Privacy Policy

Who runs this site

countdownclock.io is run by Jaybird Technologies LLC, an Oregon company. Questions about this policy or your data go to support@countdownclock.io.

No account, and your countdown lives in its link

You don't sign up to use countdownclock.io. When you make a countdown, its title, date, time zone, colors and font are written into the link itself. We don't keep a copy of your countdown on our servers, so anyone with the link can see it. Don't put anything private in a countdown title.

When a countdown link is opened, we may draw a preview image of it (the picture that shows up when the link is shared in a chat or on social media) and store that image so it doesn't have to be drawn again.

What stays on your device

Some tools remember things in your browser's local storage so they're still there next time: the countdown you're building, which countdowns you made on this device, the stopwatch's time and laps, dates you saved in counters such as the sobriety and days-since counters, and whether you've dismissed a prompt. This stays in your browser. We don't receive it, and clearing this site's data in your browser removes it.

Analytics

We use PostHog, hosted in the United States, to understand how the site is used: which pages are visited, what gets clicked, which site or search sent you, your browser and device type, and errors the page runs into. It runs in a cookieless mode, so it sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser.

These requests go through our own domain on their way to PostHog. To tell one visitor from another without cookies, PostHog uses your IP address together with your browser details, so we pass your IP address along. We don't use analytics to learn who you are, and we don't use it for advertising.

Buying a custom link

Custom links are paid for through Stripe, in a checkout form that Stripe runs. Your card details go to Stripe, not to us. Stripe tells us the email address you entered, the amount, and the payment's reference numbers.

We keep a record of the custom link you bought: its path, the countdown it points to, when you bought it, and the Stripe reference numbers. That record is how the link keeps working and how a refund or dispute can be matched to it. We use your email address once, to send you the link, through our email provider Resend. We don't store your email address in our own database or use it for marketing. Stripe keeps it with your payment record, and Resend keeps a record of the email it delivered.

Stripe's own privacy policy covers what it does with your payment details:stripe.com/privacy.

Hosting

The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare handles your IP address and the details of each request in order to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse.

Who we share data with

Only the services named above (PostHog, Stripe, Resend and Cloudflare), and only so they can do their part. We don't sell your data, we don't run ads, and we don't share data with advertisers. We'd disclose information if the law required it.

Children

The site is free to use in classrooms and at home, but it isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. Purchases are for adults.

Your choices

• Clear this site's data in your browser to remove everything it stored on your device.
• Block analytics with a content blocker. Every tool on the site still works without it.
• Email support@countdownclock.ioto ask what we hold about a purchase, or to ask us to delete it. Deleting a custom link's record takes that link down.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update it here and change the date at the top.