Privacy policy

This policy covers the SeekandFind.Life website (seekandfind.life) and the My Life in Time companion app (sflapp.web.app), together "SeekandFind.Life", "we" or "us". We are a small, independent, invite-only project and we keep what we collect to a minimum. Questions: contact@seekandfind.life.

The website

• The website has no accounts. We do not run analytics or advertising and we do not set cookies.
• It is served by Google Firebase Hosting (with DNS provided by Cloudflare). As with any web server, our hosting providers process technical request data such as your IP address and browser type to deliver and secure the pages.
• The podcast player is loaded from Podbean only when you click "Load the player". Links to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Podbean and our waitlist form (a Google Form) leave our site; their own policies apply once you follow them. Anything you type into the waitlist form is received by Google Forms and by us.

The My Life in Time app

The app is invite-only. When you use it, the following is handled:

• Sign-in. You sign in with your Google account or with an emailed one-time code. From Google we receive your account identifier, email address and (if provided) name and profile picture. We use these only to identify your account.
• Your writing and related records. The pages, notes and chat messages you create, with timestamps and structure (such as links between notes), are stored in your personal record on our database provider, Supabase. A copy is also kept on your device so the app works offline.
• Error reports. If something fails, the app can send a technical report (for example an error type and app version). Reports do not include the text of your writing, sign-in tokens or other content. They are kept in Google Cloud Logging for 30 days.
• Usage counts. Once a day the app can send counts of how often features were used and how long some operations took (for example, how many times a toolbar button was pressed). The counts never include your writing, labels or other content. They are kept in Google Cloud Firestore for 180 days.
• AI assistants. If you connect an AI assistant, it can read only the categories of your record that you approve, and it may only make changes in the way you allow. What an assistant reads may be processed by that assistant's provider under its own terms. You can narrow or revoke access in the app at any time.
• Chat and AI features. When you use Chat, or an AI feature such as suggesting tags for your notes, the text you send and the parts of your record you choose to include (for example, the block you picked) are sent to an AI model provider to produce the reply. We use providers under zero-data-retention terms, so they do not keep or train on what is sent. Only what you choose is sent; the rest of your record stays where it is.

Google user data and Google Drive

Status: Google sign-in is in use today. The optional Google Drive feature described below is in development; this section explains how it will work when it is turned on.

• What we request. Basic profile information for sign-in and, only if you choose to connect Drive, two Drive permissions: drive.readonly, which lets the app see and read the files in your Drive, and drive.file, which lets it create files and change only the files it created. The app never changes, moves or deletes a file it did not create.
• What we do with it. We use Drive access only to work with your own files in the app: to store the files you add to your notes in a folder in your own Drive and show them back to you; to show files already in your Drive that your notes refer to; and, when you ask, to bring in your own material, such as transcripts or files from an earlier notes app. The files go directly between your browser and Google Drive; we do not keep copies on our servers.
• What we store. To let uploads finish in the background, we keep a Google refresh token on our servers, in Google Secret Manager, tied to your account. It is never sent to your browser or to any AI assistant. If you have authorized an AI assistant to read your attachments, the app may fetch a file from your Drive on that assistant's behalf and return it to the assistant, only while that authorization is in place and only for files your notes refer to as attachments, never any other file in your Drive.
• Who can see it. We do not sell Google user data, share it for advertising, or give it to anyone else except as required to provide the features you use, to comply with law, or with your consent.
• Your files are yours. Files in your Drive count against your own storage and are your responsibility. If you delete a file, run out of space or revoke access, the app shows that the file is unavailable. We are not a file storage service and do not guarantee files will be available.
• Limited Use. SeekandFind.Life's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Retention and deleting your data

• We keep your record for as long as you have an account. To delete your account and personal record, email us at the address above and we will delete it and remove it from our systems. Deletion is currently handled by hand, so allow some time.
• When you disconnect Google Drive, we delete the stored refresh token, so the app can no longer reach your Drive. On account deletion we also revoke the app's access with Google. You can also revoke access yourself at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Files already in your Drive stay there until you delete them.
• Our database is backed up for recovery. Backups are kept for a limited time, and if a backup is ever restored, completed deletions are applied again.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit. Access to your record is restricted to your signed-in account and to services you explicitly authorize, and credentials are kept in managed secret storage. No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Children

SeekandFind.Life is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If we change this policy we will update the date above, and for material changes to how we handle Google user data we will tell app users before the change takes effect.

Contact

contact@seekandfind.life