Privacy

Data we store

Your workspace stores your preferences, your current timer and your saved sessions, including their date, duration, mode and the activity you enter.

If you create an account, vstudy stores your name, email address, verification status and a password hash. If you use sharing features, it also stores your bio, friend code, friend requests and connections, your teams and the sessions you assign to them.

What others can see

Session details stay in your workspace unless you assign a session to a team. Members of that team can then see your name, the details of those sessions and your totals for that team.

Friends you’ve accepted can see your profile and activity statistics, including totals from personal sessions. Your name is visible on friend requests involving you. The leaderboard is limited to your circle of friends.

Sign-in and security

A session cookie lets your browser access your account for 90 days or your guest workspace for 30 days. To limit repeated attempts and link requests, vstudy uses temporary counters tied to a hash of the IP address, email or account ID, depending on the action.

When you choose a language, a cookie remembers your choice in your browser for one year.

When a verification or password reset link is sent, the email service receives your address and the message contents. These links expire.

If you send a suggestion, your message, name and account email address are emailed to the vstudy operator.

Error diagnostics

If a server error occurs, vstudy sends Sentry the error type, affected operation and location in the code to help fix it. Reports contain neither request data nor content from your workspace.

Retention

Account data is kept for as long as the account exists. vstudy deletes guest workspaces older than 30 days that no longer have a valid browser session.

Deleting an account also removes teams you own. Their members keep their sessions in their personal workspaces. Older copies may remain in backups until those backups expire.

Access and deletion

In Settings, use “My data” to download your workspace data as JSON or delete it. You can edit your bio from your profile.

Contact

This instance of vstudy is operated by Viktor S..

For questions about your data, write to contact@vstudy.dev.