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Privacy policy
BudgetCat is a budgeting app designed to help you track spending, savings, and recurring money activity. This Privacy Policy explains what information BudgetCat handles, how it is used, and the choices you have.
1. Information you provide in the app
When you use BudgetCat, you may enter information such as:
- transactions, categories, budgets, savings goals, recurring items, notes, and account names
- optional receipt photos or receipt attachments
- optional account information for cloud-connected features, such as your email address
Most budgeting information is stored locally on your device unless you choose to use optional cloud-connected features.
2. Camera and photo access
BudgetCat may request access to your camera or photo library only when you choose to attach a receipt or take a receipt photo.
- Camera access is used only to capture receipt images you choose to add.
- Photo library access is used only to let you select images you choose to attach.
BudgetCat does not access your camera or photos unless you initiate those actions.
3. Optional cloud sync and backup
BudgetCat offers optional cloud accounts and Backup Plus sync. If you enable these, your email address, account identifier, budget records, and receipt attachments are processed by Supabase to authenticate you and store your cloud budget. Transfers use HTTPS.
These features may include:
- authentication through Supabase
- backup or sync of budgeting data associated with your account
If you do not use cloud-connected features, your budgeting data can remain local to your device except when you choose to export or share a backup yourself.
4. Purchases and subscriptions
BudgetCat offers an optional Pro purchase and Backup Plus subscriptions.
Purchases are processed by the Google Play Store and related billing providers, including RevenueCat for subscription and entitlement management. BudgetCat does not receive your full payment card details. BudgetCat may receive purchase status, entitlement status, product identifiers, app user identifiers, and related account or transaction metadata needed to unlock paid features, restore purchases, manage subscription access, and understand purchase performance.
5. How information is used
BudgetCat uses information to:
- provide budgeting, savings, and planning features
- save and organize your financial records
- support optional receipt attachments
- enable optional cloud backup, sync, and account features
- verify purchases, unlock paid features, and restore purchases
- maintain app security, reliability, and functionality
6. Data sharing
BudgetCat does not sell your personal information.
Information may be shared with service providers only as needed to operate features you choose to use, such as:
- Supabase for optional account and cloud sync functionality
- RevenueCat for purchase and entitlement management
- Google Play for billing and subscription processing
7. Data retention and control
You control much of your data through the app itself. Depending on the feature you use, you may be able to:
- edit or delete budgeting records on your device
- export backups
- restore backups
- stop using optional cloud-connected features
Delete your cloud account automatically from Settings → Data → Delete cloud account, or visit budgetcat.ca/delete-account. After you verify your password and confirm, we delete your account, cloud budget records, backups, and uploaded receipts, and submit deletion of your associated RevenueCat billing profile. If that provider queues the deletion, the confirmation page tells you.
Copies on your devices, exported files, and backups in your own Google Drive are under your control and must be removed separately. Deleting an account does not cancel a subscription. Manage subscriptions in Google Play; Google may retain transaction records for billing and legal obligations. Operational security logs and provider disaster-recovery backups may remain until their normal retention periods expire and are not used to restore your deleted account. Contact support@budgetcat.ca for help with data removal.
8. Security
BudgetCat is designed with a local-first approach, but no method of storage or transmission is completely secure. You should use device security features such as a screen lock and keep your device software up to date.
9. Children
BudgetCat is intended for adults aged 18 and over.
10. Changes to this policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. If the policy changes, the updated version will be posted at the current privacy policy URL with a revised effective date.
11. Contact
For privacy questions or support requests, email support@budgetcat.ca. The same address is listed on the BudgetCat Google Play listing.