Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You. We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

• Application: TEXT-2-ICS, the software program provided by the Company.
• Service: The Application.
• Personal Data: Any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

• Google account / email for creating and maintaining your account
• Payment information (securely stored by our payment provider Stripe)
• Calendar event data that you input into the service
• The text, files and images you submit to find events in (for example a PDF, a spreadsheet or a screenshot)
• Your email address when you buy without an account or ask us to email you a sign-in link
• Usage data, such as the pages you visit and the buttons you click, to understand how the service is used

• Provide the calendar event creation service
• Manage your account
• Process payments
• Improve our service

While we implement reasonable security measures, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your data.

We use cookies for essential functionality:

• Authentication cookies to keep you signed in
• Session cookies to maintain your current session
• A cookie that remembers your free events when you are not signed in

We also use analytics cookies (PostHog) to understand how the service is used and to find problems.

By using TEXT-2-ICS, you consent to these cookies being placed on your device.

• Request deletion of your data

We retain your data for the following periods:

• Account information: As long as your account remains active
• Calendar event data: Up to 180 days after creation
• Files you upload (PDFs, images and spreadsheets): Up to 7 days, so we can improve how they're converted, then deleted automatically
• Payment information: As required by law for financial records (typically 7 years)

Upon account deletion, we will:

• Immediately delete your personal information and calendar event data
• Retain anonymized usage data for analytics purposes
• Maintain required payment records as per legal obligations

We share data with the following third parties:

• Google: Authentication services and account management
• Stripe: Payment processing (acts as a data processor)
• Supabase: Database hosting and user authentication
• Vercel: Application hosting and analytics
• OpenAI and Google (Gemini API): Read the text, files and images you submit to find the events in them
• Railway: Hosting for the service that processes your submissions
• Cloudflare: Network security and delivery for our service, and storage of uploaded files for up to 7 days
• PostHog: Product analytics
• Resend: Sending sign-in and purchase emails

These third parties may process your data in jurisdictions outside your home country. We ensure they provide adequate protection through appropriate data processing agreements.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by:

• Posting the new Privacy Policy on this page
• Sending an email to registered users for significant changes
• Updating the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy

Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.