Who is responsible

What Commonomy stores

Your account

• Email address and password. Passwords are hashed by our authentication provider — they are never stored in a form we or anyone else can read.
• Profile details you enter: first and last name, phone number, home address, date of birth, your role (mother/father/other) and family status.

Your family

• Children you add — name, date of birth, and a colour used on the calendar.
• Other people you add to the schedule — a co-parent, grandparent, babysitter — as a name and colour.
• Custody schedule — your repeating pattern and any one-off overrides.
• Holiday tradition — which set of holidays your calendar should follow. This can imply a religious affiliation, so to be explicit: it is used only to decide which holidays appear on your calendar, it is visible only inside your own family, it is never used for dating, advertising or any form of profiling, and you can leave it unset.

What you put in the app

• Calendar events — title, type, note, date, time, and which children they relate to.
• Expenses — amount, category, date, recurring templates, and receipt photos you attach.
• Documents you choose to share (see below — private ones are handled differently).
• Messages you post in a community group.
• Shopping lists and their items.
• Community groups you create or join, including a group's location if you set one. If you report a message or block someone, that report or block is stored so we can act on it.

Only if you turn it on

• WhatsApp. Off until you link a number. Once linked: the number, and whatever you send to Commo there — a message, a photo, a statement — so it can be read into proposals you approve in the app.
• Push notifications. A device token, so a message can reach your phone.
• Location. Used only while you are looking at the groups map, to centre it near you.
• Calendar access. Used for three things, each only when you turn it on: to write your custody days and family events into a calendar of Commonomy's own on your phone; to see which days you are already busy when you mark free time — this stays on your phone, and only the fact that a day is busy is used, never what is in it; and to import the calendars you choose (for example your Google calendar) into your Commonomy account. Imported events are copied to our servers, are private to you by default, and are shared with your family only for a calendar you mark as shared. Turning a calendar off deletes what was imported from it.
• Photos and camera. Used only for receipts and documents you choose to attach.

What Commonomy does not do

Documents stay where you put them

When you mark a document private, the file is never uploaded anywhere. Commonomy stores only a reference to where it sits on your own device, so the file itself never leaves your phone and cannot be read by us, by your co-parent, or by anyone else. Only documents you explicitly mark as shared are uploaded, and only your family can open them.

Who can see your information

Commonomy is a shared app, so this is the part worth reading closely.

• Your family. Once you and a co-parent connect with an invite code, you both see the same calendar, children, expenses, shared documents and shopping lists. Connecting is deliberate — nothing is shared until someone enters the code.
• Events marked private are visible only to you, even inside a connected family.
• Community groups. Other members of a group see your name, the messages you post there, and the events you add. Public groups appear on the map to anyone; private groups are invite-only.
• Nobody else. Your contact details, home address and date of birth are never visible to other users of the app.

Companies that process data for us

Your account data is stored in the European Union. Anthropic and Google are based in the United States, so the information described above — what you hand to como, and address text you type into the address field — is processed outside the EU under those companies' standard data protection terms.

Children

Deleting your account

Deletion happens immediately, not on a delay. Open Settings and choose Delete account. Your profile, children, schedule, events, expenses, receipts, documents, messages, lists and notifications are removed from the database as part of the same operation. It cannot be undone.

Two things to know. Records your co-parent created remain theirs and stay in their account. And if you would rather not do it yourself, email support@commonomy.com and we will do it for you.

How long data is kept

Your rights

Changes

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