This Privacy Policy explains how ChoreBrawl (“ChoreBrawl,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and shares personal data when you use the ChoreBrawl mobile application, this website, and related services (the “Service”). We’ve tried to keep it readable. If anything is unclear, email us at privacy@chorebrawl.com.
1. Who Is Responsible for Your Data
ChoreBrawl is developed and run by Freek van Gorkum, an independent developer based in the Netherlands. He is the data controller for the personal data described in this Policy, under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Dutch law. You can reach him about anything privacy-related at privacy@chorebrawl.com.
2. Information We Collect
Information you provide
- Account information.Your email address, which we use to sign you in with a one-time code or magic link. We don’t use passwords.
- Profile information.A display name and, optionally, a profile photo. Profile photos are stored so they can be shown in the app by a web address that isn’t listed anywhere, but anyone who has that address can view the image.
- Household and gameplay data. The household you create or join (including its name, invite code, and time zone), the chores in your catalog (including custom chores you add and your weekly plan), and the chore logs, scores, streaks, titles, and match results you generate while playing.
- Subscription information. Whether your household has an active subscription or free trial, which plan, and when it renews or expires. Payments are processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play Store; we never receive your card or other payment details.
- Messages to us. If you email us, we keep the correspondence so we can help you.
Information collected automatically
- Push notification tokens. If you allow notifications, a token that lets us send notifications to your device, along with its platform (iOS or Android).
- Activity timestamps. When chores are logged and other in-app activity happens, which the game needs to work out daily streaks, monthly results, and notification timing.
We don’t use third-party analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting tools in the app. If you have chosen to share analytics with Apple or Google in your device settings, they may share crash reports and aggregated, anonymous usage statistics with us under their own privacy policies.
We do not collect location data, contacts, or your photo library (apart from a photo you choose as your profile picture), and we do not track you across other apps or websites.
3. How We Use Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Create and secure your account and sign you in;
- Run the game: linking you with your household, recording chore logs, computing rope position, scores, streaks, titles, and monthly and season results;
- Keep the game in sync in real time between you and your partner;
- Send notifications you’ve allowed, such as evening reminders, streak warnings, and updates on what your partner has done;
- Check whether your household has an active subscription or trial;
- Maintain, troubleshoot, secure, and improve the Service;
- Respond to your questions and support requests;
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Service.
We don’t sell your data, use it for advertising, or make decisions about you based solely on automated processing that have legal or similarly significant effects.
4. Legal Bases for Processing
Under the GDPR, we rely on the following legal bases:
- Performance of a contract: to provide the Service you signed up for, including your account, the game, syncing with your household, and managing your subscription.
- Consent: for push notifications and for an optional profile photo. You can withdraw consent at any time by turning off notifications in your device settings or removing your photo in the app.
- Legitimate interests:to keep the Service secure, prevent abuse, fix problems, and answer your messages, where these interests aren’t overridden by your rights.
- Legal obligation: where we must keep or disclose data by law, for example tax and accounting records.
5. Information Visible to Your Partner
ChoreBrawl is a two-player game. By design, the other player in your household can see your display name and profile photo, the chores you log, your contribution to the rope, your scores, streaks, and titles, and your monthly results. Only share a household with someone you trust.
6. Who We Share Information With
We do not sell your personal data. We share it only as follows:
- Supabasehosts our database, authentication (including sending sign-in emails), file storage, real-time sync, and server functions. Your data is stored in Supabase’s EU region in Ireland.
- RevenueCat manages subscriptions and free trials on our behalf. It receives an anonymous user ID and your purchase information from the app stores, but not your email address.
- Expo relays push notifications to your device through Apple Push Notification service or Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google). They receive your push token and the notification content.
- Apple and Google distribute the app and process payments under their own privacy policies.
- Website hosting.Our hosting provider processes standard request data, such as your IP address, to deliver this website. The website doesn’t use cookies or analytics.
- Legal reasons. If required by law, regulation, or valid legal process, or to protect the rights, safety, or property of ChoreBrawl, our users, or the public.
- Business transfers. If ChoreBrawl is transferred to a new owner, your data may be transferred as part of that, subject to this Policy.
These service providers process data on our behalf, under contracts that require them to protect it and use it only to provide their services to us.
7. International Data Transfers
Your app data is stored in the European Economic Area (Ireland). Some of our service providers, such as RevenueCat, Expo, Apple, and Google, are based in or process data in the United States. Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA, we rely on appropriate safeguards, such as the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.
8. Data Retention
We keep your data for as long as your account exists. When you delete your account, we delete your personal data straight away, as described on our account deletion page. What happens to shared household data depends on whether you created the household or joined it. Deleted data may remain in routine backups for a limited period until they are overwritten, and we keep data longer only where the law requires it (for example, records of transactions).
If your subscription ends, your household and its history are kept so you can pick up where you left off if you subscribe again. Delete your account if you want it gone.
9. Data Security
We protect your data with technical and organizational measures, including encryption in transit and at rest, and database access rules that only let you and your household see your household’s data. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
10. Your Rights
Under the GDPR, you have the right to:
- access the personal data we hold about you;
- have inaccurate data corrected;
- have your data deleted;
- restrict or object to certain processing;
- receive your data in a portable format;
- withdraw consent at any time, without affecting earlier processing.
You can change your display name and photo and delete your account in the app. For anything else, email privacy@chorebrawl.com. We may ask you to confirm your identity, and we’ll respond within one month. If you live in California or another place with its own privacy laws, such as the CCPA/CPRA, you can exercise the rights those laws give you in the same way.
If you’re unhappy with how we handle your data, please contact us first. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority. In the Netherlands, that is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens. You can also contact the authority in the EU country where you live.
11. Children’s Privacy
The Service is not directed to children. You must be at least 13 years old to use it, or older if your country’s minimum age of digital consent is higher (in the Netherlands, 16). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children below that age. If you believe a child has given us personal data, please contact us and we will delete it.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will let you know in the app or by email before they take effect, and update the effective date above.
13. Contact Us
For questions or requests about this Privacy Policy or your data, contact us at privacy@chorebrawl.com.