Privacy Policy

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This policy explains what information The Household Ledger ("the app") collects, how it's used, and who it's shared with. This app is operated by [your name or business name] ("we", "us").

What we collect

• Account information: your email address and a securely hashed version of your password (we never store or can see your actual password).
• Billing information: handled entirely by Stripe, our payment processor. We never see or store your card number — we only receive a customer ID and subscription/payment status from Stripe.
• Credit usage: a record of how many AI-feature credits you've used and purchased, tied to your account, for billing accuracy.

What stays on your device

Your actual household inventory — items, photos, paint colors, notes — is stored locally in your browser (via localStorage), not on our servers. We do not have access to it, cannot see it, and cannot recover it if you clear your browser data. Use the app's built-in "Backup (export)" feature to keep your own copy.

AI features (photo scans, price lookups, reference photos)

When you use these features, the relevant photo or search query is sent to Anthropic, a third-party AI provider, for processing. Anthropic's own privacy practices govern that processing; we do not control or store what Anthropic does with that data beyond receiving the result. Price and reference-photo lookups involve web searches performed on your behalf.

Cookies

We use a single session cookie to keep you logged in. It contains a random session token, not your password or personal data directly. No advertising or tracking cookies are used.

Who we share information with

• Stripe — payment processing
• Anthropic — AI photo analysis and web search features
• Cloudflare — hosting and infrastructure

We do not sell your information to anyone.

Data retention & deletion

We keep your account and billing records for as long as your account is active, and as needed for legitimate billing/tax records after cancellation. To request deletion of your account and associated data, contact [your contact email].

Children's privacy

This app is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the date above.

Contact

[your contact email]