We check the fence. We never follow you.

A time clock needs to know one thing about location: were you at work? It does not need to know where you had lunch, which route you drove home, or where you are on a Sunday. Some time tracking tools record a continuous trail of your location all shift long. ClockOut was built the opposite way, on purpose.

What we check, and when

• When you clock in. We capture your coordinates and a short address so your timesheet shows where the shift started. You see the same thing your manager does.
• When you clock out. Same thing: one position, recorded once, attached to the end of your shift.
• While you’re on the clock (only if your employer enables auto clock-out). The app checks your current position against the work-area boundary about once a minute. It asks a single yes-or-no question: are you still inside the work area? Then it throws the reading away. The only things it can store are boundary events, a warning if you leave and the position where an automatic clock-out happened.
• When you’re off the clock. Nothing. No checks, no coordinates, no background location. The app is not watching.

What we never do

• No breadcrumb trails or route history. We do not stitch your positions into a map of your movements.
• No tracking after you clock out. The moment your shift ends, location goes quiet until your next clock-in.
• No background or “always on” location. We request location only while you’re using the app, never the always-on permission.
• No biometrics. No face scans, no fingerprints, no faceprints. A four-digit PIN or a tap is all it takes.
• No selling location data. We do not sell it, rent it, or hand it to advertisers. Ever.

What your employer sees

Your manager can see the location of your clock-in and clock-out, and whether those punches were inside the work area. If auto clock-out is on and you leave the area mid-shift, they can see that boundary event and the position where the automatic clock-out happened. That is the full list.

They do not get a live map of where you are. They do not get a trail of your movements during the shift. They do not get anything at all once you’re off the clock. The point is to confirm presence at work, not to follow a person through their day.

Why we built it this way

A time clock works when the people using it trust it. The fastest way to lose that trust is to collect more than the job needs. Continuous tracking turns a simple question, were you at work, into surveillance, and it puts managers in the position of holding data they never wanted and employees in the position of feeling watched.

So we collect the minimum that makes the feature honest: a clock-in position, a clock-out position, and, only when an employer chooses it, a boundary check that forgets itself a second later. Managers get a time clock they can rely on. Teams get a tool that respects them. Nobody has to trade privacy for accurate hours.