Glowt
Privacy Policy
Last updated: 14 September 2026 · Effective: 14 September 2026
Glowt is a brain-training app for young people. This page explains exactly what it stores about you, why each thing is there, and how to delete all of it. It is written to be read, not to be survived.
Who we are
Glowt is operated by Rasha Asfour. For anything on this page, write to glowbytalia@gmail.com.
What we collect
| What | Why it exists |
|---|---|
| Your name | To greet you, and to show a guardian whose account they are approving. |
| Your email | Signing in, resetting a password, confirming deletion. If you sign in with Apple or Google and choose not to share an email, we do not have one. |
| Your age group | A range such as 13–17 — never a date of birth. It sets the difficulty curve and decides whether a guardian has to approve the account. |
| A guardian’s email | Only for under-18 accounts, and only to send the approval request. |
| Language and time zone offset | So reminders arrive in your language at a sensible hour. The offset, not your location. |
| Your answers when you set up | Your goal, what you find hard, how you rate your own focus and memory, roughly how much you sleep and study. These set your starting difficulty and your plan. |
| How you play | Scores, accuracy, levels reached, session length, streaks, badges, and the Focus Score calculated from them. |
| App events | Which screens and games you opened and for how long. Used to see which parts of the app work. |
| Feedback you send | Your rating and any comment you write. |
| A device token | An anonymous identifier from Apple or Google that lets us deliver a notification to your phone. It is not an advertising ID. |
What we do not collect
- Your date of birth. An age range is enough, so that is all we ask for.
- Payment details of any kind. There is nothing to buy.
- Your location. Not your GPS position, not your address, not your IP address for tracking.
- Your contacts, photos, microphone or camera.
- Anything for advertising. We do not run ads, and we do not sell or share your data with anyone who does.
- Anything from Apple Health or Health Connect. If you link it, Glowt reads your sleep, steps, heart rate and exercise minutes to work out what to suggest — and does all of that on your phone. None of it is sent to us, none of it is stored on our servers, and we could not show it to anyone if we were asked to. Unlink it at any time in your phone’s own health settings.
If you are under 18
You can create an account, but it does not become usable until a parent or guardian approves it. We email them a link; they approve or refuse. Until they approve, you cannot play, and if they refuse we delete the account. We ask for their email for that one purpose and use it for nothing else.
Sharing with a parent or teacher is off by default. If you turn it on, they see only your streak and how many sessions you have done. They never see your scores, your answers, or anything from a Band.
Who else sees it
Three companies handle data on our behalf, and only to do a job we ask them to do:
- Google Firebase — delivers notifications to your phone.
- Resend — sends our emails, including the guardian approval request.
- Hetzner Online GmbH — runs the servers and database, in Germany (European Union).
Nobody else. We do not sell your data, and we have no advertising partners.
Where it is kept, and for how long
Data is stored in Germany (European Union). We keep it while your account exists. Delete the account and it goes — see below. We keep nothing back afterwards.
Deleting everything
In the app: Settings → Delete account. It removes your account, every round you have played, your Focus Score history, your plan, your streak and badges, and any sharing you had switched on.
This is not a request that goes into a queue. Nobody keeps a copy and support cannot bring it back. You can also email glowbytalia@gmail.com and we will do it for you — see deleting your account without the app.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, or object to how we use it. Write to glowbytalia@gmail.com. If you are in the EU or UK and think we have got something wrong, you can complain to your data protection authority.
One thing worth being clear about
The Focus Score, and everything on the Brain Map, are calculated from how you play games. They are a measure of task performance and an educational illustration. They are not a medical measurement, a diagnosis, or an assessment of your health, and should never be used as one.
Changes
If we change this in a way that matters, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.
Questions: glowbytalia@gmail.com · Terms of Use