Privacy policy
In short: you type your budget in yourself; there’s no bank connection. Your budget is stored with Google Firebase so it syncs between your household’s iPhones and iPads. It’s never sold, never used for ads, and you can export it or delete it from the app at any time.
Who we are
Simple Budget Planner is made by Mehmet Çetin (“I”, “we”), the data controller for the app and this website. Contact: [email protected].
What the app collects
| Data | Why | Processed by | Linked to you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your budget: entries, amounts, notes, categories, bills, savings goals, currency | To run the app and sync it between your household’s iPhones and iPads | Google Firebase (Firestore) | Yes, to your account |
| Email address (only if you add one, to share or move your budget) | Signing in and sharing | Google Firebase (Authentication) | Yes |
| Account ID (a random ID the app creates) | Keeping your budget yours; analytics | Google Firebase, Mixpanel | Yes |
| Push notification token | Sending notifications you allowed | Google Firebase (Cloud Messaging) | Yes |
| How the app is used (e.g. “entry added”, “paywall shown”), never amounts or notes | Understanding what to improve | Mixpanel, Google Analytics for Firebase | Yes |
| Approximate location (city and country, worked out from the IP address; never GPS) | Understanding where the app is used | Mixpanel | Yes |
| Purchases (which plan, trial or renewal, as Apple reports it; never payment details) | Understanding what to improve | Mixpanel | Yes |
| Crash reports (device model, iOS version, what the app was doing) | Fixing crashes | Google Firebase (Crashlytics) | No |
We don’t collect your bank details, your precise (GPS) location, your contacts or your photos. Face ID, if you turn on “Lock with Face ID”, is handled by iOS on your iPhone or iPad; the app never sees your face data. Purchases are made through Apple; we don’t receive your payment details, and the app checks your subscription with Apple on your device. The widget reads a short summary (what’s left this period) that the app keeps on your device; it isn’t sent anywhere.
No tracking, no ads, nothing sold
The app doesn’t track you across other companies’ apps or websites, shows no ads, and doesn’t use the advertising identifier. We don’t sell or rent your data and don’t share it with data brokers.
Sharing your budget
When you share your budget with a code, everyone who joins can see and change it. If you join someone else’s budget, the entries already on your device are kept separately and come back if you stop sharing.
Legal basis (UK and EU)
We store and sync your budget and email to provide the app you asked for (contract). We use usage analytics and crash reports to keep the app working and improve it (legitimate interests); they record what was used, not what you entered.
Where it’s stored and for how long
Firebase and Mixpanel store data on servers that may be outside your country, including in the United States, under the providers’ standard data protection terms. Your budget is kept for as long as you have an account. When you delete your account, your budget and account are deleted from Firebase. Analytics and crash data are kept for the providers’ standard retention period; email us and we’ll delete your analytics profile too.
Your choices and rights
- Export: Household → Export creates a CSV of everything, on every plan.
- Delete: Household → Settings → Delete account deletes your account and every entry, category, goal and bill, on every phone. If your budget is shared, you’re asked to stop sharing (or leave) first.
- Notifications: turn them off in iOS Settings at any time.
- You can ask for access to, correction of, or deletion of your data, or object to analytics, by emailing [email protected]. In the UK you can also complain to the ICO; in the EU, to your local data protection authority. California residents have the same rights under the CCPA; we don’t sell or share personal information as defined there.
Children
The app isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has given us personal data, email us and we’ll delete it.
This website
sbp.sh uses Vercel Web Analytics, which counts page views without cookies and without identifying you. The site sets no cookies. Links to the App Store take you to Apple, whose privacy policy then applies.
Service providers’ policies
- Google Firebase (Authentication, Firestore, Cloud Messaging, Crashlytics, Analytics)
- Mixpanel
- Apple (App Store, purchases)
- Vercel (this website)
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new date. Significant changes are also mentioned in the app’s release notes.