Olmo — Privacy Policy
Olmo ("we," "us") is a study companion app where completing real tasks and focus sessions helps you care for a virtual otter. This policy explains what information the app handles and why. We wrote it to be readable, because the people using Olmo should be able to understand it.
- You don't give us your name, email, or phone number to use Olmo. Your account is an anonymous ID.
- We ask your date of birth once, only to confirm you're 13 or older.
- Your tasks and focus sessions are stored so the app works. They are never sold, never shown to advertisers, and never fed to third-party analytics.
- Questions or deletion requests: olmo.app.contact@gmail.com
1. Who we are
Olmo is currently operated by its independent developer, reachable at the contact address below. If operation of Olmo transfers to a company we form (such as a limited liability company), this policy carries over unchanged and we will update this page with the company's name.
2. What we collect
- An anonymous account. When you start using Olmo, a random account identifier is created for your device through our authentication provider. No name, no email address, no password.
- Date of birth, once. We ask your date of birth to verify that you are 13 or older, and we store it — along with the time of verification — for that purpose only. If you are under 13, the app stops there and your date of birth is not saved.
- Your activity in the app. The task titles and due dates you enter, when you complete tasks, when your focus sessions start and end, and your in-app reward records (coins, energy, virtual items, room progress).
- Basic usage events. Small first-party records such as "app opened," with the app version and platform (iOS/Android). These are written by our own server — there is no advertising or third-party analytics software in the app.
- On your device only. Preferences, cached data, and actions queued while offline stay on your device and are not collected.
3. What we don't collect
We do not collect your real name, email address (unless you choose to email us), phone number, contacts, photos, location, or advertising identifiers. We do not use cookies. We do not track you across other apps or websites, and no data about you is shared with advertisers or data brokers — Olmo shows no ads.
4. How we use information
- To run the app: sync your tasks, sessions, rewards, and room across app restarts.
- To keep rewards fair: reward calculations happen on our server to prevent cheating and abuse.
- To improve Olmo: we look at our own aggregate usage records (like how many tasks are completed per day) to understand what's working.
- To comply with law, if we are ever legally required to.
5. Who else processes data
We use a small number of service providers to run Olmo. They process data on our behalf and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes:
- Supabase — hosts our database, authentication, and server functions (this is where the data in section 2 lives).
- Cloudflare — delivers the app's static artwork; like any content network, its servers see standard request logs such as IP addresses.
- Expo — delivers app updates to your device.
- Apple — during the TestFlight beta, if you opt in, Apple shares crash logs and basic usage statistics with us under Apple's own terms.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it with anyone else unless legally compelled to.
6. Children
Olmo is for people 13 and older. The app asks for your date of birth before any personal information is collected, and anyone under 13 is not able to continue. A blocked user's date of birth is never stored.
7. Keeping and deleting your data
We keep your data for as long as your account is active. To delete it, email olmo.app.contact@gmail.com — because accounts are anonymous, we may ask you a few questions (like the approximate date you started using the app and your device type) to locate the right record. Deleting the app from your device removes everything stored locally.
8. Security
Data travels between the app and our servers over encrypted connections (TLS). The database is not directly accessible from the app — all reads and writes go through our server code, and reward records are append-only at the database level.
9. California privacy disclosures
We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act, and we do not use it for cross-context behavioral advertising. You can request access to or deletion of your data by email — we honor these requests for everyone, not just California residents. Because we do not track users across third-party websites or apps, there is nothing for a "Do Not Track" browser signal to disable, and we do not respond to such signals.
10. Beta status
Olmo is currently in a limited beta, offered through Apple TestFlight to testers in the United States.
11. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page. If a change meaningfully affects how your data is handled, we'll say so prominently here or in the app.