Privacy
HouseHQ handles household information, including money-review details, with a simple rule: the app should help you organize your home without pretending to be your bank.
HouseHQ is a private beta household app for schedules, chores, groceries, meals, receipts, budgets, and household planning. It is built to help a household understand and organize its own information.
HouseHQ is not a bank, bill-pay service, payment processor, or financial advisor. It does not move money, pay bills, make financial decisions, or ask for bank usernames and passwords.
You may add household members, tasks, calendar items, groceries, meal plans, notes, receipts, receipt line items, categories, budgets, statement rows, and related money-review details.
If you upload or paste receipts, statement screenshots, PDFs, or CSVs, those files can contain sensitive financial information. Only use real household data if you are comfortable testing with it during the private beta.
HouseHQ uses household data to show the product experience: lists, dashboards, review queues, receipt parsing, category suggestions, statement import, and household summaries.
Statement import is review-before-save. HouseHQ tries to read the file or pasted text, shows rows for review, flags likely duplicates, and waits for you to choose what to keep.
If Capture AI is turned on for your plan, the text of a captured household item (such as a forwarded email subject and body, a pasted note, or extracted document text) is sent to Anthropic (Claude), a third-party AI provider, so it can suggest review cards like calendar events, tasks, and reminders. Anthropic (Claude) is a data sub-processor for that feature. When document or statement images are uploaded, those images are also sent to Anthropic (Claude) for transaction extraction.
Before that text is sent, HouseHQ removes obvious credentials and email addresses and asks the provider to mask sensitive information. This does not remove everything: the household text itself can still contain names, dates, amounts, and other personal or financial details, so only enable Capture AI if you are comfortable with that text being processed by Anthropic (Claude). Anthropic does not train its models on data submitted via its API.
Capture AI is review-only and never auto-saves, sends, files, or pays anything. HouseHQ does not store the raw request or response exchanged with Anthropic (Claude). Capture AI is available only on paid plans with an active subscription, and it is off unless it has been explicitly enabled.
Unauthenticated demo use may store data in your browser so the demo keeps working without an account. Clearing browser storage can remove that local demo data.
Tester login uses a private tester session so logged-in households can have isolated datasets. Early tester systems may still change as the product hardens.
HouseHQ may rely on hosting, database, authentication, deployment, file-processing, and AI providers to run the app. When Capture AI is enabled, Anthropic (Claude) acts as an AI sub-processor for captured-item text and document images (see "Capture AI and outside AI processing" above). Those providers are used to operate HouseHQ, not to sell household data.
Future bank linking, if added, should be optional and handled through a trusted provider. HouseHQ should not directly collect bank credentials.
HouseHQ is in private beta, and a small development team may operate the systems that store household data. We do not browse household information casually or use personal household data for unrelated purposes.
Access should be limited to what is needed to run, debug, secure, or support the product. As HouseHQ matures, planned controls include reduced sensitive logging, access auditing, and support flows that make household data access more explicit.
HouseHQ may keep limited account, security, consent, fraud-prevention, billing, or compliance records after household content is deleted when those records are needed to operate, protect, or document the service.
Consent records are separate from household content. They may include the consent type, consent version, timestamp, user or household id, and app version, but they should not include receipt images, statement text, OCR text, transaction rows, filenames, or raw household data.
You can export a JSON copy of your household data from Family settings.
You can also delete household data from Family settings. Logged-in household content is deleted from the shared database; local demo households are cleared from that browser. Limited account, security, consent, billing, fraud-prevention, or compliance records may be retained where needed.
During private beta, use the tester channel that invited you to ask for help with household data questions or deletion requests.