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Privacy policy

Last updated: 26 September 2026

Ascent is a private, self-hosted planner and phone-discipline app for Android, maintained by Aditri Connected Solutions. This policy describes what the app holds, where it is kept, and what happens to data from a connected Google account.

The short version. Your data stays on your own phone and your own server. It is not sold, not shared with anyone, and not used for advertising or analytics. There is no third-party tracking in the app. If you connect Google, Ascent uses that access only to sync your tasks and calendar and to write backups into your own Drive.

Who runs Ascent

Ascent is not a hosted commercial service. Each installation is run by the person who set it up, on a server they control. The developer has no access to the data held by any installation other than their own. For this installation, the operator can be reached at amitsaxena01@gmail.com.

What the app holds

Data	Why it exists	Where it is kept
Tasks, goals, plans, notes, reminders and schedules	The core function of the app	On the phone, and on the operator's own server
Focus sessions and progress records	To report how the day went and to pace future plans	On the phone, and on the operator's own server
App usage times and which apps were opened	To show where time goes and to enforce daily limits	On the phone only. Never transmitted
Account email address and a password hash	To sign in	On the operator's own server
Google access and refresh tokens, if Google is connected	To sync and to write backups on your behalf	On the operator's own server, encrypted at rest

Ascent reads which applications are running on the device in order to apply limits and focus rules. This happens entirely on the phone. The contents of other apps are not read, recorded or sent anywhere.

Google account data

Connecting Google is optional and can be undone at any time. Ascent works fully without it. When you connect, Google asks you to approve specific permissions. Ascent requests only these:

Permission	What Ascent does with it
`drive.file`	Creates and reads backup files in a folder named Ascent Backups in your Drive. This permission grants access only to files Ascent itself created. Ascent cannot see, read or modify any other file in your Drive.
`calendar.events`	Reads your events so the day can be planned around them, and writes scheduled tasks to your primary calendar as events.
`tasks`	Two-way sync between Ascent tasks and Google Tasks.
`openid`, `email`	Identifies your account so signing in with Google matches you to the right data. Only the email address is stored.

Ascent does not request access to Gmail, Contacts, Photos, Drive at large, or any other Google service.

Limited Use disclosure. Ascent's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Data obtained from Google APIs is used only to provide the features described above. It is never sold, never transferred to third parties except as needed to provide those features, never used for advertising, and never read by a human except where required for security or to comply with the law.

Who the data is shared with

Nobody. Ascent contains no advertising, no analytics service, no crash reporting service and no third-party trackers. Data is not sold, rented or transferred. The only network destinations the app contacts are the operator's own server and, where Google has been connected, Google's own APIs.

How it is protected

Traffic between the app and the server uses HTTPS.
Your sign-in token is stored on the phone encrypted with a key held in the Android Keystore, which never leaves the device.
Google access and refresh tokens are encrypted before being written to the server's database.
Passwords are stored as salted hashes and are never recoverable in plain text.

No system is perfectly secure. This is a small, self-hosted application, and its security depends in part on how the operator maintains their server.

How long it is kept

Data is kept until you delete it. Tasks and plans can be deleted in the app at any time. Drive backups are kept as ordinary files in your Drive — Ascent keeps the ten most recent in its folder and moves older ones to your Drive bin, where you control them like any other file.

Withdrawing access and deleting your data

Disconnect Google: in the app, Settings → Google sync → Disconnect. This deletes the stored tokens from the server immediately.
Revoke from Google's side: visit myaccount.google.com/permissions and remove Ascent. This works even if you no longer have the app installed.
Delete backups: delete the Ascent Backups folder from your Drive.
Delete everything else: ask the operator of your installation to remove your account, or uninstall the app and delete the server's database.

Children

Ascent is designed to be used by young people under a parent's supervision, and includes a parent-held PIN for the settings that control limits. Where a minor uses the app, the account is expected to be set up and overseen by their parent or guardian, who is responsible for the data held in that installation. Ascent collects nothing from a child beyond what is described above, and shares nothing with anyone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it. Material changes to what data is collected or how it is used will also require you to approve the Google permissions again.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about data held by this installation: amitsaxena01@gmail.com.