Privacy policy
Effective date: 10 September 2026.
Sincerely, Your Space is a shared chore list for the people you live with. This policy describes what leaves your phone, where it is stored, and how it goes away. It is written to answer the two app stores' questionnaires accurately, which means it describes less collection than most apps of this kind.
What the app is not
There is no advertising SDK and no analytics SDK in the shipped app. There is no advertising identifier, no cross-app tracking, no third-party profile built from your use of the app, and no crash or usage reporting service. Nothing in the app sends telemetry about your habits to anyone.
The third-party code compiled into the app is its own dependency set: device_info_plus, flutter_web_auth_2, package_info_plus, path_provider_foundation, url_launcher_ios, flutter_local_notifications, home_widget, plus the state, routing and markdown packages. None of them phone home.
What we store, and why
| Data | Where it lives | Why it exists |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address and display name | Our Appwrite instance | To sign you in and to show you as yourself in your household |
| The households you belong to | Our Appwrite instance | Membership is the whole product |
| Chores, circles, completions, star totals | Our Appwrite instance | These are your records; the app is meaningless without them |
| Server logs (request metadata) | Our reverse proxy | To keep the service up |
| Purchases, if any | Apple / Google, and our record of them | To grant the license |
Everything above is stored on infrastructure we operate, and is not sold, licensed, or shared with third parties. There is no analytics destination to share with, so there is no such step in the data path at all.
What we do not collect
Browsing history, contacts, calendar, location, photos, files, microphone, camera, clipboard contents, and advertising identifiers. The app requests no permission to any of them. Notification permission is requested only when you turn on reminders, and revoking it does not disable anything else.
Sign-in through Google or Apple
If you use Google or Apple sign-in, that provider passes us your email address and display name, and we store those as your account identity. Apple sends them on the first authorisation only; later sign-ins do not include them, so what Apple gave us the first time is what the household sees. If you sign in with Apple's private relay address (…@privaterelay.appleid.com), mail addressed to you is delivered only through that relay.
Your household, and other members
Households are groups of people who share a board. Members of a household can see that household's chores, completions, and star totals, including the names and emails attached to them, which is the point of the feature. That sharing is confined to members of that household. Nothing about one household is shown to another.
What a household member sees is not "third-party sharing" in the regulatory sense, and we treat it as content you generate together rather than as data we hand onward.
Children
The app is rated for ages 4+ and is built for households, not for children acting alone. An account is a person with an email address and a sign-in.
Where your data is kept, and how it goes away
Your records live on our Appwrite instance. Deleting your account removes your user record and your memberships, and removes you from every household; the chores and completions you created remain as the household's history, because deleting them would silently rewrite records belonging to other people.
To have records removed that are yours alone, ask us and we will do it. A request about your account does not need to wait for a court.
Infrastructure
The backend is a self-hosted Appwrite instance on hardware we control, not a multi-tenant cloud service. The public API endpoint, api.sincerelyyourspace.com, is served over HTTPS through a reverse proxy with a publicly trusted certificate, fronted by Cloudflare. The app only ever talks to that one endpoint.
Email we send
The service sends email only when you or a household member cause it to: an invite, a password reset, or an address verification. It comes from [email protected]. There is no newsletter and no marketing list.
Contact
Questions, deletion requests, or questions about what a household can see: [email protected]. General help: [email protected].
This page is kept in step with docs/PRIVACY.md in the app's repository and changes in the same commit as the code it describes.