Privacy policy

The short version

• No ads, and we never sell your data. There’s no advertising in Pocket Cub, and your information isn’t sold or rented to anyone.
• We learn from how Pocket Cub is used. Things like how many families are active and when a parent last opened the app help us run and improve it. We do this ourselves, and it stays with us.
• Children don’t have accounts. A parent adds them, and they use Pocket Cub on the parent’s phone.
• Your family’s records are yours. Only the parents in your family can see them.
• No real money moves. No card, no bank link. The app keeps the record; you hand over the cash.
• Delete any time. Deleting your account deletes your family’s records with it.

What we collect

When you sign in. The name, email address and profile picture Google shares when you choose Sign in with Google.

What you add to the app.

• Your family’s name, the currency you use, and your phone’s time zone, so allowances arrive on your family’s day.
• Each child’s name, birthday (to show their age) and the avatar you pick for them.
• The rules you set: the allowance, how often it’s paid, interest, and savings offers.
• The record itself: allowances, chores, spends, bonuses, savings and interest, with the words you or your child type for them, like “Comic book”.
• Chores, and the time of day for any reminder you turn on.
• Your Parent Mode passcode, stored only in a scrambled form (a salted hash), never the digits.
• If another parent joins your family: their name from their sign-in, so you can see who’s in it.

If you subscribe to Pocket Cub Premium. Google Play takes the payment, so we never see your card. We keep a record of the subscription: which plan, its price and currency, when it started, when it renews or ends, and whether it was refunded. To check that a subscription is real and still paid for, we ask Google Play about it using a purchase code Google gives your phone.

How you use the app. Our records show when you last used Pocket Cub and when things were added or changed in your family’s record.

Kept on your phone only. Your sign-in (in the phone’s secure storage), whether the phone was left in Kid Mode, and when the app last showed its thank-you message. Chore reminders are scheduled on your phone too, so nothing about them is sent to us.

How we use it

• To run Pocket Cub: show balances, pay each allowance and any interest on schedule, keep every parent’s phone up to date, and remind you about chores.
• To sign you in and keep your account secure.
• To turn on Premium for your family while your subscription is paid for.
• To look after and improve Pocket Cub: fix problems, answer your questions, and understand how it’s used, such as how many families are active, which features get used, and when parents last opened the app. We do this ourselves, from our own records.
• To get in touch about your account, or about important changes to the service.

We don’t use your information for advertising, we don’t build advertising profiles of you or your children, and we don’t sell or rent it to anyone. Pocket Cub doesn’t use outside analytics or advertising tools; if that ever changes, we’ll list them here first.

Who can see it

• The parents in your family. Access rules in our database stop every other account from reading your family’s records.
• Your child, on your phone, in Kid Mode.
• The Pocket Cub team, through an internal dashboard, only to run, support and improve the service.
• The service providers below, only to provide their service to us.

Service providers

• Supabase stores the app’s data and runs sign-in.
• Google provides Sign in with Google, and Google Play handles subscriptions. When you subscribe, we give Google Play your account ID (a random code, not your name or email) so the subscription is matched to your account.
• Cloudflare hosts this website.

Each of them handles data under its own privacy policy.

Google user data

When you choose Sign in with Google, Google shares your name, email address and profile picture with Pocket Cub. We use your email address and name to create your account and sign you in, and your name to show the other parents in your family who’s who. We don’t show your profile picture anywhere. We don’t use Google user data for advertising, we don’t sell it, and we don’t share it with anyone except the service providers above that store it for us.

Pocket Cub’s use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy. You can remove Pocket Cub’s access to your Google Account at any time in your Google Account’s security settings.

Children’s privacy

Pocket Cub is for parents. Children never sign up or sign in, and we don’t ask them for contact details. A parent adds each child with a name, birthday and avatar. The child uses Pocket Cub on the parent’s phone, in Kid Mode, where the rules can’t be changed without the parent’s passcode. The app shows no ads. If you think we hold information about a child that their parent didn’t add, email us and we’ll delete it.

Keeping it safe

• Everything travels over encrypted connections.
• Database access rules let a signed-in parent reach only their own family.
• The Parent Mode passcode is stored as a salted hash, never the digits.
• Your sign-in is kept in your phone’s secure storage.

How long we keep it

For as long as you have an account. When you delete it, your information is deleted as described below. Copies in our providers’ backups can take a short while longer to be overwritten.

Deleting your account

In the app: open Profile and tap Delete account. Your sign-in is deleted straight away. A family that’s yours alone is deleted with everything in it: its children, their records, savings and chores. A family you share with another parent stays with them, and you’re removed from it.

To remove one child: Profile, then Manage children, then Remove. Everything recorded for that child is deleted.

Can’t use the app? Email us at [email protected] from the email address you sign in with, and ask us to delete your account. We’ll confirm and delete it within 30 days.

Uninstalling the app doesn’t delete your account.

Your choices

Everything you’ve added is in the app, where you can change it or remove it. To get a copy of your information or ask us to correct something, email us. Depending on where you live, you may have other rights over your data; email us and we’ll help you use them.

This website

This website doesn’t use cookies. We count visits to it ourselves, without them: for each page you open we keep only which page it was, the website that sent you there, your country, and whether you’re on a phone, tablet or computer. We don’t keep your IP address or anything else that identifies you, and no other company receives this. The website also remembers, on your device, which view of the demo you looked at last. Its fonts come from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address when a page loads. The Product Hunt badge at the bottom of each page comes from Product Hunt, so Product Hunt receives your IP address when you scroll down to it. Videos in blog posts come from YouTube and load only when you press play; YouTube’s privacy policy applies from then.

The early-access page. If you open pocketcub.app/onboarding-page (where our Instagram ads lead), we also note which ad sent you, whether you opened it inside the Instagram or Facebook app, how long the page was on your screen, how far you scrolled and what you tapped. Nothing is stored on your device. If you leave your email, we keep it with that visit so we know which ad worked, and use it only for Pocket Cub early access. We never share or sell it. Email us to have it removed.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. If a change affects how your information is used, we’ll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.

Contact

Questions or requests: [email protected].