Privacy Policy
Effective 6 October 2026
myhouse is a small, non-commercial app for sharing expenses, shopping lists and plans with the people you live with. It is run by an individual (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what personal data myhouse handles, why, and what choices you have.
1. Data we collect
- Google account details. When you sign in with Google we receive your name, email address and profile photo link. We request only the basic openid, email and profile permissions; we never see your Google password or access your Gmail, Drive, Calendar or contacts.
- Content you add. Houses, members, expenses and balances, shopping lists, projects, notes, dates and any profile photo you upload.
- AI requests. If you use “Make a list with AI” or “Scan receipt”, the text, link or photo you provide is sent for processing to produce a draft. Photos are reduced in size on your device first. We do not keep the photo after the result is returned.
- Technical data. A sign-in cookie, and the IP address and request details that our hosting provider records in short-lived security and performance logs.
2. How we use it
Only to run myhouse: signing you in, showing your name and photo to the people in your houses, storing and syncing what you add, calculating balances, producing AI drafts you asked for, and keeping the service secure. We do not sell your data, show ads, or use your data for profiling or marketing.
3. Google user data
myhouse's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Google account data is used only to sign you in and to show your name, email and photo inside your houses. It is not transferred to anyone else except as described in section 4, not used for advertising, and not used to train AI models.
4. Who can see your data
- People in your houses can see your name, email, photo and everything added to that house. People in other houses cannot.
- Service providers that process data on our behalf: Cloudflare (hosting, database and the AI model that produces drafts) and Google (sign-in). They may process data outside your country under appropriate safeguards such as the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
- Optional integrations. If a member of a house connects an AI assistant to that house, its provider processes the house data shared with it under their own terms.
- Legal reasons. We may disclose data if required by law.
When you paste a recipe link into the AI feature, our server fetches that web page to read the ingredients.
5. Cookies and local storage
We use one essential cookie to keep you signed in (up to 90 days) and short-lived cookies during sign-in and when you open an invite link. Your browser also remembers which house you last opened. There are no analytics or advertising cookies.
6. How long we keep data
We keep your data while you use myhouse. If you leave a house, expenses you were part of stay in that house's history because other members' balances depend on them. When a house's admin deletes a house, it disappears from the app for everyone, but its data is kept so it can be restored on request; ask us if you want it erased. When you ask us to delete your account we delete or anonymise your personal data within 30 days; encrypted backups are overwritten within a further 30 days.
7. Legal basis (EU/UK)
We process your data to provide the service you asked for (performance of a contract) and, for security and abuse prevention, on the basis of our legitimate interests.
8. Your rights
You can ask to access, correct, delete or export your data, and to restrict or object to its processing. You can change your name and photo in Settings at any time. You also have the right to complain to your data protection authority (in Portugal, the CNPD).
9. Security
All traffic is encrypted (HTTPS), sign-in cookies are signed and not readable by scripts, and every request is checked so you can only reach houses you belong to. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but we work to protect your data.
10. Children
myhouse is not intended for anyone under 16.
11. Changes
We may update this policy. We will change the date above, and tell you in the app about significant changes.
12. Contact
For questions or requests about your data, use the support email shown on myhouse's Google sign-in screen (tap the app name there), or ask the person who invited you to pass it on.