Home Inventory Privacy Policy

We collect nothing. Home Inventory has no account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking and no third-party SDKs, and the app makes no network requests of its own. What you put in it stays on your phone unless you choose to send it somewhere. In this policy, “we” means the developer of Home Inventory.

What the app keeps on your phone

Only what you add, and what the app works out from it, such as tags and text read from a photo:

• Photos of your rooms and shelves. They may show documents or anything else that was in view.
• Item details: names, brands, models, serial numbers, values, purchase dates and receipts.
• Names of people you enter, such as who you lent something to or who an item goes to.
• Voice recordings, if you record the story behind an heirloom.
• Files you attach to an item, such as manuals, PDF receipts, appraisals or videos.
• Claim details, if you prepare a claim: policy and claim numbers, and the cause and date of the loss.

All of this is stored in the app’s own sandbox on your phone, which other apps cannot open, and iOS encrypts it with data protection when your phone has a passcode. We never receive a copy.

What leaves your phone, and only when you choose

• Exports and sharing. When you export a PDF, a CSV file, a folder or a backup and send it with the share sheet, it goes where you send it. Whoever has that copy then controls it.
• Encrypted backups. Backup files are encrypted with a passphrase you choose. We never have it, so we cannot recover it.
• Printing. Labels and pages go to the printer you pick. A label’s QR code holds only a link with a short code; the list of what is inside stays on your phone.
• Photos. If you turn on Also save shots to Photos, your shots are also added to your photo library. The app asks only for permission to add photos, never to see your library.
• Links you tap. Links to marketplaces under Sell this, to iOS Settings or to this website open in Safari or in the app concerned, and that site’s own privacy policy applies there. None carry anything about you or your belongings.
• Household sharing. Off unless you turn it on. If you choose a folder in You › Household, the app writes a copy of your inventory and its photos to that folder (in your iCloud Drive, or another folder a sync app keeps up to date) and reads the copies of the people you shared the folder with. The folder is yours and theirs; it never passes through us.
• Device backups. If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or a computer, that backup includes the app’s data, protected the way Apple protects device backups. You turn this on or off in iOS; we cannot see these backups.

Done on your phone

Reading text on nameplates and receipts, recognizing what is in your photos, and recognizing speech when you say what is in a drawer all happen on your phone, using Apple frameworks built into iOS. For speech, the app asks iOS to recognize it on the device. If that is not available for your phone or language, iOS may send the audio to Apple to be transcribed, under Apple’s privacy policy. It never comes to us.

If you turn on the app lock, Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode is checked by iOS. The app learns only whether it succeeded.

Purchases and crash reports

Pro is bought through the App Store. Apple handles the payment; we never see your payment details. If you have chosen in iOS to share analytics with app developers, Apple may send us crash reports. They describe the crash and do not include your inventory. You can change this in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements.

Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight

So that Siri and Shortcuts can find your things, the names of your items and where they are kept are indexed on your phone. Siri asks you to unlock your phone before it answers. The app can also list your items in Spotlight search on your phone; you can turn that off in the app.

Children

Home Inventory is not directed at children. We collect nothing from anyone, children included.

Deleting your data

You › Your data › Delete all data erases everything the app holds on your phone. Deleting the app does the same. Exports you have shared and device backups you have made are separate copies; delete those where you keep them.

Your rights

Privacy laws such as the GDPR, the CCPA and the LGPD give you the right to access, correct or delete the personal data a company holds about you. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete, and nothing to sell or share. It is all on your device and under your control.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will publish the new version on this page and update the date at the top.