AllowanceGo
Privacy Policy
Effective date:
AllowanceGo is a budgeting and savings app designed to help families track goals, spending, saving progress, allowance and pocket money, and purchase impact.
This Privacy Policy explains how AllowanceGo handles information.
Information You Enter
AllowanceGo allows you to enter budgeting and planning information, such as:
- child profile names
- savings goals
- target amounts
- current savings amounts
- allowance and pocket money amounts
- outgoing amounts
- spending entries
- saving entries
- chores, missions and rewards
- avatar choices
- app settings and preferences
- progress and goal history
This information is used only to provide the app's budgeting, savings, goal tracking, chores, rewards, avatar, and purchase-impact features.
Local Device Storage
The budgeting and planning information you enter is stored locally on your device.
We do not receive, upload, or store your budgeting, savings, spending, transaction, goal, chore, reward, or avatar information on our servers.
Optional Cloud Backup and Device Sync
AllowanceGo offers optional backup features that a parent or guardian can turn on:
- backup to iCloud on iOS, using your own Apple Account
- backup to Google Drive on Android, using your own Google Account
- keeping your own devices in sync, which applies your most recent backup to another device signed in to the same account
- saving or sharing a backup file yourself
Family data is stored locally on the device. Only when a parent or guardian enables cloud backup or device synchronisation is a copy stored in the family's own Apple iCloud or Google Drive account. AllowanceGo does not receive the contents of these backups or store them on developer-controlled infrastructure.
The AllowanceGo app reads and writes the backup only to provide backup, restore, and same-account device sync. We do not give ourselves an administrative dashboard through which we can view it. Apple and Google handle that storage under their own privacy policies.
On Android, backup uses Google Sign-In and requests only the Drive application data permission. This limits AllowanceGo to a private application folder in your Google Drive. It cannot see your other Google Drive files.
If you choose to export or share a backup file yourself, you control where it is saved and who receives it. AllowanceGo is not responsible for storage locations or recipients that you select.
These features are off unless turned on, and can be turned off at any time. You can view and delete individual backups in the app under Backup history.
No Ads or Advertising Tracking
AllowanceGo does not show third-party ads.
AllowanceGo does not use Google AdMob.
AllowanceGo does not use Firebase Analytics or Firebase Crashlytics.
AllowanceGo does not include third-party tracking for advertising, cross-app profiling, or behavioural advertising.
We do not sell, rent, or share personal information with advertisers or data brokers.
Third-Party Services
AllowanceGo uses a small number of third-party services in order to work:
- Apple iCloud and Google Drive, only if you turn on cloud backup, to hold your backup in your own account
- Google Sign-In on Android, only if you turn on Google Drive backup
- RevenueCat, which manages purchases and unlocks. RevenueCat receives purchase and entitlement details, a random pseudonymous purchase identifier that it generates for the installation, and limited app and device information needed to operate purchases. We explicitly disable RevenueCat diagnostics and automatic device-identifier collection, and we do not set RevenueCat subscriber attributes. RevenueCat does not receive child profile names or your budgeting, savings, spending, goal, chore, reward, or avatar information.
- Apple App Store and Google Play, which process any purchase
Internet Connection
Some app features use an internet connection:
- checking whether a newer app version is available
- opening the app's store listing
- uploading or downloading a backup, if you have turned cloud backup on
- signing in to Google, if you use Google Drive backup
- making and restoring purchases
As with any ordinary internet request, the service being contacted receives your device's IP address. These features do not send your budgeting, savings, spending, transaction, goal, chore, reward, or avatar information to us.
Notifications
AllowanceGo can show reminders on your device. Reminders are created and scheduled on the device itself. AllowanceGo does not use push notification tokens and does not send reminder content to our servers.
Children's Privacy
AllowanceGo is intended for family use and should be used with parent or guardian supervision.
We do not receive or store child profile names, missions, goals, rewards, savings information, pocket-money records, or avatar information on developer-controlled servers.
AllowanceGo does not ask children to create an online account or to provide an email address, postal address, precise location, photograph, or voice recording. Limited purchase and technical information may be processed by the app stores and by the service providers described under "Third-Party Services".
Information entered into the app stays on the device, and in your own Apple or Google account if you have turned cloud backup on, unless it is deleted by the user, cleared through an in-app reset or clear feature, deleted from Backup history, or removed when the app is uninstalled.
A parent or guardian can, at any time:
- review the information held in the app on their device
- stop further information being entered, by turning features off in the Parent Area or by removing the app
- delete information, using the in-app reset and clear features, by deleting backups under Backup history, or by uninstalling the app
- contact us to ask about any information we may hold
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us outside the app, such as by contacting support, please contact us so we can review and delete it.
Location
AllowanceGo does not request or collect precise real-time location information from your device.
Data Retention and Deletion
Information you enter in the app is kept on your device until you delete it, clear app data, use an in-app reset or clear feature, or uninstall the app.
If you turn on cloud backup, backups are kept in your own Apple or Google account until you delete them. AllowanceGo keeps the most recent backup and one previous backup for each device and replaces older copies automatically. You can delete any backup in the app under Backup history.
We do not hold children's personal information on our servers, so there is nothing for us to retain or delete on our side.
If you email us, we keep that correspondence only for as long as it is needed to deal with your enquiry, and for no longer than 24 months, after which it is deleted.
Purchase records held by RevenueCat and by the app stores are kept under their own policies and under applicable accounting and tax requirements.
To request access to or deletion of a RevenueCat purchase record, a parent or guardian can contact privacy@allowancego.app. We may ask for the RevenueCat App User ID or App Store/Google Play transaction reference needed to locate the record. Do not send payment-card details. We will request deletion from RevenueCat unless the record must be retained for a legal, tax, accounting, fraud-prevention, or dispute purpose. Deleting a RevenueCat record does not cancel a purchase or guarantee that Apple or Google will delete their separate store records.
Legal Bases and Your Rights
Where UK data protection law applies, we process limited personal information where it is necessary:
- to provide app functionality, purchases, and support that you have asked for
- for our legitimate interests in maintaining, securing, and supporting AllowanceGo
- to comply with legal obligations, including applicable accounting, tax, and regulatory requirements
- with your consent, where we expressly ask for it
Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to ask for access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we hold about you, to restrict or object to its processing, to ask for portability, or to withdraw consent.
Most information entered into AllowanceGo is controlled directly through the app or through your own cloud account. For information that we may hold, such as support correspondence, contact privacy@allowancego.app.
You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office.
International Processing
Some service providers may process limited technical or purchase-related information in countries outside the United Kingdom. Where we are responsible for such a transfer, we rely on protections recognised under applicable data protection law, such as adequacy regulations or approved contractual safeguards.
Security
We use technical and organisational measures appropriate to the limited information the app handles. These include keeping family data out of developer-controlled databases, restricting Google Drive access to the application data folder, limiting the number of third-party services the app relies on, and reviewing these practices when the app changes.
App data is held in the app's own storage area on your device, protected by the operating system's separation between apps and by any device passcode or device encryption you have enabled.
Any Parent PIN is stored as a salted, non-reversible digest rather than as plain text, and is included in your backups if you turn them on. Parent Lock is a supervision feature, intended to stop a child reaching protected actions casually. Because the PIN is only four digits, it is not a security control against someone who has full access to an unlocked device or to a backup file, and you should not reuse a PIN you rely on elsewhere.
No method of electronic storage or transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will update the effective date above.
Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or AllowanceGo, contact:
Samie Syed, 61A Bridge Street, Kington, Herefordshire - HR5 3DJ, United Kingdom (GB)