Family Bank is boring on purpose. It keeps only what it needs to run your family bank and nothing more. This page explains exactly what that means.
The short version
- No ads, no analytics, and no tracking.
- We never ask for your email address or your location.
- Only people in your family can see your family's information.
- We don't sell or share your information, ever.
- You can delete your account at any time from inside the app.
What we collect
Your sign-in
You sign in with Apple. Apple gives Family Bank an anonymous identifier for your account, which is how the app knows it's you. Family Bank never requests your email address, and it doesn't keep any name Apple provides.
The name you choose
When you set up or join a family, you enter the name your family knows you by, like "Mom," "Dad," or "Sam." That's the only name Family Bank stores for you.
What your family enters
To run your family bank, the app stores the information you and your family put into it:
- Your family's name, and each member's name and role (adult or kid)
- Balances, transactions, and the notes attached to them
- Chore names, descriptions, and values, and a log of who completed them and when
- A log of cash entries, expenses, and requests
- Savings goals, recurring expenses, and earned milestones
- An activity log of data changes within the app, so you can always see who changed something, what changed, and when
A notification token
If you turn on notifications, Apple issues a token that lets us deliver notifications to your device. We store that token so we can send the alerts you've allowed, like a chore waiting for approval or a milestone earned.
What we don't collect
The app contains no analytics, telemetry, advertising, or tracking code. It doesn't record how you use it, and it never asks for your location, device details, email address, or contacts.
How your information is used
- To run the app's features: balances, chores, approvals, cash tracking, savings goals, and milestones.
- To sign you in and keep your account secure.
- To send the notifications you've turned on.
That's the whole list. Your information is never used for advertising, profiling, or anything unrelated to running your family bank.
Who can see it
Your family, and only your family. Access rules are enforced by the database itself, for every request:
- Adults can see the whole family's information.
- Kids can see their own balance, cash, goals, and history, plus the names of family members and which chores have been done.
Nobody else. We don't sell, rent, or share your information, and the developer doesn't browse family data. We'd only look at it to fix a problem you've asked for help with, or if the law requires it.
Service providers
Two companies help run Family Bank:
- Supabase hosts the database and handles sign-in, on servers in the United States (Northern California). Like most hosting providers, it keeps short-lived technical logs, such as IP addresses, for security and reliability.
- Apple provides Sign in with Apple, delivers notifications, and distributes the app. If you've chosen to share crash reports with app developers in your device settings, Apple may pass those along to us.
Kids' information
Family Bank is built for families to manage kids' money together. An adult sets up the family and adds each kid, providing only their first name or nickname. Kids can join with a code from an adult, sign in with their own Apple Account, and record their own chores, cash, and goals within that family. The app has no ads, no public profiles, and no way to contact anyone, inside or outside the family.
An adult in the family can review, edit, or remove a kid's information from within the app. If you're a parent or guardian and have a question about your kid's information, contact us using the details below.
Keeping and deleting your information
Your information is kept for as long as your account and family exist. You can delete your account at any time from the Family tab ▸ Delete account. Before anything happens, the app shows you exactly what will change in each family you belong to.
Your sign-in, notification tokens, and settings are deleted right away. Then, for each family:
- If you're the only member, the whole family and all of its information are deleted.
- If you're the only adult, deletion waits until another adult joins or the other members are removed, so no kid is left in a family without an adult.
- If you have history in the family, your past entries stay, marked "(removed)," so the family's records still add up. They're no longer connected to any sign-in.
- If you have no history, your membership is removed entirely.
You can also ask us to delete your information by contacting us.
Security
All data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Access is checked on the server for every request, so one family can never see another family's information, and kids see only what's theirs.
Your choices
- Turn notifications on or off at any time in the iOS Settings app.
- Review and edit your family's information within the app.
- Delete your account, as described above.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we'll update it here and change the date at the top. If a change affects how your information is used, we'll say so clearly on this page.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your information? Email privacy@rzen.net.