App: Home Inventory (Android, package com.sercoj.homeinventory)
Last updated: August 1, 2026
Effective: August 1, 2026
Home Inventory is built by an independent developer. This policy explains, in plain language, exactly what the app does with your information.
The short version: Home Inventory is a local-first app. Everything you record — your properties, rooms, storage places, items, prices, photos, barcodes, serial numbers and lending records — is stored on your phone. It never leaves your device unless you turn on cloud backup, export a file, or share something yourself. There is no account required to use the app, and there is no analytics SDK tracking how you use it.
Everything below lives in a private database inside the app’s own storage area on your phone. Other apps cannot read it.
Photos you take or select are copied into the app’s private file storage (photos/ and captures/ inside the app’s internal directory). The originals in your gallery are untouched.
No part of this is sent anywhere by default.
Cloud backup is off until you sign in and tap “Back up now.” It is entirely optional; the app is fully usable without it.
If you do use it:
users/<your-uid>/backups/…). Firestore security rules allow read and write access only to the signed-in user whose UID matches that path. The developer does not routinely access your backup contents, and no other user can reach them.| Permission | Why it is needed |
|---|---|
| Camera | To photograph items and receipts, and to scan barcodes. Camera frames are processed on your device (see section 3.2) and are never uploaded. The app works without it — you can pick photos from your gallery instead and type barcodes manually. |
| Notifications | To remind you before a warranty expires and when a lent item is due back or overdue. These reminders are calculated on your device by a daily background check; nothing is sent to a server to generate them. Declining this permission only means you stop getting reminders. |
| Internet / network state | Used only by ads, Google sign-in, cloud backup and crash reporting. If you never sign in and are using the paid ad-free version, the app has no reason to use the network. |
Advertising ID (AD_ID) and related ads permissions |
Declared automatically by the Google Mobile Ads SDK for ad delivery and measurement. |
| Billing | Required by Google Play to offer the “Remove ads” purchase. |
The app deliberately does not request the READ_CONTACTS permission and does not request storage or location permissions.
When you lend or gift an item, you can attach a person to that record. The app opens Android’s own contact picker. You choose one contact; Android hands the app just that one entry. The app never gets access to your contact list.
From the entry you picked, the app saves the display name, phone number and photo reference into its local database, so the same person can be reused later without opening the picker again. If you use cloud backup, these saved contacts are included in the backup (name and phone number). If you would rather not back up contact details, avoid attaching contacts to lending records, or do not use cloud backup.
Barcode scanning uses Google’s ML Kit with the recognition model bundled inside the app. Camera frames are analysed on your phone in real time and are not saved or transmitted. The app keeps only the resulting barcode number, and only if you save the item.
The app can export your inventory as a PDF or CSV file. When you do this, Android asks you where to save the file, and the file is written to the location you choose. Once a file leaves the app this way, this policy no longer governs it — where it goes next is up to you.
The app permits Android’s system backup feature for its inventory database only — photos and sign-in state are excluded by the app’s backup rules. If backup is enabled in your device settings, Android may include that database in the encrypted device backup associated with your Google account, alongside your other apps. That is a function of the Android platform and your device settings, not something the app transmits itself. You can turn it off in your device’s system backup settings.
On your device: data stays until you delete it in the app, clear the app’s data in Android settings, or uninstall the app. Uninstalling deletes all local inventory data and photos.
Cloud backups: each backup writes a latest.json file and keeps a rolling history of the five most recent timestamped backups; older ones are deleted automatically. Signing out stops any further backups but does not delete existing ones — the app tells you this when you sign out.
To delete your cloud backups and account data:
Deletion requests are handled within 30 days. Note that deleting cloud backups does not touch the data on your phone, and uninstalling the app does not delete cloud backups — they are separate, and you may want to do both.
Third-party services keep their own data on their own schedules: crash reports and advertising data are retained by Google according to Google’s policies, not the developer’s.
These are the only external services the app uses. Each has its own privacy policy:
The developer does not sell your data, does not share it with data brokers, and does not use your inventory data for advertising.
Home Inventory is not directed at children under 13, and the developer does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information through this app, contact the developer at the address below and it will be deleted.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export or delete your personal data, and to withdraw consent for personalised advertising.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this address with a new “Last updated” date. Material changes — for example, if the app ever started uploading photos or added analytics — will be announced in the app’s release notes as well.
Questions, data deletion requests, or privacy concerns:
cojocaru.serghei@gmail.com
Home Inventory is developed by an individual developer, so please allow a few days for a reply.