes to another phone.

Your child's name. Adding a name is optional. If you add one, Anchol uses it only in its own words and on the block screen. It stays on the iPhone where you type it (if you type it on your own iPhone during setup, there too) and is never sent anywhere.

Camera. Only during setup, on your child's iPhone, to read the QR code shown on your iPhone's screen. The code holds only your child's name and goes from screen to camera, not over the internet. Nothing is recorded or sent. If you don't allow the camera, just type the name.

Notifications. If the subscription ends, the reminders during the two-week grace period are created on your iPhone and shown by iOS. No server and no push notifications are involved.

Website filter. On your child's iPhone, Anchol's website filter (Apple's content-filter system) checks the name of each website your child's apps connect to against the Bangladesh blocklist stored on that iPhone. The check happens on the iPhone: the websites visited are never recorded, stored or sent anywhere. When a site is closed, Anchol may show a notice on that iPhone (“This site is closed”), at most once every 10 minutes for each kind of site, which names neither the site nor its kind. Only the time of the last notice is kept.

Anchol doesn't use location, the microphone, photos, contacts or health data.

What happens over the internet

The Bangladesh blocklist. When Anchol opens, and from time to time in the background, it checks anchol.pages.dev for a new version of the blocklist (we publish one about once a week). It is a plain download: no cookies, no device identifier, no account and nothing about your family. Anchol checks the list's digital signature and then uses it on the phone. Which sites your child tries to open is never reported to anyone; all blocking happens on the phone. Like any website, the server sees your IP address; see “This website” below.

Subscription and free trial. Buying, the trial and renewals are handled by Apple's App Store (StoreKit), under Apple's privacy policy. We don't receive your name, email or card details. Anchol only asks Apple, on the phone, whether the subscription is active.

The “Why is it closed?” button. Apple's block page can show Anchol's button, which opens Anchol directly on the iPhone. Only if iOS opens it in a browser instead does that browser load a plain page from anchol.pages.dev (the address /blocked/). That request contains no website name and no kind of site; Cloudflare sees it like any visit to this website (see “This website”).

Apart from these, Anchol makes no network connections of its own.

What Apple does

You download the app from the App Store, under Apple's privacy policy. If you have turned on “Share With App Developers” in iPhone Settings, Apple may give us anonymous crash reports and aggregate usage statistics. Apple collects these, not the app, and they don't identify anyone. If you back up your iPhone, Anchol's settings may be included in that backup like any other app's data. Apple handles backups; we can't see them.

Children

Anchol is a tool for parents to protect their children. We collect no one's data, including children's. So none of the children's information that laws such as COPPA in the United States or the GDPR in Europe protect ever reaches us; it all stays on your family's iPhones.

Deleting the app

Deleting Anchol from your child's iPhone needs a parent's Apple Account password. Deleting it removes its rules, settings and stored information from the phone, and lifts the restrictions Anchol set. If the PIN hash is left in the Keychain, Anchol erases it when it is installed again.

This website

This website uses no cookies, no scripts and no analytics, and it loads nothing from other sites. The blocklist is served from this same site. It is hosted by Cloudflare, which, like any web host, may keep standard server logs (such as IP address, browser type and the page requested) for security and operation. We don't use them to identify or track anyone.

If you email us

If you email us, we use your address and message only to reply and to fix problems in the app. We don't sell or share them. Ask us to delete them and we will.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will post the new version here with a new date. If the app ever started collecting data, that would be stated here and in the App Store privacy details before it happened.

Contact

Enso Labs LLC · euleraibot@gmail.com