Snod privacy policy
Last updated: 9 October 2026
Snod is an app for your tasks, calendar, notes and routines. This page explains what Snod keeps about you, why, where, for how long, and what you can do about it. In short: Snod keeps what it needs to run your account and nothing more. There are no adverts, no analytics and no tracking, and your data is never sold.
Who is responsible for your data
Snod is made by one person, Ruben Adair, who is the “data controller” for the information described here.
- Email: hello@snod.app
- Registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO): ZC269573
What Snod keeps
Your account
- Your email address, when you joined and when you last signed in.
- How you sign in: with a code sent by email, or with Google.
- If you sign in with Google, Google gives Snod your name, email address and Google account ID. Snod doesn’t get your contacts, files, photos or anything else from your Google account.
What you put in Snod
- Tasks, lists and topics; calendars and events; notes; routines and what you log in them (for example weights, repetitions, distances and times); your home screens and tiles; Focus timer rounds; and your settings (such as your date and time format and Brae’s settings).
- Feedback you send from the app.
Snod doesn’t ask for health information. If you write some in a note, it is kept privately with the rest of your things; Snod never reads, analyses or uses it.
Keeping your account safe
- For each device you’re signed in on: its IP address, the name of the app or browser, and when it was last used.
- Short records of sign-ins and account changes, used to spot and stop misuse.
Technical details, only if you choose
- When you send feedback you can switch on “Include technical details”: the app version, your device and system version, the sync status and the last few error messages. It’s off unless you switch it on for that message.
On your device only
- A copy of your things, so Snod works without a connection, and your sign-in. Signing out removes both from that device. So does deleting your account, or Snod signing you out, the next time that device connects.
- A few settings that belong to the device rather than to you (such as text size, page width and which tips you’ve already seen). They stay after you sign out, and say nothing about you or your things.
Why Snod keeps it, and the legal basis
| What for | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| Running your account: storing your things, syncing them between your devices, reminders, sending your sign-in codes | Contract: it’s what you asked Snod to do. Without an email address Snod can’t make your account. |
| Keeping Snod and your account secure: sign-in records, IP addresses, limits on how many codes can be requested | Legitimate interests: protecting the service and the people who use it. |
| Answering your feedback and improving Snod | Legitimate interests. The optional technical details: your consent, given by switching them on, which you can simply leave off. |
Snod only emails you sign-in codes. No newsletters, no marketing.
Who else handles it
- Scaleway (France) runs Snod’s servers and database in Paris and sends the sign-in code emails. It works under a contract and only on Snod’s instructions.
- Google: if you choose Sign in with Google, Google tells Snod who you are. Google Play delivers the Android app and, if your phone shares usage and diagnostics with Google, shows Snod reports of crashes and freezes (the device model, the Android version and where in the app it happened, never your things). Google’s own privacy policy covers your Google account and Google Play.
- Proton (Switzerland) keeps the hello@snod.app mailbox, so it holds any email you send there.
Nobody else. Snod’s code is kept on GitHub, which holds none of your data.
Where your data is kept
On Scaleway’s servers in Paris, with backups in another Scaleway region in the EU. UK law recognises the EU (and Switzerland, for Proton) as protecting personal data adequately. Google, for Sign in with Google and Google Play, is in the USA; it takes part in the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework (the “UK–US data bridge”), which UK law also recognises as adequate.
How long it’s kept
| What | How long |
|---|---|
| Your account and everything in it | Until you delete your account |
| Sign-in records for a device | Until you sign out on that device or delete your account |
| Records of sign-ins and account changes (used to spot and stop misuse) | Until you delete your account |
| Records that limit how many new accounts can be made (a scrambled form of the internet address, which Snod doesn’t turn back into the address) | About a day |
| An account whose emailed code was never typed in | Deleted after about a day |
| Older copies the sync service keeps, so a device that was offline can catch up | Cleared every day: after that only the latest version of each thing is kept, and nothing of what you deleted |
| Records of the sign-in code emails (the address, when, and whether it arrived), kept by Scaleway’s email service | Up to about three months. Scaleway keeps these records until Snod asks for them to be deleted, and Snod asks every three months. The emails themselves are deleted as soon as they’re sent. If you’d like yours deleted sooner, ask at hello@snod.app (it takes Scaleway a few days). |
| Server logs | 7 days |
| Backups | Deleted things leave the backups within 30 days (daily backups are kept 7 days; backups taken before maintenance are kept 30 days) |
| Emails you send to hello@snod.app | 12 months after the last message |
When you delete your account, everything in it is removed from Snod’s database straight away, from the sync service’s older copies within a day, and from the backups within 30 days. Every other device you’re signed in on clears its copy as soon as it next connects to Snod.
Your rights
You can ask Snod for a copy of your data, to correct it, to delete it, to move it elsewhere, or to stop or limit how it’s used. Most of this you can do yourself:
- Export my data (Settings → Data and privacy) gives you one file with everything you’ve put in Snod and your settings. Your sign-in records aren’t in it: ask at hello@snod.app if you want those too.
- Delete account (Settings → Data and privacy) deletes your account and everything in it.
- For anything else, email hello@snod.app. Snod will reply within one month.
If you’re unhappy
Please tell Snod first at hello@snod.app: you’ll get a reply within one month. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or on 0303 123 1113.
Children
Snod is for adults (18 and over) and isn’t designed for children.
Cookies and storage
The snod.app website uses no cookies at all. The app keeps your sign-in and your things on your device so that it works, including offline. That storage is strictly necessary, and none of it tracks you.
Security
Every connection to Snod is encrypted. Your things are stored so that only your account can read them: the database itself refuses anyone else. You never get a password: you sign in with a one-time code or with Google.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version goes here with a new date. Important changes are also mentioned in the app.