Privacy Policy
Short version: Home Pulse has no accounts, no ads and no tracking. Your records live on your phone. When you use an AI feature, the text or images you chose are sent to a server and to Anthropic to produce the answer.
What stays on your phone
- The items you log, with notes, dates, warranty expiry and issue descriptions.
- Photos you attach to items and issues.
- The pages of your builder's warranty guide, and the per-category text created from them.
This data is stored in the app's local storage. It is not uploaded to an account, because there are no accounts. Deleting the app deletes it.
What is sent when you use an AI feature
These features send data to our server, which forwards it to Anthropic's Claude AI service to generate a response:
- Ask a question: the category, your question, any photo you attach, and the relevant excerpts of your guide.
- Reading your guide: the guide page images you photographed, sent once per guide.
- Scanning a label or receipt: the photo you took.
Nothing is sent until you use one of these features. We do not store the content of your questions or photos in our database. Anthropic processes the content under its own terms and privacy policy, available at anthropic.com/legal/privacy.
Anonymous identifier
The app creates a random anonymous identifier on your device so our server can limit how many AI requests each install can make per day. It contains no name, email address or other personal detail. We store that identifier together with a daily request count. Our server logs also record the request type and the amount of AI usage, without the content.
Permissions
- Camera: used only when you choose to scan a label or receipt, or to photograph a guide page or an issue.
- Photo library: used only when you choose to attach an existing photo.
What we do not do
- We do not ask for your name, email or phone number.
- We do not show ads or sell your data.
- The app contains no third-party analytics or advertising software.
Service providers
- Supabase: hosts our server function and the anonymous usage counter.
- Anthropic: processes the content of AI requests to produce answers.
Retention and deletion
Data on your phone is kept until you delete it or the app. The anonymous identifier and its daily counts are kept as long as needed to operate the service. To ask us to delete the identifier and counts associated with your install, email homepulsewarranty@gmail.com and tell us the approximate date you started using the app. Because the identifier is anonymous, we may not be able to match a request to an install.
Children
Home Pulse is intended for adults who own a home. It is not directed at children under 13.
Not legal advice
Home Pulse provides guidance generated by AI from your guide and common practice. It can be wrong. It is not legal advice and it does not decide whether your builder must cover a defect. Your written warranty and your contract control.
Changes
If we change this policy we will update the date above. Material changes will also be noted in the app.