Privacy Notice for QuickWord
Last Updated: August 3, 2025
🔒 We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in an open and transparent manner.
Welcome to QuickWord. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in an open and transparent manner. This Privacy Notice explains how QuickWord ("the App," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, stores, and shares your information when you use our services.
This notice is designed to comply with Google's API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
1. Information We Collect
To provide our scheduling services, we require access to certain information from your Google account. We only request access to the data that is essential for the App's functionality.
Information Accessed via Google APIs:
With your explicit consent, granted through Google's OAuth consent screen, we access the following data from your Google account:
Google Calendar (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events; https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.readonly):
Access and Use: We access your Google Calendar to read existing events, create new events, and modify events that you schedule through our App. This allows us to display your schedule within the App and ensure that any events created or managed in QuickWord are synchronized with your Google Calendar. Moreover, this allows us to make context aware suggestions based on natural language processing (e.g. not suggesting two dinners on the same day).
Data Accessed: Event details (title, time, description, attendees), calendar information, and availability.
Google People API (https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.readonly):
Access and Use: We access your Google Contacts to allow you to easily search for and invite your contacts to events you schedule within the App. This access is read-only.
Data Accessed: Contact names and email addresses.
2. How We Use Your Information
Our use of the Google user data you provide is strictly limited to the purposes disclosed in this notice. Specifically, we use your data to:
- Provide Core Functionality: Display your calendar, schedule new events, and manage existing ones directly from the QuickWord interface.
- Facilitate Invitations: Allow you to search and add your Google Contacts as attendees to events.
- Improve User Experience: Enhance and improve the user-facing features of the App, ensuring seamless integration and efficient scheduling.
We DO NOT use your data for any other purpose. This includes, but is not limited to, advertising or selling it to third parties like data brokers.
3. How We Share Your Information
We do not transfer or share your information with third parties except in the following limited circumstances:
- To provide or improve the App's core features.
- For security purposes, such as investigating potential abuse.
- To comply with applicable laws or a valid legal process.
- As part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of our assets.
We will NOT sell your data or transfer it to third parties for purposes like advertising or marketing.
4. Compliance with Google Limited Use Requirements
QuickWord's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Notwithstanding anything else in this Privacy Notice, our handling of Google user data is subject to these requirements:
- Limited Use: Data is only used to provide or improve the user-facing scheduling features that are prominent in the App's user interface.
- Prohibited Transfers: We do not transfer your Google user data, except when necessary to provide or improve our features, for security purposes, to comply with applicable laws, or as part of a merger/acquisition with your consent.
- Prohibited Advertising Uses: We never use or transfer your data for serving advertisements, including personalized or interest-based ads.
- Prohibition on Human Reading: We do not allow humans to read your data unless specific conditions are met (customer support with consent, security purposes, legal compliance, or aggregated/anonymized data).
All other transfers, uses, or sales of user data are prohibited, including transferring or selling user data to third parties like advertising platforms, data brokers, or any information resellers.
5. Data Security and Storage
We are committed to protecting your data. We implement industry-standard security measures, such as encryption for data in transit and at rest, to safeguard your information against unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction. Data is stored on secure servers and is processed with the highest level of care.
6. Data Retention
We retain your information only for as long as is necessary to provide the service to you or until you delete your account. When you revoke our access or delete your account, we will initiate the process of deleting your data from our systems in accordance with our data retention policies.
7. Your Privacy Rights and Choices
You have control over your data.
- Revoke Access: You can revoke QuickWord's access to your Google account at any time by visiting your Google Account's security settings page: https://myaccount.google.com/permissions. Revoking access will prevent the App from functioning until access is granted again.
- Access and Deletion: You have the right to access the personal data we hold about you and to request that your data be deleted. You can do this by contacting us at the email below.
8. Children's Privacy
Our service is not directed to individuals under the age of 13 (or a higher age threshold where applicable by law). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
9. Changes to This Privacy Notice
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new policy on this page and, where appropriate, through in-app notifications.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Notice or your data, please contact us at:
Email: [email protected]
Address: QuickWord, 91 Comely Bank Road, EH4 1BJ, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.