What the app stores on your device
All of the following lives in a local database in the app's private internal storage (inaccessible to other apps without root). None of it is transmitted anywhere by this app.
Your home model
- Home style, floor plan, exterior features (garage, pool, deck, yard), and systems (HVAC, solar).
- Furniture and vehicle placements, rotations, and positions.
- The name you give the home ("My Home" unless you change it) and which model you claimed.
Maintenance hub data
The heart of the app, and the most personal data it holds:
- Your home's build year and purchase year (used only as a fallback when estimating an item's age).
- Per-item install years for appliances, fixtures, structural assets, and vehicles.
- Task completion dates ("Mark Done" timestamps) used to compute the next seasonal due date and the green/amber/red upkeep status.
- Per-task snooze and mute state, set from a task's detail popup in the To-Do tab.
- Which items you've marked "not in my home."
- Free-text notes you type on any item's maintenance card.
- Custom appliances you name yourself and the custom tasks you define for them, including the titles, schedules, and priorities you give them.
Documents you attach
Warranties, manuals, and receipts are attached through Android's system file picker (Storage Access Framework). The app stores a reference (a persistable URI) plus the display name โ it can read only the specific files you picked, and only to display them or include them in a backup you request. It never scans your storage, and never requests broad access to it.
Exporting a backup makes the app its own copy. So that a backup is complete and stays readable, the export step copies each attached file into the app's private storage and points the record at that copy โ which is also why the document keeps opening if you later move or delete the original. Those copies live in the same private storage as everything else and are removed when you uninstall.
Pro contacts
The Pros tab stores service contacts (name, trade, phone, email, notes) that you type in yourself. The app never reads your device's contact book โ it has no contacts permission. Remember these entries describe other people; they are included in backups you export, so share those files thoughtfully.
What the app never collects
- No analytics, crash reporting, advertising identifiers, or usage tracking of any kind.
- No account, sign-in, email address, or other personally identifying information is requested.
- No location, camera, microphone, or contact-book access.
- No data about you, your home, your tasks, or your contacts is ever transmitted off your device. The app's only network traffic is to the Google Play Store to validate a purchase, and it carries none of the data listed above (see Network below).
Network
The app declares the standard INTERNET permission for two reasons:
- So the system calendar-picker Intent works on all devices.
- To communicate securely with the Google Play Store for in-app purchase validation and localized pricing.
The app itself makes no other network requests, has no background sync, and sends no push notifications. It remains fully functional in airplane mode (except for processing new purchases).
Calendar
"Add to calendar" hands the task's title, description, and due date to your own calendar app via a standard system Intent. Saving the event is your calendar app's action, under its own account and permissions. HomeHealth never reads your calendar and holds no calendar permission.
Backups โ the ways data can leave the app
- Backup App Data writes a single
.zipโ your home database, maintenance records, pro contacts, and attached documents โ to a location you choose in the system file picker. The file is not encrypted by the app; treat it like any personal file when storing or sharing it. - Restore App Data reads a backup
.zipyou pick and overwrites current data after an explicit confirmation. - Separately, the app allows Android's own OS backup
(
allowBackup), so your device may include the app's data in the device backup tied to your own Google account, under the backup settings and encryption you control in Android โ an OS feature, not an app upload.
Children's privacy
HomeHealth is intended for adult homeowners and renters managing home maintenance. It is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone โ including children under 13. While the app includes a one-time in-app purchase to unlock premium features, it contains no ads, chat, social features, or any other mechanism that could solicit information from a child. Because the app has no tracking or data collection, there is no child data to collect, sell, or share.
Deleting your data
Uninstalling the app (or clearing its storage in Android settings) permanently deletes
the local database and all maintenance records. Backup .zip files you
exported remain wherever you saved them โ delete those yourself if you no longer want
them. Attached original documents are your files and are never touched by
uninstalling.
Changes to this policy
If a future version ever changes what is stored or introduces any network feature, this policy will be updated here before that version ships, with the effective date above revised.