Family Chores Privacy Policy

Family Chores is a free chore chart app for families, made by Blue Cap Apps LLC ("we", "us", or "our"). It has no ads, no in-app purchases and no tracking. This policy explains what information the app uses, where it's kept, and the choices parents have.

Family Chores can be used in two ways:

• On one phone — no account. Everything stays on that phone, and nothing is sent to us.
• With a family account — a parent creates an account so the family's chores stay in step across several phones and tablets. The family's information is then stored on our servers so each device can sync it.

Children use the app, so this policy is written to meet the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We never collect information from a child through a family account until a parent has given consent.

How the App Works

A parent sets up the app, adds the family and their chores, and manages everything in parent mode, which is locked with a parent's PIN. Children use kid mode, where they pick their name to see and tick off chores. Kid mode isn't locked to one child, so on a shared device a child can also open a brother's or sister's chores. Kid mode can't change anything else. Children don't have accounts, email addresses or passwords, and they can't type names or messages into the app.

Information the App Uses

In both ways of using the app, the app holds:

• Family members — a first name or nickname a parent enters for each person, whether they're a parent or a child, a color and an emoji. We don't ask for children's last names, birthdays, photos, locations or contact details.
• Chores and progress — the chores a parent sets up, who they're assigned to, when they're due, and which ones each person has done, and when.
• Rewards — if a parent turns rewards on, the points or money amounts earned, paid out and adjusted.
• Parent PINs — stored only as a one-way hash, never as the PIN itself.
• Settings — the family's app preferences.

Using Family Chores on One Phone

Without a family account, all of the information above stays on your phone. The app doesn't connect to our servers, and it contains no analytics, advertising, tracking or crash-reporting tools. We don't collect any personal information from you or your children, and we can't see your family's information.

PIN hashes are kept in your phone's secure storage (the iOS Keychain or Android Keystore).

Using Family Chores with a Family Account

Parental consent comes first

Before the app sends any of a child's information to our servers, the parent creating the family account sees a notice explaining what we'll collect and why, and is asked for consent. We then email the parent to confirm it, and that email explains how to withdraw consent at any time. A device can't join a family until this consent is in place.

What we collect

• From parents — each parent's name, email address and password (stored only as a hash), and the email address of any co-parent they invite.
• About the family — the family's name and everything listed under "Information the App Uses" above, including parent PIN hashes, so each of the family's devices can unlock parent mode offline.
• From children — when a chore is ticked off or unticked in kid mode, the app records which chore, whose chore it is and when, and syncs it to the family's other devices.
• About devices — for each device in the family: a device name, whether it's an iPhone, iPad or Android device, the app version, when it last synced, and a secure token that identifies it to our servers. Device names don't default to a child's name.
• Technical data — our servers receive each device's IP address when it syncs. We use it only to run and secure the service.

The app still has no advertising, analytics or tracking tools, and we don't use a child's information for advertising or to build a profile of them.

How we use it

• To keep the family's chores, progress and rewards the same on every device in the family.
• To let parents sign in, invite a co-parent, add devices with a join code, and remove devices.
• To send parents account emails, such as consent confirmations, invitations and password resets.
• To keep the service secure and working, and to prevent abuse.

Who can see it

A family's information is shown only on that family's own devices and to its parents. In kid mode, each child's chores, streak and rewards can be seen by anyone using the family's devices, including the other children in the family.

We don't sell or rent anyone's information, and we don't share children's information with third parties. We use a small number of service providers to run the service, and they may only use the information to provide that service to us:

• Linode (Akamai) — servers and database storage, in the United States.
• Postmark — sending account emails to parents. It receives parents' email addresses, never children's information.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect the safety of a child or the security of the service.

Face ID and Fingerprint Unlock

A parent can choose to unlock parent mode with Face ID or a fingerprint on their own device. The phone checks this itself and only tells the app whether it succeeded. Neither the app nor our servers ever receive face or fingerprint data.

Phone Backups

Family Chores is included in your phone's normal backup to Apple iCloud or Google, if you have backups turned on. Those backups are made and stored by Apple or Google under their privacy policies and your account settings, not by us, and we can't access them. PINs don't carry over in a backup, so a phone restored from one asks a parent to choose a new PIN.

Parents' Rights and Choices

A parent can, at any time:

• Review everything held about their child in the app's parent mode, or ask us for a copy by emailing privacy@bluecapapps.com.
• Delete a child's information by removing the child in parent mode. This permanently erases their name, chore history and rewards from our servers and from every device in the family.
• Stop further collection by removing the child, removing a device from the family, or deleting the family account.
• Delete the family account from the app's settings, which deletes all of the family's information from our servers.
• Withdraw consent by emailing privacy@bluecapapps.com. We'll then stop collecting from the child and delete their information.

When we receive a request by email, we'll check that it comes from the child's parent before acting on it, and we'll respond within 30 days.

On one phone without an account, a parent can see, change and delete everything directly in the app. Removing a person erases their information from the phone, and deleting the app removes it all. Older phone backups may keep a copy until Apple or Google replaces them.

How Long We Keep Information

We keep a family's information only as long as needed to provide the service to that family:

• While the family account is active — we keep the family's information so its devices can sync.
• Deleted items — when a parent deletes a chore or other item, a record of the deletion (without a child's name) is kept for up to 90 days so every device can catch up, then removed.
• Inactive families — if none of a family's devices syncs for 12 months, we email the parents and then delete the family's information.
• Deleted accounts — when a family account is deleted, its information is removed from our live systems right away and from our server backups within 35 days.
• Sync records — technical records used to avoid applying the same change twice are deleted after 90 days.

How We Protect Information

Information is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest. Passwords, PINs and family join codes are stored only as one-way hashes. Each device has its own token, which a parent can revoke at any time. Access to our systems is limited to people who need it to run the service, and we keep children's names out of our logs. We have a written security program for children's information and review it at least once a year. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but we work to protect your family's information.

Links Out of the App

The only link in the app is to this policy, and it sits behind parent mode. When it opens, you're on our website, which is covered by the Blue Cap Apps privacy policy.

Changes to This Policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top of this page and tell parents with family accounts by email about any important change. If a change would affect what we collect from children, we'll ask for a parent's consent again before it applies.

Contact

Questions about Family Chores, this policy or your child's information? Contact us:

• Blue Cap Apps LLC
• 1155 Glenwood St, Jenison, MI 49428, USA
• (616) 309-0700
• privacy@bluecapapps.com