Privacy.

Your account

When you sign up we store your email, a display name, your password as a salted hash (never the password itself), whether you're a student, business owner or company owner, what you told Bolt you work on, your plan, and whether you've confirmed your email.

Each sign-in is listed under Devices on your account page, with a name like “Chrome on Windows” and when it was last used. Failed sign-in attempts are recorded against the email for up to a day, to slow down password guessing.

Your focus data

The app keeps your sessions and stats on your PC and syncs them to your account every few minutes and at the end of each session. What's synced:

• Each session: what you said you were working on, when it started and ended, how strict it was, and how many seconds were focused, idle, off-task or on a break.
• Each day: the same totals, how many sessions and tasks you finished, and short labels for the apps and sites you used most and where off-task time went, such as a site and a video's channel name.

Your settings stay on your PC.

Screen watching

On Buddy and Pro, during a focus session, Bolt checks whether the window in front of you is the work. He does this once per window, when it comes to the front, not on a timer.

• Windows on your block lists, known work tools, and windows he has already read are decided on your PC. Nothing is sent for those.
• For a new window, the app sends its app name, its title, the site address if it's a browser, and the text on it (a few thousand characters at most).
• Only if the text can't decide, it also sends a small picture of that one window.
• Private and incognito browser windows are skipped. Screen reads are never saved to your disk.

We use what's sent to answer “is this the work?”, then drop it. We don't store the text or the picture. What we keep is the result: the time counted as focused or off-task, and the short labels described above.

Talking to Bolt

The microphone is only open while you hold the talk key. When you let go, the recording is sent to be turned into text. We don't keep the audio.

So Bolt can see what you're asking about, your question can go with a picture of your screen and the text Windows reads from it on your PC. If you ask about a numbered question, a close-up of that question is sent. We don't store these pictures either. If you choose Spoken in Settings, his answer is turned into speech on our side and played back to you.

The text of your conversation (what you asked and what he answered) is saved on your account for his memory, unless you pause memory.

Bolt's memory

After a conversation goes quiet, Bolt writes down a few lasting facts from it: your name, your courses, what trips you up, what worked, your preferences and deadlines. He keeps at most 60, and updates them instead of piling up more. He uses them in later chats.

In the app, open Settings, then What Bolt remembers. You can:

• see every fact and delete any one of them,
• choose Forget everything, which wipes all saved conversations and facts on our servers,
• pause memory, so nothing is saved and nothing saved is used.

Bolt doing things for you

On Pro you can ask Bolt to do small jobs on your PC, like texting a friend. While he works, the app sends a picture of your screen at each step so he can decide the next click or keystroke. The clicks and keystrokes happen on your PC. Before anything is sent to another person, he shows you the exact message and waits for your yes.

Friends and rooms

• Friends see your display name and your focused hours on the leaderboard.
• Serious mode: when you ask to leave early, the friend you pick gets an email with your request and your reason.
• Invites: when you invite someone, we email the address you enter.
• Rooms with friends show your tile, status and focus time to the friends in the room. If you all turn on video or voice, it goes directly between your computers; our server only helps them find each other.
• Public library rooms show your first name and your timer, nothing else. There is no video, voice or chat between strangers. If you report someone, we keep the report.

Emails, the website, and the rest

• We email you a code to confirm your address and, when you ask, a link to reset your password.
• If you write to us from the Help page, we keep your email and message so we can answer.
• We keep a count of how much each account uses Bolt, so we can keep the service fair and running.
• This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics. When you sign in on the account page, your sign-in is kept in your browser's storage until you sign out.

Who else handles it

We use a few services to run Lawked: a hosting provider for our servers and database, AI services that read screens, turn speech into text and write Bolt's answers, an email service, and, once paid plans open, a payment provider that handles your card (we never see the card number). They get only what they need to do that job for us.

We don't sell your data, we don't show ads, and we don't share your data with anyone else unless the law requires it.

Deleting your data

Delete your account from your account page. That deletes your account and everything stored with it: sessions, stats, friends, rooms you host, conversations and memory. It can't be undone. The data on your PC stays there until you remove it, for example by uninstalling Lawked.

To delete only Bolt's memory, use Forget everything in the app.

Children

Lawked is not for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from them. If you think a child under 13 has an account, tell us from the Help page and we'll delete it.

Changes and questions

If this changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top. Questions go through the Help page.