Privacy policy

The short version

• Your account is an email address. That’s all we ask for.
• What you write in StudyCove is yours. It’s stored so you can use it on your devices, and it’s never sold, shared for advertising or used to train AI.
• There are no cookies, no analytics, no adverts and no tracking.
• You can delete your account in Settings, and everything in it goes with it.

Who we are

StudyCove is run by Eric Aytekin, a sole trader based in England. In this policy “we” and “us” mean Eric Aytekin, the controller of the personal data StudyCove handles under UK data protection law. You can reach us about anything here at hello@studycove.app.

What we collect

Your email address

To make your account and to email you a code each time you sign in. There’s no password. We don’t ask for your name, age, school or anything else about you.

Your library

What you put into StudyCove: tasks, plans and routines, focus sessions, sheets, flashcards and their reviews, blurts, and your settings. It’s kept in your browser and in our database, so it’s the same on every device you sign in on.

Technical information

Like any website, the services that host StudyCove see the basics of each request: your IP address, your browser and the time. They keep these in short-lived logs to keep the service secure and working. We don’t use them to track you or build a profile.

Emails you send us

If you email us, we keep the conversation so we can reply and follow it up.

Why, and our lawful basis

• To provide StudyCove to you (a contract): your account, sign-in codes, and storing and syncing your library.
• Our legitimate interests: keeping the service secure, stopping abuse, fixing faults, and answering your emails.

We don’t use your data for marketing, and we don’t make automated decisions about you.

Who else handles it

A few companies run parts of StudyCove for us. They process data only on our instructions, under data processing agreements:

Supabase

Accounts and the database that syncs your library. Hosted in London.

Vercel

Hosts and serves the website.

Resend

Sends sign-in codes, from Ireland, with open and click tracking switched off.

Apple (iCloud Mail)

Receives email sent to hello@studycove.app.

Some of these companies are based in the United States and may handle data there. Where they do, the transfer is covered by the safeguards UK law requires, such as the UK–US data bridge or standard contractual clauses. We never sell your data, and we share it with nobody else unless the law requires us to.

On your device

StudyCove keeps your library in your browser’s storage so it opens quickly and works offline, and it saves a few small preferences there. Signing out clears this browser’s copy. The cookies page lists everything it stores.

How long we keep it

• Your account and library: until you delete your account. Deleting it removes both from our database straight away. Copies in our providers’ routine backups expire on their normal cycle.
• Request logs: for the short time our hosting providers keep them.
• Emails: for as long as we need them to deal with what you asked.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of your data, to correct it, to delete it, to limit or object to how we use it, or to have it in a form you can take elsewhere. Much of this is already in the app: Settings has Export and Delete account. For anything else, email hello@studycove.app. We’ll reply within a month.

If you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled your data, please tell us first. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

Keeping it safe

Everything travels over HTTPS. The database lets each account read and change only its own records, and there are no passwords to leak: each sign-in uses a one-time code sent to your email.

Age

StudyCove is for people aged 16 and over. If you think somebody younger has made an account, email hello@studycove.app and we’ll delete it.

Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If a change affects how your data is used, we’ll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.