Why Timergy Has Zero Tracking (And Never Will)

TL;DR: Timergy has literally zero analytics tracking. No Google Analytics, no Mixpanel, no session recording, no ads. Your data is hosted in Switzerland, and we make money from Pro subscriptions, not from selling your behavior. That’s why you’ll never see a cookie banner on Timergy.

Most scheduling tools ask you to accept cookies before you can even vote on a dinner date. Timergy doesn’t. Not because we found a clever legal workaround, but because there is genuinely nothing to consent to. Here’s why that matters, and why it will never change.

What Other Tools Track

Let’s talk about what happens when you open a poll on a typical privacy scheduling tool alternative. Before you see any content, you’re greeted by a cookie banner. Behind it, a stack of third-party scripts is already loading:

• Google Analytics / GA4: Page views, click paths, scroll depth, device fingerprinting
• Mixpanel / Amplitude: Event tracking, funnel analysis, user segmentation
• Hotjar / FullStory: Session recording, heatmaps, rage click detection
• Meta Pixel / LinkedIn Insight Tag: Retargeting, lookalike audiences, conversion tracking
• Google Ads remarketing: Following you around the web after you visited a poll

This isn’t hypothetical. Doodle’s free tier shows display ads powered by third-party ad networks, each injecting their own tracking pixels. Calendly loads analytics scripts on every page, including the pages your participants see.

Your participants didn’t sign up for any of this. They just wanted to pick a time.

Timergy vs. Doodle vs. Calendly: Tracking Comparison

The difference is structural, not cosmetic. Timergy is GDPR compliant not because we added a consent mechanism, but because we removed the need for one entirely.

Why Swiss Hosting Matters

Timergy’s infrastructure runs in Switzerland. This isn’t just a flag on a marketing page. It has real legal consequences for your data:

• Data sovereignty: Swiss data protection law (nDSG) is among the strictest in the world, recognized by the EU as providing adequate protection
• No CLOUD Act: Unlike US-hosted services, Swiss servers are not subject to US government data requests without Swiss legal process
• No Schrems II issues: EU-to-Switzerland data transfers don’t require the complex legal gymnastics that EU-to-US transfers do
• Physical security: Your scheduling data, calendar connections, and account information stay in a jurisdiction that prioritizes privacy by law

When your participants open a Timergy poll, their data never touches a US server. When they use Doodle or When2Meet, it does.

No Cookie Banner Needed

This is the part that surprises people. Timergy has no cookie banner. Not a minimized one, not a “we only use essential cookies” one. None.

Cookie banners exist because regulations like GDPR and ePrivacy require informed consent before setting non-essential cookies or tracking users. Since Timergy sets only strictly necessary cookies (authentication), no consent is required under GDPR Article 6(1)(b). No tracking cookies means no banner. It’s that simple.

For your participants, this means a clean experience: they open the poll link, they see the options, they vote. No popups, no dark patterns, no “Accept All” buttons designed to trick people into consenting.

No Ads, Ever

Doodle’s free tier is famously cluttered with display ads. Banner ads surround the poll, sometimes pushing the actual content below the fold. This isn’t just annoying. Each ad loads its own tracking scripts, cookies, and retargeting pixels into your participants’ browsers.

Timergy will never show ads. Not on the free tier, not anywhere. This is a permanent decision, not a “for now” promise.

Why? Because ads fundamentally change the incentive structure. When you show ads, your real customer becomes the advertiser, and your users become the product. Every feature decision gets filtered through “will this increase ad impressions?” We’d rather build features people actually want to pay for.

How We Make Money Instead

If we don’t track you and don’t show ads, how does Timergy sustain itself? The answer is straightforward: Pro subscriptions.

The free tier is genuinely useful. Unlimited polls, unlimited participants, 41 languages, real-time voting, calendar integration, survey polls, task lists. No artificial limitations designed to frustrate you into upgrading.

Pro adds power-user features: custom branding, booking pages with payments, API access, SMS notifications, and more. People who get value from Timergy pay for it. That’s the entire business model.

This alignment matters. When your business model is subscriptions, every incentive points toward making the product better. When it’s advertising, every incentive points toward collecting more data and showing more ads.

The Participant Experience

This is where privacy becomes practical. When you share a Timergy poll, your participants see:

• A clean, fast-loading page with no tracking and no popups
• No cookie banner blocking the content
• No ads competing for attention
• No third-party scripts slowing down the page
• A mobile-friendly interface that works on any device

Compare that to sharing a Doodle link, where your participants navigate past a cookie wall, scroll past banner ads, and load dozens of third-party scripts before they can cast a single vote.

Your poll reflects on you. Timergy makes sure it reflects well.

Privacy Is a Feature, Not a Checkbox

We’ve written about what makes Timergy different from other scheduling tools. Privacy isn’t something we bolted on after launch. It’s a core design principle that shapes every decision, from which Swiss hosting provider we use to which business model we chose.

Zero tracking. No tracking scripts. No ads. No cookie banners. No data sales. That’s not going to change.

Try Timergy free and see what a privacy scheduling tool looks like without the surveillance.