Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 29, 2026

What Fairhand stores

To plan dinners, Fairhand keeps on your device: the people in your household and the names you give them, their diets, dislikes and allergies, your weeknight time and budget settings, your plans, your grocery check-offs, and which recipes you've marked "more like this" or "never again".

Allergy and diet information can be considered health-related. It is used for one purpose: deciding which dinners can be planned. It is never sold, shared, or used for advertising.

Where it goes

• On your device. Everything above is stored on your iPhone, and the app works entirely without a network.
• Your iCloud. If you share your household with someone (a partner, a flatmate), your household, plans and grocery list travel through your own iCloud account so both phones stay in step. It goes to Apple's servers under your Apple Account, not to ours. We have no way to read it: it is written to iCloud encrypted, and we operate no server that receives it.
• Whoever you share with. A person you invite sees the household you shared (everyone's names, diets and allergies) and can change it. That is the point of sharing, and it is worth knowing before you send an invite. You can stop sharing at any time; see Your rights below for what happens to their copy.
• Grocery prices. If you turn on store prices, your ZIP code and the ingredient names on your list are sent to a service we run, which asks Kroger for prices and sends them back. They travel in the body of the request rather than in the address, we never log them or write them to disk, and nothing identifying you or your phone is sent with them. We don't keep your ZIP code. The list of Kroger stores it found is held in our server's memory for a day so we don't have to ask again, filed under a scrambled label that cannot be turned back into the ZIP code it came from.
• Apple. Purchases are handled entirely by Apple. We never see your payment details. Apple tells us whether a subscription is active. If Fairhand was installed from one of our ads in the App Store, the service that records subscriptions also asks Apple which ad it was, using a short-lived token Apple provides for this rather than an advertising identifier, so we can see which ads lead to subscriptions. The answer is about the ad, not about you.
• This website. fairhandapp.com counts visits with Plausible Analytics. It sets no cookies and keeps no personal data: it counts which pages are visited, which site linked to them, and the browser, device type and country, in aggregate. The app doesn't use it.

What we don't do

• No accounts, no passwords, no email address required to use the app.
• No ads in the app, no advertising identifier, and no tracking across apps or websites.
• No selling or sharing of personal information, ever.
• No advertising or marketing profiles, and nothing about your household (no names, no allergies, no plans) is ever sent to a company other than Apple.
• Two services do help us run the app, and neither receives household data: one records whether a subscription started or renewed (and, as described above, which of our App Store ads led to the install, if one did), and one delivers notifications. What they see is that a phone is subscribed or should receive a message, never who is at your table or what they can eat.

Permissions we ask for, and when

• Reminders: only when you tap "Send to Reminders" on the grocery list, and only to create that list. We never read your existing reminders.
• Notifications: iOS asks you only when you tap one of these, each on a screen that says what we would send: "Turn on reminders" (offered once you have planned your first week, and again later on Home or after you subscribe; it covers news, the planning reminder and the trial warning), the weekly planning reminder switch in Settings, and "Tell me about new dinners" in What's new. What we send: a reminder when it is time to plan, a warning two days before a free trial, or any free period that turns into a paid subscription, ends, the cook timers you set yourself, and, only if you have said yes to news, a note when new dinners land. You can decline and keep everything else. In the app's Settings you can switch the planning reminder off and take back your yes to news. To stop every notification, news included, switch Fairhand's notifications off in the iOS Settings app, which we do not override.
• Quiet notifications for a free trial: if you have a free trial, or another free period that turns into a paid subscription, and iOS has not yet asked you about Fairhand's notifications on this phone, the app asks iOS to deliver them quietly, so the warning before the charge still reaches you even if you tapped "Not now". There is no prompt, and no sound or banner: quiet notifications appear only in Notification Center. Until you change it, only that warning and any cook timer you start arrive this way, and it stays that way after the trial. It does not sign you up for news. iOS puts Keep and Turn Off buttons on quiet notifications, and you can change it at any time in the iOS Settings app under Fairhand.

You can decline, or later turn off, any of these and keep using everything else.

Children

Fairhand is designed for the person who plans a household's meals: an adult. There is no login, no child-facing screen, and the app never asks anyone their age or date of birth. You may record children as members of your household: a name, and what they can and cannot eat. That is treated exactly like everyone else's: kept on your device, carried through your own iCloud if you share the household, and never sent to us. We do not collect personal information from children, because a child has no way to give us any.

How long it is kept

We keep nothing about you, so there is nothing on our side to expire. That part is simple and it is the part most people are asking about. The only thing our server holds at all is a list of Kroger stores, described above: a fact about Kroger rather than about you, filed under a label we cannot read back, and gone within a day.

Your own copies are worth being precise about, because "delete the app" does not mean what people usually expect:

• On your phone: deleting Fairhand deletes everything it stored there, immediately.
• In your iCloud: if you shared a household, a copy stays in your iCloud account after the app is gone, and reinstalling brings it back. To remove it, delete Fairhand's data in the iOS Settings app under your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage.
• On the phone of someone you shared with: their copy stays with them, and stopping sharing does not delete it. This is deliberate. Their week and their household's allergies are the information that keeps them safe at dinner, and destroying it because someone else tapped a button on another phone would be the wrong thing to do. They can delete it themselves at any time.

Your rights, and how to withdraw

You control your data directly, without asking us: edit or delete any household member in the app at any time, stop sharing your household from the Household screen, or delete the app. See How long it is kept above for exactly what deleting does and does not remove. The honest answer has three parts. You can also withdraw either permission (Reminders, and notifications, including notifications delivered quietly) in the iOS Settings app under Fairhand, and keep using the rest of the app.

There is no account for us to close, no export for us to send and no copy for us to return, because we never received one. If you have a question about any of this, email privacy@fairhandapp.com and a person will answer.

Changes

If what Fairhand collects, or where it goes, changes, we update this page first, with the date and what changed.

What changed on 26 August 2026: household sharing and iCloud sync now exist, so this page describes them. It previously said Fairhand did not sync anywhere, which stopped being true when sharing shipped the day before, and it promised that deleting the app removed every copy, which was never true of a household you had shared. Both are corrected above rather than quietly softened.

What changed on 29 September 2026: during a free trial, the app can now ask iOS to deliver its notifications quietly, without a prompt, so the warning before the charge reaches someone who has not answered the notification question. The notifications section above now says so. It also no longer says that tapping the free-trial button asks for notifications before the payment sheet: current versions of the app ask on the screen after you subscribe. And it now says plainly what the news switch in the app does and does not stop. It also now says that, if you installed Fairhand from one of our App Store ads, the service that records subscriptions asks Apple which ad it was. It now also says that this website counts visits with Plausible Analytics, which it has done since 21 September without this page saying so. And this section no longer promises to say so in the app before a change takes effect: this update comes with no notice in the app, so the page now promises only what we do.

Contact

Rojo Volcan LLC · privacy@fairhandapp.com