Privacy Policy
Take4 is built and run from Bulgaria under the name Tarabyte Labs ("we", "us"), currently as an independent project rather than a registered company. We are the data controller for personal information we receive through the website, waitlist, or support. The app data described below is not accessible to us.
What the app stores
Take4 stores your onboarding progress, sound and haptics choices, and access status in the app's local storage. Depending on your platform and device settings, Apple or Google may include that local data in a device backup or device-to-device transfer. The app does not require an account, send this information to a Tarabyte Labs backend, or include crash reporting, advertising, or tracking across other apps and websites. Two things do leave the device — purchase checks and, only if you turn them on, usage analytics — and both are described below.
If you contact us, we receive only the information you choose to include, such as your email address, message, device details, screenshots, or feedback.
What the waitlist collects, and why
Joining the waitlist stores your email address, the time you signed up, and which form you used. That's it — no names, no profiles, no selling or sharing your data, ever. We use it for one thing: telling you when Take4 launches and sharing early-access details.
Our legal basis is your consent, given through double opt-in — after you submit the form you get an email asking you to confirm, and you're only added once you click it. So we only ever email people who explicitly asked us to.
Purchases and Take4 Plus
Take4 Plus is sold and billed by the App Store or Google Play — we never see your card details. To know whether you have Plus, and to make Restore Purchases work on a new install, the app uses RevenueCat. RevenueCat gives your installation a random ID and receives your platform, app and device version, country, IP address, and the purchase receipt Apple or Google issues. It is not given your name or your email, and we have no way to turn that random ID into either.
This starts when the app opens, before we ask you anything, because your access status has to be known before the first screen appears and a restore has to work on an install that has never been asked anything. Our legal basis is performance of our contract with you once you subscribe, and our legitimate interest in knowing which features to unlock, honouring purchases you already made, and preventing purchase fraud before then. We looked at whether this could wait for a prompt: it cannot without breaking restore and showing the wrong screen to people who have paid, and what is sent is the minimum to answer "is this install a subscriber". It happens whether or not you share analytics, and you can object to it — see Your rights below.
App analytics — off unless you say yes
The app can send anonymous usage events to Google Analytics for Firebase — that onboarding finished, that a step started, stopped or completed, that the Plus screen was shown or checkout began. If you subscribe, RevenueCat also sends Google the subscription events that follow: the trial starting, a renewal, a cancellation, an expiry. All of it carries no free text, no account, no advertising identifier, and nothing you type or say. We use it for one thing: seeing which parts of the method people actually finish, and whether the ones who finish go on to subscribe.
Analytics collection is switched off in the app as shipped. The app asks you once, plainly, and nothing is sent unless you say yes. A small amount of activity from before you answer is held in the app's memory so that first visit isn't a blank — it is sent only if you agree, discarded the moment you decline, and never written to storage or sent anywhere in the meantime. Your legal basis is consent, and you can change it whenever you like under Settings → Share usage analytics. Turning it off stops collection, clears the analytics data held on your device and the identifier behind it, and asks our providers to delete what links your subscription records to it. While analytics is on, we give RevenueCat the app's Firebase installation ID so subscription events line up with usage; we ask for that to be deleted when you turn analytics off. We cannot retract data already delivered before you withdrew.
Website cookies and analytics
None. No cookies, no analytics, no tracking scripts — there's nothing to opt out of. Our host keeps short-lived server logs, including IP addresses, to keep the site up and block abuse, and the site loads its fonts from Google, so Google sees your IP address when a page loads.
Who else handles it
Loops stores the waitlist and sends our emails, Cloudflare hosts the site, and Google Fonts serves the typefaces. In the app, RevenueCat checks purchases and Google receives usage events if you have turned analytics on. All of them are US-based, so your data may be processed outside the EEA under the transfer safeguards the GDPR requires. Apple and Google also distribute the app, take the payment, and may handle device backups or transfers under your platform account and privacy settings.
How long we keep it
App data remains in local app storage until you clear the app's data or uninstall it; platform backups may retain a copy under Apple or Google's retention settings. We cannot access or delete those copies. Purchase records stay with RevenueCat for as long as we run Take4 Plus, because a subscription you bought has to stay restorable. Usage events stay in Google Analytics for Firebase for up to 14 months. Waitlist data remains until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it. If Take4 never ships, we delete the entire waitlist within 30 days of winding the project down. The site isn't intended for anyone under 16 — tell us if a child has signed up and we'll remove them.
Your rights
For app data, clear the app's data or uninstall it, and manage any retained backup through your Apple or Google account. Settings → Share usage analytics withdraws your analytics consent in the app, and the unsubscribe link in any email withdraws your waitlist consent immediately. Because the purchase checks described above rest on our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to them — email us and we'll tell you what that means for your access, since an install we cannot check cannot unlock Plus. You can also ask us to access, correct, erase, restrict, object to, or export your data — email [email protected] and we'll sort it within a month, free. We apply these rights to everyone, wherever they live.
If you think we've handled your data badly, you can complain to the data protection authority where you live, or to ours — the Bulgarian Commission for Personal Data Protection. We'd rather you gave us a chance to fix it first, but you don't have to.
Contact
[email protected]. Our Terms of Service cover the app and website.