The short version: shared household content is visible to your household. Personal tasks are private unless you share them. Free accounts receive ads. You can request account or data deletion in the app or by email.
1. Who we are and what this covers
Liam Young, operating Respos (“Respos,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), is responsible for the information described in this policy. We are based in California, United States. Contact respos.support@gmail.com with privacy questions or requests.
This policy covers the Respos mobile app, this website, and the services that support them. Respos helps households coordinate tasks, supplies, expenses, calendar events, reminders, and shared activity.
2. Information we collect
Accounts and sign-in
We receive your email address, account identifier, chosen display name, authentication provider, and household membership. If you use Google or Sign in with Apple, we receive the account information that provider shares for sign-in; Apple may supply a private relay email address. We do not receive your Google or Apple password. Your email address is saved on your device while you complete email-link sign-in and removed after successful sign-in.
Content you enter
We store household names and settings, invitations, tasks, supplies, notes, assignments, schedules, calendar events, private personal tasks, tasks you choose to share, and activity history. Expense data includes descriptions, amounts, currency, who paid, how costs are split, recorded payments, and recurring expenses. Respos records expenses; it does not move money or collect your bank credentials.
Devices, notifications, and widgets
We use push-notification tokens and your notification preferences to deliver reminders and household updates. Device preferences include theme, onboarding state, and advertising choices. If you add Home Screen widgets, a snapshot of relevant household or personal content and widget settings is stored on your device so widgets can display and refresh it. Your device’s protected storage also supports the signed-in widget session.
Notifications and widgets can make task titles, member names, amounts, or other details visible to someone looking at your device. Use notification-preview settings and a widget’s Hide details option where available.
Camera and selected photos
If you scan an invitation QR code, Respos uses the camera or a photo you select to read it on your device. Respos does not upload that QR image to our servers. We do not request your contacts or precise device location to provide household features.
Purchases
Apple or Google processes your payment. RevenueCat helps validate purchases and provides account and purchase identifiers, products, subscription status, purchase history, and expiration information. We do not receive your full payment-card number.
Diagnostics and advertising
Firebase Crashlytics collects crash and error reports in release builds, including technical identifiers, device/app details, and diagnostic information. Google AdMob serves ads to free-tier users and may process IP addresses, approximate location inferred from IP, device and advertising identifiers, app/ad interactions, diagnostics, and consent signals, depending on your choices and applicable requirements.
Support and website requests
If you contact us or submit feedback, we receive your message and associated account/contact information. Bug reports can include device details and reproduction steps you provide. Hosting and infrastructure providers process technical request data such as IP address, browser information, requested URLs, times, and errors to deliver and secure the service. Do not send passwords, sign-in links, or sensitive household information in a support message.
3. How we use information
- Create accounts, authenticate sign-in, and protect access.
- Store and synchronize your content, show it to the appropriate people, and provide widgets.
- Send notifications according to your settings and household activity.
- Process subscription status and provide or restore household Premium access.
- Serve and measure free-tier advertising, subject to applicable choices.
- Investigate errors, answer support requests, prevent abuse, and improve the service.
- Meet legal obligations and protect our users’ and our rights.
5. Service providers and other disclosures
| Recipient | Why information is provided |
|---|---|
| Household members | Shared content, assignments, expense records, and activity. |
| Google / Firebase | Sign-in, database and function hosting, push notifications, crash reporting, and support email through Gmail. |
| Google AdMob | Ad delivery, measurement, and fraud prevention for free-tier ads. |
| RevenueCat | Purchase validation, subscription records, and Premium entitlements. |
| Apple and Google Play | Platform sign-in, purchases, subscription management, and device services. |
| DigitalOcean and infrastructure providers | Website/API hosting, network delivery, operational logs, and security. |
We may also disclose information when required by law or reasonably necessary to protect rights and safety, investigate abuse, or carry out a transfer or reorganization of Respos, subject to applicable protections.
We do not sell personal information for money. Advertising-partner processing may qualify as “sale” or “sharing” for targeted advertising under some privacy laws. See your privacy choices below.
6. Advertising, tracking, and your choices
Respos requests advertising consent where required and makes Settings → Ad Privacy Choices available when Google’s consent system requires a privacy-options entry point. Use those controls to review or change consent. On iOS, App Tracking Transparency controls whether tracking across other companies’ apps and websites is permitted. You can change that permission in device settings. Declining tracking does not necessarily remove ads.
Our public website does not load advertising, analytics trackers, or third-party fonts, and does not set marketing cookies. Standard browser caching may store page assets. In-app SDKs and device storage are separate from this website.
You can change notification and device advertising settings, edit your display name, remove content using available controls, leave a household, or request account or data deletion . For a targeted-advertising opt-out request or help finding controls, contact respos.support@gmail.com . A browser-only signal does not identify your separate mobile-app account; contact us if you need help applying a choice to that account.
7. Retention and deletion
We keep account and content data while it is needed to provide the service or until you delete it, subject to the exceptions below. Retention depends on the type of information and its purpose:
- Private account data: successful in-app deletion removes the sign-in account, private profile, notification token stored with it, and personal-task data under that account.
- Household data: if you are the last member, the household and its direct content collections are deleted. If other members remain, shared content and records of your participation, including your display name and account references, can remain for the household until those records or the household are deleted. Leaving or deleting an account does not automatically anonymize every shared record.
- History and settled expenses: household history is capped at 250 recent entries. A scheduled cleanup removes fully settled expenses after seven days; actual removal depends on the cleanup running successfully.
- Feedback and support messages: these are stored separately and are not automatically removed by the in-app deletion process. They can remain while needed to handle support, investigate issues, or resolve disputes. You can request their deletion or review.
- Purchase, provider, and security records: account deletion does not automatically erase store purchase records or every record held by a service provider. Retention can depend on payment, fraud-prevention, legal, and provider requirements. Contact us for review of information associated with your account.
Provider logs, backups, and purchase records follow different retention schedules. Records retained for legal or security requirements are used for those purposes. Contact us to request a review of retained information or an explanation of the period that applies to your request. Copies other household members have saved are outside our control.
See Account and data deletion for the in-app and email request paths, verification, and expected timing. Deleting your Respos account does not cancel a store subscription.
8. Privacy requests and legal bases
Depending on where you live and which laws apply, you may have rights to access or receive a copy of personal information, correct it, request deletion, withdraw consent, object to or restrict processing, or opt out of certain advertising uses. You may also be able to complain to your local privacy regulator. We will not discriminate against you for exercising applicable privacy rights.
Send requests to respos.support@gmail.com . Tell us the email associated with your account and what you are requesting; do not include a password or sign-in code. We will take reasonable steps to verify ownership and respond within the period required by applicable law. If we cannot fulfill all or part of a request, we will explain applicable limitations. Authorized agents can contact us with evidence of their authority where that right applies.
Where a legal basis is required, we process information to provide the service under our agreement with you, for legitimate interests such as security and service reliability, to meet legal obligations, or with consent where required. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing already lawfully performed.
9. Children’s privacy
Respos is intended for people aged 13 and older and is not directed to children under 13. A parent or guardian must agree to the Terms for a user who is below the age of legal majority. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete it. Contact respos.support@gmail.com if you believe this has happened.
10. Security and international processing
We use authenticated access, access-control rules, and encryption in transit to protect information. No service can guarantee absolute security. Keep your sign-in email account, device, and household invitations secure.
Respos and its providers may process information in the United States and other countries, where privacy laws may differ from those where you live. Where applicable law requires safeguards for a transfer, those requirements apply.
11. Other policies and changes
You can read the privacy policies of Google , RevenueCat , Apple , and DigitalOcean for their own services.
We may update this policy as the service or legal requirements change. We will update the date and give additional notice or obtain consent when required. A policy update does not retroactively authorize a new use that requires your consent.