Privacy policy

The short version

• If you use Glide on its own, everything stays on your phone. Glide collects nothing.
• If you sync through Google Drive, Glide locks your data on your phone before it leaves. Only your devices can read it.
• If you use Glide Cloud, Glide keeps what it needs to run your account and connect your other apps. Tasks from connected apps pass through Glide’s server, which can read them. The rest of your Glide data is locked on your phone first, and Glide can’t read it.
• Glide never sells your data, shows ads, or tracks you.
• You can delete your Glide Cloud account, and everything in it, at any time.

Using Glide on its own

Your tasks, routines, goals, journal and settings are stored on your phone. Glide doesn’t send them anywhere. Glide has no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and you don’t need an account.

Syncing through Google Drive

If you turn on sync with Google Drive, you sign in with your Google account. Glide asks only for permission to see and change the files Glide creates in your Drive. It can’t see your other files.

Before your data leaves your phone, Glide locks it with a key made from your passphrase, using AES-256 encryption. The locked files go straight to your Google Drive. Nobody else can read them, including Glide and Google. Google’s own privacy policy covers your Google account.

Glide Cloud

Glide Cloud is optional. It connects Glide to other apps, like Google Tasks or GitHub, and can sync Glide between your devices. If you use it, Glide keeps this on its server:

• Your account. When you sign in with Google, Glide keeps your Google account’s ID, so you can sign in on each of your devices. Glide doesn’t keep your name or email address for your account.
• Your devices. A random ID for each device you sign in on, whether it’s Android or iPhone, its Glide version, and when it last connected. This lets you see your devices and helps us fix problems.
• Your connections. When you connect another app, Glide keeps the sign-in keys that app gives Glide, the lists you chose, and the name of the account you connected, which is often an email address. These are locked with a key that only Glide’s server holds.
• Tasks from connected apps. To show those tasks in Glide and send your changes back, Glide’s server keeps a copy of each one: its title, notes, due date, priority, whether it’s done, its list and its link. These are also locked with a key that only Glide’s server holds. Glide’s server can read them, because it has to pass them between your apps.
• Glide sync. If you choose to sync through Glide instead of Google Drive, your data is locked on your phone first, just as it is with Google Drive. Glide’s server stores the locked files but can’t read them.
• Error counts. Short error codes and counts, like how many times a connection failed. These never include the content of your tasks.

Glide uses this information only to run Glide Cloud for you. The tools we use to run Glide show your account’s status, devices and error counts. They don’t show your tasks, sign-in keys or account names.

Glide Cloud runs on Cloudflare. Your data may be stored in countries other than yours, including the United States. Cloudflare keeps short-lived records of requests, such as IP addresses, to run and protect the service.

Apps you connect

When you connect an app, Glide reads and changes your tasks in that app, using only the permissions you gave it, and only to sync your tasks. That app’s own privacy policy covers what it does with your data.

Glide’s use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Problem reports

You can send a problem report from You → Report a problem, or from an error message in Glide. You don’t need an account. A report includes:

• what you write
• where in Glide it happened, and any error
• your Glide version, Android version and phone model
• Glide’s recent activity log, which records errors and what the app was doing
• your email address, only if you add it for a reply
• your Glide Cloud account ID, if you’re signed in to Glide Cloud, so we can check your connections’ recent errors

The log can include bits of your data, such as a task’s name. You can read the log before you send a report: on the same screen, tap Share the log.

Reports go to Glide’s server. We read them there, and copy the ones we work on into our private issue tracker on GitLab. To stop abuse, the server counts how many reports each internet address sends in a day, using a scrambled form of the address that can’t be turned back into it. Glide never sends a report unless you choose to.

This website

This website doesn’t use cookies, analytics or tracking. Our host, Cloudflare, may keep basic request records, such as IP addresses, for a short time to run and protect the site.

The account deletion page shows Google’s sign-in button, which loads from Google. Google’s privacy policy covers that button.

What Glide never does

Glide never sells or rents your data, never shows ads, and never uses tracking tools like analytics, cookies or advertising IDs. Glide only shares your data with the services that run Glide Cloud and receive problem reports (Cloudflare and GitLab), and with the apps you choose to connect.

How long data is kept, and how to delete it

• On your phone: until you delete it or uninstall Glide.
• In your Google Drive: until you delete the files. Turning off sync on a device doesn’t delete them.
• In Glide Cloud: while you have an account. A device that doesn’t connect for 180 days is signed out.
• Connected apps: disconnecting an app deletes its sign-in keys and its tasks from Glide’s server. Glide keeps only a note that each task was removed, so your devices remove it too.
• Problem reports: on Glide’s server until we’ve dealt with them, and in our issue tracker if we copied them there. Ask us, and we’ll delete them.

You can delete your Glide Cloud account at any time. In the app, go to You → Glide Cloud and tap Delete account. You can also delete it on this website. Deleting your account removes your account, your devices, your connections, your connected tasks and your Glide sync files from Glide’s server right away. Glide keeps only a note that the account ID was deleted, with no other information, so the account can’t be used again.

Your rights

Glide uses your Glide Cloud data because you need it for the service you signed up for. Glide uses problem reports because you chose to send them.

You can ask us for a copy of your data, to correct it, or to delete it. You can also object to how we use it. If you live in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you can also complain to your data protection authority.

Children

Glide isn’t meant for children under 16, and we don’t knowingly collect data from them.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we’ll update the date at the top. If a change affects data you’ve already given us, we’ll tell you in the app before it takes effect.

Contact us

Questions or requests about your data: email us. We reply by email.