Privacy, in plain words

Last updated: 13 November 2026

The short version

We don't use cookies, accounts, ads or third-party trackers. The tools never ask for your name, email or anything else about you, and nothing you type or pick in them is sent to us. The only exception is the optional chat: if you use it, the name you give and your messages go to our chat service so it can reply.

Who we are

This notice covers the website JoyPause and its tools. "We" means Truekin, which runs it. Contact: [email protected].

What stays on your device

Some tools remember things in your browser's local storage, so they're still there next time. This data stays on your device, is never sent to us, and you can delete it at any time:

• Reaction test: your last 50 session medians and best times.
• Focus grid: your best time for each grid size.
• Breathing pacer: your last pattern, length, and sound and vibration settings.
• Session planner, visual timer and last game: a timer you're running, so it survives a page reload, plus your timer settings.
• Now / Next board: the cards on your board.
• Break card: the message and colour you chose.
• Sensory plan: your answers and anything you write in it.
• "What will happen" story: your story.
• Calm sounds: your chosen sound, volume and timer.
• Worry parking: your parked worries, next steps and worry time, until you clear them.
• Deadline planner: your plans (name, due date, steps, their dates and which you've ticked), until you delete them. Get unstuck saves nothing.
• Brain dump: your task list, which ones you've done or put off, the task you picked, its first step and a timer you're running, until you clear them.
• Thought check: any thought checks you choose to save.
• Tense and release: which version you picked and your sound and vibration settings.
• Kegel exercises: which level you picked and your sound and vibration settings. Eye exercises saves nothing.
• Three good things: your entries.
• Practice cards: your decks and cards, when each card is next due, and which deck you had open.
• Heart rate breathing: your length and sound setting. Heart rate readings aren't saved.
• If-then plans: the plans you save (on If-then plans or Break a habit) and the date you made each one. Break a habit doesn't save which habit you picked, only the plan in the words you chose.
• Caffeine cutoff: your bedtime, your speed setting, and the drinks you log (each one's time, type and amount), kept for 24 hours.
• Kind words break: a kind phrase you pick or write, if you choose to save it.
• Meditation timer: your chosen guide, length and bell setting.
• Short meditations (noting, breath counting, candle gazing, focus point, humming breath, alternate-nostril breathing): the length you picked for each. What you tap during noting or breath counting is not saved.
• Focus point: for each of the last 14 days, how many sits you finished, their minutes, and how many times you tapped to say your mind had wandered.
• Small things planner: your list of small things and the moods you record before and after each one.
• Fear ladder: the fear you name, your steps, their ratings and which ones you've ticked.
• Find your tools: your quiz answers, so your plan is still there next time. A plan link you send yourself carries the same answers in the link.
• Pebble jar: how many pebbles each tool gave you on each day (the date only, never the time), the milestones you've reached and your jar style. Nothing you typed. If you answer the "keep your pebbles forever?" question, we remember that you answered, so it isn't asked again. "Save my jar" downloads a small file to your device; we never see it.
• Display settings: light or dark theme, low-stimulation mode, and 12- or 24-hour clock.
• Chat button: its colour and which side of the screen it sits on.

Things you type into the grounding exercise and the pre-game intention, anything you pick in the feelings check-in, and everything in urge surfing, are never stored.

The camera (form coach)

On Quick strength you can turn on Coach my form. It's off until you press it, and your browser asks your permission before the camera starts. It's only on the website, not in the mobile app.

• What happens: a pose model running in your browser looks at each camera frame to find the position of your hips, knees and ankles, counts your squats and notes things like how far you bent. Then the frame is thrown away.
• What leaves your device: nothing. No video, photos or body measurements are recorded, stored or sent to us or anyone else. The model and its code come from this website, not from a third party.
• What's kept: nothing. The form notes are shown once at the end of the routine and are gone when you leave the page.
• How to stop: turn Coach my form off, or leave the page. The camera also turns off when the routine ends, and when you switch to another tab or app.

The microphone (hum meter)

On Humming breath you can turn on the Hum meter. It's off until you press it, and your browser asks your permission before the microphone starts. It's only on the website, not in the mobile app.

• What happens: your browser turns each twentieth of a second of sound into two numbers, how loud it is and how much of it is low-pitched, to tell when you're humming and for how long. Then the sound is thrown away.
• What leaves your device: nothing. No sound is recorded, stored or sent to us or anyone else.
• What's kept: nothing. The hum times are shown on the page and are gone when you leave it.
• How to stop: tap Stop hum meter, or leave the page. It also stops when you switch to another tab or app.

Heart rate (camera or Bluetooth strap)

On Heart rate breathing you can measure your heart rate. It's off until you tap a button, and your browser asks your permission first.

• Camera: each frame is shrunk to one average colour in your browser, used to find your pulse, and thrown away. No video or photos are recorded, stored or sent. The phone's light may turn on while it runs.
• Bluetooth strap: your browser connects to the strap you pick. Its heart-rate readings stay on the page and are not saved or sent.
• How to stop: tap Stop measuring, or leave the page. Both also stop when you switch to another tab or app.

AI helpers

On Practice cards you can choose Draft cards from my notes. It's the only part of the site that uses AI on a server, and it only runs when you press Draft cards.

• What's sent: the notes you pasted. They go to our site's server and on to Cloudflare Workers AI, an AI service run by Cloudflare (the company that hosts this site), which writes draft cards back.
• What's kept: nothing. We don't log or store your notes or the drafts. The cards you choose to add are saved on your device like any other card.
• Training: Cloudflare says it doesn't use content sent to Workers AI to train AI models (Workers AI privacy (opens in a new tab)).
• Your IP address is used for a few minutes to limit how many drafts one person can ask for, then forgotten.

Please don't paste anything personal or private into it.

Chat

The chat button in the corner of each page is our help chat. To show the button, your browser loads it from api.orcalinq.com, so that service receives the same technical details any website does, such as your IP address and that you're visiting this site. Nothing you do in the tools is shared with it.

The chat asks for a name before you start. A first name or nickname is fine. If you open the chat and send a message, your name and what you write are sent to api.orcalinq.com so we can reply, and the chat window keeps the conversation in your browser so it's still there next time. Clear my data above removes the chat button's settings; to delete the saved conversation, clear your browser's site data for api.orcalinq.com.

Please don't share health details or anything private in the chat. It can't give medical advice. If you need someone to talk to now, find free, confidential helplines.

Shop links

The calm kit guide has links to Amazon. Nothing is loaded from Amazon on our pages. If you click a link, you go to Amazon's website, and Amazon's own privacy notice and cookies apply there.

The Windows app

The Windows app from the Microsoft Store is this website installed as an app. It works exactly like the website in your browser: the same data stays on your device, and everything on this page applies to it.

The mobile app

The Android and iOS app contains the same tools, bundled inside it. It makes no network requests of its own: no analytics, no ads, no accounts and no chat. Links to sources, helplines and pages the app doesn't include open in your web browser, where that site's own privacy notice applies.

As well as the items above, the app remembers your recently used tools, whether haptics are on, and any reminder you set. Reminders and timer alerts are scheduled by your phone's own notification system, and nothing about them is sent to us. Clear my data in the app's Settings removes all of it and cancels your reminders.

Permissions the app uses: notifications (asked only when you turn on a reminder or start a timer), vibration for haptics, keeping the screen on while a timer or breathing exercise runs, and Apple Health or Health Connect (only if you turn it on, see below).

Apple Health and Health Connect

The app can save your calm sessions as mindful minutes in Apple Health (iPhone) or Health Connect (Android). It's off until you turn on Save to Apple Health or Save to Health Connect in the app's Settings, and your phone asks your permission first.

• What it saves: when a breathing, body scan, tense and release, urge surf or short meditation session of a minute or more ends, the start and end time of the time you actually spent (pauses left out). Nothing else: no ratings, feelings or notes.
• What it reads: nothing. The app only asks to write mindful minutes and never reads your health data.
• Where it goes: into the health app on your phone, which keeps it under its own privacy rules (for example, Apple Health can sync it to your iCloud if you've set that up). The app sends nothing to us or anyone else.
• How to stop: turn the switch off in the app's Settings, or remove the app's access in the Health app or Health Connect. Clear my data turns the switch off too. Sessions already saved stay in your health app until you delete them there.

The app stores one setting for this on your phone: whether saving is on.

Cookies

We don't set any cookies. Local storage is only used for the features listed above, which you choose to use, so there's nothing to consent to and no cookie banner.

Hosting and security

The site is hosted on Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare's servers briefly process technical information, such as your IP address and browser type, to deliver pages and protect the site from attacks. We don't use this to identify you. See Cloudflare's privacy policy (opens in a new tab).

Analytics

We may use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views. It doesn't use cookies or local storage and doesn't track you across sites. It tells us which tools get used, not who you are. The "keep your pebbles forever?" question on the pebble jar page works the same way: each answer opens its own thank-you page, and we count views of those pages. Your answer is not linked to you.

If you email us

If you contact us, we receive your email address and message. We use them only to reply, don't share them, and delete them when they're no longer needed.

Children

The site is suitable for children with a parent or carer. We don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13. If a child has emailed us and a parent would like that message deleted, please get in touch.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the UK or EU GDPR, or US state privacy laws), you may have the right to ask what personal data we hold about you, and to have it corrected or deleted. Because we don't collect personal data through the tools, there's usually nothing to find. For any request, contact us and we'll answer within one month. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Offline

Your browser keeps a copy of the site's pages so the tools work without a connection. When you first play a zen recording on Calm sounds, your browser downloads it from this site and keeps it too. The same goes for the form coach's pose model, the first time you turn it on. None of this contains personal data.

Changes

If this notice changes, the date at the top changes too. We'll never start collecting personal data without saying so clearly here first.