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Privacy

This describes what OlaTime actually does with your data — not boilerplate legal language disconnected from how the app works.

The short version

By default, OlaTime doesn't send your data anywhere. It lives in this device's local storage (IndexedDB), full stop. There is no analytics SDK, no ad network, and no tracking pixel anywhere in this app.

What's stored, and where

• Appointments, habits, tasks, settings, categories — stored locally in your browser's IndexedDB. This data never leaves your device unless you explicitly turn on Cloud Sync.
• Reminder history — a local log of which reminders have actually fired, stored the same way, purely so you can review it. Never transmitted anywhere.

Cloud Sync (optional, off by default)

If you choose to sign in and turn on Cloud Sync, your appointments, habits, and workspace data are synced to a Firebase project used by this app, so they can follow you across your own devices. This is the only scenario in which your data leaves your device, and it only happens because you turned it on.

• Cloud Sync data is not sold, shared with advertisers, or used to train anything.
• Turning Cloud Sync off (or never turning it on) means none of this applies to you.
• Signing out disconnects sync; your local data stays on the device regardless.

Workspace Mode

A local Workspace (church, clinic, team, etc.) created without Cloud Sync stores everything the same way as your personal data — locally, on that one device, never transmitted. A Workspace connected to Cloud Sync follows the same Firebase-backed sync described above, scoped to that workspace's members.

Notifications

Browser notification permission, when granted, is used only to show you your own reminders. No notification content is sent through any third-party push service unless you are in a Workspace with real-time push explicitly configured by whoever set up that workspace's backend — and even then, it's your own reminder text, not anything else.

Third-party services this app can optionally use

• Firebase (Google) — only if you turn on Cloud Sync.
• OneSignal — only for real-time push notifications in a Workspace, and only if that workspace's administrator has configured it. Not used otherwise.
• EmailJS — only for sending a workspace invite email or a reminder email, and only if configured. Otherwise the app gives you a copyable link or a mailto: draft instead.

None of these are contacted unless the specific feature that needs them is actually used.

Your data, your export

Export your appointments to CSV, Word, PDF, or a full JSON backup at any time, from Settings. Clearing your browser's site data removes everything stored locally — there's no separate deletion request process needed, because there's no server copy to begin with (unless you opted into Cloud Sync, in which case deleting your account removes the synced copy too).

Changes to this page

If this changes, this file changes with it — there's no separate hidden policy.