What Mindova processes, why, and the choices you have
Effective date: September 18, 2026 | Last updated: October 8, 2026
Mindova is a focus, website-blocking, and app-blocking product operated by Mindova App LLC (“Mindova,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).
This Privacy Policy explains what information Mindova processes, why we process it, when information stays on your device, when information may be stored in your Mindova account, when payment and subscription information is processed, and the choices and rights available to you.
Mindova is designed so that its core browser focus features can work locally on your device by default. In the browser extension, Cloud Sync is optional and turned off by default. Data processing and synchronization may differ for Android features that connect your phone to your Mindova account and desktop browser, as explained below.
This Privacy Policy applies to the Mindova website at mindova.app, the Mindova web dashboard, supported desktop browser extensions, the Mindova Android application, and other Mindova services that link to this Policy.
Mindova for Android is publicly available on Google Play. The iPhone application is not yet publicly available. When iOS launches, this Policy will be reviewed and updated as needed to accurately describe any platform-specific processing.
If you join the Mindova iPhone waitlist, we process the email address you provide and, if you are signed in, the relevant account identifier to administer launch communications. You may ask us to remove your waitlist information at any time.
To provide browser website blocking, daily limits, Focus Sessions, and browsing insights, Mindova may process the website address or domain of the active tab. The extension is not designed to read private webpage contents.
To provide Android app blocking, daily limits, and usage insights, Mindova processes information needed to identify selected apps and measure their use. Features connecting mobile and desktop may involve account-based synchronization of supported settings, limits, activity totals, or related operational data.
By default, browsing and focus activity used by the browser extension is stored locally on your device. The extension’s Cloud Sync option is off by default; enabling it allows supported browser settings and focus data to be stored in your Mindova account. The Android app handles connected-device data as described in sections 4A and 9.
Mindova does not sell your browsing activity or personal information for advertising purposes and does not use your browsing activity to build advertising profiles.
For paid subscriptions, Mindova uses Stripe to process payments and related billing operations. Mindova does not store full payment-card numbers or card security codes.
The Mindova website uses analytics, session-recording, and affiliate-referral tools, and the browser extension uses PostHog for product analytics and error reports, as explained in section 16. The browser extension does not send the browsing history used for its blocking and insights to these analytics tools. Android-specific processing is described in sections 4A and 16.
To provide website blocking, time limits, focus features, and analytics, Mindova may process information about the active website you are viewing, including the webpage address or URL and information derived from it, such as the domain.
Mindova may also maintain information such as websites visited, approximate time spent on each website, visit counts, Productive/Distracting/Neutral classifications, limits you configured, blocked-site attempts, time used against limits, Focus Session activity, and focus/productivity statistics generated from this activity.
The extension tracks the active browser tab so that time can be attributed to the website you are actually using rather than treating every open tab as active.
The Android application is designed to manage distracting native apps, enforce user-configured limits, provide Focus Sessions, and display usage insights. To deliver these functions, it may process information such as the identifiers or names of apps installed or selected for monitoring, app usage durations and daily totals, Productive/Distracting classifications, app-level limits, overall distraction limits, Focus Session records, blocking or limit-reached events, and related settings. Such information can be personal data.
The Android application uses system capabilities relevant to these features. Depending on the installed version and enabled features, it may request Usage Access to calculate time spent in monitored apps, accessibility or display-over-other-apps access to detect or interrupt access and present a blocking screen, and foreground-service or notification capabilities to keep user-selected protection working and display service notifications. Android permissions are managed in your device settings. Disabling necessary permissions may prevent the corresponding blocking or insight feature from working.
Where you use connected mobile and desktop functionality, Mindova may process the account and device identifiers, device connection information, configuration, time-use information, and synchronization records necessary to link your supported devices and enforce connected limits. App usage may be calculated locally on Android while information needed for account-based features is synchronized. The information transmitted depends on the features you use and the installed product version.
Mindova is not designed to record personal screen content, keystrokes, passwords, or the contents of private messages to provide its Android app-blocking features. The accessibility or overlay features are intended to support the disclosed blocking workflow, not unrelated surveillance or advertising.
Mindova uses website-address information to provide its focus functionality. It is not designed to inspect or collect webpage contents for unrelated purposes.
Mindova does not intentionally collect the contents of emails, direct messages, chat conversations, passwords, forms, text you type into websites, documents, or other private page content for browser focus features. The Android app is likewise not designed to record private screen content or keystrokes for its app-blocking functions.
Domains, URLs, and browsing activity can still be considered user data even when processed locally. Mindova uses this information only for its disclosed focus-related functionality, not for advertising or unrelated profiling.
You may create or access a Mindova account using an email address or a supported third-party sign-in method such as Google Sign-In.
Depending on the method you choose, Mindova may receive your email address, name, account identifiers, and information necessary to authenticate and maintain your account. Mindova does not receive your Google password when you use Google Sign-In. When you connect the Android app or multiple devices, Mindova may also process identifiers and connection records necessary to identify your devices, maintain a signed-in session, deliver supported notifications, and synchronize supported features.
While you are signed in, the browser extension periodically tells Mindova that your account is active, at most once an hour. This records a single timestamp against your account. It contains no browsing activity and is sent whether or not Cloud Sync is enabled. We use it to understand whether the product is being used and to decide which service emails are relevant (see section 11).
When you contact Mindova, we may process the name, email address, subject, message, and other information you choose to provide so that we can respond to you. When you post a comment on the Mindova blog, we process the name and comment you submit.
For both, Mindova also records the IP address and browser user-agent of the submission to detect abuse, prevent spam, secure forms, and troubleshoot the service. This information is not used for behavioral advertising.
Mindova is designed so that core browser functionality can operate locally. When Cloud Sync is disabled, website blocking, Individual Site Limits, Focus Sessions, and local focus statistics can continue to work while browsing and focus activity used by those features remains on the device rather than being uploaded to your Mindova account.
For the browser extension, Cloud Sync is off by default. You do not need to upload browsing activity to a Mindova account merely to use core browser blocking functionality. See sections 4A and 9 for the Android app and connected-device features.
In the browser extension, Cloud Sync is optional. If you enable it, Mindova may store supported information in your account, including website settings, Productive/Distracting classifications, blocking settings, daily-limit settings, Focus Session information, browsing/focus statistics, and other settings needed for synchronization and the web dashboard.
On Android, Mindova supports connected mobile and desktop functionality. Using account-based or cross-device features can require processing and synchronizing supported account information, device connection records, blocking rules, usage totals, limits, and related events. The Android app may process usage information locally before synchronizing data needed for those connected features.
You can change the browser extension’s Cloud Sync setting at any time. Turning off browser Cloud Sync does not, by itself, guarantee that Android cross-device features are disabled or that data already stored in your account has been deleted. See sections 17, 19, and 20 for retention and account deletion.
Mindova uses Stripe to process subscription payments and related billing operations for subscriptions purchased through the Mindova website. When you subscribe through that checkout, you enter your payment details directly into Stripe’s checkout. Stripe may collect or process information such as your name, email address, billing address, payment method details, transaction amount and date, invoice and tax information, refund or dispute information, device and browser information, IP address, and fraud-prevention signals.
Mindova itself stores only what it needs to operate your subscription: your Stripe customer and subscription identifiers, your subscription status, your plan’s billing interval, the end of your current billing period or trial, and the date a scheduled cancellation takes effect. Mindova also keeps a record of the Stripe billing notifications it has processed.
Mindova does not store full payment-card numbers, card security codes, or your billing address. Payment and subscription information is used for billing, subscription management, customer support, fraud and abuse prevention, refunds, disputes, accounting, tax compliance, and related legal or operational purposes. It is not used for browsing analytics or advertising.
Mindova sends service emails related to your account: a welcome email when you join, a reminder if setup looks unfinished, and an occasional message if you have not used Mindova for a while. These emails are sent through our email provider, Resend, which processes your email address to deliver them.
Every one of these emails includes an unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing stops them without affecting your account. Receipts, invoices and other billing emails are sent by Stripe and relate to your purchases.
Mindova uses information only for purposes related to operating, securing, maintaining, billing, and improving the Service.
These purposes may include identifying an active website or selected Android app so user-configured blocking rules work; measuring relevant website or app usage; enforcing individual and overall distraction limits; operating Focus Sessions; generating focus and usage insights; connecting supported devices and synchronizing compatible settings and usage data; maintaining your account; providing browser Cloud Sync when enabled; starting and managing trials and subscriptions; processing payments, invoices, refunds, and disputes; sending the service emails described above; responding to support requests; understanding how the website and Mindova products are used; detecting fraud, abuse, or security issues; maintaining reliability; meeting tax, accounting, and legal obligations; and enforcing applicable terms.
Mindova does not use browsing activity to create advertising profiles and does not sell browsing history or personal information to advertisers.
Mindova may use information about how long you use websites or apps that you have classified as distracting to provide optional contextual focus reminders or notifications, where that capability is supported by the relevant product version.
Mindova does not use the contents of private messages, emails, forms, or other private page or screen content to create these nudges and does not claim to infer a user’s mental state from private content.
Mindova does not sell personal information.
Mindova may disclose or make information available where reasonably necessary to operate the Service, provide authentication, host and maintain infrastructure, provide optional Cloud Sync, send service emails or notifications, measure how the website and supported Mindova products are used, report errors, credit affiliate referrals, secure Mindova, process payments and subscriptions through Stripe and other relevant providers, calculate or collect taxes, process refunds and disputes, respond to your requests, comply with law or legal process, and protect Mindova, users, or others against fraud, abuse, or security threats.
Service providers that process information for Mindova are expected to use it only as necessary to provide their services, subject to applicable contractual and legal obligations.
Stripe independently processes certain information under its own privacy practices. You can review Stripe’s Privacy Policy at stripe.com/privacy.
Mindova does not sell browsing or Android app-usage activity. Mindova does not sell personal information for advertising purposes. Mindova does not use the websites or apps you use to target you with advertisements.
Where applicable privacy laws provide rights to opt out of certain sale or sharing practices, Mindova does not currently engage in those practices with Mindova browsing data.
Mindova uses analytics and diagnostic tools to understand how people use its website and browser extension and to identify errors. The website and extension analytics tools described below do not receive the browsing history used by the extension for blocking, limits, and insights. Android app data processing is described separately below.
The website uses cookies, local storage and similar technologies in three groups.
Necessary. Cookies and local storage that keep you signed in, remember settings such as the colour theme, secure forms and prevent abuse. Stripe’s checkout uses its own cookies and device information to process payments and prevent fraud.
Analytics and session recording. We use these to understand how people use the website and to find what is confusing or broken:
Affiliate referrals. If you arrive at mindova.app through a partner’s referral link, Rewardful stores a cookie recording that referral so the partner can be credited. If you then subscribe, the referral identifier is passed to Stripe with your purchase.
The extension uses PostHog (PostHog, Inc., United States) for product analytics and error reports:
PostHog processes this information on Mindova’s behalf. See PostHog’s Privacy Policy.
Android processes the app-usage and device information described in section 4A to provide app blocking, Focus Sessions, usage insights, and connected-device features. Depending on the installed version and enabled features, account-based services and operational providers may process the account, device, synchronization, notification-delivery, and diagnostic information needed to provide those functions.
Service providers supporting Android authentication, synchronization, notifications, or diagnostics may process information necessary to perform those services on Mindova’s behalf. The data handling of the Android application is also described in its Google Play Data safety disclosures. We update this Policy when material changes to mobile data practices require further disclosure.
If you visit from the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the analytics, session-recording and affiliate-referral tools described above do not load and set no cookies until you choose. The cookie notice offers Reject and Accept equally, and you can choose analytics and affiliate cookies separately. We use them only with your consent. If we cannot determine where you are visiting from, we ask for consent.
Everywhere else, these tools load by default, on the basis of our legitimate interest in understanding how the website is used and improving it, and a cookie notice tells you so.
Wherever you are, you can change or withdraw your choice at any time using Cookie settings at the bottom of every page. Withdrawing removes those cookies and stops the tools from loading. We remember your choice for 12 months, or 6 months if you reject everything, and then ask again. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings, and Google offers an opt-out browser add-on for Google Analytics. Blocking necessary cookies may stop sign-in or checkout from working. Necessary cookies, including the ones that remember your cookie choice, do not need consent.
Mindova aims to keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including providing the Service, maintaining security, processing subscriptions and billing, complying with legal obligations, resolving disputes, and maintaining appropriate business records.
Browsing and focus information stored locally remains subject to local storage and controls on your browser or device. Account-associated browser or Android usage information, settings, connected-device records, and synced data may be retained while needed to provide your Mindova account and supported functionality.
Certain billing, transaction, invoice, refund, dispute, tax, fraud-prevention, accounting, security, and compliance records may be retained for longer where necessary to meet legal, financial, operational, or record-keeping obligations.
If you request deletion of your Mindova account, Mindova processes the deletion of the account and associated personal data, subject to applicable legal and operational retention exceptions described below. Processing of a deletion request may require identity verification, and any local-only data remaining on a device may need to be removed using the device’s local controls.
Data retained under a legal obligation or a legitimate exception will not be kept or used for unrelated purposes. Some information may remain for limited periods in backups or service-provider systems according to their retention and deletion processes.
When applicable law requires a more specific retention period or deletion process, Mindova will follow those requirements. For the current account-deletion process, see Account & Data Deletion.
Mindova uses reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. No internet-connected service can guarantee absolute security.
You are also responsible for protecting access to your Mindova account, payment account, and devices.
In the browser extension, you can keep Cloud Sync disabled, enable or disable it, and manage supported website classifications and rules. Depending on the product and version, you can review available account information, limits, and focus or usage insights, manage supported settings, control website cookies, unsubscribe from service emails, and manage paid subscriptions through the available billing flow. You may also uninstall the browser extension or Android application.
Deleting your Mindova account: You may request deletion of your entire Mindova account and associated personal data at any time by visiting Account & Data Deletion or emailing support@mindova.app. The process may require verification that the account belongs to you. Subject to legal and record-retention exceptions, deleting the account removes account-linked data as described in the deletion procedure. Details and request options are available on the linked page.
Questions about individual records: If you wish to access, correct, or request deletion of particular personal data without closing your entire account, contact us using the details below. Your rights and the options available may depend on the kind of data and applicable law.
If you have an active paid subscription, review the billing or cancellation information presented during account deletion or contact support to confirm how subscription cancellation and any legally required billing records are handled.
Depending on where you live, privacy laws may provide rights to know whether Mindova processes your personal information, access information, correct inaccuracies, request deletion, restrict or object to certain processing, receive certain information in a portable format, withdraw consent where processing relies on consent, or complain to an applicable data-protection authority.
To exercise a privacy right, contact support@mindova.app. To request account deletion, you may also use Account & Data Deletion. Mindova may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests and will not discriminate against you for exercising rights provided by applicable law.
Where applicable law requires Mindova to identify a legal basis for processing, Mindova may rely on:
Mindova is operated by Mindova App LLC and may use service providers, including payment, analytics, email and infrastructure providers, located in countries different from the country where you live.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, Mindova will use safeguards required by applicable privacy law where those safeguards are necessary. Local-only browsing information is not transferred merely because Mindova processes it on your device.
For personal information moving from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland to the United States, Mindova relies on the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, and the UK Addendum where the transfer is from the United Kingdom — except where the provider is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and its UK Extension, in which case that certification applies instead. These terms form part of the data processing agreements Mindova has with the providers listed in this Policy.
Mindova automatically applies the website- and app-blocking rules and time limits that you configure. These controls are user-configured product functionality.
Mindova does not use browsing activity to make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you.
Mindova is not intended to be used in violation of applicable children’s privacy laws. If local law requires parental or guardian consent for a person to provide personal information, create an account, or purchase a subscription, that person should use Mindova only with the required authorization.
If Mindova learns that personal information was collected in violation of applicable children’s privacy requirements, Mindova will take appropriate steps to address it.
Mindova processes browsing-related information only as necessary to provide and improve its disclosed focus and website-blocking functionality.
Mindova does not use Chrome browsing data for targeted advertising, sale to data brokers, credit decisions, or unrelated user profiling. Mindova’s use of information obtained through the browser extension is intended to comply with Chrome Web Store User Data and Limited Use requirements.
Mindova may update this Privacy Policy as the Service evolves, including changes to browser or mobile app functionality, payment and subscription features, service providers, security practices, iOS availability, or other product features.
When Mindova’s privacy practices materially change, Mindova will update the “Last updated” date and provide additional notice where required by applicable law.
If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or Mindova’s handling of personal information, contact:
Mindova App LLC
1209 Mountain Road Pl NE, Ste R
Albuquerque, NM 87110
United States
Product: Mindova
Email: support@mindova.app
Website: https://www.mindova.app
Account deletion: https://www.mindova.app/delete-account
See also the Terms of Service and Refund Policy.