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Information you provide
Account and sign-in
When you register, we collect your first and last name, username, email address, password, and time zone. We use these details to create and manage your account, authenticate sign-in, support password recovery, and display dates and schedules in your time zone. Your account also has an identifier that connects your saved data.
Tasks, habits, and focus activity
We store the tasks, descriptions, tags, deadlines, habits, schedules, and settings you save. We also process task completion, focus-block sessions, breaks, study-room participation, and study history to provide timers, synchronize your progress, calculate statistics, and support rankings and group activity.
Social features and support
When you use community, friends, clans, or study rooms, we process the posts, comments, messages, group details, invitations, requests, membership information, and interactions needed for those features. If you contact support, we receive your email address and whatever information you include in your message. Never email your password or verification codes to support.
What other users can see
Your username, profile details, rankings, and activity may be visible through Fokasu's social features. Community posts and comments are visible to other community users; clan messages and group activity are visible to the relevant members. Task/activity visibility also depends on your profile's activity-sharing setting. Review that setting before sharing information you want to keep private.
Do not include sensitive personal information in posts, chat, or other shared content. Other users may keep copies of information they have already seen; deleting your account cannot remove copies held independently by those users.
Android accessibility and app blocking
If you enable Accessibility access, Fokasu checks window focus and app identifiers to identify the app you are using and cover selected apps during a focus block. It can do this while Fokasu is in the background. It does not read screen text, typed text, or other screen content for this feature.
Fokasu reads launcher-app names, icons, and package identifiers on your device so you can choose apps to block. Your selected apps and app-opening events stay on your device. The app connects to our backend to synchronize focus-block sessions and timer state; it does not upload your installed-app inventory or current-app identifiers as part of this blocking feature.
Accessibility access is enabled through Android Settings after an in-app explanation and your agreement. You can revoke it in Android Settings. Notification permission lets Fokasu display timer alerts; background timer operation supports ongoing focus and break sessions.
Browser extension data
Tab URLs
While an active Fokasu focus session is enforcing website blocks, the extension reads tab URLs locally so it can compare them with your configured block and exception patterns. Matching pages are redirected to the extension's blocked page.
The extension does not send tab URLs, browsing history, page contents, titles, cookies, credentials, or form data to Fokasu's remote services. It does not build or retain a browsing-history database. Local browser-protection settings do not contain visited-page history.
Incognito and private browsing
If you enable the extension's incognito or private-window access, Fokasu can enforce the same blocking rules in those windows. The extension does not save or transmit private tab URLs. The same privacy protections described above apply in those windows.
How we use information
We use information to provide and maintain Fokasu, manage accounts, synchronize saved work, operate study and social features, support account recovery, respond to requests, and keep the service working securely. Server logs support service operation and troubleshooting.
Fokasu does not display advertisements, sell personal data, or share personal data for marketing.
Service providers
We use Microsoft Azure for backend hosting and database services. These services process the account, content, activity, and operational information needed to run Fokasu. We use Google Gmail to send password-recovery emails and handle support and deletion requests. Google processes the email addresses and message contents involved in that service.
Providing Fokasu therefore involves these hosting, database, and email services even though we do not share information for marketing. Data may be processed in the locations where those services operate.
Storage and account security
Account and activity data is stored on our backend to support your account across sessions and devices. App settings, blocking rules, and sign-in session information may also be stored on your device. The Android app protects saved sign-in session information using device-backed encryption. New account passwords are stored on the backend as password hashes.
Keep your device and account credentials secure. No storage or transmission system can guarantee absolute security.
How long we retain data
- Account and activity data: retained to provide your account and saved features until you delete the relevant information or request account deletion.
- Server logs: retained for 7 days.
- Support emails: retained for handling your request; correspondence associated with your account is removed as part of account deletion within 14 days.
- Backups: identifying information and personal content in backups are removed within the same 14-day account-deletion period.
- Anonymized statistics: task-completion minutes and daily activity statistics that can no longer be linked to you may be retained indefinitely to preserve historical statistics. Anonymization is completed within the same 14-day period.
Delete your account and data
Email fokasu.support@gmail.com with the subject Fokasu account deletion request. Include your username and registered email address. You can start this request from Settings → Delete account in the mobile app, or use our account-deletion request page without installing or signing in to the app.
We may verify account ownership before deleting data. We complete deletion within 1–2 weeks (no later than 14 days) after receiving your request. If we cannot identify or verify the account, we will contact you to resolve this rather than delete someone else's data.
Account deletion permanently removes your sign-in credentials, identifying profile details (including your name, username, and email address), and personal content, including task and habit descriptions, tags, and account-linked community and clan text. Your account cannot be restored or used to sign in after deletion.
Statistics retained after deletion
We may retain anonymized task-completion minutes and daily activity statistics, such as completion counts and focused time, to preserve historical statistics. Before retaining these statistics, we remove links that could associate them with you or your former account. Retained statistics cannot identify you or be linked back to you. These anonymized statistics may be retained indefinitely.
Your choices
You can update profile details and your activity-sharing preference in the app, choose whether to use social features, and manage notification and Accessibility permissions in Android Settings. Uninstalling the app does not delete your server account; use the deletion-request process above for that.
For the browser extension, you can decline the local connection on first run, disable incognito access, or remove the extension. Removing it removes its locally stored extension data. Local desktop settings can be removed through the app or local data removal.
Changes and privacy questions
We will update this policy and its date when our practices change. To ask about your information, request a correction, or raise a privacy concern, email fokasu.support@gmail.com.