Privacy & Data Use
Your Team's Experience Belongs to Your Team.
The Team Energy Barometer℠, created by Permission to Bloom, helps teams understand their collective capacity to work together and accomplish what matters most.
Protecting individual privacy is fundamental to how the Barometer works. It is designed to support shared awareness, meaningful conversations, and stronger teamwork—not to evaluate individual employees, monitor performance, or rank teams.
This notice explains how information is collected, stored, and used when you take a reading, create a Leader Account, download resources, or invite other leaders.
Anonymous Participation
No individual participant accounts or names are required.
Private Leader Accounts
Saved readings are not automatically accessible to other leaders.
Shared Team Awareness
The Barometer is designed for collective learning, not individual evaluation.
Anonymous Team Readings
The Barometer uses six states of team capacity: Depleted, Strained, Guarded, Steady, Resourced, and Energized.
Individual team participants do not need to create accounts or provide names or email addresses.
For manual readings, a facilitator enters the total number of responses in each state, along with session information such as attendance, reading labels, and optional team next steps.
The Barometer calculates and displays a collective reading from those responses. It does not request individual participant identities or link individual selections to employee profiles.
Collective results are displayed only when at least three valid responses have been received. Even with this safeguard, responses in very small groups may sometimes be inferred by others.
The Barometer is intended to create a collective picture that everyone can explore together—not a private assessment of individual employees.
Taking and Saving Readings
You can try the manual Barometer without creating an account.
Unsaved quick readings remain in the current page session and are cleared when you refresh or leave the page.
If you create a free Leader Account, you can save your team's readings, return to previous sessions, and compare results over time.
Saved information may include:
- Team and session names
- Dates and reading labels
- Optional session context
- Attendance and number of responses
- Aggregate counts across the six Barometer states
- Calculated collective readings
- Optional team next steps
Saved readings are accessible through your authorized Leader Account. They are not automatically shared with other leaders or organizations.
Saving a Reading Before Signing In
If you choose Save This Reading before signing in, the application temporarily stores a private draft for up to 24 hours.
A secure browser cookie allows you to claim that draft once after signing in with a verified account using the same browser.
Expired drafts cannot be claimed. A cleanup process is implemented, but its operating schedule and removal timing still need confirmation.
The draft is not assigned to an account simply because an email address matches.
Free Leader Accounts
A free Leader Account allows you to save readings and use the Barometer over time.
We collect your name, verified email address, and account creation date.
You may also choose to provide your organization, job title, industry, and intended use.
This information supports account access, saved sessions, and the development of useful Barometer features and resources.
Leader profiles are separate from anonymous team participation.
Creating a Leader Account does not create employee profiles or identify individual team respondents.
Inviting Other Leaders
Registered leaders can share the Barometer with colleagues and invite them to create their own free accounts.
Invited leaders manage their own teams and readings independently.
An invitation does not grant access to another person's saved readings, team results, or account information.
Email invitations, when enabled, use secure links that expire after seven days and require verification of the intended recipient's email address.
General sharing links do not grant access to private team data.
Organizational Use
Leaders may optionally identify the organization they work with.
Organization names are self-reported. Sharing an organization name or email domain does not connect accounts or authorize access to another team's results.
Future organizational programs may provide authorized, privacy-protected views across participating teams. These features are not currently active.
Any future organizational sharing will require separate permissions and appropriate privacy safeguards.
Facilitator Resources and Inquiries
You may provide your contact information to download the Facilitator Toolkit or inquire about organizational applications.
We use that information to fulfill your request and respond to your inquiry.
Toolkit registrations and pilot inquiries are recorded separately from Leader Account profiles, although they may be associated with the same person when appropriate.
We do not require marketing consent to access the Facilitator Toolkit or create a free account.
If you choose to receive occasional Permission to Bloom insights, resources, or updates, your consent is recorded separately.
Marketing consent is optional and is not selected by default.
We do not automatically subscribe users to a newsletter or HubSpot marketing list.
How We Use Application Information
Permission to Bloom may use limited application information to:
- Provide and maintain the Barometer
- Authenticate Leader Accounts
- Save and retrieve authorized readings
- Deliver requested resources
- Send account and invitation emails
- Respond to inquiries
- Understand overall product adoption
- Improve the experience for teams and facilitators
Product-adoption information may include account activity, saved sessions, return visits, resource-download clicks, invitation activity, and visits to organizational application pages.
Permission to Bloom's restricted product reporting uses aggregate adoption measures rather than team capacity scores or individual employee activity.
A resource-download click indicates interest; it does not establish whether a document was opened or used.
We do not use anonymous team responses to create individual employee profiles or performance evaluations.
Cookies and Temporary Browser Storage
The Barometer uses essential authentication and session technologies to support sign-in and account access.
Temporary browser storage may also be used to preserve a guest reading during account creation or recognize a return visit.
Some registration preferences may remain temporarily in the current browser tab until sign-in is completed.
Account sign-in information is stored in this browser to maintain your session. Guest-save and invitation cookies support one-time access to a draft or invitation.
To limit repeated requests, the application processes a forwarded IP address or signed-in account identifier into a hashed request-limit key. This does not establish what IP addresses hosting services may keep in their logs.
These mechanisms do not require collecting individual team participant identities.
Additional website and platform-level cookies, service logs, and analytics practices will be described in the completed privacy notice once verified.
Your Readings and Downloaded Reports
Saved readings remain available in your authorized account without a current free-history quota.
You can also print or download available Barometer reports.
Once a report is downloaded, printed, or shared outside the application, its privacy depends on how the recipient stores and distributes that copy.
We encourage facilitators and leaders to share collective results thoughtfully and respect their teams' expectations of confidentiality.
Account Deletion and Data Retention
You may request account deletion through Account Settings.
The application records your deletion request for Permission to Bloom to review. Submitting a request does not automatically delete your account or saved records; the processing procedure still needs confirmation.
Specific deletion turnaround times and the retention periods for service-provider backups and system logs have not yet been confirmed.
Temporary guest drafts expire according to the process described above.
Further details about retention and deletion will be included when the full notice is finalized.
Our Commitment to Team Privacy
The Team Energy Barometer℠ is built around a simple principle:
Every Voice Matters. The Collective Picture Belongs to the Team.
We believe teams are better able to strengthen their capacity when people can contribute without being individually identified, see the shared result, and participate in deciding what happens next.
The Barometer is a team awareness and facilitation instrument—not a psychological diagnostic, employee-monitoring system, or performance assessment.
Details Still Under Review
This page describes documented application behavior, not a legally complete privacy notice. Account access, saved-reading retrieval, independent-account isolation, and actual email delivery still require testing with registered leaders.
The app uses Lovable hosting, Lovable Cloud for account and application records, and Lovable-managed email for account and invitation messages. Provider-specific logging, locations, subprocessors, and retention disclosures still need confirmation.
- Effective and last-updated dates, and the legal identity of the data controller
- Service-provider purposes, technical logs, automatic collection, and any additional cookies or analytics
- Retention periods for account records, readings, contacts, consent, invitations, adoption events, emails, backups, and logs
- Guest-draft cleanup operation, account-deletion procedures, and how marketing consent can be withdrawn
- Applicable privacy rights, how to exercise them, international processing, and required legal disclosures
These material details require review before this page is represented as a complete privacy policy.
Questions About Privacy?
This notice describes the Barometer's currently documented features and data practices.
A complete Barometer-specific privacy notice must also address verified website hosting, service providers, technical logs, cookies, analytics, data retention, and applicable privacy rights.
The privacy policy for Permission to Bloom's AI Uplift tools does not automatically apply to the Team Energy Barometer℠.
For questions about this notice, your information, or account deletion, contact:
Permission to Bloom