Chores
Privacy policy
Updated 16 October 2026
In short
Chores (Kotityöt in Finnish) is an app built for families to organise household chores (a web app and an iOS app). It contains no advertising, analytics or tracking. The adults who manage a family sign in with their Apple Account (Sign in with Apple), and the app does not receive their name or email address. Each family's data is for that family's use only and is not sold or disclosed to anyone other than the service providers named below. The free trial and the full version are available in the iOS app through the App Store.
Controller and contact
The controller is Cavalier Venues Oy (business ID 3649639-4, VAT ID FI36496394), which operates the app's web service. The family enters its data itself, and it is used only for running the app. Questions about the app or this policy: tietosuoja@chores.fi.
Domicile: Helsinki, Finland. Postal address: Lönnrotinkatu 40, 00180 Helsinki, Finland.
What data is processed and why
| Data | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Family members' first names (no surnames or contact details) | Assigning completions to a family member. |
| The Apple identifier of the adults who manage the family (Sign in with Apple; no name or email address) | Signing in and managing the family. |
| Chores, completions, rewards and redemptions: who did what, when and from which device | The app's core function: daily and weekly chores, stars and rewards. |
| Achievements, streaks and goals, derived from completions | Gamification. |
| Names, notification tokens and notification language of paired iOS devices | Identifying and unpairing a device, and notifications in the device's language if they are allowed. |
| The family's time zone and first day of the week | Calculating the family's day and week: streaks, points and the weekly goal. |
| Purchases: transactions for the free trial and the full version (product, transaction identifier and purchase time) and the adult who bought the full version | The family's access, restoring purchases and taking refunds into account. |
| Technical data, such as IP addresses, including from visits to this website | Delivering the service and preventing misuse. |
| Messages: your email address and message when you write to support or about privacy | Replying to messages and handling requests. |
The web app uses only the cookies it needs to work (sign-in, language choice and device identification), no tracking cookies. The app does not process location, photos or health data. Payments are handled by Apple, and the app never sees payment details.
Legal basis
The data of the adults who manage the family and the family's purchases are processed on the basis of a contract: they are needed to provide the service and the purchased full version (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR).
The data of other family members, entered by the family itself, technical data and messages are processed on the basis of the controller's legitimate interest: the service gives the family a tool for organising household chores, it has to be secure, and messages need to be answered (Article 6(1)(f)). For children's data, the child's interests weigh especially heavily in this balancing. Privacy requests are handled on the basis of a legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c)).
Recipients and transfers outside the EU
App data is stored in the EU (Germany). Only the following service providers process data in order to deliver the app and answer messages:
- Databricks, Inc. (Neon database)
- Vercel Inc. (hosting)
- Apple Inc. (Sign in with Apple, push notifications for the iOS app and App Store purchases)
- Google (email mailbox)
Apple processes App Store payments as an independent controller under its own privacy policy.
The providers may also process data in the United States. Transfers are based on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses; a copy of the clauses is available from tietosuoja@chores.fi.
Retention and deletion
Data is kept for as long as the family keeps it in the app. The family can edit and delete chores, completions and rewards. A family member can be deleted together with their history, which permanently deletes their completions, redemptions, achievements and bonus stars. A reward with history can only be archived; its data is deleted when the family is deleted from the service. An adult's Apple identifier is kept until their user account or the family is deleted. Purchase data is kept for as long as the family is in the service.
A family and its data are deleted if none of its devices has connected to the service for 24 months. A purchased full version can then be used in a new family by restoring purchases. The app then remains in the adult's list of apps using Sign in with Apple, from which it can be removed in the Apple Account settings.
An adult who manages the family can delete their user account in the iOS app. If the family owner deletes their account, the whole family and its data are deleted immediately; an admin's deletion removes only their own account. The permission given to the app with Sign in with Apple is revoked at the same time. If an adult deletes their Apple Account, their user account is deleted in the same way.
The iOS app keeps a sign-in token and the week's data on the device so that it also works offline. Unpairing a device from the family revokes its token. Deleted data also disappears from database backups within a day.
Email messages are kept for 12 months from the last message. Logs containing technical data are kept for at most 30 days, and Vercel may also keep technical logs for its own purposes under its privacy policy.
Your rights
You have the right to access your data, to request rectification or erasure, to request restriction of processing, to object to processing, and to receive the data processed on the basis of a contract in a machine-readable format. User accounts and families can be deleted in the app. Requests, including deletion requests, can be sent to tietosuoja@chores.fi. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; in Finland this is the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman (tietosuoja.fi).
Children's data
Some of the data concerns children. It is entered by the family itself or arises from using the app, and includes information such as first names, chore completions and the achievements derived from them, reward redemptions, and the name, notification token and notification language of a device the child uses if it is paired with the family. Children use the app without a user account of their own. The app contains no advertising. The full version is bought by an adult in the family with their own Apple Account, and the purchase is confirmed with Sign in with Apple. The app is not published in the App Store Kids category.