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Privacy & Cookies
Focus Timely is built around a simple idea: your focus data is yours. This page explains, in plain language, what we collect, what we don't, and the choices you have.
The short version
- Use Focus Timely as a guest and your data stays on your device — we never receive it.
- Create an account and your data syncs to our servers, isolated to your account with row-level security.
- The website runs analytics only if you accept cookies. Decline and nothing is tracked.
- We don't sell your data, and there are no third-party ad networks.
Who we are
Focus Timely ("we", "us") is operated by Focus Timely, based in Sydney, Australia. You can reach us any time at hello@focustimely.com.
Guest mode — data stays on your device
You can use Focus Timely without an account. In guest mode, all your data — sessions, tasks, notes, categories, settings, and history — is stored locally in your browser (using localStorage). It never leaves your device and is never sent to us or anyone else.
Because it lives in your browser, clearing your browser data will remove it. The app has an Export option in Settings that saves everything to a JSON file you control.
Accounts & authentication
When you create an account, you sign in with either:
- Email (magic link) — you give us your email address and we send a one-time sign-in link. No password is stored.
- Google sign-in — via Google Identity Services. We receive your email address and basic profile information (name and profile picture) from Google.
Authentication is handled by Supabase (our database and auth provider). We store your email address, and for Google sign-in, the basic profile info listed above.
Data stored with an account
When you're signed in, your focus data — tasks, sessions, notes, categories, and settings — syncs to our servers so it's available across your devices. This data is stored in a Supabase-hosted Postgres database and is isolated to your account using row-level security (other users cannot access your data).
If you later delete your account, this data is removed from our servers within 30 days, except where we're legally required to retain it (see Retention & deletion below).
Payments
Pro subscriptions are billed through Stripe. When you subscribe, Stripe collects and processes your payment details directly — we never see or store your card number. We store a Stripe customer ID and your subscription status so we know which features to unlock.
You can read how Stripe handles payment data in the Stripe Privacy Policy.
Emailed reports (Pro, optional)
Pro users can opt in to periodic email reports summarising their focus activity. If you enable this:
- We process your session data on our servers to compute the report's figures (time totals, streaks, category breakdowns). These numbers are computed by us, not generated by AI.
- A short narrative summary around those figures is written by an AI provider (Anthropic). The AI sees only the pre-computed aggregates for that report period, not your raw session data.
- The report is delivered by Resend (our email delivery service).
Each report email includes a one-click unsubscribe link for that cadence. You can also toggle reports off in Settings at any time.
Analytics & cookies
On the website (not the app), we use Google Analytics, loaded via Google Tag Manager, to understand how visitors find and use the site — which pages are read, roughly where traffic comes from, and what's working. This helps us improve the product.
We run this with consent first. When you first visit, analytics and any advertising-related storage are switched off by default. Nothing is measured until you choose Accept on the cookie banner. If you Decline, no analytics cookies are set and no usage data is collected.
If you accept, Google may set cookies to measure your visit. The data Google processes can include pages viewed, approximate location derived from your IP address, and basic device and browser information. We use Google's tools for measurement only; we do not currently run advertising campaigns. You can read how Google handles this data in the Google Privacy Policy.
One small note: your consent choice itself is remembered using local storage in your browser (a flag, not a tracking cookie) so we don't ask you on every visit.
Changing your cookie choice
You can withdraw or change your consent at any time. Resetting it here will clear your saved choice — the next time you visit the site, the banner will appear again so you can decide afresh.
Sub-processors
We keep the list of third parties who process your data deliberately short:
- Supabase — database hosting and authentication.
- Stripe — payment processing for Pro subscriptions.
- Anthropic — AI narrative in emailed reports (receives pre-computed aggregates only).
- Resend — email delivery for reports and transactional emails.
- Cloudflare — website and app hosting, email routing.
- Google — Analytics (if you accept cookies) and OAuth sign-in.
We do not sell your personal information, and we don't share it with advertising networks or data brokers.
Retention & deletion
You can export your data at any time — JSON backup from Settings, or CSV/XLSX from the Reports screen. If you delete your account, we remove your data from our servers within 30 days, except where Australian law requires us to retain certain records (for example, billing records). Stripe retains its own payment records according to its policies.
Guest-mode data lives only in your browser and is deleted when you clear your browser data.
Your rights
Under the Australian Privacy Act, you can ask us to access, correct, or delete the personal information we hold about you. If you're in the EU or UK, you may have additional rights under the GDPR or UK GDPR — including the right to data portability, restriction of processing, and lodging a complaint with your local supervisory authority. To exercise any of these rights, email hello@focustimely.com and we'll respond within a reasonable time.
Children
Focus Timely isn't directed at children under 16, and we don't knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we'll delete it.
Changes to this policy
We'll update this page as the product evolves and post the new date at the top. For material changes, we'll notify account holders by email or in-app notice before the changes take effect.
Contact
Questions about your privacy or this policy? Email hello@focustimely.com — a real person will read it.