Privacy policy
Last updated 30 September 2026
Fovely is a browser extension that hides videos and web pages that don't fit the goal of your focus session. This policy explains what data Fovely processes, why, and your rights. The short version: Fovely looks at titles and the first lines of posts only during a focus session, doesn't keep them, doesn't track you, and doesn't sell or share your data for advertising.
Who is responsible
Akcan-IT, Muhammed Akcan, Annemarie-Renger-Str. 13a, 55130 Mainz, Germany. Email: hello@fovely.app. See also the imprint.
What we process
1. Your account
You sign in with Google. We receive your Google account ID, email address, name and profile picture URL, and we store your time zone (set by your browser). We use them to run your account, apply the free daily allowance or Pro, and show your name and picture in the extension. We store only a hashed version of the sign-in token the extension uses; it expires after 90 days without use.
Legal basis: performance of our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
2. Checks during a focus session
While a focus session is running, the extension sends our server your session goal and, for each video or page to check, its title and a few short details: on YouTube the channel name, elsewhere the site's hostname, main heading and meta description. With Pro, on Reddit, X and Instagram, it sends the first lines of each post in your feed, the image descriptions (alt text) that come with it and, on Reddit, its subreddit, never the post's author. It never sends full URLs, the rest of a page or your browsing history, and nothing is sent outside a focus session.
Our server passes this text to Jev, a classification model by TypeSafe AI, run on Cloudflare Workers AI, and returns whether the item fits your goal. We don't store the titles, posts, descriptions or goal, and our logs record only counts and timings, never content. The answers are cached in your browser until you close it.
We do store, per day, how many checks you used (for the free allowance) and how many items were hidden in each broad category such as "entertainment" or "news" (for your weekly report). These counts contain no titles.
Legal basis: performance of our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
3. Focus sessions and progress
When a session ends, the extension reports its start and end time, planned and focused minutes, whether it was completed or strict, and how many items were hidden, stopped, resisted or allowed, and how many breaks you took. We use this for your history, streaks, levels and badges. Sessions don't include your goal.
4. Leaderboard, study groups and invites
The leaderboard is optional. If you join it, we store the nickname you choose and a friend code. Everyone who uses Fovely can then see your nickname, your focused minutes this week (from your focus sessions) and your rank, and so can the friends you add or who add you with your code. Your name, email address and picture are never shown. We store who you're friends with on Fovely. Before a nickname is shown, Jev (see section 2) checks that it's appropriate; the check isn't stored. Entries marked Pacer are targets generated by Fovely, not people. Before you join, Fovely shows you, and only you, the rank you would have; nothing about you appears on the board until you join.
When you leave the leaderboard (Settings → Leaderboard → Leave), we delete your nickname and friend connections straight away; your sessions stay part of your own history, and your code stays as your invite code. Legal basis: your consent by joining (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time by leaving.
Study groups are optional and need a leaderboard nickname. If you create or join one, we store its name, its code and who its members are, and when they joined. Its members see each other's nicknames and focused minutes this week; anyone with the group's link (fovely.app/g/<code>) sees its name and how many members it has, not who they are. Before a group name is shown, Jev checks that it's appropriate; the check isn't stored. When you leave a group, or the leaderboard, we remove you from it straight away, and a group is deleted when its last member leaves. The join page saves the group's code in the browser that opened it (local storage on fovely.app) until the extension picks it up. Legal basis: your consent by joining (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time by leaving.
Every account has a code, which is also its invite link (fovely.app/join/<code>). If someone signs in through your link or enters your code, we store that they joined through your invite, when, and whether they have since finished a first focus session, because that decides the week of Pro each of you gets. You see how many people joined and how many earned you a week, not who they are. You also become friends on the leaderboard, which shows only once both of you have joined it. The join page shows your leaderboard nickname if you have one, and nothing else about you. It saves the code in the browser that opened it (local storage on fovely.app) until the extension picks it up. Legal basis: providing the invite programme you take part in (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
5. Pro settings
If you use Pro, we store your settings so they work on all your devices: strict by default, your weekly goal, your always-allowed and always-blocked sites, and your scheduled sessions. Scheduled sessions include the goal you typed for them, because the session needs it to start on any device.
6. Payments
Pro is sold by Paddle.com Market Limited, our reseller and Merchant of Record, which handles payment, invoicing, taxes and refunds under its own privacy policy. We never see your card or bank details. We receive and store your Paddle customer and subscription IDs and your subscription's status and period, to turn Pro on and off.
7. Security
To protect the service we limit how often sign-in and payment requests can be made, using your IP address as it passes through Cloudflare; we don't store it. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in a secure service (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
8. Stored in your browser
The extension keeps your current session, your settings, your last five goals (for one-tap reuse; they never leave your browser), the answers to recent checks and a copy of your account details in your browser's extension storage. Checks are cached only until the browser closes.
9. Trying it on the website
On fovely.app you can type a goal and see a sample of videos judged against it. The goal is sent to Jev (see section 2) together with the fixed sample, and isn't stored or logged; we only count how many tries there are each day. Your IP address is used only to limit how often you can try, and isn't stored. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in showing how Fovely works (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
10. Removing the extension
When you remove Fovely, your browser opens fovely.app/bye, which asks why. If you answer, we count your answer by day and browser; it isn't linked to you or your account. Your IP address is used only to limit how often answers can be sent, and isn't stored. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in improving Fovely (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Who processes data for us
| Provider | What for | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Google LLC | Sign-in with Google | USA, certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework |
| Cloudflare, Inc. | Hosting our server, running Jev (Workers AI), database connections, security | Worldwide network; USA, certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, with standard contractual clauses |
| Akcan-IT (our own database service, zektor.io), on servers of Hetzner Online GmbH | Our database (accounts, counts, sessions, settings) | Germany (Hetzner data centre, Falkenstein) |
| Paddle.com Market Ltd | Selling Pro, payments, tax, refunds | United Kingdom (EU adequacy decision) |
We don't use analytics, advertising or tracking tools, and we don't sell your data.
How long we keep it
We keep your data while you have an account. When you delete your account (Settings → Delete account), we cancel any subscription and delete your account, sessions, counts, settings, badges and leaderboard entry straight away. Paddle keeps records of payments as the law requires. Server logs, which contain no personal content, are deleted after a few days.
Your rights
You have the right to access your data, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to its processing, and to receive it in a portable format (Art. 15–21 GDPR). Email us at hello@fovely.app. You can also complain to a data protection authority, for example Der Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz (datenschutz.rlp.de).
Google user data
Fovely's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We use your Google account details only to sign you in and run your account.
Changes
If we change how Fovely handles data, we'll update this page and the date above, and tell you in the extension if the change matters.