Privacy Policy
Piece of Cake is a family app. Here is exactly what it stores, why, for how long, and how to remove it.
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Effective 26 September 2026
In short
- Piece of Cake stores what a family puts into it: names, children's birthdays, chores, points, reminders and photos. Nothing else.
- No advertising, no tracking, no analytics, no selling or sharing of data. There are no third-party SDKs besides the Firebase services that run the app.
- Children never create accounts. A parent adds a child, and the child's phone joins with a one-time code as a guest, without email, password or personal details.
- Everything can be deleted from inside the app.
Who is responsible
Piece of Cake is published by its developer in Switzerland. Contact: support@pieceofcakeapp.com.
What is stored, and why
| Data | Entered by | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Parent's name; the email address of the Apple ID used to sign in (Apple lets you hide it behind a relay address) | Parent | Signing in, owning the family, recovering access |
| Children's names and birthdays | Parent | Showing who a chore is for; birthdays are required so profiles are unambiguous inside the family |
| Chores, points, approvals, allowance settings and amounts, badges | Parents and children | The purpose of the app |
| Reminder messages between family members | Parents and children | Delivering the reminder and its alarm |
| Photos: profile pictures, pictures describing a chore, and the camera photo a child attaches when marking a chore done | Parents and children | Showing what “done” looks like; helping parents approve |
| A push notification token, an anonymous account identifier and the chosen language per device | The app | Delivering reminders and approvals to the right phone, in its language |
| App version, iOS version and phone model, when you send feedback | The app | Understanding a problem report |
Piece of Cake does not collect location, contacts, browsing or usage analytics, and does not use the advertising identifier.
Children
Piece of Cake is used by families, including children under 13. Children do not register: the parent creates the child's profile and decides what it contains. The only things a child adds are chores marked done, optional camera photos of the result, reminders to family members and, if they choose, feedback to us. Parents can see, change and delete all of it under Settings → Family. We do not knowingly collect any information from a child beyond this, and we never show ads to anyone.
Who can see what
Data is visible only inside your family. Parents see everything in the family. A child sees their own chores, points and reminders, and the photos they took themselves. A shared household device sees what the child using it sees. The developer can access data for support and safety purposes only.
Where it is stored
Piece of Cake runs on Google Firebase (Authentication, Firestore, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, Cloud Messaging) in the United States (us-central1). Google processes the data on our behalf under its Firebase data processing terms. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
How long it is kept
- Photos a child attaches when marking a chore done: deleted 30 days after the chore is approved or declined.
- Photos describing a chore: deleted 90 days after the chore is archived.
- Finished reminders: deleted after 7 days.
- A member removed from the family: kept 30 days so a parent can restore them, then erased with their pictures.
- A family deleted by its last parent: kept 30 days so it can be restored on request, then erased with all its photos.
- Everything else: for as long as the family uses Piece of Cake.
Deleting your data
Parents: Settings → Delete my account. Children: tap your picture → Remove this phone from the family. Parents can also remove any member under Settings → Family. See Support for the details of each case. For any request, including access to your data, write to support@pieceofcakeapp.com.
Your rights
Under Swiss data protection law and the GDPR you can ask what we hold about you or your children, have it corrected or deleted, and object to its processing. Email us and we answer within 30 days. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version appears here with a new effective date, and the app points to it.