Do you believe that this app has been designed to leak users private data and exploit its users?
If you need help with your mental health, please talk to a medical professional where you have at least some measure of protection under the law instead of handing real-time records of your struggles and vulnerabilities over to under-regulated companies looking to prey on you by using that very same information.
https://www.roadmaptogrow.com/privacy.html
It's unfortunate. We’ve made a similar app (to combat sugar addiction), but we made a conscious decision to avoid collecting any information we don't have to.
Our privacy policy is just that we get the data App Store shares with us and that when a user sends us an email we are going to keep that email.
But we do store data in the cloud and use analytics to understand usage data. So technically, I am disclosing certain data with those companies.
* first name
* the type of step you took (ex. Commenting on a social media post)
* email address
The data that is collected is to understand how people are using the app, if it's helping them overcome Social Anxiety, and to contact them for stuff.
This thread has made me realize that I need to re-work the privacy policy. Most policies are made to be pretty unclear and actually obfuscate what will actually be done with data. I hate reading those and just want to know:
* What data is collected & why
* Where it's being sent
If anyone has other concerns, you can drop me a line at teeoh@roadmaptogrow.com. I am quite committed to being upfront with this -- even if people don't like the all of the policy.
That was intriguing to me (especially the respectful data collection). Found the app through your profile, but it’s not available in my country.
New user-protection laws in areas like mental health are strongly needed.