About

Who's running this?

This project is run by Bastian Greshake Tzovaras as a hobby project. He can be reached via email at bgreshake@googlemail.com or even quicker by messaging him @gedankenstuecke on Twitter.

See this project's page on Open Humans:
https://www.openhumans.org/activity/rescuetime-connection/

See this app's code on GitHub:
https://github.com/gedankenstuecke/oh-rescuetime-source

What does this application do?

With this application you can connect your RescueTime account to your Open Humans account. This application will then frequently load your latest RescueTime computer usage data into your Open Humans account.

How does it work?

You can log-in into this application with your Open Humans account. This allows this application to deposit data in your Open Humans account.

You an then also log-in into your RescueTime account. This project then stores credentials that allows it to use the RescueTime API to access your latest RescueTime computer usage data. This data is then uploaded into your personal Open Humans account.

FAQ

Data management

When you log in into this app it stores access credentials used to access your Open Humans account. These credentials allow the application to

  1. upload data into your Open Humans account
  2. access data in your Open Humans account that has been uploaded by this integration
  3. message you through Open Humans.

When you log in into your RescueTime account through this app it stores the access credentials used to access your RescueTime account. These credentials allow the application to read all of your data that's stored on RescueTime. Depending on your settings this can include:

  1. which applications you use on your computer an when,
  2. the websites you use as recorded through RescueTime,
  3. the titles of windows and documents you have used,
  4. details on your email programs and webmail,
  5. the classification you gave to the apps & websites (e.g. "Design", "Entertainment", etc.),
These data might include your browsing history eg. on dating or porn websites. The details of your logging depend on your RescueTime settings. Adjust these to minimize the data uploaded through this website.

Additionally, this app and its administrator have no interest in snooping in your computer usage records, rather this app only wants to offer a way for people to upload their RescueTime data into their Open Humans account.

  1. Furthermore, this applications hoster Heroku stores and gives access to
    1. IP addresses used to access this app
    2. the sub-pages visited on this app
    3. (Both are stored for up to a week)

This app is covered by Open Humans' Terms of Use and Data Use Policy:

You can always delete your RescueTime credentials from your Dashboard, this will remove this app's ability to get new RescueTime data. You can also always deauthorize this application on the Open Humans settings of this application. This will invalidate the credentials used to read and write data to your Open Humans account, removing this apps ability to read RescueTime data already stored in your Open Humans account and the the ability to upload newer data.