Privacy Policy

Spectra collects as little as it can. We don’t run ads, we don’t use outside tracking or analytics tools, and we never sell your information.

What we store

• Your device’s push subscription: the address your browser gives us so we can send notifications to it. Without it, Spectra can’t work.
• Your settings: order amounts and any products you add, how many, how often, schedules, quiet hours, starting order number, dashboard name, free orders left, whether you have Unlimited, and theme.
• Your time zone (for example “America/New_York”), so schedules, quiet hours and the weekly recap run on your clock.
• Invites: if you joined from a friend’s invite link, we note which dashboard invited you, so you both get your free orders. Your friend only sees how many people joined, never who.
• Your order history: the notifications Spectra sent you. The customer names and card numbers in them are made up.
• Your email, if you add one, to send you sign-in links. If news is on (it is unless you switch it off), also occasional product news and one reminder if you haven’t bought Unlimited. Every one of those has an unsubscribe link.
• Your password, if you set one, stored only as a one-way hash, so we can’t read it.
• Your Google account ID and email, if you connect Google, so you can sign in with it. We only ask Google for these two things.
• Payment records: what you bought, when, and the email on your receipt. Stripe handles your card; we never see the number.

What your browser keeps

Your browser stores your dashboard link and a few preferences (like theme, chart range and sound) on your device so Spectra opens where you left off. During Google sign-in we set one short-lived cookie (10 minutes) that ties the sign-in to your browser. We don’t use advertising or tracking cookies.

Other information

Like any website, our servers see your IP address. We use it briefly to stop abuse (for example, limiting how often setups can be created or sign-in emails sent), and it may appear in our hosting provider’s logs, which are kept for a short time.

Visit counts

If setup sends you to another browser (for example from TikTok’s built-in browser to Safari, then to Spectra on your Home Screen), we keep what you’ve chosen so far (your store name, your first run, and the link you came from) for up to an hour, so the next browser can pick it up. To find it again, we store a scrambled code made from your network address and type of phone, never the address itself, and everything is deleted after an hour.

To see how many people use Spectra, each page tells our server when it’s opened: which page, the website or link tag you came from (if any), whether you’re on a phone or a computer, and whether you opened the installed app. During setup it also counts which screens you reach, so we can see where setup is confusing. We count this ourselves, with no outside analytics service and no cookies. We don’t store your IP address for this: it’s mixed with your browser details and a secret that’s replaced every day into a one-day ID, which lets us count visitors per day but can’t be traced back to you or linked from one day to the next. Visit counts are deleted after about 13 months.

How we use it

To run Spectra: send your notifications, show your dashboard, let you sign in, keep the service secure, and answer you if you contact us. If the newsletter is on, we send occasional product news to your saved email. You can turn it off anytime in Account or with the unsubscribe link in any newsletter.

Services we rely on

• Render hosts Spectra and its database.
• Push services (Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft) deliver notifications to your device.
• Google handles “Continue with Google”, if you use it.
• An email provider sends sign-in links and the newsletter.
• Stripe processes payments for Spectra Unlimited.
• Google Fonts and jsDelivr serve our fonts and the world map on your dashboard, so they see your IP address when those load.

We share only what each one needs to do its job.

How long we keep it

We keep your setup for as long as it exists. Order history is trimmed automatically to your most recent orders. When you delete your dashboard (Account → Delete this dashboard), its data is removed right away; copies in backups are gone within 30 days.

Your choices

In Account you can change or remove your email, turn off the newsletter, disconnect Google, or delete everything. You can also email us to ask for a copy of your data, to correct it, or to delete it. Depending on where you live (for example California or the EU), you may have additional rights, and we’ll honor them.

Children

Spectra isn’t meant for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update the date at the top, and tell you in the app or by email if the change is significant.

Contact

Privacy questions or requests: support@getspectra.app.