Privacy Policy
Last updated: 2 August 2026
Family Coins is an app that turns household chores into a game for a family: parents assign chores, kids earn play money, and they trade it for rewards the family itself decides on.
This policy explains what data the app handles, where it lives, and what we do NOT do with it. It is written for a parent to understand, not a lawyer.
1. What data the app handles
To work, the app stores on the phone:
| Data | What for | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Each member's name or nickname | Telling accounts apart | Yes |
| Avatar (an emoji) | Recognising each person at a glance | Yes |
| 4-digit PIN | So each person opens their own profile | Yes |
| Child's age | Shown on their profile only | No |
| Birthday day and month | Reminding the family a month ahead | No |
| Chores, prizes, fines and coin activity | This is what the app does | Yes |
We do not ask for or collect: email address, phone number, postal address, location, contacts, photos, or the year of birth. There are no user accounts: no sign-up, no password, no signing in with Google or Facebook.
The coins in the app have no real-world value and cannot be exchanged for money. There are no cards, no bank accounts, and no payments between people.
2. Where the data lives
Data is stored on the phone itself. When a family uses more than one device, changes travel between them through a server of ours that works like a mailbox in transit: it receives the change, delivers it to that family's other phones, and deletes it automatically after 72 hours.
That mailbox is the minimum needed for your child's phone to find out you approved a chore even if it was switched off at the time. We hold no other copy of your family's data, we do not look at it, and we do not use it to analyse anything.
If you make a backup from Settings, you keep that file wherever you like. We never receive a copy.
3. Notifications
To let you know a chore was approved or a prize was requested, the app uses Google's notification service (Firebase Cloud Messaging). That alert carries the notification text and nothing else; your family's content does not travel through it.
Birthday reminders are scheduled by the phone itself: they never reach a server and work without internet.
4. Advertising
The free version shows Google AdMob banners.
- Ads are always non-personalised: nobody's advertising profile is used to choose them.
- The app does not use the device's advertising ID. The permission is explicitly removed.
- Ads are limited to content suitable for all audiences.
The paid subscription removes ads on every device in the family and unlocks decoration options (cards, colours, emojis and effects). It unlocks no features: chores, prizes, transfers, fines and syncing are all complete in the free version.
Payment is handled by Google Play. Your card details never pass through the app or our server: we do not see them, receive them or store them.
5. Children
This app is meant to be used by a whole family, children included.
- It is the parent or responsible adult who creates the profiles and enters their children's details. A child cannot sign themselves up.
- Only minimal data is asked for: a name and an emoji. Age and birthday are optional, and for the birthday we never ask for the year.
- There is no chat, no forum, and no way for a child to talk to strangers. The app only connects the devices of one family.
- There are no in-app purchases made by the child.
We comply with COPPA (USA) and the GDPR (European Union). If you are a parent and want something deleted, in practice you already control it: deleting the data in the app deletes it on every device, and whatever was in transit on the server disappears after 72 hours.
6. Your rights
- See your data: it is all in the app, in plain sight.
- Correct it: Settings → Accounts.
- Delete it: Settings → "Start over" wipes the whole family from that device. Uninstalling the app removes everything on that phone.
- Take it with you: Settings → Export data produces a file with everything.
You do not need to write to us for any of this, but if you want to: gerardo.andresz4@live.com
7. Changes to this policy
If any of this changes, we will update this page and the date at the top. If the change affected what data is collected, we will say so inside the app before applying it.