Privacy Policy

On your device

Everything you track — study sessions, minutes, subjects, XP, levels, active days, achievements and settings — is stored on your device first. Deleting the app removes everything stored locally.

Your account and cloud backup

So your progress isn’t lost, StudyRank creates an anonymous account in the background the first time you open the app and backs up your study sessions to the cloud under a random ID. No name or email is needed for that.

When you sign in with Apple or Google, this account becomes your personal StudyRank account. Your progress then syncs across your devices, and you can add friends.

• Sign in with Apple: Apple shares your name (if you allow it) and an email address. You can choose Apple’s private email relay so we never see your real address.
• Sign in with Google: Google shares your name, email address and profile picture with us. We use your name as your starting display name (you can change it any time); your email address is used only to identify your account and is never shown to other people.

Sign-in, authentication and storage run on Google Firebase (Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore). For a signed-in account we store:

• your display name and @handle,
• your study sessions, minutes, levels, active days and achievements,
• your friends, groups, duels and the study sessions you start together.

You can delete your account at any time under Profile → Account → Delete account. This permanently removes your account and your data from the cloud. More information about Firebase: firebase.google.com/support/privacy

Friends, groups and duels

StudyRank is social. When you add friends, join a group or start a duel, the people involved can see your display name, avatar, @handle and the study stats that power leaderboards and duels (for example your weekly minutes and your level). While you study, your friends can see that you’re studying right now and can join you in the study room.

Only what’s needed for these features is shared — never your notes or account details.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, we send the ones you have switched on: reminders, alerts from friends, and the end of your sessions and breaks. They are delivered through Firebase Cloud Messaging and the Apple Push Notification service and contain only what’s needed to show them.

So the end of a session or break arrives on time and your Live Activity stays up to date, the app sends the timing of your current session (start, length, breaks) to our server. You can turn notifications off at any time in the app or in iOS Settings.

Focus Lock (Screen Time)

Focus Lock uses Apple’s Screen Time framework (Family Controls) to block the apps you choose while you study. Apple only gives StudyRank anonymous tokens for the apps, categories and websites you pick — we can’t see which apps they are, and your app usage never leaves your device.

Your selection, schedules, daily limits and Focus Lock statistics are stored on your device only. You can revoke Screen Time access at any time in iOS Settings → Screen Time.

Usage analytics

To improve the app we use the analytics service PostHog (PostHog Inc., servers in the EU). It receives:

• how the app is used (for example sessions started, features and settings used, screens viewed),
• device type, iOS version and app version,
• an app-generated ID (your account ID if you’re signed in) and your display name,
• your answers to the optional onboarding questions (for example how you found StudyRank),
• messages you send through the in-app feedback form.

We never send email addresses, your notes or which apps you lock with Focus Lock. Analytics are used only to improve and fix the app — never for advertising. To have your analytics data deleted, contact us at the address below. More information: posthog.com/privacy

In-app purchases

StudyRank offers an optional Pro upgrade. All payments are handled by Apple — we never receive your card or bank details. To manage subscriptions we use RevenueCat (RevenueCat, Inc.), which receives the purchase confirmation from Apple together with your app-generated ID. More information: revenuecat.com/privacy

This website

This website is hosted on Firebase Hosting (Google). To deliver the pages, Google processes technical data such as your IP address in its server logs. The website uses no cookies, no analytics and no tracking.

Legal basis

Cloud backup, sync, notifications and the social features are processed to provide the service you use (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). Usage analytics and the technical delivery of this website are based on our legitimate interest in a stable, secure and easy-to-use app and website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

What we never do

• No advertising and no advertising profiles
• No selling of data
• No access to your personal content
• No location tracking

Data transfers outside the EU

Our service providers (Google Firebase, Apple, PostHog and RevenueCat) may process data on servers outside the European Union. This happens in line with applicable data protection law and with appropriate safeguards, such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

Your rights

You have the right to access, correct and delete your data, to restrict or object to its processing, and to receive your data in a portable format. Most of this you can do in the app; for everything else, just write to us. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority — in Austria, the Datenschutzbehörde.

Controller and contact

Responsible for data processing:
Markus Loibner
Attendorf 86, 8144 Hitzendorf, Austria
Email: app.s@gmx.at

Changes

We may update this policy when StudyRank changes. The date at the top always shows the current version.