THE FINE PRINT
Privacy Policy
Effective May 17, 2026
This describes what Sprouts collects, why, and what you can do about it. Plain English.
What we collect
- Account info from your sign-in provider: your name, email, and (if shared) profile photo. We use Apple Sign In and Google Sign In.
- Family info you create: a family name, the people you’ve invited, and their roles.
- Child info you enter: your child’s name and birth date.
- Log entries you save: type (feed, pee, poo, etc.), timestamp, who logged it, and any optional notes, colors, or details you add.
- Feedback you send through the in-app feedback form: your message and a sentiment rating, linked to your account.
- Product analytics: anonymous usage data — device type, OS and app version, approximate location derived from your IP address (country/region level), and events about how you use Sprouts (screens opened, taps on key actions, errors). We use this to understand which parts of the app work well and which don’t. We do not include the contents of your logs in any analytics event.
We do not show ads, sell data, or use third-party trackers beyond Firebase.
Where it lives
All data is stored in Google Cloud Firestore via Firebase. Firebase encrypts data in transit and at rest. We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with third parties for advertising or marketing. Google processes data on our behalf as a sub-processor; their handling is governed by their own terms.
Who can see it
- You — everything you’ve saved.
- People in your family — anyone you’ve invited can see all the logs, child info, and family members in that family.
- Us — only as needed to operate, debug, or support the service. We don’t read your logs for fun.
A note on shared environments
While Sprouts is in development, our development, staging, and production builds share a single Firestore instance. We treat all data with the same care regardless of which build wrote it.
How long we keep it
As long as your account is active. When you request deletion (see below), we delete your account, family memberships you own, and the logs in those families within 30 days, subject to backups that age out naturally.
Your rights
- View and edit your data in the app.
- Leave a family at any time from Settings.
- Request export or deletion of your data by emailing sprout-support@googlegroups.com.
If you’re in the EU, UK, or California, you also have rights under the GDPR or CCPA — including access, correction, deletion, and portability. Email us and we’ll honor them.
Children’s data
Sprouts is designed for parents and caregivers logging information about their children. Children do not create accounts and do not interact with the app directly. The information you log about your child is treated with the same care as your own.
Security
We rely on Firebase Authentication and Firestore security rules to keep your data accessible only to you and your family. No system is perfectly secure — if you believe your account has been compromised, email us immediately.
Changes to this policy
If we update this policy, we’ll change the effective date and surface the update in-app.