Privacy Policy

Local-first home information

House Manual is designed as a local-first home-care toolkit by Life Taught Clearly. The house details, reminders, emergency contacts, contractor notes, bills, and planning information you enter are stored on your device through the app's local storage unless you choose to use a feature that sends selected information to a server.

Data collection

The app does not include advertising tracking and does not sell personal data. House Manual does not require an account for the local app experience. Some premium AI features use a server-side House AI backend to process requests, verify entitlement, enforce usage limits, and return answers or reviewed save-back suggestions.

House AI processing

When you use House AI, the message you write and the app context shown or selected for that request may be sent to Life Taught Clearly's backend and to an AI provider, currently OpenAI, to generate a response. House AI is designed to avoid sending exact addresses, serial numbers, photos, documents, or other sensitive records unless the feature clearly asks for that information and you choose to include it.

AI usage records may include request metadata such as install identifier, entitlement state, feature surface, approximate token usage, model/provider information, and timestamps so the app can manage access, cost, abuse prevention, support, export, and deletion requests.

Purchases

Paid House Manual features are purchased through Apple's in-app purchase system. Apple processes payment information and provides StoreKit transaction status to the app so premium access can be enabled or restored.

Contractor records pilot

During the invitation-only contractor records pilot, a verified contractor may send House Manual a completed-work record for review. The record may include the contractor's business identity and sender address, the service address, work date and description, system or equipment details, and attached invoices, receipts, completion reports, warranties, permits, or inspection documents.

House Manual uses Resend to receive the message, private Vercel Blob storage for accepted attachments, and the House Manual database to keep property identity, work-history, evidence, review, and contractor-attribution records. The intake workflow is designed not to retain the raw email body. Pilot submissions are reviewed before publication.

A contractor's private portal excludes homeowner contact information, prices, raw documents, private storage locations, internal notes, and provider identifiers. Approved contractor-attributed history may remain connected to the property so an authorized current or future homeowner can understand prior professional work. This attribution is not a House Manual inspection, warranty, or guarantee of workmanship.

Contractors and homeowners may contact privacy support to request access, correction, invalidation, or deletion review. House Manual may retain a limited audit record when removing information is not appropriate for fraud prevention, dispute handling, legal obligations, or maintaining an accurate correction history.

AI export and deletion

House AI includes server endpoints designed to export or delete AI usage and entitlement records associated with an installation. These controls are for AI service records and do not replace deleting local app data from your device.

Backups and device behavior

Because the app stores information locally, your data may be affected by device settings, browser/webview storage behavior, app deletion, system cleanup, or device backup settings controlled by Apple and your device.

Contact

For privacy or support questions, use the support page or email privacy support directly.