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Privacy Policy — Stay Focused

Last updated: May 9, 2026

Stay Focused ("we", "our", the "App") is a focus & productivity app — Pomodoro timer, tasks, deadlines, notes, distractions, and AI-generated insights. This document explains what data we collect, why we collect it, how long we keep it, who we share it with, and the rights you have over it. It is written to satisfy the Google Play Data Safety section and general GDPR / CCPA obligations.

1. Who we are

  • App name: Stay Focused
  • Publisher: Basheer Rjoub
  • Contact for privacy questions: basheer20599@gmail.com
  • App package ID: com.workfocus.work_focus

2. What data we collect

2.1 Data you give us

DataSourcePurpose
Name (display name)Google account, editable in appDisplay in profile
Email addressGoogle accountAccount identifier, login, support replies
Profile photo (URL)Google accountAvatar in profile
TasksYou type themTrack what you want to work on
DeadlinesYou type themTrack due dates and priorities
Notes (rich-text)You type themPersonal notebook
Distractions you logYou type them during sessionsPark interruptions and resolve them later
Focus sessions (Pomodoros)Generated as you use the timerBuild your focus history and analytics
Notification & daily-insight preferencesSettings screenControl reminders and insight delivery time
Penalty-timer settingSettings screenOptional behaviour during pauses

2.2 Data generated from your use

  • Streaks & daily totals (derived from your focus sessions)
  • Daily AI insight — a short prompt naming today's priority, generated from your task titles, deadline labels, and recent note titles
  • Weekly recap — a short summary of your sessions, tasks, and distractions for the period

2.3 Data we DO NOT collect

  • We do not collect your precise or coarse location.
  • We do not collect contacts, SMS, call logs, or files on your device.
  • We do not use the camera, microphone, or sensors.
  • We do not sell or rent your personal data.
  • We do not use Your Content (tasks, notes, distractions) to train third-party AI models.

2.4 Automatic technical data

When you use the App, Firebase (our backend provider) automatically records:

  • A pseudonymous Firebase user ID (UID) linked to your Google account
  • App-crash diagnostics, if any (stack trace, OS version, device model)
  • Authentication tokens needed to keep you signed in

3. Advertising

Stay Focused displays banner ads in a few places (e.g. on the dashboard and analytics screens) using Google AdMob. AdMob may collect or receive information from the App and use that information to provide measurement services and personalized ads. This may involve:

  • The Android Advertising ID (AAID) — a resettable, user-controlled identifier
  • Coarse, IP-based approximate location
  • Standard ad-request signals (device model, OS, language, app version)

Google's use of advertising data is described here: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You can reset or limit ad personalization on your device:

  • Android: Settings → Google → Ads → "Delete advertising ID" / "Opt out of Ads Personalization"
  • iOS: Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking, and Settings → Privacy & Security → Apple Advertising

We do not pass your tasks, notes, deadlines, distractions, focus sessions, or AI-generated content to AdMob.

4. Why we collect it (legal basis under GDPR)

PurposeLegal basis
Creating and maintaining your accountContract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR)
Storing your tasks, deadlines, notes, sessions and distractionsContract
Sending you reminders & daily AI insightsConsent (revocable in Settings)
Showing ads via Google AdMobLegitimate interest, with the device-level controls listed in §3
Security, fraud prevention, crash diagnosticsLegitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f))
Responding to your support emailsContract / legitimate interest
Complying with legal obligationsLegal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c))

5. Where your data lives

Your data is stored on Google Firebase infrastructure (Cloud Firestore, Firebase Authentication, Firebase Cloud Messaging). Data may be processed in the United States and other countries where Google operates data centers. Google provides standard contractual clauses and other safeguards required for international transfers.

Reminders and notifications are delivered locally on your device via the operating system's notification system, and (when applicable) via Firebase Cloud Messaging.

6. Who we share data with

We share data only with:

  • Google / Firebase — as our hosting, authentication, and messaging provider (processor under GDPR).
  • Google Sign-In — to authenticate you. Google's privacy policy applies to the sign-in step: policies.google.com/privacy
  • Google AdMob — only for serving ads, as described in §3.
  • Groq, Inc. — when you generate the daily insight or weekly recap, we send your task titles, deadline labels, and recent note titles to the Groq API (groq.com/privacy-policy) so it can return a short summary. The generated text is stored under your account and is not shared with anyone else. Groq states that API inputs are not used to train its models.
  • Law enforcement — only if we are legally required to do so by a valid court order or binding legal request.

We do not sell personal data. We do not share your tasks, notes, deadlines, distractions, or focus sessions with advertisers.

Public data

Stay Focused has no leaderboard, social feed, or public profile. Your tasks, deadlines, distractions, notes, focus sessions, and AI-generated insights are private and visible only to you.

7. How long we keep data

  • Account data (name, email, photo, preferences): kept while your account exists.
  • Tasks, deadlines, distractions, notes, focus sessions, AI insights and recaps: kept while your account exists.
  • Crash diagnostics: up to 90 days.

When you delete your account (see §8), all of the above is removed within 30 days from our live database and within 90 days from encrypted backups.

8. Your rights

You can exercise all of the following rights directly inside the app or by emailing us:

RightHow to exercise
Access the data we hold about youEmail us and we'll export it as JSON within 30 days
Correct your profile dataSettings → tap the edit icon next to your name
Delete your account and all dataSettings → Account → Delete account
Withdraw notification consentSettings → Notifications
Limit / reset advertising IDDevice settings — see §3
Complain to a data protection authorityContact your local authority (EU: your country's DPA)

Account deletion — in-app

Open the app → Settings → Account → Delete account → confirm. You may be asked to sign in with Google again to prove it's you. All of your data and your auth account are then removed.

Account deletion — web

If you cannot use the app to delete your account (for example, you uninstalled it or lost access), see the public Delete your Stay Focused account page, or email basheer20599@gmail.com from the email address tied to your account with the subject line Delete my Stay Focused account. We will verify your identity and delete all of your data within 30 days.

9. Children

Stay Focused is not directed to children under 13 (or under 16 in the EU). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has created an account, email us and we will delete it.

10. Security

  • HTTPS for all network traffic
  • Firebase Authentication with Google OAuth 2.0 (we never see your password)
  • Firestore security rules that restrict every document so only the owning user can read or write it

No system is 100% secure. If a breach affecting your personal data occurs, we will notify you and the relevant authorities as required by law.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be announced inside the app at least 7 days before they take effect. The "Last updated" date at the top always reflects the current version.

12. Contact

If you have any question about this policy or how we handle your data:

  • Email: basheer20599@gmail.com

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