Trial
Privacy Policy
The short version
Trial is made by one person. There are no advertisers, no analytics companies, and no tracking of any kind — not because it is a promise we are making, but because there is no such code in the app to switch on.
Your check-in photos are private to the group you posted them in. Nothing you write or photograph is ever used to train anything or sold to anyone. You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app.
Who you are dealing with
Trial is operated by Elisa Ma, an individual developer based in the United States. There is no company behind it. If you email the address at the bottom of this page, the person who reads it is the person who wrote the app.
What we collect, and why
Everything below is listed because it actually exists in the database, not because it might one day. Where a field is optional, it is genuinely optional — the app works if you leave it blank.
| What | Why it exists |
|---|---|
| How you signed in. An email address and password, or an Apple ID, or nothing at all if you chose to start without an account. | So your Trials are still there tomorrow. If you use Sign in with Apple and choose to hide your email, we only ever see Apple's relay address. |
| Your profile. Display name, an emoji or photo, a colour, and optionally a city, a one-line bio and social handles. | So the other people in your Trial know who they are looking at. The city is free text you type — the app never reads your location. |
| Your timezone. | A streak has to know when your day ends. Recorded when you join a Trial so travelling cannot silently break one. |
| Your onboarding answers. What you would notice if things got better, what has stopped you before, what you want to experiment with, when you have the most energy, and what helps after a bad day. | These change what the app does: they pick which experiments are suggested to you, when reminders are aimed, and whether your group is nudged to check on you when you go quiet. Every one of them is skippable. |
| Your check-ins. The date, a photo, an optional caption, an optional 1–10 answer to the Trial's daily question, which tier you managed, and any tags you picked for why the day was hard. | This is the product. It is what produces streaks, the leaderboard and the results at the end. |
| Rest days and notes on missed days. | A planned day off is not a missed one, and a missed day with context is worth more to your group than a red mark. |
| Messages and reactions inside a Trial, including private notes to one member. | The chat. Private notes are invisible to the rest of the group at the database level, not merely hidden in the app. |
| Blocks and reports. | Required of any app carrying user content, and necessary to act on anything reported. |
| Feedback you send from Settings, with the app version. | So a bug report is actionable. This is the one thing that outlives your account — see Deleting your account below. |
| Consent records. When you agreed to these documents and to which version, and separately whether you opted into the pattern analysis. | So there is a record of what you actually agreed to rather than an assumption. These are written by the server, not by your phone. |
| Rate-limit counters. How many things your account has written recently. | To stop automated abuse. No content, just counts. |
What we do not collect
- No analytics. There is no analytics SDK in the app. Nobody is measuring which screens you open or how long you spend on them.
- No advertising, no tracking. No ad networks, no advertising identifier, no cross-app or cross-site tracking. Nothing to opt out of, because nothing is there.
- No location. The app never requests location permission. The "city" on your profile is a word you typed.
- No contacts. The app never asks for your address book.
- No health data. Apple Health is not connected in this version.
- No payment information. Trial is free and has no purchases.
- No push tokens. Reminders are scheduled locally on your device. Nothing about them leaves your phone.
Your photos
Check-in photos are stored in a private bucket. They are not on a public URL and cannot be found by guessing an address. When the app shows you one, it asks the server for a link that stops working after an hour.
Who can see a given photo depends on the Trial it was posted in:
- Private Trials — only you.
- Group Trials — the people who joined with the invite code.
- Public Trials — anyone can follow along, but photos stay hidden unless the Trial's host has turned sharing on. When sharing is set to "what I approve", the host has to approve each photo one at a time.
You can always withdraw your own photo, and your decision overrides the host's. If you opt a check-in out of sharing, it stops being visible to people outside the Trial immediately, whatever the host has approved.
Your photos are never used to train any model, never sold, and never shown to anyone outside the rules above — and they are deleted a week after the Trial ends, which is described under How long we keep things below.
Who else can see your information
People in your Trials see your profile, your check-ins, your streak, and your messages in that Trial. That is the point of a group habit tracker.
People watching a public Trial see far less: the experiment, who is in it, which days were kept, and photos only if the rules above allow it. They never see your city, your bio, your social handles, your onboarding answers, or the chat. Those stay behind the membership boundary.
Companies we rely on
- Supabase hosts the database, the file storage and the sign-in system. Your data lives on their servers in the United States (US West). They process it on our behalf and do not use it for their own purposes.
- Apple handles Sign in with Apple and distributes the app. If you sign in with Apple, Apple tells us an identifier and — only if you allow it — your name and an email address.
That is the complete list. Nothing is shared with anyone else, and nothing is sold to anyone, ever. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are used under California law.
The optional pattern analysis
Trial can look at which days you keep and which you miss, across the people you run Trials with, to find patterns worth telling you about — which weekday you tend to slip on, which experiments hold each other up, whether you do better with one partner than another.
This is off unless you turned it on. It was asked on its own screen, separately from these documents, and declining costs one tap. If you never answered, you are not in it.
- Your photos and messages are never part of it. It looks only at whether a day was kept.
- A comparison involving another person requires both of you to have opted in. Nobody can enrol you by studying themselves.
- You can turn it off at any time in Settings, and turning it off removes you from the analysis rather than flagging you inside it.
How long we keep things
Check-in photos are removed a week after the Trial they belong to ends. Not archived somewhere else — deleted from storage. Your streaks, your adherence, the chart and the shareable result card are all worked out from the check-in records rather than from the pictures, so what the month proved survives; the feed keeps its days and loses its photographs.
The app tells you this on the results screen while the photos are still there, so saving the ones you want to keep is something you get the chance to do rather than something you wish you had.
Everything else stays until you delete your account. There is no separate archive and no backup that outlives the deletion by design.
Deleting your account
Settings → Delete account. It removes your profile, your check-ins, your photos, your messages, your rest days, your notes and your memberships. It cannot be undone.
One exception, stated plainly: feedback you sent through the app survives, with your account no longer attached to it. A bug report that vanishes when someone leaves is a bug report we cannot fix. Nothing identifying you remains on it.
Your rights
You can delete your account from inside the app at any time, and change or clear anything on your profile. If you want a copy of what is held about you, or want something corrected, email the address below and you will get an answer within 30 days. There is no charge and you will not be treated differently for asking.
If you are in California, those are your rights under the CCPA to know, to delete, to correct, and to opt out of sale or sharing — the last of which is moot here, because nothing is sold or shared.
Security
Every table in the database is protected by row-level security, which means the rules about who can read what are enforced by the database itself rather than by the app asking nicely. Photo storage is private and served through short-lived links. Traffic is encrypted in transit. Passwords are hashed by Supabase and are never visible to us.
No system is perfect, and it would be dishonest to claim otherwise. If you find a security problem, email the address below and it will be taken seriously.
Children
Trial is not for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, email us and it will be deleted.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, the version at the top changes and the app asks you to read it again before you carry on. Your previous agreement is not silently carried over to a different document.
Contact
Questions, requests, complaints, or anything about safety: trytrialadmin@gmail.com
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