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Quarters — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-10-12

This privacy policy describes how the Quarters iOS app (“the App”) collects, uses, and shares your information.

Information we collect

When you sign in to the App with your Apple ID, we receive:

  • A unique user identifier from Sign in with Apple, which we use to create your Quarters account (a Supabase auth ID and a household member ID) — we never receive your raw Apple ID or password.
  • Your email address (only if you choose to share it during sign-in).
  • The display name you type when creating or joining a household.

When you use the App, we collect:

  • Photos you upload as cleaning task proof or as chat attachments.

  • The profile picture you optionally upload.

  • Messages you send to other members of your household.

  • Bills, rotation schedules, and household membership data you create.

  • A push-notification device token, so we can deliver alerts to your phone.

  • Your device’s timezone, so reminders and quiet hours land at the right local time.

  • If you subscribe to Quarters Pro: a purchase transaction ID linked to your account, so we can verify your household’s subscription. Apple, not Quarters, handles your payment card — we never see or store it.

  • AI features (optional, only when you use them). Two features send data to OpenAI, our AI sub-processor, to produce a suggestion you then review:

    • Set up with AI — when you describe your household’s chores in your own words, we send that text along with your roommates’ first names and the titles of rotations you already have, so the suggestion can assign turns and avoid duplicates.
    • Scan a receipt — when you photograph a receipt on the add-bill screen, we send that image.

    Both return a draft you can edit or discard — nothing is saved to your household until you accept it. We do not send your chat messages, your bill history, your email address, or anyone’s last name. OpenAI receives these requests through its API, which under OpenAI’s own terms does not use data submitted via the API to train its models. If you never tap these features, nothing is ever sent.

We do not collect:

  • Location data.
  • Contacts, calendars, microphone, or other system data outside what you explicitly grant in iOS Settings.

Analytics and error reporting

  • We use first-party analytics — counts of events like “opened a bill” or “completed a chore,” tied to your account, stored on our own infrastructure. We use this to understand which parts of the App are useful, not to build a profile of you for anyone outside Quarters.
  • We use Sentry for crash and error reporting. That covers crashes, and also errors the App handles but still needs us to see — for example a chore whose proof photo failed to upload. These reports are not linked to your identity. They carry the kind of error and internal record identifiers, such as which chore rotation was affected; they do not carry your messages, your photos, or your personal information.
  • We run no advertising or tracking SDKs. The App does not use Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework, because we don’t track you across other companies’ apps or websites, and we don’t sell or share your data for advertising.

How we use your information

  • To operate the App: route messages, render rotations, send push reminders.
  • To authenticate you and authorize you to access your household’s data.
  • To deliver photos to your roommates and back to you when needed.
  • To verify and maintain a Quarters Pro subscription, if you or a household member has purchased one.

We do not sell, rent, or share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.

Data storage and security

Your data is stored on Supabase infrastructure (Postgres database, encrypted storage buckets) hosted in the AWS us-west-1 region. Row-level security policies enforce that only members of your household can read or write your household’s data.

Your choices

  • Account deletion. You can permanently delete your account from inside the App: tap your avatar → Delete account. This immediately and permanently deletes your authentication record, your member entry in any household, your push tokens, and messages, cleaning completions, and rotation completions you created. The household retains shared financial records: bill amounts, dates, shares, and paid or unpaid status. Your financial participant label is replaced with “Deleted member”, including in households you previously left, and its account association is removed. These financial identity records do not retain authentication identifiers, contact details, or profile photos. Other household members may have included personal information in bill titles, notes, or receipts; deleting an account does not erase those shared documents. Uploaded photos outside retained shared bills may remain as orphan storage objects until cleanup; instant erasure of every blob is not guaranteed. Deletion cannot be undone.
  • Leaving or being removed from a household. Your access ends immediately. Existing paid and unpaid bill shares remain with the household under your display name; leaving does not settle or forgive a balance. The retained financial identity does not grant household access or receive reminders. Shared financial records remain until the household deletes the bill or the household itself. Account deletion replaces your financial label as described above, even if you have already left.
  • Notifications. Toggle off in iOS Settings → Notifications → Quarters at any time.
  • Photo permissions. Toggle off in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos → Quarters.
  • Subscriptions. If you’ve subscribed to Quarters Pro, manage or cancel it anytime in iOS Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions. Deleting your Quarters account does not cancel an active Apple subscription — cancel it separately.

Children

The App is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be communicated in an in-app notice.

Contact

Questions: quarters@firstunit.io

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