Hourglean Privacy Policy
Hourglean helps you log your time by speaking or typing a sentence. We collect as little as possible, and we never sell your data or use it for advertising.
What stays on your iPhone
- Your time records — activities, times, categories, goals, and notes — are stored on your device. We don't have a copy. Deleting the app deletes them.
- Audio. Speech is converted to text by Apple's speech recognition (part of iOS, which may use Apple's servers under Apple's privacy policy). Hourglean never sends raw audio to our servers.
What is sent to our service, and why
- Recognized text and context. When you record, the recognized text and the minimum context needed to understand it (the current time and time zone, your category names, and the items you're confirming) are sent over an encrypted connection to our server, which asks a third-party AI service to organize it into records. We use the result only to show you the records to confirm. We do not store the text of these requests, and we don't use it to train models.
- Device identifier. A random install identifier, stored on our server only as a one-way hash, used for usage limits and abuse prevention.
- Subscription status. To know whether your free period or subscription is active, the app sends App Store–signed transaction information (the original download date and your Hourglean Pro transactions). We store the trial start date, subscription product, and expiry date, linked to the hashed device identifier or your account.
- Sign in with Apple (optional). We store a one-way hash of your Apple user identifier and an Apple-issued token used only to revoke access when you delete your account. We don't ask for or store your name, email, or phone number.
- Feedback (only if you send it). The feedback text you confirm.
- Technical logs. Standard web server logs (IP address, time, requested path) kept for up to 14 days for security and troubleshooting.
Where data is processed
Our server and the third-party AI service are located in the People's Republic of China. By using smart logging you understand that the text described above is transferred to and processed there. Your time records themselves never leave your device.
Purchases
Payments are handled entirely by Apple. We never see your payment details. Manage or cancel subscriptions in Settings › Apple ID › Subscriptions.
What we don't do
- No advertising, no tracking across apps or websites, no data brokers.
- We don't sell or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
- No analytics SDKs.
Your choices and rights
- Delete your account in the app (Settings › My Account › Delete Account). This removes your account and the server-side data linked to it; your on-device records stay unless you delete the app.
- Manual logging and timers never send text to our service.
- Depending on where you live (for example, California), you may have the right to know, access, correct, or delete personal information. Email us and we'll respond within 30 days.
Children and families
Hourglean is rated 4+ and can be used by people of all ages. We never ask for anyone's age, name, email address, or phone number, and the app works without an account. The only data processed is what's described above — the recognized text needed to organize a record, a hashed install identifier, and subscription status — and it is never used for advertising or profiling. A parent or guardian can ask us to delete the server-side data linked to a device by emailing surfing3w@gmail.com.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update the effective date above and, for material changes, tell you in the app.
Contact
surfing3w@gmail.com