Privacy Policy

Focus Labs ("Focus Labs," "we," "us," or "our") provides a productivity and study-focused mobile application, website, and related services (collectively, the "Services").

Focus Labs is currently operated by individuals based in Texas, United States. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use and share it, how long we retain it, and the choices available to you.

By using the Services, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Who Can Use Focus Labs

Focus Labs is intended only for users who are 13 years of age or older.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. During signup, we use an age-verification process to prevent users under 13 from creating or using an account. If we learn that we collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, contact us at studyroomdevs@gmail.com.

2. Information We Collect

A. Account and Profile Information

When you create or use an account, we may collect:

• Email address;
• Authentication-provider information when you sign in with Apple or Google;
• Username and display name;
• Optional profile photo or avatar;
• Internal account identifiers;
• Account settings and privacy preferences.

Passwords for email/password accounts are handled through Supabase Auth. Focus Labs does not store your readable password in its own application database.

B. Study Session and Progress Information

We collect information related to your use of Focus Labs, including:

• Study-session duration;
• Session start and end times;
• Study subject or session label;
• Completion status;
• Whether a session is private or shared;
• Whether a shared session uses blur settings;
• Device-clock-derived local start hour;
• Total study minutes;
• Streaks;
• XP, levels, badges, rankings, and related progress data;
• Weekly activity snapshots and network-ranking data.

C. Timelapse Videos and Thumbnails

Focus Labs may use your device camera to create study timelapses.

Raw camera frames are created and processed locally on your device. When you choose to post a timelapse, we upload the posted video and related thumbnail to our cloud storage so it can be shown through the Services according to your chosen visibility settings.

Timelapses may show your face, surroundings, screen, location clues, documents, or other personal information. You are responsible for reviewing content before posting it.

Focus Labs does not record audio through the timelapse feature.

D. Contacts Information

Focus Labs may offer an optional contact-matching feature to help you find people you know.

If you choose to use it and grant device permission, we may access phone numbers from your device contacts. We use those phone numbers only to check whether a contact already has a Focus Labs account.

We do not upload contact names for contact matching, and we do not retain your address book from the synchronization process.

You can decline contact access, revoke permission through your device settings, or skip contact matching without losing access to core study features.

E. Social and Community Information

If you use social features, we may collect:

• People you follow or who follow you;
• Blocks;
• Emoji reactions;
• Session-view records;
• Public-profile and discovery settings;
• Reports you submit about content or users;
• Content and information connected to moderation or safety reviews.

Depending on your settings, other authenticated Focus Labs users may be able to search for your profile, view your display name, username, avatar, study statistics, badges, and shared study sessions.

F. Device, Log, and Operational Information

We and our service providers may automatically process limited technical and operational information, such as:

• IP address;
• Device and app version information;
• Authentication and security logs;
• Request timestamps;
• Error and service-performance information;
• Information needed to prevent abuse, secure accounts, and operate the Services.

We do not currently collect precise GPS location, advertising identifiers for advertising purposes, or audio recordings.

3. How We Use Information

We use information to:

• Create and manage accounts;
• Provide study sessions, progress tracking, timelapses, profiles, feeds, and social features;
• Match contacts when you choose to use contact matching;
• Process and display content you choose to share;
• Personalize study progress, badges, rankings, and reminders;
• Keep the Services secure and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, harassment, and other harmful activity;
• Review reports and enforce our Terms of Use and Community Guidelines;
• Respond to support requests and privacy requests;
• Improve, maintain, troubleshoot, and develop the Services;
• Comply with applicable legal obligations.

We do not use your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

4. How Information Is Shared

We may share information in the following situations.

With Other Users

Information you choose to make visible through the Services may be shown to other authenticated Focus Labs users.

This may include your username, display name, profile photo, study statistics, badges, follower relationships, and timelapses or session information you choose to share.

Your content may be visible based on the privacy setting you select, such as private or visible to followers. Do not post content that you do not want other users to see.

With Service Providers

We use service providers to operate the Services, including:

• Supabase, for authentication, database, storage, real-time features, and related infrastructure;
• Apple, when you choose Sign in with Apple or use the App Store;
• Google, when you choose Google Sign-In;
• Expo / EAS, for application development, builds, and local-notification-related services.

These providers may process information only as needed to provide services to us, operate the Services, maintain security, or comply with legal obligations.

For Safety, Legal, and Business Reasons

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

• Protect users, Focus Labs, or the public;
• Detect, investigate, or prevent fraud, abuse, security incidents, or violations of our Terms;
• Respond to valid legal requests;
• Comply with applicable law;
• Enforce our agreements;
• Support a merger, acquisition, financing, asset sale, restructuring, or similar business transaction.

We do not sell personal information.

5. Hosting and International Data Transfers

Focus Labs uses cloud infrastructure located in the United States, including US East-hosted services.

If you use the Services from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States and other locations where our service providers operate. Those locations may have privacy laws different from those in your country.

6. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Services, maintain security, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.

Generally:

• Account, profile, study, and social data are retained while your account remains active;
• Posted media is retained until you delete it, delete your account, or we remove it under our rules;
• Security, fraud-prevention, moderation, and operational logs may be retained for a limited period as reasonably necessary for safety, legal, and operational purposes;
• Backup copies may persist temporarily before being overwritten under our backup procedures.

When you delete your account, we will delete or de-identify associated personal information, subject to limited retention where necessary for legal compliance, security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, or system backups.

7. Account Deletion and Your Choices

You may delete your Focus Labs account from within the app through:

Profile → Settings → Account → Delete Account

Account deletion removes your account and associated data from active Focus Labs systems, including your profile, sessions, study statistics, social connections, and posted media, except where limited retention is necessary for legal, security, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, or backup purposes.

You may also contact us at studyroomdevs@gmail.com to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information.

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

8. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to:

• Know whether we process your personal information;
• Access personal information we hold about you;
• Correct inaccurate personal information;
• Request deletion of personal information;
• Obtain a portable copy of certain personal information;
• Opt out of certain processing where applicable;
• Appeal a decision regarding your privacy request.

To submit a request, email studyroomdevs@gmail.com with the subject line:

Privacy Request

We will respond within the time required by applicable law. If we deny a request, you may ask us to review the decision by replying to our response and stating that you wish to appeal.

Texas residents may have privacy rights under the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, where applicable.

9. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information.

However, no system is completely secure. You should use a strong password, protect access to your device, and avoid posting personal, sensitive, or identifying information in timelapses or public profile content.

10. User Content and Privacy

You control whether a study session is private or shared through available settings.

Before posting content, you should consider whether it shows:

• Your face or another person;
• Your home, school, workplace, or location;
• Private documents, screens, messages, or account information;
• Personal information about you or someone else.

Do not post another person's image, private information, or personal data without permission.

A blur feature may reduce visibility of certain visual details, but it is not guaranteed to remove all identifying information or make content anonymous.

11. Third-Party Services and Links

The Services may contain links to third-party websites, products, or services. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies, not this Privacy Policy.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties that are not under our control.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

When we make material changes, we will update the Effective Date and may provide notice through the app, website, email, or another reasonable method.

Your continued use of the Services after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means you acknowledge the revised policy.

13. Contact Us

For privacy questions, requests, concerns, or reports, contact:

Focus Labs Texas, United States Email: studyroomdevs@gmail.com