Privacy Policy
In short
- Deepwork works fully without an account. Your focus data stays on your phone.
- No ads, no analytics, no tracking. We never sell or share your data for advertising.
- Your data leaves your phone only if you sign in and use Deepwork Pro cloud backup. It is then stored in your own account, and only you can read it.
- You can export your data at any time, and delete your account and its cloud data from inside the app.
This policy explains what information the Deepwork app ("Deepwork", "we", "us") handles, why, and the choices you have. It applies to the Deepwork Android app.
1. Data stored on your phone
To work, Deepwork saves the following on your device:
- your activities (name, icon, order) and their daily targets, including past versions of those targets;
- your focus sessions: start and end time, planned and focused minutes, whether a session was completed or ended early, and the activity it belongs to;
- tracked targets (an activity and a date range);
- your settings, such as theme, session lengths, sound, vibration and notifications.
This data is not sent anywhere unless you turn on cloud backup (section 3). It is excluded from Android's device backup. It is removed when you uninstall the app or clear its data.
2. Optional account
You can use every core feature without an account. If you choose to sign in, we use Firebase Authentication (a Google service):
- Email and password: your email address and an account ID are stored. Your password is handled by Firebase and never stored by us in readable form.
- Sign in with Google: your Google account's email address, an account ID and the basic profile information Google shares with Firebase (such as your name and profile photo link) are stored.
Firebase also records when the account was created and last signed in.
3. Cloud backup and sync (Deepwork Pro)
If you are signed in and have Deepwork Pro, copies of the data in section 1 (activities, targets, tracked targets, sessions and settings) are stored in Cloud Firestore under your account, so they can be restored after a reinstall or on a new phone. Access is limited to your own signed-in account. We use this data only to back up and sync your progress.
4. Purchases
Deepwork Pro is sold through Google Play. Google processes the payment; we receive only the status of your purchase so the app can turn Pro on. We never see your card or payment details. See Google's Privacy Policy.
5. Permissions
Deepwork asks for or uses: notifications (to show the running timer and when a session ends), exact alarms (so a session ends on time while your phone sleeps), vibration, a foreground service (to keep the timer running) and starting after the phone restarts (to restore a running timer). None of these are used to collect personal data. Deepwork does not access your location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone.
6. Service providers
We use Google services to provide accounts, cloud backup and purchases: Firebase Authentication, Cloud Firestore and Google Play. To deliver these services and protect against abuse, Google processes technical information such as your IP address. Your data may be stored on servers outside your country. Google's handling of this data is described in Google's Privacy Policy and the Firebase privacy information.
7. What we don't do
- We show no ads and include no advertising or analytics SDKs.
- We do not sell your data or share it with third parties for their own purposes.
- We do not track you across other apps or websites.
8. Keeping and deleting your data
- On your phone: kept until you uninstall the app or clear its data.
- In the cloud: kept while you have an account. In the app, go to Settings › Backup and sync › Delete account and cloud data to delete your account and all of its cloud data. Data on your phone stays unless you remove it.
- You can also ask us to delete your account by email; see Delete your account. We complete requests within 30 days.
Deleting your account does not cancel a Pro subscription; cancel it in Google Play.
9. Your choices and rights
You can export your sessions as CSV, or everything as JSON, from Settings › Backup and sync › Export my data, for free. You can ask us to access, correct or delete the data held in your account, and depending on where you live you may have further rights under laws such as the GDPR or CCPA. Contact us at the address below.
10. Security
Data sent between the app and Google's servers is encrypted in transit. Cloud data is protected by rules that allow only your signed-in account to read or write it.
11. Children
Deepwork is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.
12. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will post the new version on this page and update the effective date above.
13. Contact
Questions or requests: gameshape2@gmail.com