Privacy Policy

Who we are

Clear Signal Labs Inc. operates Thanks, an iPhone and iPad app for meditation, habits, calorie logging, and encouragement between friends. This policy covers the app and this website. Personal practice features can be used without a Thanks account. Connecting with friends creates an account; adding a sign-in method is optional.

Information Thanks handles

• Practice and food entries. Meditation dates and durations; habit names, goals, check-ins, dates, quantities, and streaks; calorie amounts, optional notes, and an optional daily calorie goal. Guest entries are stored on your device. When you connect an account, practice data can be uploaded and synced with our servers.
• Account and profile. We create an internal account ID, a friend code, and a private device credential for connected features. You can add a display name and photo. If you choose sign-in, Clerk processes the sign-in details you provide, which may include your name and email address. A friend code or invite link is for finding your profile, not for signing in.
• Friends and safety. We store friend requests, friendships, invite links, habit partnerships, thanks messages, notification history, sharing settings, blocks, and reports. A report can include the reason you write in it.
• Notifications. If you allow push notifications for connected features, we store a device token so Apple can deliver them. Local reminder settings are handled on your device.
• Premium. Apple processes App Store purchases. RevenueCat and Thanks use a customer identifier, purchase status, and entitlement information to unlock Premium. We do not receive your full payment card details.
• Technical and support data. Our service uses limited request information, including IP addresses, for security and rate limiting. Hosting providers may keep operational logs. If you contact support, we receive your email address and whatever you include in your message.

How we use information

We use this information to save and sync your entries, connect friends, deliver the sharing and notification features you choose, verify Premium access, respond to support requests, and protect the service from misuse. We do not sell personal information or use it for targeted advertising.

What other people can see

People you invite or request to add may see your display name; accepted friends can also see your profile photo, if you add one. Accepted friends see meditation minutes and summaries only when you enable meditation sharing. A friend you invite to a habit partnership can see that habit's name. Friends see progress summaries, including streaks and completed-day counts, only for habits whose sharing you enable. They do not see your habit calendar, individual check-ins or quantities, calorie entries, or calorie goal. Recipients see thanks messages you send them, which may reveal that you meditated or completed a habit even when its progress summary is hidden. You can change sharing settings or block a connection in the app.

Service providers and security

Railway hosts our connected app API, database, and private photo storage. Clerk provides optional sign-in. RevenueCat helps verify Premium access. Apple handles App Store purchases and push delivery. These providers process the information needed for their roles. Our app communicates with the production API over HTTPS. Private device credentials are kept in your device's Keychain; our server stores a hash of the credential. Profile photos are available only through account and accepted-friend access checks.

Keeping and deleting data

We keep connected practice and social records while your account is active. To delete your connected account, open the You tab and choose Delete account. This removes its records from our active database and queues its profile photo for removal. We also request deletion of any linked Clerk sign-in identity. Copies held in provider backups may take additional time to expire. Thanks messages are stored with connected account data; they are not automatically deleted after 30 days. Deleting a Thanks account does not cancel an Apple subscription; manage that in your Apple account settings.

Guest practice history is kept on your device and may be lost if you remove the app. If you need help accessing, correcting, or deleting information, contact us at the address below.

This website

This website has no account form or analytics code. Its hosting provider may process standard request information to serve the pages and maintain the service. If you email us from the site, we use your message to respond.

Changes and contact

We may update this policy when Thanks changes and will post the revised date here. For privacy questions or data requests, email stanley@clearsignalinc.com.