Privacy
Last updated 5 October 2026
HourRing has no user accounts, no server-side database and no advertising. Everything you type into it — the topic you are focusing on, your notes, your timings — is stored in your own browser and stays there.
What is stored on your device
In your browser's local storage, under keys beginning with pf:: the topic and
description you are working on and your recent ones, your timer settings, language and theme,
the time segments and daily totals behind the report, the rounds completed per topic, and a
count of how many days you have opened the app. None of it is uploaded anywhere. Clearing your
browser data deletes all of it permanently, which is why the report can be exported as CSV or
JSON.
What leaves your device
Only these, and only in these situations:
- Feedback you choose to send. When you use the feedback button, we receive your message, your email address if you chose to give one, and basic device details: interface language, theme, how many days you have used the app, your timer lengths, screen size and browser user agent. The topics you focus on are never included. We use it only to answer you and to fix or improve the app.
- Analytics. We use Google Analytics to count how many people use the app and four steps of use — a page view, a first round started, a first round completed, and a return on a later day. In the EEA and UK it stays off until you accept the cookie banner. Elsewhere it is on by default and you can turn it off with the banner's Decline button. Either way the topics you focus on are never included, the browser's "Do Not Track" setting is honoured, and you can withdraw by clearing this site's data.
- Ordinary web server logs. Like every website, our host records requests for the page and its files, including IP address and user agent, for security and reliability.
Cookies
HourRing itself sets no cookies. The only cookies that can appear are Google Analytics'
(_ga) — in the EEA and UK only after you accept the banner, and elsewhere unless you
decline it. The local storage the app uses is what makes the timer work, not a tracking
mechanism, and fonts are served from our own domain, not a font CDN, so no third party sees your
visit through them.