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Privacy Policy for Grow App

Last Updated: March 19, 2025

1. Introduction

Hartree & Associates ("Hartree & Associates," "Company," "we," "us," or "our"), an individual entrepreneur registered in the Republic of Kazakhstan, is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you use the Grow app ("Grow," "Service") located at grow.ischemist.com.

By using Grow, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy.

2. Information We Collect

We collect the following categories of personal information:

Account Information:

When you create an account with Grow using Google OAuth or GitHub OAuth, we collect:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • Your profile picture (if provided by the OAuth provider)
  • Timezone (you may set your timezone preference within the app)
  • User ID from the OAuth provider

Usage Data (Service Data):

As you use Grow, we collect data related to your productivity activities within the Service, including:

  • Tasks: Task titles, descriptions, state (to-do, in-progress, completed), deadlines, repeat configurations, categories, projects, completion dates, archive status.
  • Time Entries: Start and end times of work sessions, duration, associated tasks and categories, timezone of entry creation.
  • Notes: Content of notes you create within the Service.
  • Goals: Goal titles, target durations, target tasks, frequency, start and end dates, associated categories and projects.
  • Reading Items: Titles, links, types (book, paper, article), completion status, completion dates, notes.
  • Timer Presets: Preset names, durations, associated categories.
  • Active Session Data: Start times of active timer sessions, paused times, timer lengths, associated tasks.
  • Streak Records: Streak data associated with categories, last activity dates, timezones for streak calculation.

Technical Data:

We may automatically collect certain technical information when you access or use Grow, including:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Access times
  • Pages viewed
  • Referring URLs

This data is typically collected through server logs and product analytics tools.

Communication Data:

If you contact us for support or inquiries via email at [email protected], we will collect your email address and the content of your communication.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

Providing and Maintaining the Service:

  • To create and manage your user account.
  • To provide you with access to Grow's features, including task management, time tracking, notes, goals, reading lists, and analytics.
  • To personalize your experience within the Service.
  • To ensure the Service functions correctly and efficiently.
  • To provide user support and respond to your inquiries.

Service Improvement and Research:

  • To analyze anonymized and aggregated User Data to understand user behavior, productivity patterns, and trends.
  • To conduct research aimed at improving the Service, developing new features, and gaining insights into productivity and user well-being. Any research findings published will be based on anonymized and aggregated data and will not identify individual users.

Communication:

  • To send you service-related announcements, updates, and important notifications.
  • To respond to your support requests and other communications.

Security and Legal Compliance:

  • To protect the security and integrity of the Service and user accounts.
  • To detect and prevent fraud and abuse.
  • To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes, including responding to valid requests from government authorities in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
  • To enforce our Terms of Service.

4. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We are committed to keeping your personal information private. We will NEVER sell or share your personal data with any third parties for marketing or advertising purposes.

However, we may share your information with the following categories of recipients in limited circumstances:

Service Providers:

We utilize third-party service providers to support the operation of Grow. These providers may have limited access to your personal information to perform services on our behalf, such as:

  • Digital Ocean: For hosting our servers and storing data.
  • Cloudflare: For content delivery network (CDN) services and security.
  • PostHog or Matomo (or similar product analytics services): For product analytics, helping us understand how users interact with the Service and improve it.
  • OAuth Providers (Google, GitHub): To facilitate account registration and authentication.

These service providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes of providing services to us.

Legal Authorities:

We may disclose your personal information to government authorities or law enforcement agencies if required by law or legal process in the Republic of Kazakhstan, or if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to: (a) comply with a legal obligation; (b) protect our rights or property; (c) prevent fraud or illegal activity; (d) protect the safety of users or the public.

5. Data Security

We take reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include:

  • Using secure hosting infrastructure provided by Digital Ocean.
  • Employing industry-standard security practices for our applications, including the use of Next.js and Auth.js for secure authentication and server actions to minimize client-side vulnerabilities.
  • Encryption of data in transit and at rest (where applicable and feasible).
  • Implementing access controls to limit access to personal information to authorized personnel only.
  • Regularly reviewing and updating our security measures.

However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as your account is active and as needed to provide you with the Service. Following account deletion, we may retain User Data indefinitely. This is primarily for research purposes, as described in Section 3, and to allow for aggregated and anonymized analysis over extended periods. We may also retain data to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

7. Your Rights Regarding Your Information

You may have certain rights regarding your personal information under applicable law. These rights may include:

  • Access: You may have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
  • Correction: You may have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience and analyze Service usage. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device by websites. We may use cookies for:

  • Essential Cookies: To enable core functionality of the Service, such as session management and authentication.
  • Analytics Cookies: To collect information about how you use the Service, such as pages visited, features used, and time spent on the Service. This helps us understand user behavior and improve the Service. We may use product analytics tools (like PostHog or Matomo) that utilize cookies for this purpose.

By using Grow, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this Privacy Policy. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. However, disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the Service.

9. Children's Privacy

Grow is intended for users who are at least 16 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child under 16 has provided us with personal information, please contact us at [email protected], and we will take steps to delete such information.

10. International Data Transfers

Your personal information may be stored and processed on servers located in New York, USA. This may involve transferring your information to countries outside of Kazakhstan. We will take appropriate safeguards to protect your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy when it is transferred internationally.

11. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our data practices or legal obligations. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated Privacy Policy on the Service website and/or by sending you an email to the email address associated with your account. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates. Changes will be effective one (1) week after posting or sending notice of the revised Privacy Policy.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

Hartree & Associates
Republic of Kazakhstan
Email: [email protected]