Privacy
Short version: we keep what we need to hold your key, and nothing about what you browse.
What we keep
- Your email, from the payment page. Used for your receipt and sign-in links.
- Your order: the plan, the date, and the payment reference from Stripe. We never see your card.
- Your lock: the code you set, sealed with encryption so it can only be opened when your wait is over, plus the wait and hour you chose.
- What you choose to write in the Circle, under an animal name. Never your real name.
- The line you wrote to yourself, encrypted, so it's still there if you add the app to your Home Screen.
What we never keep
- What you browse. If you use our filter, it checks each address against the blocklist and forgets it. We don't store or log the sites you visit.
- Your quiz answers. They stay on your phone. They're never sent to us or to any ad network.
- Anything for advertisers. No answer you give, and nothing about your lock, is ever passed to an ad network.
Small things we do keep
- Whether your lock was on today: a date and "on" or "off", nothing else.
- Anonymous counts of how the site is used (for example "12 people opened the quiz today"), and which ad brought a visit. These aren't tied to your email.
- If you turn on notifications, the address your phone gives us to send them. Notifications never say what the app is for.
- Short-lived security counters (to stop abuse) that hold a scrambled form of an address, deleted after two days.
Who sees it
Stripe processes payments. Cloudflare runs our servers. We don't sell or share your data with anyone else. Moderators see Circle posts, never emails.
Deleting your account
In Settings, "Delete account". If a lock is on, your account is deleted right after your key comes back, so you're never left with a code nobody holds. Then everything above is gone, except what the law makes us keep for payments.
Age
Sequoia is for adults 18 and over. We don't knowingly collect anything from anyone younger.
Questions: help@seq.today. A person answers.