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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 11.08.2026

This privacy policy explains how Next10 collects, uses, stores, and protects your personal data when you use our app. We built Next10 to help you track your habits and goals, and we take your privacy seriously. Please read this policy carefully to understand your rights and how your data is handled.

Contents

  1. Data Controller
  2. What Data We Collect
  3. Purposes of Processing & Legal Basis
  4. Sub-processors (Third Parties We Use)
  5. International Data Transfers
  6. Data Visible to Other Users
  7. Data Retention & Account Deletion
  8. Children's Privacy
  9. Leaderboard Processing
  10. Your Rights
  11. Security
  12. Changes to This Policy

1. Data Controller

The controller responsible for your personal data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

Nazar Mishchenko
Email: nazar.mischenko13@gmail.com

For any questions about this privacy policy or to exercise your data protection rights (see Section 10), you can contact the above email address at any time.

Since Next10 is currently operated by an individual rather than a registered company, no separate Data Protection Officer (DPO) has been appointed — this is not legally required at your current scale under GDPR (a DPO is mandatory only for large-scale systematic monitoring or large-scale special-category data processing, which doesn't apply here).

2. What Data We Collect

2.1 Account & Authentication Data

Collected via Firebase Authentication when you register:

  • Google Sign-In: your Google account email and name
  • Apple Sign-In: your Apple ID email (or Apple's private relay email) and name
  • Email/password: the email and password you provide

Purpose: to create and secure your account, and to verify your identity when you sign in. Your email and password are processed exclusively by Firebase Authentication and never reach our Firestore database.

2.2 Public Profile Data

Visible to other users (to friends, or to any user if your profile is not set to private) — stored at users/{uid}:

  • Nickname (display name), including a lowercase version used to make your nickname searchable by other users
  • Profile photo
  • Account creation and last-updated timestamps
  • Whether your account is private
  • Your pinned friends
  • Computed completion statistics only: daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly completion percentages, and your current streak — shown as raw numbers only

Purpose: to let you build a public profile, be found by other users, and show your progress to friends without exposing what your goals or habits actually are.

2.3 Private App Data (Habits & Goals)

Stored at users/{uid}/appdata/main — never visible to any other user, including friends. This data exists solely so your habits and goals are preserved and synced if you switch devices:

  • Your name, app theme, onboarding status, and a copy of your profile photo
  • Your full goals and habits: titles, schedules, reminder times, icons, deadlines
  • Your complete habit completion history

Purpose: to enable cross-device sync, so that if you switch phones or reinstall the app, all of your habit and goal data is restored exactly as you left it.

2.4 Social / Friends Data

  • Friend connections and the date they were formed
  • Friend requests: sender's nickname, profile photo, and timestamp

Purpose: to power the friends and social features of the app.

2.5 Data Stored Locally Only (never sent to our servers)

Vacation mode dates and app language preference stay on your device only.

2.6 A Note on Free-Text Fields

Habit and goal titles are free text you choose yourself. If you voluntarily include sensitive information in these fields (e.g., referencing a health condition or medication), it is stored privately as described in 2.3 and is never shown to other users. We do not analyze or process this content for its meaning.

3. Purposes of Processing & Legal Basis

PurposeData UsedLegal Basis
Creating and securing your accountAuth data (2.1)Contract necessity (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR)
Verifying subscription/payment statusAccount ID and subscription status, processed via Apple's In-App Purchase system, Google Play Billing, and/or a third-party subscription platform (see Section 4 for current sub-processors)Contract necessity (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR)
Syncing your habits and goals across devicesPrivate app data (2.3)Contract necessity (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR)
Public profile, friend search, and social featuresPublic profile & friends data (2.2, 2.4)Contract necessity (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR)
Leaderboard / percentile rankingComputed completion statistics (2.2)Contract necessity (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) — advertised as a built-in feature of the app

4. Sub-processors (Third Parties We Use)

We use the following service providers to operate Next10. Each processes personal data only on our instructions and is bound by data processing agreements:

Sub-processorWhat They ProcessLocation
Google Firebase (Firestore)Public profile, private app data, friends/social dataEU (eur3 — Belgium/Netherlands)
Google Firebase (Authentication)Email, name, sign-in credentialsGlobal/US, transferred under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
Google (Google Sign-In)Google account email and name, at your choice — see Google's Privacy PolicyGoverned by Google's own privacy policy
Apple (Sign in with Apple)Apple ID email/relay email and name, at your choice — see Apple's Privacy PolicyGoverned by Apple's own privacy policy
Apple In-App Purchase / Google Play Billing / third-party processor — TBDSubscription statusTBD once selected

5. International Data Transfers

Most of your data (public profile, private app data, friends/social data) is stored in Google Firebase's EU region (eur3, physically located in Belgium and the Netherlands) and does not leave the European Union.

However, authentication data (your email, name, and sign-in credentials) is processed by Firebase Authentication on infrastructure that may be located outside the EU, including in the United States. This transfer is carried out under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), the legal mechanism recognized by the European Commission for transfers of personal data from the EU to certified U.S. companies. Google LLC is certified under this framework.

If you sign in using Google or Apple, those providers may also process limited data outside the EU as part of their own authentication systems, governed by their respective privacy policies (see Section 4).

6. Data Visible to Other Users

Unlike most of your data, some information in Next10 is visible to other people using the app. Here's exactly what is shown, to whom, and when:

If your profile is public (default, unless you set it to private):

  • Your nickname is searchable by any user of the app
  • Your profile photo is visible to any user who finds your profile
  • Your completion statistics (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly percentages and streak) are visible as raw numbers only — no goal names, habit names, or any other detail about what you're actually working on

If your profile is set to private:

  • Your profile is not discoverable via search
  • Only your confirmed friends can see your nickname, profile photo, and completion statistics

To your friends specifically (regardless of public/private setting):

  • The same profile and statistics described above
  • Nothing from your private app data (Section 2.3) — your actual goals, habit names, schedules, and completion history are never visible to friends or any other user, under any setting

When you send or receive a friend request:

  • The other person can see your nickname and profile photo as part of the request

On the leaderboard:

  • Only your percentile rank appears — no nickname, photo, or any identifying detail is shown to other users through the leaderboard itself

7. Data Retention & Account Deletion

We retain your data for as long as your account remains active, since it is necessary for the app's core functionality (sync, profile, leaderboard).

Deleting your account: You can delete your account at any time directly within the app. When you do:

  • Your public profile, private app data (goals, habits, completion history), and friend connections are permanently deleted from our Firestore database
  • Your authentication record is deleted from Firebase Authentication
  • Any pending friend requests you sent or received are removed
  • Friend relationship records held by your former friends are also removed as part of this process

Backups: Due to how our infrastructure provider (Google Firebase) operates, deleted data may persist briefly in backup systems before being permanently purged. This is standard across cloud infrastructure and does not mean your data remains accessible or in use — it is simply the technical process of full deletion propagating through backup layers.

8. Children's Privacy

Next10 is rated 16+ on the App Store. It is intended for users aged 16 and older. If you are younger than 16, please only use the app with the permission and supervision of a parent or guardian.

We do not have a technical way to verify a user's age beyond what Apple or Google's account systems require. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has used Next10 and provided personal data, you can contact us at nazar.mischenko13@gmail.com to request that the data be reviewed or deleted, using the account deletion process described in Section 7.

We do not use any user's data — regardless of age — for advertising or sale to third parties.

9. Leaderboard Processing

Next10 includes an always-on leaderboard feature that shows you your percentile rank compared to other users, based on weekly and monthly habit and goal completion rates.

To calculate this, our system compares the completion statistics described in Section 2.2 across all users. No nickname, profile photo, goal name, habit name, or any other identifying detail is included in this calculation's output or shown to any user through the leaderboard. You only see your own numeric percentile rank.

Because this feature is a core, advertised part of the app, it is processed under the same legal basis as the rest of the app's functionality (contract necessity, Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) — see Section 3.

10. Your Rights

Under GDPR, you have the right to:

  • Access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
  • Rectification — correct inaccurate data (most profile/app data can be edited directly in the app)
  • Erasure — delete your account and all associated data, available directly in the app (Section 7), or by contacting us
  • Restriction — request that we limit processing of your data in certain circumstances
  • Object — object to processing based on legitimate interest (not currently applicable, as our processing is based on contract necessity — see Section 3)
  • Data portability — request your data in a structured, commonly used format
  • Withdraw consent — not applicable, as we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for any processing described in this policy
  • Lodge a complaint — with your local data protection authority. In Germany, you can find your competent authority via the Conference of the Independent Data Protection Authorities of the German Federal and State Governments (DSK)

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at nazar.mischenko13@gmail.com.

11. Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your data, including:

  • Encryption of data in transit between the app and our servers
  • Access to our Firebase project restricted to the account owner (Nazar Mishchenko)
  • Reliance on Firebase Authentication for credential handling, so passwords are never stored or accessible in plain text by us
  • Firestore security rules that enforce the visibility boundaries described in Section 6 (e.g., private app data is technically inaccessible to any user other than its owner)

No method of electronic storage or transmission is 100% secure. While we work to protect your data, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time, for example if we add new features, change service providers, or as required by law. If we make material changes — such as adding a new sub-processor or changing the purpose for which your data is used — we will update the "Effective Date" below and, where appropriate, notify you within the app.

We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Effective Date: 11.08.2026

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