Data Protection on Treadl

Treadl does its upmost to respect user privacy and to safeguard user data (both personal and non-personal) at all times.

Privacy Policy

For more information on how and why we process user data, and how we look after it, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

Data Safeguarding in General

For a general understanding of Treadl's position on data protection, please refer to the following points:

  • Treadl is a free and open-source service. There is no revenue model and we do not sell your data or give it to other people (aside from data sub-processors necessary to provide our service).
  • Treadl only requires a minimal amount of information from users to create an account. Users are free (and in fact encouraged) to select an anonymous username, and the email address (which we use for events like notifications and account-management purposes) is not shown to other users.
  • We don't want to collect any more information from you. Processing more of your data is more responsibility that we have to take on, which we want to minimise.
  • Users can optionally provide more information about them in their profile.
  • When users delete their accounts, they are immediately deleted from our database. We don't use deletion "flags".
  • We don't set any cookies. We store only a single piece of data in your browser's "local storage" that is necessary for you to login and access relevant protected parts of the platform.
  • We continuously back-up your data securely (encrypted) to an offsite location.
  • You can keep all of your projects private.

Remember that Treadl's source code is publicly available. You can verify (or challenge) any claims we make by examining the source code.

Data Protection Complaints

Under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, Treadl makes available a dedicated mechanism for receiving and managing complaints relating to its handling of user participant data (including personal data) in its role as Data Controller, or for other matters relating to data protection more broadly.

If you wish to complain about Treadl (provided by cmd+Shift+Go) with relation to data protection, in the first instance please email dataprotection@cmdshiftgo.com with details of your complaint. Please include enough information to enable us to understand your complaint and to respond to you effectively.

Our Privacy Policy sets out timeframes and further details on our approach to complaints management.