Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

My Sweet Pomodoro — Last updated: September 2026

1. Service Description

My Sweet Pomodoro is a productivity app based on the Pomodoro technique, offered as a web and Android application. The app helps users manage their focus and break time, with visual customization and background music features. For the technique in detail, see our Pomodoro method guide.

2. Required Permissions

2.1 Audio

Music playback: the app uses the Audius API to find and play background lo-fi tracks.
Volume control: allows adjusting or muting the music volume.
Ringtone: plays a completion sound at the end of each focus session (only when the timer reaches zero automatically).

2.2 Local Storage (localStorage)

The app stores locally on the device:

User preferences: selected theme (light/red/blue), display mode (gallery/animated), timer settings (focus time, breaks, cycles).
Ongoing session: not stored — the current step and the remaining time live only in the app's memory, so reloading the page or reopening the app always starts over at the preparation step.
Music preferences: volume and current track.
Cached profile: name, e-mail and photo of the authenticated user (for offline display). No credentials or tokens are stored.
Checklist: items created by the user.

2.3 Internet Access

Required to fetch music tracks from Audius.
Required to load images and static resources.
Required for Google authentication and syncing settings with the backend.

3. Data Collected

3.1 Data Collected on Login

When signing in with Google, the app backend stores:

Google identifier (googleId): used as the unique account identifier.
Name: displayed in the interface.
E-mail: account identification.
Profile photo URL: displayed in the interface.

3.2 User Settings

For authenticated users, the backend stores the synced preferences:

Timer settings (focus, break and cycle times).
Theme and display mode.
Music volume.
Checklist items.
Preferred language.

3.3 Data Not Collected

Geographic location.
Device information.

3.4 Collection Subject to Consent

User navigation and interaction data is collected only after your consent: on the web, through the app's cookie banner; on Android, through Google's consent form (UMP). This includes error and performance monitoring (Datadog RUM, with session replay for a subset of users and typed fields masked), usage analytics (GA4 via Google Tag Manager, with anonymized statistics for page views, logins and completed cycles) and advertising services (Google AdSense on the web, Google AdMob on Android). You can revoke consent at any time under "Cookie preferences" in the settings; without consent, none of these services is loaded. The only cookie loaded without consent is the application session cookie (HTTP-only, used for authentication).

4. Account Deletion

You can delete your account at any time in the app settings ("Delete account" option), with confirmation. On the web, go to https://mysweetpomodoro.com.br, sign in with your Google account and use the "Delete account" option in the settings modal. Upon deletion:

Your session is immediately terminated on all devices.
The account is marked as deleted and its data is no longer accessible through the app.
If you sign in again with the same Google account, a new clean account is created with default settings.

5. Third-Party Services

5.1 Audius API

The app uses the public Audius API to find lo-fi music.
The API is accessed directly from the user's browser.
No personal data is sent to Audius.
Documentation: https://docs.audius.org/

5.2 Google Identity Services

Sign-in is performed via Google Identity Services (OAuth 2.0 / ID token).
The app receives from Google only the basic profile (name, e-mail, photo and identifier).
The ID token is validated by the backend and is not stored or used as a session; the application session is its own HTTP-only cookie.
Acceptance of these terms is required before signing in.

5.3 Application Backend

Synced settings and the basic profile are stored on the application server, associated exclusively with your account.
The client never sends arbitrary identifiers; the user is always derived from the session.

5.4 Google AdSense, Google AdMob and monitoring

The web version may display ads via Google AdSense; the Android version may display ads via Google AdMob (banner and interstitials).
The web version may monitor errors via Datadog; on Android, the same monitoring applies inside the app.
The web version may collect anonymized usage analytics (GA4 via Google Tag Manager).
All these services are loaded only after explicit consent (cookie banner on web, Google's UMP form on Android).
Google may use cookies and identifiers to display and personalize ads, per Google policies (https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads).
You can revoke consent at any time under "Cookie preferences" in the app settings and disable ad personalization in your Google Account settings.

6. Features

6.1 Pomodoro Timer

Configurable focus sessions (default: 25 minutes).
Short breaks (default: 5 minutes) and long breaks (default: 20 minutes).
Configurable number of cycles (default: 4 cycles).

6.2 Display Modes

Gallery: displays static images of cozy environments with motivational phrases always visible.
Animated: displays animations with hand-drawn illustrations and motivational phrases that appear periodically.

6.3 Themes

Three themes available: Light, Red and Blue. The theme also defines the favicon color.

6.4 Background Music

Playback of lo-fi tracks from Audius, with volume control and track navigation.
Music does not start automatically on the first visit; after the first interaction, it may start automatically.

7. Limitations and Disclaimers

The app is provided "as is", with no guarantee of 24/7 availability.
Music availability depends on the Audius API.
The app is not responsible for interruptions in third-party services.

8. Intellectual Property

Hand-drawn illustrations originate from unDraw (https://undraw.co/) and are under the MIT license.
Music is played directly from Audius and is subject to the artists' licenses.

9. Changes to This Policy

This policy may be updated periodically. We recommend that users review this page regularly.

10. Contact

For questions about this policy, open an issue in the project repository: https://github.com/JohnnErick/my-cozy-room-pomodoro/issues