Finocket can keep a copy of your information on the device you use it on, so the app can open and work when the signal does not. A passcode locks that copy. You choose it, it never leaves the device, and it is never sent to us or stored on our servers.
Where to find it
Open Settings › Account and look for Device passcode. That is where you set one, and where you change it later.
You will also arrive at the passcode screen on your own: if you open Finocket on a device you have signed in on before and there is no connection, it asks for the passcode instead of showing you a sign-in form you could not complete anyway.
Setting a passcode
Choose at least six characters. Digits are fine; a short phrase is stronger. Finocket refuses the obvious ones — a repeated character, or a straight run like 123456 — and imposes no other rules, because forcing a capital and a symbol makes passcodes harder to remember without making them harder to guess.
If you forget it, the copy on that device is gone
This is the part to read twice. The passcode is not stored anywhere, so there is nothing for anyone — including us — to recover it from. If you forget it, the only way past is to erase the copy on that device and start again. Finocket never does that on its own; it offers, and you decide.
Anything that has already reached our servers is safe and comes back when you sign in again. What is lost is only what that device was holding and had not yet sent.
Wrong guesses slow down
After a few wrong attempts, Finocket makes you wait, and the wait roughly doubles each time up to an hour. This is what stops someone working through a six-digit code on a phone they picked up. After many failures it offers to erase the local copy — again, only if you say so.
Unlocking needs no connection
The passcode is checked on the device, against the device. There is no request to our servers, which is the point: a lock that needs a signal is no use in the places you most need one.