1. Who is responsible
This policy applies to the Oath mobile app and the website at takeoath.app. The controller responsible for processing is:
Yasemin Basar, Einzelunternehmen
Oswald-Redlich-Straße 36
1210 Vienna
Austria
info@takeoath.app2. What always stays on your device
Oath uses an on-device VPN service to filter DNS requests. The service checks requested domains against a local blocklist. It does not send your DNS traffic through an Oath server.
We do not collect or transmit:
- browsing history, visited domains, or search history;
- individual DNS requests or blocked-site attempts;
- the personal reasons you enter for taking an Oath;
- daily check-ins or mood entries; or
- your onboarding answers about your personal experience.
These items remain on your device and are removed when you reset the app or uninstall it, subject to the normal behavior of your device backups.
3. Data we process
Account and authentication
Your email address, account identifier, one-time sign-in records, and authentication timestamps. We use these to create and secure your account and restore an active Oath after a reinstall or device change.
Legal basis: performance of our contract and steps requested before entering it.
Commitment information
Your chosen period and strictness, start and end dates, active, completed, or broken status, attempt number, and progress. We use this to provide, enforce, and restore the commitment you requested.
Legal basis: performance of our contract.
Purchase information
Product identifier, hashed purchase token, Google Play order identifier, transaction status, and purchase time. We use this to verify access, restore purchases, and prevent fraud. We do not receive your full card or bank details.
Legal basis: performance of our contract, compliance with legal obligations, and fraud prevention.
Protection and technical information
A random installation identifier, app version, request timestamps, IP address in server security logs, and limited protection events such as the cause and duration of an enforcement interruption. We do not attach browsing or DNS activity to these events.
Legal basis: performance of our contract and our legitimate interest in keeping Oath secure and reliable.
Support and voluntary reports
If you contact us or report a wrongly blocked domain, we process your email, the content of your request, and our response. Please do not include unnecessary intimate or health information.
Legal basis: responding to your request, performance of our contract, and our legitimate interest in improving support and blocklist accuracy.
4. Website data
The website does not use advertising, analytics trackers, contact forms, or nonessential cookies. Fonts and images are served locally.
Our hosting provider may process your IP address, requested page, access time, browser information, and error data in short-lived server logs. This is necessary to deliver and protect the website. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in secure and reliable operation.
5. Service providers and disclosures
Supabase
Supabase provides authentication, database, and server infrastructure as our processor. The primary Oath project is hosted in the West EU, Ireland region.
Google Play
Google Play distributes the Android app and processes purchases. Google acts under its own privacy terms for its store, account, payment, fraud-prevention, and platform data. Oath receives only the information needed to verify and restore your purchase.
Netlify and IONOS
Netlify hosts takeoath.app and processes the technical requests needed to deliver and protect the website. IONOS provides our email mailbox and delivery infrastructure and processes the communications you send to us.
Professional advisers and authorities
Website hosting and email providers process technical or communication data on our behalf. We may disclose limited data to professional advisers, authorities, or courts when necessary to comply with law, protect rights and security, or establish and defend legal claims.
We do not sell personal information. We do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, use targeted advertising, or allow data brokers to access it.
6. International transfers
We use European processing locations where practical. Some providers or their support teams may process data outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland. If required, we rely on an adequacy decision, the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, the UK Addendum, or another legally recognized safeguard. You may request information about the safeguards by contacting us.
7. How long we keep data
- Account and associated server data is kept while your account exists. In-app deletion removes it immediately. Email requests are completed after we verify control of the account.
- Purchase verification records linked to the Oath account are deleted with the account. Google retains its own store and payment records under its privacy terms.
- Support messages, deletion correspondence, and blocklist reports are kept until the request is resolved and no longer needed for security, legal claims, or blocklist review.
- Website, authentication, and backend security logs follow the ordinary retention schedules of our processors and are kept longer only when needed to investigate an incident.
- Deleted data may remain temporarily in encrypted processor backups until those backups are overwritten in the ordinary cycle.
8. Security
We limit collection, restrict access, use encrypted connections for data in transit, and use access controls provided by our service providers. No system is completely secure, but we use measures appropriate to the limited and sensitive nature of the service. Please contact us immediately if you believe your Oath account has been compromised.
9. Account deletion and your choices
In the Android app, open Settings, then Account and data, then Delete account. This permanently deletes your Oath account and its associated server-side data. You can also request deletion without the app on our account deletion page or by emailing Delete my Oath account. We may ask you to verify control of the account email before acting on an email request.
If an Oath is active, deleting the account does not stop it or mark it broken. The Oath continues locally on that phone, but it can no longer be restored after reinstall, app-data deletion, or factory reset.
Deleting the app removes data stored only on that device, but it does not delete the server-side account. Use one of the account deletion paths above for a complete account deletion.
10. Privacy rights
EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
Depending on the circumstances, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, or portability of your personal data. You may withdraw consent at any time for future processing based on consent. You may also complain to your local supervisory authority. In Austria, this is the Austrian Data Protection Authority.
United States
Depending on your state and whether its law applies to us, you may have rights to know, access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of personal information, to appeal a denied request, and to receive equal service when exercising a privacy right. Oath does not sell personal information, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, use it for targeted advertising, or profile you for decisions with legal or similarly significant effects. There is therefore no sale or targeted-advertising opt-out required for Oath's own processing.
We will consider reasonable access, correction, and deletion requests from users worldwide, even where a specific local law does not apply. Send requests to info@takeoath.app. We may verify your identity before disclosing or deleting data.
11. Children and teenagers
Oath is intended for people aged 16 and older and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 16. If you believe a person under 16 has provided personal information, contact us so we can investigate and delete it where required.
12. Automated processing
Oath automatically applies the local blocking rules and tracks the commitment period selected by you. These actions provide the service you requested. We do not use automated processing to make decisions about you that produce legal or similarly significant effects, and we do not create advertising profiles.
13. Changes and contact
We will update this policy before materially changing how we process personal data. The current effective date appears at the top. If a change materially affects an active account, we will provide an additional notice where required.
Questions, privacy requests, and complaints can be sent to info@takeoath.app.