Home Family Planner – Privacy Policy

Last updated: 16 October 2026

This policy explains what information the Home Family Planner app ("the app") handles, where it is kept and how you can delete it. The app is published by UpsCru. Contact: jameshowie592@gmail.com.

The short version

There are no ads, no analytics and no account to create.
Everything you add is stored on your tablet.
If you turn on Sync between devices, your family's planner data is also stored in our cloud database (Google Firebase) so your tablets can share it. It is not sold or shared with anyone else.
You can delete your family's cloud data at any time from inside the app.

Information stored on your tablet

Family members' names, emojis and colours; calendar events and places; chores, stars, rewards and allowances; meal plans and the meal library; lists; parental-control settings (the parent PIN is stored only as a salted one-way hash); display settings; and photos you add to the photo frame. This stays on the tablet unless you turn on sync, and is removed if you uninstall the app or clear its storage.

Information stored in the cloud (only if you use sync)

When you start or join a family, the app signs the tablet in anonymously to Google Firebase (no email, phone number or name is used) and stores:

What	Why
Family members' names, emojis and colours	So every tablet shows the same family
Calendar events and places you enter in the app, chores, completions, rewards, allowances, meals, meal library, shopping and other lists, parental-control settings (PIN as a hash)	To keep the family's tablets in step
An anonymous sign-in ID for each tablet and its model name (e.g. "Samsung SM-X200")	To let only the family's own tablets read and change the family's data, and to show how many devices are linked

To stop anyone other than the genuine app using our cloud database, each sync request also carries a Google Play Integrity check (Firebase App Check). Google uses it only to confirm the app and device are genuine; see Google's Play Integrity data safety information.

Data is sent over encrypted connections. Each family's data is kept separately, identified by a random family code; only tablets that have joined with that code can read or change it, and no family can see another family's data. Google acts as our service provider for this storage under its Firebase privacy terms.

Phones (Home Family Planner Companion)

A parent can link a family member's phone from a tablet and choose what it can see and change. The phone app signs in anonymously in the same way, stores its own anonymous ID, model name, the family member it belongs to and its permissions alongside the family's data, and reads only the parts of the family's data it has been allowed to see. It never receives the family code, parental controls or the parent PIN. Reminders and notifications are worked out on the phone itself; nothing extra is sent to us to produce them. Unlinking the phone (from the tablet or the phone) removes its registration and the family's data from it.

Information the app does not upload

Photos. Photos you add from the tablet or pick from Google Photos are copied into the app on that tablet only.
Calendars on the tablet. If you allow the app to read calendars (for example a Google or Outlook account already on the tablet), those events are shown on that tablet and are never uploaded or changed. When you say who one of them is for, only that choice and a reference to the event (its calendar ID, not its title or details) is synced, so your other tablets show it the same way.
Adding family events to your calendar. If a parent chooses a calendar under Your calendars, the app copies the family's own events into it on that tablet and keeps them up to date; your calendar provider (for example Google) then syncs them as it does any event. The app only changes the events it added.
Google Photos. When you use "Pick from Google Photos", Google asks for permission to view only the photos you choose. The app downloads just those photos to the tablet.

Children

The app is designed to be set up and managed by parents or carers for their household. Children may use the shared tablet to see their chores and rewards. The app does not ask children for personal information, has no ads, and has no chat or social features. Parents control what is entered and can delete it at any time.

Deleting your data

Cloud data: open Settings → Sync between devices and tap Delete the family's cloud data. This permanently removes everything the family has stored in the cloud and unlinks every tablet.
On a tablet: use Settings → Data → Clear all data, clear the app's storage in Android settings, or uninstall the app.
You can also email jameshowie592@gmail.com with your family code and we will delete the family's cloud data within 30 days.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will update the date above and, for significant changes, mention it in the app's release notes.