Privacy Policy

FOCUS is a productivity workspace operated by HerTech Media, LLC ("we", "us"). It helps you capture your thoughts and manage tasks, projects, goals, ideas, notes, calendar events and focus sessions.

This Privacy Policy explains what information FOCUS processes, how it is used, how it is stored and protected, and the choices you have.

Account and profile information

• Your email address and basic profile details you provide, such as your name, time zone and preferences.
• Sign-in information: a password you set (held by our authentication provider in a form we cannot read), or basic Google profile information (name and email) if you sign in with Google.

Content you create

• Tasks, subtasks, projects, goals, ideas and notes.
• Calendar events and focus sessions.
• Captures and brain dumps you type.
• Voice recordings you submit for transcription, and the transcribed text.
• AI-organized suggestions created from your captures.
• Files you voluntarily upload.

Google Calendar information

Only if you choose to connect Google Calendar. See the Google Calendar section below.

Technical and usage information

• Technical information needed to operate and secure the service, such as browser and device details, and security and access logs.
• Error and diagnostic reports.
• Limited usage metadata, such as "a capture was created" or "a task was completed". This records that an action happened, not the content of your tasks, notes or captures.

You can add information to FOCUS by typing or speaking through Capture. Your capture is saved first, before any processing.

• Voice recordings may be processed by a speech-to-text service to create a transcript.
• Captured text and transcripts may be processed by a third-party AI service to identify and organize items such as tasks, events, ideas, notes, goals, projects and reminders.
• AI suggestions are shown to you for review. They are only added to your workspace when you confirm them, and you can edit or reject them.

These providers process your content only to deliver these features to you.

Connecting Google Calendar is optional and requires your authorization through Google. When connected, FOCUS accesses only the calendar event information needed for calendar sync, such as event titles, dates and times, locations, descriptions, and the identifiers needed to keep events in sync.

• Events imported from Google Calendar are shown in FOCUS and treated as external calendar data.
• While the connection is active, when you create, change or delete a FOCUS event, FOCUS may create, update or delete the matching event in your Google Calendar.
• You can disconnect Google Calendar at any time. Disconnecting does not delete your own FOCUS events.
• FOCUS does not access Gmail, Google Drive, Google Photos, Google Contacts or any other Google service.
• Google Calendar data is not sold, not used for advertising, and not used for purposes unrelated to the calendar features in FOCUS.

FOCUS's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Information from Google APIs is used only to provide the user-facing calendar features in FOCUS. It is not transferred to others except as needed to provide those features, for security, or to comply with law, and it is not read by people unless you give permission, it is needed for security, or it is required by law.

• To provide FOCUS and its features.
• To display and organize your tasks, projects, goals, ideas, notes and calendar.
• To transcribe voice captures and produce organization suggestions for your review.
• To sync Google Calendar when you connect it.
• To provide sign-in and account access.
• To keep the service secure, troubleshoot problems and improve FOCUS.
• To contact you about your account or the service when necessary.

FOCUS does not use your content for advertising.

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only with service providers that help us run FOCUS. They receive only what they need to provide their service to us:

• Supabase: database, authentication and private file storage. Stores your account information and the content you save in FOCUS.
• Cloudflare: hosts and runs the FOCUS application. Processes the requests your browser sends and related technical information.
• Google (Gemini): AI organization and speech-to-text. Receives capture text, transcripts and voice recordings you submit for processing.
• Google Calendar: only if you connect it. Calendar event information, as described below.
• Stripe: payment processing for subscriptions. Receives your email address, your plan choice and the payment details you enter on Stripe's checkout page.
• Spotify: only if you connect it, as described below.
• Resend: sends service emails, such as Founder Beta invitations. Receives the recipient's email address and the message content.

We may also disclose information when required by law.

Connecting Spotify is optional. It lets you play and control music during focus sessions.

Stored by FOCUS

• Your Spotify account ID and display name.
• The authorization tokens Spotify issues so FOCUS can stay connected. These are stored encrypted.

Accessed through Spotify while connected

• Your playback state, current track and the ability to control playback.
• Your private and collaborative playlists, so you can choose music.
• The email address on your Spotify account.

You can disconnect Spotify in Settings. You can also remove access from your Spotify account settings.

Subscriptions are processed by Stripe. You enter payment details on Stripe's checkout page. FOCUS does not store full card numbers. FOCUS stores your Stripe customer and subscription references and your plan status, and may display your card brand and last four digits as provided by Stripe.

• Browser notifications are optional. Your browser asks for permission only after you choose to turn on notifications, for example in Settings or on the Focus page. You can turn them off in FOCUS Settings or in your browser's site settings.
• The microphone is used only when you start a voice capture.

FOCUS uses your browser's storage to keep you signed in and to remember your preferences. This includes your sign-in session, a cookie that remembers whether the sidebar is open, and local settings such as theme, coach settings, the focus timer, your last focus task, the plan you selected on the pricing page, Spotify player state and notification state.

If you allow it, FOCUS also stores focus.attribution.consent (your Allow or No thanks choice and its date, kept for 12 months) and focus.attribution.v1 (how you found FOCUS, described below, kept until it is saved to your account or for at most 30 days).

FOCUS does not use advertising cookies or third-party analytics scripts. It records limited usage metadata in its own database, as described above.

FOCUS counts approximate article views and share-button interactions to understand how its blog content is used. These statistics are stored as aggregate counts by article and day, without storing reader identities or IP addresses for this purpose. View and share-button counting is skipped when supported browser privacy signals (Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track) are enabled. To avoid counting the same view twice, your browser keeps a short list of articles you viewed in this session (focus.blog.viewed), which is cleared when you close the tab.

When you arrive from a campaign link or another website, FOCUS may ask: "Allow FOCUS to remember how you found us?" Nothing is stored unless you choose Allow.

• What is kept: campaign labels in the link (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_content, utm_term), the referring website's address without its query string, the first FOCUS page you opened without its query string, and the time.
• Where: in your browser's local storage on this site (no cookies, no third parties). If you create an account, it is saved once to your account in FOCUS's own database, removed from your browser, and used to understand which articles and campaigns lead to sign-ups and subscriptions.
• No thanks stores only your choice for 12 months. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, FOCUS does not ask and does not store anything. These signals are an extra protection; they do not replace your choice where consent is required.
• You can withdraw at any time with Settings → Privacy → Forget how I found FOCUS. This deletes the saved record and stops it from being saved again. The record is also deleted if your account is deleted.

You can upload files to your private FOCUS workspace. Uploaded task files are stored privately, are available only to authorized members of your workspace, and are opened through short-lived private links. FOCUS does not analyze uploaded files unless a future feature clearly states otherwise.

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect your information, including access controls that limit each workspace's data to its members. No online service can guarantee complete security.

We keep your information for as long as it is needed to provide the service and maintain your account, subject to legal and operational requirements.

• Edit your information and content in FOCUS at any time.
• Delete tasks, notes, events, files and other applicable content.
• Disconnect Google Calendar in Settings → Calendar & Integrations. Syncing stops, imported Google events are removed from your FOCUS calendar, and your own FOCUS events stay. You can also remove access from your Google Account permissions page.
• Request deletion of your account and data by emailing support@thestayfocusapp.com from the address linked to your account.

FOCUS is a general productivity service and is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we will remove it.

We may update this policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

Questions about this policy or your information: