Privacy

Last updated 11 September 2026

ripplenotions is a private task board and schedule built by Josh for himself and Ryan, who run a business together. It is not a product, it is not sold, and it has no users other than the two of them. This page says exactly what it records, because the honest answer is "a lot", and that is worth knowing rather than discovering.

What is recorded

• Everything you type: tasks, titles, notes, schedule blocks, meeting documents, end-of-day reviews and feedback messages, along with any images you upload.
• How you use the app: when tasks are created, started, finished, moved, rescheduled or deleted, how long you estimated something would take against how long the timer actually ran, and your answers to the questions the app asks you.
• Your settings, and which of you did each of the above.
• A permanent edit history. Every change is written to an append-only log with the old value, the new value, who made it and when. This log is never edited and never deleted, including when the task itself is deleted. Its purpose is to find patterns worth discussing at the weekly meeting.

What is deliberately NOT recorded

• No keystroke timing, mouse tracking, session replay or screenshots.
• No score or rating of either person's reliability or productivity.
• Nothing about your computer outside this app's own tab.
• Google event titles and times are imported into the schedule. The app does not retain other invitees' details; your own response is used only to hide events you declined.
• No advertising trackers, no analytics services, no third-party scripts of any kind.
• Nothing is sent to any AI or language model. The app records; a person reads it later.

Who can see it

Josh and Ryan, and nobody else. This is one shared board on purpose, so treat anything you write here as visible to the other person. Josh, having built it, can also read the underlying database directly, which in practice means he can see more of the edit history than Ryan will ever bother to look at. That asymmetry is real and is why this page exists.

Other services involved

• Cloudflare hosts the app and stores the database.
• Google Calendar, only if you connect it. The app reads the events on your main calendar (their titles and times) so they show on your schedule. It is read only: it never creates, changes or deletes anything on any of your calendars. You can disconnect at any time in Settings, or from your Google account permissions page.
• cal.com, to show client calls that were booked with you. Read only.

Google data is used only to show and manage your schedule inside this app. It is never transferred anywhere else, sold, or used for advertising, and it is never used to train any model. This includes complying with the Google API Services User Data Policy, and its Limited Use requirements.

How long it is kept

Indefinitely, which is the point: the value of the record is that it goes back. Deleting a task hides it from the board but keeps the row and its history. If you want something genuinely erased, ask Josh and he can remove it from the database directly.

Your choices

• Disconnect Google Calendar whenever you like. The app keeps working without it.
• Ask for anything you wrote to be deleted, or ask to read the full edit history about yourself. Both are reasonable requests and neither needs a reason.

Security, honestly stated

Access is by username and password over HTTPS, and the data sits in Cloudflare's database. This is a two-person tool built by a 17-year-old, not a bank. It is fine for planning your week. Do not store passwords, card numbers or anything you would be hurt by losing in it.

Children

Both users are 17. The app is not offered to the public and is not directed at children under 13.

Changes and contact

If this changes, the date at the top changes. Questions, or anything you want deleted: joshliu1718@gmail.com.