Privacy Policy
Last updated: April 28, 2026
Fairshare is built around a simple idea: most of the work of running a home is invisible, and visibility helps people share it more fairly. That principle extends to how we handle your data — we collect as little as possible, we tell you exactly what we have, and you can delete it from inside the app at any time.
If you have questions, email katrinmalfent@gmail.com.
What Fairshare collects
When you use the app without signing in
If you never sign in (the free tier), nothing leaves your device. Your household, members, tasks, and completion history are stored only in the app's local storage on your phone. We have no copy of any of it. Deleting the app erases this data.
When you sign in with Apple
Fairshare lets you "Sign in with Apple" so you can sync your household across devices and invite other people to join you. When you sign in, we receive and store on our server:
- Apple user identifier (a stable token Apple generates for our app — opaque, not your Apple ID)
-
Email address, only if Apple shares it. If you choose
Apple's "Hide my email" option, we receive a relay address
(
@privaterelay.appleid.com) and never see your real email. Either way, we never email you marketing. - Display name and avatar initial, as you've set them in the app
When you sync, your tasks, household members, and completion history are also stored on our server so other devices in the household can see them. This is the data that makes "shared household" work.
Push notifications
If you allow notifications and you're signed in, the app registers a push token with Apple's notification service. We store the token only so we can let other people in your household know when you've completed a task. We delete the token when you sign out or delete your account.
What we don't collect
- We don't track you. There are no analytics, no ad SDKs, no third-party trackers, no fingerprinting.
- We don't read your contacts, photos, location, calendar, microphone, camera, or health data.
- We don't sell, rent, or share your data with anyone for advertising.
- We don't profile you or build any kind of user model.
How we use your data
We use it to make the app work — sync your household across your devices, deliver notifications to other members when you mark a task done, and keep you signed in. That's it.
We retain your data as long as your account exists. When you delete your account (see below), we erase the data within 30 days from primary databases. Backup snapshots are rotated within 90 days and that erases anything we still hold.
How to delete your data
You can delete everything at any time, from inside the app:
Settings → Delete account and data
If you're signed in, this calls our server to permanently remove:
- Your user record
- Every household you own (and every task and completion in those households — other members lose access too, by design)
- Your membership in any household someone else owns (they keep their data; you simply leave)
- Your push tokens and Apple identifier
It also wipes the app's local storage on your phone and cancels any scheduled local notifications. If the network call fails for any reason, we don't wipe local data — we surface the error and let you retry, so you're never left with orphaned server data and no record of it.
If you can't access the app, you can email katrinmalfent@gmail.com with your account email and we'll delete your data manually.
Where your data lives
Server data is hosted on infrastructure providers we use to run the backend (currently Fly.io). The data is stored in their European datacenter (Frankfurt). We use TLS in transit and encrypted-at-rest storage for the database.
We don't transfer your data outside the providers we list. If we add a new provider that stores or processes your data, we'll update this policy and note the change above.
Children
Fairshare is rated for general audiences but isn't designed for or directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect data from children. If you believe we have, email us and we'll delete it.
Changes to this policy
We'll update this policy if we change how we handle your data — for example, if we add a payment provider, an analytics tool, or a new sync provider. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent change. Material changes will also be communicated in-app the next time you open it.
Contact
If you'd like to know what data we currently have on you, request a copy, or ask us to correct something — that email is the way to do it.
Fairshare is a small, indie app. The fastest path to an answer is usually just emailing.