Countsheep (countsheep.fun)
Last Updated: September 27, 2026
Effective Date: September 27, 2026
1. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Countsheep ("we", "us", "our", or the "Service"), available at https://countsheep.fun. Countsheep is an independent personal productivity service developed and maintained by an individual creator.
We take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy details the types of information we collect, the specific security reasons for collecting registration data, how information is used for internal artificial intelligence (AI) development, and our strict commitment never to distribute or share your personal data with third parties.
By creating an account or using Countsheep, you acknowledge and agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect only the minimum information necessary to provide, operate, and safeguard the Service:
a) Registration & Account Credentials:
- Email address.
- Username and password (passwords are cryptographically salted and hashed; plain-text passwords are never stored or accessible).
- Third-Party Authentication Data: If you choose to log in via Google or GitHub OAuth, we receive your account identifier and verified email address as authorized by your authentication settings.
- Profile settings voluntarily configured by you (such as display name, bio, and time zone).
b) User-Generated Content & Interaction Data:
- Tasks, todo lists, notes, checklists, and related personal organization data you store in the Service.
- System activity and interaction events (such as task completion patterns and application usage flows).
- Prompts, queries, inputs, and interactions with integrated AI features.
c) Technical & Security Logs:
- IP addresses, browser user-agent strings, operating system details, and access timestamps recorded in standard server logs solely for security diagnostics, rate limiting, and blocking malicious traffic.
- Strictly necessary session cookies and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) tokens to keep your session securely authenticated.
3. PRIMARY PURPOSE OF REGISTRATION DATA: SECURITY AND AUTHENTICATION
The collection of your registration data (email address, username, password/OAuth credentials) is strictly necessary and used exclusively for security, account protection, and service integrity:
- Verifying user identity and authenticating login sessions.
- Preventing unauthorized access, credential stuffing, account takeover, and automated malicious bots.
- Delivering essential security notifications, email verification codes, and password reset requests.
- Isolating each user's private data to guarantee that personal notes and tasks are strictly accessible only by the verified account owner.
4. ZERO THIRD-PARTY DATA SHARING AND NO COMMERCIALIZATION
We maintain an absolute policy against selling, leasing, or distributing your data:
- NO DATA SELLING OR BROKERING: We never sell, rent, monetize, trade, or distribute your personal data, registration records, or user content to any third parties.
- NO ADVERTISING OR TRACKING NETWORKS: We do not share data with advertising networks, behavioral profiling firms, or commercial marketing agencies. We do not use third-party marketing or tracking cookies.
- NO EXTERNAL CLOUD AI APIS: Your content and prompts are NOT shared with or processed by external third-party commercial AI cloud providers (such as OpenAI or third-party AI APIs). All AI models and workflows are operated independently on our own infrastructure.
- TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE: Data resides exclusively on the dedicated hosting servers, databases, and transactional email infrastructure required to run the Service.
- LEGAL EXCEPTIONS: We will only disclose information if strictly compelled by a lawful, valid, and binding legal order.
5. USE OF DATA FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) TRAINING
To continually develop, enhance, and optimize our intelligent assistance and productivity capabilities, data created and processed on Countsheep may be used for machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) model training:
- Scope: User notes, task structures, behavioral patterns, and user interactions with AI tools may be utilized for training, fine-tuning, testing, and evaluating our internal AI algorithms.
- Internal Processing: All model training and fine-tuning are conducted internally within our own controlled infrastructure, without transferring your raw data to outside AI companies.
- Anonymization and Data Hygiene: Prior to incorporating user content into training pipelines, reasonable technical measures are applied to strip, decouple, or anonymize direct identity markers (such as email addresses, account credentials, and explicit personal identifiers).
6. ACCOUNT DELETION AND DATA PURGING
You retain full ownership and control over your data:
- One-Click Account Deletion: You can permanently delete your account at any time directly through your account profile settings.
- Immediate Deletion: Upon confirmation of account deletion, all your personal information, credentials, notes, tasks, checklists, and associated records are deleted immediately and permanently from our active production database.
- Backups: Residual data in automated, encrypted system disaster-recovery backups is permanently overwritten in the normal course of backup lifecycle rotation.
7. DATA SECURITY MEASURES
We implement robust technical measures to safeguard your data against loss, unauthorized access, and alteration:
- Encrypted Transport: All data in transit between your browser and our servers is secured using modern Transport Layer Security (TLS / HTTPS).
- Strong Cryptography: Passwords and sensitive authentication tokens are stored using salted cryptographic hashing algorithms.
- Restricted Server Access: Server and database access is locked down and restricted exclusively to direct administrative maintenance.
8. PRIVATE ENVIRONMENT AND AGE GUIDELINES
Countsheep is designed as a personal, private organization tool. The Service does not provide public social networking feeds, public forums, or unmoderated communication channels between users. Users of all ages seeking personal productivity management may use the Service, provided they have the capacity to agree to this Privacy Policy.
9. COOKIES
Countsheep uses only strictly necessary first-party functional cookies:
- Session Cookies: To maintain your active logged-in state.
- CSRF Protection Cookies: To prevent unauthorized cross-site command execution.
We do NOT deploy advertising, retargeting, or third-party behavioral analytics cookies.
10. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or service features. Updates will be published directly on https://countsheep.fun with an updated "Last Updated" date. Continued use of Countsheep following the publication of any modifications signifies your acceptance of the updated terms.
11. CONTACT AND FEEDBACK
If you have questions, feedback, or inquiries regarding this Privacy Policy or our data handling practices, please submit your request directly via the feedback form in your user profile on https://countsheep.fun or contact:
Service: Countsheep
Website: https://countsheep.fun
Email: privacy@countsheep.fun