Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 8, 2026

This page explains what we collect when you use Awareness Score, why we collect it, and the choices you have.

1. Who we are

Awareness Score is run by Mufy Pachorawala ("Awareness Score", "we", "us"). This policy covers the website awarenessscore.com and the Awareness Score App, whether you use it in a browser at awarenessscore.com/app/ or as the Android app from Google Play (the "app"). On Google Play the app is listed as "Awareness Score: Brain Games", by AwarenessScore.com.

You can contact us about anything in this policy at mufy@awarenessscore.com.

Our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy adds to this policy, for the consumer health data laws of Washington State and Nevada.

2. What we collect

• Your account. Your email address. If you sign in with Google, the email address and first name that Google shares with us, and the address of your Google profile picture (a link to it on Google's servers, not a copy of the picture); we don't keep your full name. If you set a password, we store it only in scrambled (hashed) form.
• About you. Straight after you sign up, the app's About you page asks for your first name, your year of birth, your sex and a picture. Your year of birth is required; your first name, sex and picture are optional. If you sign in with Google, your first name and Google picture are already filled in. You can change any of them later in the app's Settings.
• Your first name, only if you choose to give it, on the About you page or in the app's Settings under Sharing. If you sign in with Google, the first name Google shares is filled in for you, and you can change it or remove it.
• Your picture. The address of your Google profile picture, if you sign in with Google, and any picture you choose to add, on the About you page or in the app's Settings under Your picture: the app makes a smaller square copy of it on your phone (at most 512 pixels a side), without the details a camera stores inside a photo, such as where it was taken, and sends only that copy, which we keep. Also whether Show my picture in my groups is on (it is on until you switch it off). Section 7 says who sees it.
• Your year of birth, which the About you page asks for and the app needs. You can change it later in the app's Settings, under About you. Scores naturally differ with age, so it is kept with your results. The app is for adults aged 18 and over, so it doesn't accept a year that would make you younger than 18 (section 13).
• Your sex, only if you choose to give it, on the About you page or in the app's Settings under About you: female or male. It is kept with your results, as scores can differ between groups of people.
• Your time zone. Taken automatically from your phone or computer, so your check-ins get the right dates and your reminders arrive at the right time.
• Your daily reminder time, if you choose one.
• How you signed up: on the website or in the Google Play app.
• Your plan, in the Google Play app. If you start a plan or a free trial in the Google Play app, Google Play takes the payment, and we never see your card or bank details. Google Play tells our server which plan you have, whether it is in its free trial, when it renews or ends, whether you have cancelled, whether a payment is pending, failed or refunded, its price, and a purchase code (a token) for it, with a code the app made on your phone for that purchase (never your name or email). We keep these with your account. We also keep a record of what the app showed you before you started: the plan, the price and free trial it showed, the charge date, and when. Whether you have had a free trial, and whether your account has founding access or access we gave, are kept with your account too. While Google Play's checkout isn't connected yet, the app may show a test checkout in its place, in the Google Play app and in a browser: nobody is charged, and a test plan, with what the app showed, is kept in the same way until the test ends.
• Who joined from whose link. The app gives you your own invite code for each group you are in: 10 random letters and numbers, which aren't your name, email or account number. Every group link the app makes for you carries it. When you join a group through someone's invite code, we keep whose code it was, the group and when, whether it was kept for their plan or founding access to cover you (their setting Cover the people who join from my links), and whether it has covered you. The same is kept when you open their code again while you are in that group and have no access of your own, at a time when they can cover you. We also note when you last used the Google Play app, so that only people who use it get emails about a plan that covers them.
• Your invites. Whether your setting Cover the people who join from my links is on. How many times your invite links were opened each day: each time the app or a shared result page is opened from a link with your code, it tells our server, which adds one to your count for that day, also when the same person, or you, opens it again. Nothing about the person who opened it is kept. Referral stats, in the app's account menu, shows you your counts for the days you choose, never who opened a link, though with only one or two people you may be able to tell.
• Your quiz result, if you came from Brain Fog Remedy's quiz: which of its brain-fog patterns the quiz found. We use it to choose which emails you get (section 3).
• Your consents, if your device was set to a European time zone when you signed up: a record of the choices you made then.
• Your check-in results. The points and details of each game, your Awareness Score, your answers to the three short questions before the games (how long you slept, whether you've had caffeine, and how clear-headed you feel, from Foggy to Very clear; before 23 October 2026 the third question was whether the day felt unusual, and those answers stay with their check-ins), which pictures you were shown, and basic details about your device, such as screen size and browser. The Awareness Score is the app's own measure of how you did on the games. It is not a diagnosis or a medical test. How clear-headed you felt is private: nobody else sees it unless you switch on Show how I feel to this group for a group (section 7).
• Your Awareness personality. A playful name, one of 24, for the order your four games' points usually come in. It first appears after your first check-in where all four games count. The app and our server work it out from your stored results whenever it is shown or shared. It isn't stored on its own: only a page you share keeps its name, until you stop sharing it or delete your results. Nobody else sees it unless you share it, or switch on Show my Awareness personality to this group for a group (section 7). It is never sent to Google Analytics.
• Shared result pages you create. If you share a result, we make a page for it. It shows the scores you shared, a picture of them (for 30 days after you share it), and your first name if one is set in the app, never your own picture. Anyone with the link can see the page. The page keeps the invite code of one of your groups, so anyone who opens it and signs up joins that group (section 7); the link itself is short and doesn't show the code. Apps that showed a preview of the link, such as WhatsApp, may keep their own copy of that preview. If you share your Awareness personality, the page shows its name and symbol, worked out by our server from the order of your four games' points in your check-ins, and never your scores.
• Groups. Which groups you are in, when you joined each and whether you are waiting for its owner's approval; for your own group, and any other you run, its name if you changed it, its link code and its settings (including the group's best chain, section 7); for each group, whether you show your game of the day points to it, whether you show it how clear-headed you felt, whether you show it your Awareness personality, and the date you were last sent a notification in it with Send notification; for each group someone else runs, whether you want to be told when they check in or miss a day, and for each group you run, whether its members are told when you do (section 7); which group your shares link to; a short record in each group of who joined, was approved, left or was removed, who sent a notification to whom, and who took the group over, each with its date; and, for 7 days, a record of each Send notification (who sent it, to whom and when); and, for 16 days, each wave and clap sent on the group's screen (who sent it, to whom and for which day); and, for 9 days, a record of each notification telling a group's members that the person who runs it checked in or didn't (about whom, to whom, which of the two and for which day), so that each is sent at most once a day. Invites to check in together made before 23 October 2026 are kept as links to the inviter's own group. Section 7 says what the other members see.
• Statuses, voice notes and photos, if you post them in a group: the text you write (up to 200 characters), the voice note you record (up to 30 seconds), the photo you add (the app makes a smaller copy of it on your phone, at most 1,080 pixels on its long side, and sends only that copy, without the details a camera stores inside a photo, such as where it was taken; we keep the copy and its size in pixels), which group and day each is for, and when you posted it. Each is deleted 14 days after its day. Section 7 says who sees them and how to delete or report one.
• This week's question, if you play it: the answer you pick each week, your guesses at the others' picks, your answer to Will they get it? if you give one, any story you tell (up to 200 characters, or a voice note of up to 30 seconds), and any asks and likes you send. Section 7 says who sees what.
• Likes and Hidden from home. If you like a status with its heart, that you liked it, and when. If you choose Don't show a member's statuses on your home screen, whose statuses you chose not to see there. Section 7 says who sees a like.
• Reports about statuses, if you use Report under a status in a group: which status, the day, the reason you chose from the app's list, and that it was you. The report is also what keeps that status, and anything the same person posts in that group for the same day, hidden from you.
• Reports about pictures, if you use Report this picture on a group's screen: whose picture and which one, the group, the reason you chose from the app's list, and that it was you. We also keep a note that you chose not to see that picture, which keeps it hidden from you.
• Blocks, if you block a member of one of your groups: who blocked whom, and when. Section 7 says what a block does.
• Reports about members and groups, if you use Report on a member's name or picture, or Report this group, on a group's screen: whom you reported, or which group, the group, the reason you chose from the app's list, when, and that it was you.
• A suspension, if we suspend your account's group features after a report (section 7): that they are suspended.
• The game of the day, if you play it: your best points each day, when you first reached them, how many times you played, and whether you chose to show your first name in the rankings. Section 8 says what other people see.
• Reports about names, if you use Report a name under a top 10: which name you reported, on which day, its place, the reason you chose from the app's list, and that it was you. And the names you chose not to see again. Section 8 says more.
• A push-service address, if you allow notifications. The app asks, with your browser's or phone's own question, when you sign up or sign in, and each time you open it while notifications aren't allowed; some browsers, such as Safari and Firefox, only show that question straight after a tap. If you allow notifications, your browser or phone gives us an address at its push service, which is run by Google, Apple, Microsoft or Mozilla. The members of your groups can then send you a notification, and you can choose a time for a daily reminder. If you allow notifications on the "When shall we remind you?" page before you have an account, the address reaches us at once, with the time you picked and your time zone, so your daily reminder can come (section 12). The reminders and notifications we send through it carry no personal information. When one arrives, your phone asks our server, with your sign-in, what to show: whether someone in one of your groups sent it with Send notification, or someone has joined a group you run, or the person who runs a group you are in has checked in today or didn't check in the day before, and if so their first name (section 7), or, in the Google Play app, that your free trial ends soon. A daily reminder may also say how many members of one of your groups have checked in that day, how many have posted a status, never what a status says, and that a member has waved at you, by first name (section 7).
• Usage statistics. Through Google Analytics, we see what happens in the app and on the website, never how well you did: for example that a check-in started, a game was finished, the rankings were opened, a status was posted (and whether it had text, a voice note, a photo or a combination), a wave or clap was sent, never to whom, the weekly question was shown, an answer was picked, a guess was made or Play it on a call was opened, never which answer or whose pick, a picture was added, removed or reported, never whose, or your Awareness personality was opened or shared, never which one. In the Google Play app and on the website, Google Analytics also learns when a plan screen was shown, a plan was chosen, a checkout was opened, closed, or ended in a purchase or an error, or a button to Google Play was tapped, with which plan (yearly or weekly), which free trial, if any, and on which plan screen, never a price or a purchase code. Before you sign up, in the Google Play app and on the website, it also learns which of the seven questions were shown and which answer you tapped on each (each one you ticked, where you can tick several), or that you skipped it: how you found us, what you'd like to use the app for and why, whether you'd like to share your Awareness Score, whether you'd like to play games and interact with friends and family, how often you'd like to check your Awareness Score, and when you'd like to check in. Looking after your wellbeing, for why you'd like to use the app, is not sent to Google Analytics: it learns only that you answered. On the reminder screen that follows them, it learns whether you allowed, refused or put off reminder notifications, never the time you chose. We never send your scores, points, results, Awareness personality, personal bests, check-in answers, age, sex or quiz pattern to Google Analytics, nor the words, sound or photo of any status, nor anyone's picture. You can switch this off in the app's Settings, under Usage statistics, or with Cookie settings on this website.
• Counts of the plan screens and the questions before them. In the Google Play app and on the website, when one of these screens shows or one of its buttons is used, the app tells our server, which adds one to that day's count for that step. We also count how many people choose each answer to how you found us, what you'd like to use the app for and why, as numbers only, never who; the app never sends your other answers. Nothing that identifies you or your phone is kept with them.
• Versions of a screen. We sometimes show slightly different versions of a screen, to compare them. Which version your phone or computer gets is chosen at random, or by the link that opened the app, and is kept on it. Our server counts how many see each version and the steps above for each, as numbers only, never who, and the version is sent to Google Analytics with the usage statistics.
• Email activity. Our mailer records when an email is opened and when a link in it is clicked.
• Feedback you send from the app's "Send feedback" form: your message, with your name and email address so we can reply (from your account; on the sign-in screen, only what you choose to type in), where in the app you sent it from, and the app's version and your kind of device.
• Security records. To stop misuse, our server counts sign-in, sharing, group (joining, looking up a link, opening a member's link, new links and settings changes), Your invites (the setting), Referral stats and Send notification attempts, game of the day plays, views of the rankings, statuses posted, voice notes played, photos viewed, waves and claps sent, pictures added, removed and viewed, picks, guesses, stories, asks and likes in This week's question, blocks, reports about names, statuses, stories, pictures, members and groups, and feedback messages, by IP address or by account, and sign-in attempts by email address too, for one day. Its security log keeps the IP address of blocked attempts, with any email address shortened.

The report you can print or save from My results is made on your device. Printing it or saving it as a PDF sends nothing to us. If usage statistics are on, Google Analytics learns only that a report was opened or printed, never what is in it.

3. The emails we send

• After you sign up: a welcome email, and up to two reminders to do your first check-in.
• After your first check-in: a short series chosen by your first Awareness Score. If it is under 50, the series includes information about Brain Fog Remedy's quiz and 14-day plans. If it is 50 or above, the series invites you to check in again.
• Accounts created in the Google Play app never get emails about Brain Fog Remedy's plans.
• If you start a plan or a free trial in the Google Play app, we email you about your own plan: when it starts, once before a free trial ends (2 days before the end of a 7-day or 14-day trial, 1 day before the end of a 3-day trial; with a notification as well if you allow them), and about 35 days before a yearly plan renews. If someone else's plan covers you and is set to end, we email you once, 3 days before it ends. These emails are part of the service, so they come even if you have unsubscribed from our notes, and they stop when the plan or the cover does. A test plan from the test checkout gets none of these emails or notifications, and neither do the people it covers.
• If you arrive from Brain Fog Remedy's quiz with a quiz result, your address goes to Brain Fog Remedy's email list for that result instead. Those emails are sent by Brain Fog Remedy under Brain Fog Remedy's privacy policy.
• If your device is set to a European time zone, you get these emails only if you tick the box for them.
• Every email about your check-ins has an unsubscribe link.

4. How we use your information

• To run your account and show you your results and graph on any device.
• To choose new pictures for your check-ins.
• To send the reminders you ask for and, if you allow notifications, your groups' notifications (section 7).
• To send the emails described in section 3.
• In the Google Play app: to give you the plan you started, keep it up to date with Google Play, remind you before you are charged, and cover the people who join from your links while Cover the people who join from my links is on.
• To count the opens of your invite links and show you your numbers under Referral stats, in the app's account menu.
• To make the shared pages you create.
• To show the other members of your groups your first name and picture (unless you switch the picture off), whether you've checked in today and on how many days this week, your game of the day points unless you hide them, and how many days in a row everyone in the group has checked in, and to pass on the notifications, waves and claps members send each other, and to tell the members of a group you run when you've checked in, or that you didn't check in the day before, unless that is switched off (section 7).
• To show the statuses, voice notes and photos you post in a group to that group's members, on the group's screen and on their home screens, with the likes they give them, and, if you switch it on for a group, how clear-headed you felt at today's check-in (section 7).
• To show each day's rankings for the game of the day (section 8), to look into the names, statuses, pictures, members and groups reported to us, to hide the names, statuses and pictures you chose not to see, and to hold back what someone you blocked posts or sends you (section 7).
• To suspend an account's group features, rename a group or hide a first name, when a report shows that it breaks our Terms (section 7).
• To see, in general terms, how the website and app are used, so we can improve them.
• To read and answer the feedback you send.
• To keep the service secure and stop misuse.

We do not sell your personal information.

5. Legal bases in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we rely on these legal bases:

• Performing the service you asked for: your account, your reminders and your shared pages, a plan you start in the Google Play app, with its emails, and Your invites: its setting and its counts.
• Your explicit consent: for keeping your check-in results, which are health-related information, and for marketing emails. Also for groups: joining a group, by opening its link and signing up or signing in (or tapping Join, when the app asks someone already in a group), or by typing its code, is your consent to its members seeing when you've checked in, and your picture until you switch off Show my picture in my groups; adding a picture, on the About you page or in Settings, is your consent to the members of your groups seeing it, on the same terms; sharing a link that carries your group's code is your consent to whoever joins through it seeing the same; posting a status, voice note or photo in a group is your consent to its members reading, hearing or seeing it; and switching on Show how I feel to this group is your consent to that group seeing how clear-headed you felt. Switching on Show my Awareness personality to this group, in Settings under Groups or by saying yes when the app asks once, is your consent to that group seeing its name and symbol by your name: it is off until you say yes, and you can turn it off at any time. Liking a status is your consent to the person who posted it seeing your first name with the like. The notifications that tell the members of a group you run when you've checked in, or that you didn't check in the day before, pass on only whether you checked in on recent days, never a score, on the same basis as your joining; you can switch them off for each group you run, and each member can switch them off for themselves. And for the rankings: your first name appears there only if you turn it on.
• Legitimate interests: for security, for keeping a record of what the app showed before you started a plan, for blocks, for looking into names, statuses, pictures, members and groups reported to us, for suspending group features, renaming groups and hiding first names after a report and, where the law allows it, for analytics. Where the law requires your consent for analytics, we ask for it in Cookie settings.

6. Who we share it with

Apart from the members of your groups (section 7) and what the rankings show (section 8), we share information only with the service providers that help us run Awareness Score:

• Hostinger, which hosts the website, the app, our database and our email. Our emails go out through Hostinger's mail service and its delivery partner, MailChannels.
• Google, for Google sign-in. Google's sign-in script loads on our home page and on the app's sign-in screen, so Google can see the visit even if you don't sign in. If your device is set to a European time zone, the home page loads it only after you tick the first box. Also for Google Analytics, and for push messages on Chrome and Android. And for Google profile pictures: when the app shows the Google picture of a member of one of your groups, your phone loads it straight from Google, so Google sees your device's IP address, as it does for any picture loaded from its servers; the app asks your browser not to tell Google which page the request came from. And for Google Play: when you start a plan in the Google Play app, our server sends Google Play the purchase code to check it and to keep its state up to date. Google Play handles your payment under Google's own privacy policy. When a button on our install page or on the Get the app page opens Google Play, the Google Play address carries the code of the group link or shared result you opened, so that Google Play can pass it to the app once it is installed.
• The push services run by Google, Apple, Microsoft or Mozilla, which deliver reminders to your device.

If you came from Brain Fog Remedy's quiz and chose its emails, your email address is shared with Brain Fog Remedy for its email list, instead of joining ours (section 3). We do not sell personal information.

7. Groups

A group is a few people, such as a parent, a partner or friends, who each see when the others have checked in, and can each post a short status for the others each day: a few words, a voice note or a photo. Every account has its own group, named after your first name, such as "Mufy's group" ("My group" until a first name is set; you can rename it in the app). You can also be in up to 5 other people's groups, and start groups of your own in Settings, then Groups, such as one for your family and one for a class. You can run up to five groups. Deleting a group you started removes its board, statuses, voice notes and photos; everyone's own results stay. One check-in counts in all of them. While the app is being tested, Mufy Pachorawala, who runs Awareness Score, has added the testers' accounts to their own group; anyone added this way is told so in the app the next time they open it, and can leave the group at any time in Settings, then Groups.

• How people join. Every group has links: awarenessscore.com/app/g/ followed by a code. The app gives each member their own code for each group they are in, 10 letters and numbers, and puts it in every group link it makes for them; a group's 8-character code still works too. A code can also be typed in under Settings, then Groups. Anyone new who opens the link and signs up joins that group, with no further question, and so does someone whose own group has only them in it and who is in no other group, when they sign in or open the link signed in. Someone already in a group is asked first: the app shows "Join" and "Not now", and they join only if they tap Join. The app joins nobody to a group until they have given a year of birth of 18 or over on its About you page: until then, a link they opened only waits on their phone. Every result, week or milestone you share from the app carries your own code for your group (or for the group you chose for sharing in Settings, then Groups), so anyone new who opens one of your shared links and signs up joins that group too. Send a link only to people you'd like in the group. Your invite links show a preview picture in apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook, and on the screen the link opens in the app: it shows your first name, if one is set in the app, and the group's name, never your scores or your own picture. A reminder link you send with Send a message (awarenessscore.com/app/n/ followed by your code) has one too, saying that you are reminding them to check in. Your phone draws these pictures when you first share the link, and our server keeps them so the link can show them. Anyone with the link can see its picture. Apps that showed a preview of the link, such as WhatsApp, may keep their own copy of it. A link doesn't run out; the owner can make a new link at any time, and every older link and code of that group, the other members' too, then stops working.
• Links and plans. Your own code in a link tells us which member a new person came from. While you have a plan or founding access, and Cover the people who join from my links is on, anyone who joins a group through your own code while you are in that group is covered, and so is anyone already in that group who has no access of their own and opens a link with your code; a group's 8-character code, and any link that carries one, covers nobody. Anyone who opens one of your links sees the group's name in the app and on our install page, and on the install page also the name you show in the app.
• What the members of a group see of each other: the first name set in the app (you can change it in Settings), each member's picture (see Pictures, below), whether each has checked in today, on how many days this week (Monday to Sunday, in their own time zone), how many of the group have checked in today, and each member's best points in the game of the day, today and yesterday, ranked within the group, unless that member has switched off Show my game of the day points to this group in Settings. If a member has switched on Show how I feel to this group, the others also see the word that member chose for how clear-headed they felt at today's check-in, such as "Clear today"; it is off until that member chooses, for each group separately. If a member has switched on Show my Awareness personality to this group, the others also see its symbol and name by that member's name; it too is off until that member says yes, for each group separately, and they can turn it off at any time. Once two or more members show theirs, the group's screen may say how many of the 24 are in the group, and any member can share a picture of how many have each one, never with names. Members also see the group's chain (how many days in a row everyone in the group has checked in, and the group's best run), and can send each other a wave (a hello) or, once someone has checked in that day, a clap (a well done) on the group's screen: the member it is for sees who sent it that day, by first name, everyone in the group sees how many waves and claps were sent today, and the sender can take one back by tapping it again. Never Awareness Scores, other answers, results or email addresses. If no first name is set, the others see "A member" (a notification sent with Send notification then says "Your friend"). Groups are separate: what one group sees isn't shown to another.
• Pictures. Next to each member's first name, the members of a group see that member's picture: one they added on the About you page or in the app's Settings, under Your picture, or else, if they sign in with Google, their Google profile picture. A member with neither shows as the first letter of their first name on a coloured circle. Your picture shows to the members of every group you are in until you switch off Show my picture in my groups, in Settings under Your picture; they then see your first letter instead. On a phone, Take a photo opens your phone's own camera app and Choose a photo your pictures (on a computer, Change your picture opens your files); the app never uses the camera itself. Before a picture you add is sent, the app makes a smaller square copy of it on your phone, which leaves out the details a camera stores inside a photo, such as where it was taken, and sends only that copy. We keep that copy on our server and show it only to you and the members of your groups. For a Google picture we keep only its address: the members' phones load it straight from Google (section 6), and each Google sign-in replaces the address with the one Google gives then. Remove my picture deletes a picture you added; your Google picture, if there is one, then shows again. Your picture is never shown in the public top 10, on a shared page, in a link preview or in a notification. Any member can report a picture (as unkind or offensive, not of that person, or something else): it is hidden from the reporter at once and for good (a new picture from that person shows again), we get an email about it, and we may take it down. If we take your picture down, or take your first name off the rankings (section 8), nobody else sees a picture of yours and the app doesn't let you add one; if you think that is a mistake, use Send feedback in Settings. The person isn't told who reported them.
• The owner's controls. The owner of a group (the person whose group it is or who started it, or the member it was handed to) can rename it, make a new link, remove any member (the group's link then no longer works for that person, unless the owner makes a new link), see who joined, left or was removed in the last 14 days, set how many people it can hold (20 unless the owner raises it, up to 50) and switch approval on, so that anyone who joins waits until the owner approves them. Only the owner sees who is waiting. The owner can hand the group to another member (unless that member runs five groups already), and can delete a group they started, though not their own group: its members then no longer see it. Anyone who joins a group you own is shown to you by first name, on the group's screen and, if you have notifications on, as a notification.
• Send notification. On a day another member hasn't checked in yet, you can tap Send notification by their name (each member can be sent one a day in each group). Their phone then shows a notification with your first name, such as "Margaret invites you to check in today". The push itself carries no personal information: when it arrives, their phone asks our server who sent it, and our server answers with only your first name (or "Your friend" if none is set) and when you sent it. It can only be sent if they have notifications on, so the Send notification button other members see may show them that you have notifications on. If you have a daily reminder and haven't checked in yet, your daily reminder may instead say how many of one of your groups have checked in today, and that a member has waved at you, by first name; nobody's scores are in it.
• Statuses, voice notes and photos. Each day, in each of your groups, you can post one status for its members: up to 200 characters of text, a voice note of up to 30 seconds, a photo, or any of these together. Only that group's members see it, with your first name (or "A member") and the time, on the group's screen under today's statuses and, the next day, under yesterday's; nothing older is shown, and every status is deleted 14 days after its day. A status you post in one group is never shown to another. The microphone is used only while you record: the app asks for microphone access only when you tap Record, never when it opens, and you can write instead. On a phone, Take a photo opens your phone's own camera app and Choose a photo your pictures (on a computer, Add a photo opens your files); the app never uses the camera itself, though your phone may ask once whether the browser the app runs in may open the camera app. Before the photo is sent, the app makes a smaller copy of it on your phone (at most 1,080 pixels on its long side), which leaves out the details a camera stores inside a photo, such as where it was taken, and sends only that copy. The members see it small on the group's screen and full size when they tap it. The recording and the photo are kept on our server and played or shown only to that group's members; we never send them or your text anywhere else, including Google Analytics, and no status, recording or photo is ever put in a notification or on a shared page. You can delete your own status at any time and post a new one for the day; the group's owner can delete any status in the group. Any member can report a status (as unkind or offensive, not theirs to share, or something else): it is hidden from the reporter at once, with its recording and photo, we get an email about it with both email addresses shortened, and we may delete it. The person isn't told who reported them. A daily reminder may say how many members have posted a status, never what a status says.
• Check-in news for families. When the person who runs a group finishes their first check-in of the day, the other members of that group get a notification such as "Margaret checked in today" (several at once are joined into one, such as "Margaret and Ravi checked in today"). Never a score, an answer or a result. When the person who runs a group has had a whole day, by their own calendar, without a check-in, having checked in before, the other members get a notification the next morning, at about 10:00 in their own time zone: "Margaret didn't check in yesterday", and, if more days go by, after 2 days, 3 days and a week, then nothing more until she checks in again. Tapping it opens the group's screen, where a member can clap for her or send her a notification with Send notification. This is only ever about the person who runs the group, only to the members of the groups they run, and never about someone who is only a member of a group. It goes only to members who have notifications on and haven't blocked that person, at most once a day each, and, as with every notification, the push itself carries nothing: the phone asks our server what to show. The person who runs a group can switch it off for that group, under Run your group on its screen (Tell my members when I check in or miss a day), and each member can switch it off for themselves, for each group, in Settings, then Groups (Tell me when Margaret checks in or misses a day). Both are on until switched off, except that a group handed or passed on to someone starts with Tell my members when I check in or miss a day off for them, until they switch it on; each member's own choice stays as they set it. From 9pm to 8am by the clock on a member's phone, the notification that someone checked in arrives without a sound. A notification can be late or not arrive, for example when a phone is off or its notifications are switched off, so it is not a way to know that someone is safe.
• From your groups, and likes. Your home screen shows today's and yesterday's statuses from the people in your groups, newest first, the same ones their groups' screens show you, and your own latest. You can like someone else's status with its heart, and tap it again to take the like back. The person who posted it sees, under their status, the first names of those who liked it; nobody else sees who liked it, and nobody gets a notification for a like. You can also choose Don't show a member's statuses on your home screen: their statuses then no longer show there, though they still show on the group's screen, and they aren't told. Settings, then Groups, under Hidden from home, shows them again. Statuses from someone you blocked never show there.
• This week's question. This week's question, the weekly group game: your picks and guesses are kept for 21 days. Your pick shows only to members of your groups who have picked too. Your answer to 'Will they get it?' is seen only by you. Your play in This week's question also adds flowers, with no names, to your groups' boards for that week. Your 'To ask' cards stay on your phone. If you tell a story after your pick, only the members of the group you told it in hear it, once they have seen your pick, with your first name; it is kept until the question closes. If you ask someone why, or like their story, they see your first name. You can delete your story; the person who runs the group can delete it, and any member can report it, as with statuses. Blocking someone also hides their picks and stories from you.
• Blocking and reporting. Tap a member's name or picture on a group's screen, or More by their name, to report or block them. A block covers every group you share with that person, and they aren't told. From then on you don't see their statuses or their picture (you see their first letter instead), and their waves, claps and notifications don't reach you, though on their side each looks sent, as usual; you still see their first name, their check-ins and their game of the day points, and you can't send them a wave, a clap or a notification while they are blocked. A block doesn't change what they see of you: to stop that, leave the group, or remove them from a group you run. You can unblock someone in Settings, then Groups, under Blocked people. Their statuses from today and yesterday then show again, but the waves, claps and notifications they sent while they were blocked never do. Any member can report another member (their name is offensive, unwanted notifications or waves, or something else), and any member except its owner can report a group with Report this group (its name is offensive, or something else). We get an email about it, with the email addresses shortened, and the person or the group's owner isn't told who reported them. If a report shows that someone breaks our Terms, we may suspend their account's group features: they then can't post statuses, send waves, claps or notifications, join, start or rename a group, make a new link or add a picture, and the app says so in Settings, then Groups. They can still see their groups, check in, leave a group, block and report. We may also rename a group whose name is offensive, and hide a first name that is offensive: that person's groups then see their first letter, with no picture, and the rankings show "A player".
• Leaving. You can leave any group except your own at any time in the app's Settings, under Groups; its members then no longer see you, and your statuses, voice notes and photos in it are deleted, with the waves and claps you sent and received there. The same happens if its owner removes you. You can't leave your own group, but you can remove anyone from it. Deleting your account takes you out of every group; Delete all my results doesn't.
• How long it is kept: your membership until you leave, are removed or delete your account. A group passes to its longest-standing member when its owner deletes their account, and is deleted when nobody is left in it. Section 10 has the details.

8. Rankings

Once you've finished a day's check-in, the app offers a game of the day: one of the extra games, a different one each day. You can play it as often as you like, and your best points that day go into that day's rankings. If the game of the day is one of the extra games in your check-in, those points count too.

• What other people see. Anyone signed in to the app can see each day's top 10: each player's place and points, with a first name only for players who chose to show it. Everyone else appears as "A player". The rankings never show email addresses, pictures, Awareness Scores or other results, and players outside the top 10 aren't listed.
• Your first name is off until you choose. The first time you make a day's top 10, the app asks whether to show it. It is the first name set in the app, the same one used for sharing and in groups. Only its first word is shown. To turn it on or off at any time, use Show my first name in the public top 10, on the rankings screen or in the app's Settings, under Sharing.
• How long it is kept: each day's points are deleted 30 days after that day. They go sooner if you delete that day's check-ins, delete all your results or delete your account. Delete all my results also clears your choice about your first name, so it stays off until you choose again.
• We may take a name or an entry off the rankings, or leave an account out of them, for example if a name is offensive or the points look wrong. A name we have taken off stays off. We keep a note of it in our log, with your email address shortened.
• Report a name. To tell us about a name, use Report a name under the top 10: choose the name and what is wrong with it from a short list. We keep who reported it, which name, the day, its place and the reason, until we have dealt with it and for at most 90 days, and we get an email about it with your email address shortened. The person isn't told who reported them.
• Names you don't want to see. When you report a name you can also choose not to see it again. That person then shows to you as "A player" on every day's top 10, and only to you. The app's Settings, under Sharing, shows how many names you've hidden and can show them again.

9. International transfers

We and our service providers may store and process your information in countries other than your own, which may have different data-protection laws. Where the law requires it, these transfers rely on safeguards the providers offer, such as standard contractual clauses.

10. How long we keep it

• Your account and your results: until you delete them (section 14).
• Shared pages: until you stop sharing them, or delete your results or your account. The picture on a shared page (also its link preview): 30 days after you share it.
• The preview pictures of your invite and reminder links: while the link works for you and the names on the picture are still right. They are deleted within a day of you leaving that group, its owner making a new link, the group being deleted, or your first name or the group's name changing, at once if you delete your account, and otherwise 180 days after your phone last sent one.
• Groups: your membership of a group until you leave it, are removed or delete your account; the date you were last sent a notification in it is kept with it. A group exists until its owner deletes their account (or, for a group they started or that was handed to them, leaves it); it then passes to its longest-standing member (one who runs fewer than five groups, if there is one), or is deleted if nobody else is in it. A group someone started is also deleted, with its statuses, voice notes and photos, when they delete it. A group's record of who joined, was approved, left, was removed, took it over or sent a notification: as long as the group exists, or until that person deletes their account, if sooner. A group's settings, including its best chain and the day it reached it: as long as the group exists.
• The record of each Send notification (who sent it, to whom and when): 7 days, or until either of you deletes their account, if sooner.
• Statuses, voice notes and photos in a group: 14 days after the day they are for, or sooner if you delete the status, the group's owner deletes it, you leave or are removed from the group, you delete your account, or the group is deleted. Delete all my results doesn't delete statuses.
• Reports about statuses: 16 days after the report, or sooner if the reporter deletes their account or the group is deleted. The status itself is gone within 14 days of its day, if not before.
• Your picture: a picture you added, until you remove it (Remove my picture), add another in its place, or delete your account. Your Google picture's address: until your next Google sign-in replaces it, or you delete your account. Whether you show your picture: until you change it or delete your account. Delete all my results and leaving a group don't change any of these. If we take your picture down after a report, the note that it can't be shown is kept until we put it right or you delete your account.
• Reports about pictures: 90 days after the report, or sooner if your account or theirs is deleted. The note that keeps a reported picture hidden from you: until your account or theirs is deleted.
• Blocks: until you unblock the person, or either of you deletes their account.
• Reports about members and groups: 90 days after the report, or sooner if the account that reported, or the account reported, is deleted.
• A suspension of your account's group features: until we lift it, or you delete your account.
• Waves and claps: 16 days after they were sent, or sooner if the sender or the member they were for leaves or is removed from the group or deletes their account, or the group is deleted.
• Likes: with their status (so 14 days after its day at most), or sooner if the person who liked it leaves or is removed from the group or deletes their account, or the group is deleted. Hidden from home: until you choose Show again, or either account is deleted.
• This week's question: your picks, guesses, answers to Will they get it?, stories, asks and likes until the question closes, 21 days after it opens (a few hours more, so that it has closed in every time zone), or sooner if you delete your account; a story also goes if you delete it, the group's owner deletes it, you leave or are removed from the group, or the group is deleted. Each group's count of flowers for a week, which has no names: two weeks. Delete all my results doesn't delete any of these.
• Check-in news: the record of each notification telling a group's members that the person who runs it checked in or didn't, 9 days after it was sent, or sooner if either person leaves or is removed from the group or deletes their account, or the group is deleted. Whether you want it for a group: until you change it, leave the group or delete your account. Whether a group you run sends it: until you change it, leave the group, hand it over or delete your account; a group handed or passed on to someone starts with it off for them.
• How clear-headed you felt at a check-in: with that check-in (the first line of this list). Whether you show it to a group: until you change it, leave the group, are removed or delete your account.
• Game of the day points in the rankings: 30 days after the day they are for, or until you delete that day's check-ins, all your results or your account, if sooner.
• Your choice about showing your first name in the rankings: until you change it, delete all your results or delete your account.
• Reports about names in the rankings: until we have dealt with them, and at most 90 days, or sooner if your account or theirs is deleted.
• Names you chose not to see in the rankings: until you show them again in Settings, or your account or theirs is deleted.
• Group links and codes: they work until the group's owner makes a new link or the group is deleted. Invites to check in together made before 23 October 2026: each keeps working as a link to the inviter's own group until the inviter makes a new link for their group or deletes their account.
• Your quiz result: kept only if you chose Brain Fog Remedy's emails when you signed up (outside a European time zone, signing up from the quiz is that choice), and only until it has been used to add your address to Brain Fog Remedy's email list for that result, which normally happens straight after you sign up. If that doesn't work, it is kept until you delete your account.
• Your address on our email lists: if you unsubscribe, it is kept marked as unsubscribed, so we never email it again. It is taken off our lists if you delete your account.
• Records of when our emails were opened and their links clicked: as long as the email-list record they belong to.
• Push-service addresses: until you turn reminders off (in Settings, under Daily reminder; this stops your groups' notifications too), sign out on that device, or the push service tells us the address has stopped working. One given on the "When shall we remind you?" page before you have an account: 14 days at most (section 12).
• Password-reset codes: each works for 30 minutes, and is deleted once it is used or soon after it runs out.
• The sign-in cookie: 30 days after your last visit, or until you sign out.
• Your consent record (if your device was set to a European time zone when you signed up): as long as your account exists.
• Your plan's record from Google Play: while your account exists. If you delete your account, the purchase's record, without your account, name or email, until 60 days after the plan ends, so a later message from Google Play about it can still be handled.
• The record of what the app showed before you started a plan: 3 years after the plan ends, as a California law asks. If you delete your account, it is kept without your account.
• Whether you have had a free trial, and founding access or access we gave: until you delete your account (or we take access we gave back).
• Who joined through whose invite code: while both accounts exist. If the person whose code it was deletes their account, the record is kept without them for 30 days, then deleted. When you last used the Google Play app: while your account exists.
• Your setting Cover the people who join from my links: until you change it or delete your account. The daily counts of opens of your invite links: while your account exists.
• Your invite codes: while their group exists, so a link you sent keeps leading to the group, even after you leave it. All of a group's codes go when its owner makes a new link, and with the group. If you delete your account, your codes are kept without you while their group exists.
• The invite cookie: until you join through it, a newer link replaces it, someone else signs in on that browser, or 90 days.
• On an Android phone or tablet, your choice to use the app in the browser: 30 days, in that browser.
• A purchase that is never linked to an account (for example when someone doesn't finish signing up): 7 days. Google Play refunds such a purchase after 3 days.
• The record that a plan email was sent: 400 days. Counts of the plan screens and the questions before them: 400 days, as counts only.
• Feedback you send: up to 12 months. If you delete your account, we take your name and email address off it and keep the message without them.
• Security counts of sign-in, sharing, group and Send notification attempts, game of the day plays, views of the rankings, statuses posted, voice notes played, photos viewed, waves and claps sent, pictures added, removed and viewed, picks, guesses, stories, asks and likes in This week's question, blocks, and reports about names, statuses, stories, pictures, members and groups: one day.
• The security log: it is replaced as it fills up.
• Our host's backups: they may keep copies of any of this for up to six weeks.

11. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• see the information we hold about you;
• have it corrected;
• have it deleted;
• receive a copy in a form you can take elsewhere;
• withdraw a consent at any time: to stop us keeping your check-in results, delete your account in the app's Settings (Delete my account); to stop emails, use the unsubscribe link in any email; for analytics, change your Cookie settings or Usage statistics in the app; to stop a group's members seeing when you've checked in, use Leave in Settings, under Groups (for your own group, remove its members); to keep your game of the day points from a group, switch off Show my game of the day points to this group there; to stop a group seeing how clear-headed you felt, switch off Show how I feel to this group there; to stop a group seeing your Awareness personality, switch off Show my Awareness personality to this group there; to stop your groups seeing your picture, switch off Show my picture in my groups in Settings, under Your picture, or delete a picture you added with Remove my picture there; to take back a status, voice note or photo, delete it on the group's screen; to take back a wave, a clap or a like, tap it again; to stop the notifications about the person who runs a group you are in, switch off Tell me when they check in or miss a day in Settings, under Groups; to stop the members of a group you run being told when you check in or miss a day, switch off Tell my members when I check in or miss a day under Run your group, on its screen; to take your first name off the rankings, turn off Show my first name in the public top 10 in Settings, under Sharing. Delete all my results removes what is stored now, but check-ins you do afterwards are kept again;
• object to our use of your information based on legitimate interests;
• complain to a data-protection authority, such as the one where you live.

To use any of these rights, email mufy@awarenessscore.com. We'll reply within the time the law requires.

12. Cookies and similar storage

• Essential. A sign-in cookie that keeps you signed in. It is always on. And an invite cookie: when you open a group link on this website, or a shared result that carries a group code, your browser keeps the link's code in a cookie called as_invite: the code and nothing more, not your name, your email or anything about you. It lets our install page and the app show who invited you to which group, and lets you join, even if you install the app first or come back later. A newer link replaces it. It is deleted when you join through it or someone else signs in on that browser, and otherwise after 90 days. It is always on, because the link can't work without it, and we never use it for analytics or advertising.
• Analytics. Google Analytics, as set in Cookie settings on this website or under Usage statistics in the app's Settings. If your device is set to a European time zone, nothing is sent to Google Analytics until you choose. Google itself stores no analytics cookies for visitors it places in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland unless they allow it.
• Advertising measurement. Whether a Google ad led to a sign-up. It is set in Cookie settings in the same way.
• On your device. The app keeps your settings and any unfinished check-in on your device. It also keeps the code of a group link you have opened but not yet joined (and, while it asks whether you want to join, that group's name and the first name of the person who runs it); and the number of days you have checked in this week, so Sunday's reminder can say it. It works out your run (how many days running you've checked in, with a rest day now and then) from your own check-ins, and keeps the next week's games of the day with the day your run would reach on each, so the daily reminder can say them; your run never leaves your device and is never shown to anyone else, unless you share one of its milestones. It keeps the details of the game of the day plays you make outside a check-in, so it can tell you about a record in that game's own units, such as your quickest time. It keeps your best points in each game as well, so it can tell you when you beat them. A voice note is recorded on your device, and a photo you add is made smaller on your device; each stays there only until you post it or leave the form, and the app keeps no copy afterwards. A picture you add, on the About you page or in Settings, is made into a smaller square copy on your device in the same way, and isn't kept there once it is sent. Photos and voice notes in a group, and the recordings of stories, are loaded from our server when they are shown and are never kept by the app for offline use; your browser may keep a copy of each for up to a day. The pictures of the members of your groups are loaded when they are shown, from our server or from Google, and your browser may keep a copy of each for up to a day. So that it also works without a connection, it keeps the pictures for your next check-in and the last top 10 it showed you, and anything you do offline until it has uploaded. If you signed in with Google, it keeps the address of your Google profile picture, so it can show it, until you sign out. In the Google Play app, it keeps the app's version number and the newest version on Google Play, so it can tell you when there is an update, and the day you last chose Not now on that message. Your cookie choice is kept there too, for up to 180 days. In the Google Play app and in a browser, it also keeps a random code that marks purchases made there (Google Play gets only a scrambled form of it, never your name), a purchase made before you signed up until it is linked to your account, whether the reminder screen and the second plan screen have shown, and the last plan details our server sent. On an Android phone or tablet, the website asks you to install the app from Google Play; if you choose to use it in the browser instead, your browser remembers that choice for 30 days. When you install the Google Play app from our install page, Google Play passes the code of the group link or shared result you opened to the app once, when it first opens, so it can open that invite. In the Google Play app and in a browser, it keeps your answers to the seven questions before you sign up, the reminder time you picked on the page after them, and whether you allowed notifications on that page. If you then make an account and allowed them, the app sets your daily reminder at that time at once; otherwise the reminder screen after your first check-in can start at that time. Your answers are never sent to our server, except to count how many people choose each answer to how you found us, what you'd like to use the app for and why. If usage statistics are on, Google Analytics learns which answers you tapped, apart from looking after your wellbeing, and whether you allowed notifications, as section 2 says. If you allow notifications on that page, your phone's notification address (section 2), the time you picked and your time zone reach our server at once, so your daily reminder can come before you make an account. We keep them for 14 days at most, and delete them sooner when you make an account or sign in (your account's reminder settings then apply) or when the push service tells us the address has stopped working. The reminder itself carries nothing about you. Otherwise a reminder time reaches us only when you set your daily reminder later. What is kept on this phone is deleted once used, when someone signs in to an existing account, or in any case after 30 days.

13. Children

Awareness Score is for adults aged 18 and over. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. After you sign up, the app asks for your year of birth and doesn't accept a year that would make you younger than 18. Your account isn't deleted because of it: it stays as it is, and you can sign out, or delete it with Delete my account on the About you page (section 14). Until a year of 18 or over is given, a group link you opened doesn't join you to the group (section 7). If you think a child has given us information, please contact us and we'll delete it. If someone gives a year under 18 after starting a plan in the Google Play app, the app doesn't link the plan to an account and shows how to cancel it in Google Play.

14. Deleting your results or your account

On Google Play the app is listed as "Awareness Score: Brain Games", by AwarenessScore.com. In the app you can:

• delete a single check-in (open My results, choose the check-in, then Delete this check-in);
• in Settings, delete all your results, and your points in the rankings, while keeping your account (Delete all my results); statuses you posted in groups, with their voice notes and photos, stay until their 14 days are up, unless you delete them on the group's screen, and your picture stays as it is;
• in Settings, or on the About you page that comes straight after you sign up, delete your account (Delete my account). This deletes its results, rankings points, profile, reminders, shared pages, invite links and their preview pictures, your picture (a picture you added, and your Google picture's address), the statuses, voice notes and photos you posted in any group, the notifications you sent or got with Send notification, the waves and claps you sent or got, your picks, guesses and stories in This week's question, the asks and likes you sent, the likes you gave and the people you hid from your home screen, the record of check-in news sent about you or to you, the reports you made and those about you, the blocks you made and any block of you, the names and pictures you hid, and your Cover the people who join from my links setting and the counts of your link opens, takes your name and email address off the feedback you sent, takes you out of every group and removes your record from them (a group you own passes to its longest-standing member, or is deleted if nobody else is in it), and takes your address off our email lists.

Deleting your account doesn't cancel a Google Play subscription: cancel it in Google Play first (Payments and subscriptions, Subscriptions, Awareness Score, Cancel subscription). Delete all my results doesn't change your plan, who joined from whose link, your invites setting, link opens, or the record of what the app showed you.

What we keep after you delete your account:

• the feedback you sent, without your name or email address, for up to 12 months from when you sent it. If you'd like a message deleted sooner, email us and tell us roughly when you sent it;
• the record of a Google Play purchase, without your account, name or email, until 60 days after the plan ends;
• the record of what the app showed before you started a plan, without your account, for 3 years after the plan ends;
• our host's backups, which may hold a copy for up to six weeks before they are replaced;
• the security log, if an attempt of yours was blocked, such as a sign-in, a share, a group join, a status, a wave or a game of the day play: the IP address, and your account's ID or your email address shortened (for example a***@example.com), until the log is replaced as it fills up;
• on our email lists, a record that an address was removed, for our statistics, with the address and the name taken out.

This works in the Google Play app and in any browser at awarenessscore.com/app/, so you don't need the app installed.

Or email mufy@awarenessscore.com from the address you signed in with, and we'll help you delete it.

If you are on Brain Fog Remedy's email list, that subscription is left as it is, with its own unsubscribe link in every email.

15. Keeping it safe

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your information. No way of sending or storing information is completely secure, so we can't guarantee absolute security.

16. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page shows the latest version. If we make important changes, we'll say so on this page.

17. Contact

Questions about this policy or your information? Email mufy@awarenessscore.com.