Privacy policy
This policy covers Cairn, Chuckbox and Haversack, on the web and on iPhone, the login and household they share with the other Everyday Compass apps, and this website. Operation Pathfinders has its own privacy policy (opens in a new tab) for the records it keeps, and Switchback Money has its own too. Questions, access, corrections or deletion: support@everydaycompasslife.com.
What we keep
Your login and household (shared by every Everyday Compass app)
- Your email address and password. The password is stored by our sign-in provider as a one-way hash; we never see it.
- Your household’s name, and the names you give the people in it, whether each is an adult or a kid, and each adult’s role (owner, admin, member or view-only).
- Invitations you send: the invited person’s email address until they accept or the invite expires.
- Which apps the household has, its free trials, and its membership status, including whether it was bought on the website or through the App Store, the plan, and when it renews or ends.
Cairn
- House details: bedrooms, bathrooms, floors, square footage if you give it, how much is hard floor, whether there is outdoor space, and how many people, children and pets live there.
- The days and time you set aside for cleaning, your pace through the plan, and how much each person takes on.
- Your settings for each job (on or off, day, who does it, how often), when jobs were done, by whom, how long they took, and notes you write.
- Supplies you have marked as stocked and items you add to the list.
- Requests people in your household send each other, and your settings for them.
- Maintain: the things you look after (your home, vehicles by name, year, make and model, and anything else you add), meter readings such as mileage, the maintenance jobs and how often they are due, when each was done, by whom, what it cost and any note, tire details (brand, model, size, ratings, DOT code and when they went on), who is responsible for each, and your weekly check-in day and time zone. A job’s usual cost, if you add one, is used to show what’s coming up.
- Pets: each pet’s name, kind and notes you add (such as food amounts), the vet’s name and phone number, care jobs with how often they happen and whose turn it is, when each was done and by whom, and vet dates such as vaccines and checkups. Vet reminders are scheduled on your phone.
- House info: the entries you write in your house binder, such as Wi-Fi details, emergency and service contacts, notes for a sitter, where things are kept, and warranties. Entries you mark “hide until tapped”, such as a Wi-Fi password, are still stored for your household; they are only hidden on screen.
If you create a sitter link, anyone who has the link can see the house info entries you marked to share, without signing in, until you turn the link off. We store only a scrambled (hashed) copy of the link, not the link itself. A Maintain cost is sent to Switchback only when you tap “Add to budget”.
If you paste a property listing, it is read in your browser and only the numbers it finds are saved; the text itself is not sent to us. The answers to the setup questions set your starting pace; we keep the pace, not the answers.
Chuckbox
- Recipes: titles, ingredients, steps, servings, times, tags, favorites, notes and the web address you got a recipe from.
- Your meal plan, grocery list ticks, extra grocery items and staples.
- Grocery trips you log: the date, total spent, and the store and note if you add them. When you log a trip it is also sent to your household’s Switchback budget, if your household uses Switchback.
When you import a recipe from a link, our server opens that page to read the recipe. The website sees a request from our hosting provider, not from your device, and we keep only the recipe you save.
Haversack
- Clothes: name, category, color, seasons, size, brand, price and date if you add them, how a kid’s item fits, notes, and whether it is in the closet or set aside to donate, sell or hand down.
- Photos of clothes you choose to add. They are stored in a private folder for your household and shown only to people who can see that closet.
- Outfits you save or plan, the days you wore each item, and your clear-out settings.
- Trips and packing lists: the trip’s name, type and dates, who is going, each person’s packing items (closet items or ones you type) and which are packed, and templates you save.
- Donations: which items you mark as donated. Marking a donation creates a request in Cairn for the person who will drop it off, and a donation value you choose to log is sent to Switchback.
Each adult’s closet is visible only to that adult. Closets for kids, and for people without a login, are visible to the household’s owners, admins and members who can edit.
How we use it
Only to run the apps for your household: to sign you in, show the right household, build your cleaning plan and grocery list, keep people’s lists in step across devices and apps, run trials and memberships, send account emails, and answer support requests. We do not use it for advertising, and we do not sell or rent it.
Who can see it
- The adults in your household, according to their role. View-only adults can see but not change. Haversack closets are the exception above.
- Kids in the household can see pet care and the house info entries that aren’t hidden, and can tick off pet care and their own packing list; they can’t change other things.
- Other households cannot see anything in yours. Our database enforces this on every request.
- People you choose to share with, using the sharing features you turn on.
- Our service providers, below, only to run the service for us.
- Anyone the law requires us to tell, or where needed to protect people or the service.
Service providers
| Provider | What they do |
|---|---|
| Supabase | Sign-in, the database, and the server functions (such as recipe import) |
| Cloudflare | Hosts the websites and handles network traffic and security |
| Resend | Sends account emails such as sign-in links and codes |
| Stripe | Takes payment when you buy a membership on the website. Card details go to Stripe, never to us |
| RevenueCat | Keeps track of memberships bought through the App Store, identified by your household’s ID, not your name or email |
| Expo | Delivers updates to the iPhone apps |
| Apple | Distributes the iPhone apps through the App Store and TestFlight, takes payment for App Store purchases, and delivers notifications |
Their systems keep ordinary network and security logs, which can include your IP address and device type, under their own terms.
On your device
The website keeps your sign-in session and the household you last opened in your browser’s storage. The iPhone apps keep your sign-in session on the phone. Signing out removes it. When you use the app switcher, your sign-in is handed to the next app inside the link it opens, so you don’t have to sign in again; that link is not stored.
If you turn on reminders, the app saves a notification token for your phone so we can send them (for example Cairn’s daily list and Maintain reminders). Signing out removes it.
Home Screen widgets show a short summary, such as today’s chores or tonight’s supper. The app keeps that summary on your phone for the widget to read; it is not sent anywhere and is cleared when you sign out.
Haversack uses the camera or your photo library only when you choose to add a photo of an item, and only that photo is uploaded. We do not use advertising, tracking or analytics tools, and the apps do not use your location, contacts, microphone or health data.
Kids
Cairn, Chuckbox and Haversack are for adults running a household. Kids don’t sign in to them; a parent can add a kid by name so jobs, meals and clothes can include them. A nickname works fine. Don’t enter anything about a child you wouldn’t want stored. Kid logins exist only in Operation Pathfinders, under its policy (opens in a new tab).
Keeping and deleting
We keep your records while your account exists. You can change or remove individual items in the apps at any time.
To delete your account, open Household → Your login → Delete account in Cairn, Chuckbox or Haversack, on the website or the iPhone app, and confirm with your password. This deletes your login and, for any household where you are the last adult with a login, that household and everything in it in every app, straight away. Deleting your login ends your access to every Everyday Compass app, because they share it. Where other adults remain, the household stays with them and your name comes off it. A membership for a household that is deleted is canceled. You can also ask us by email from the address you sign in with.
Deleting your account doesn’t cancel an App Store subscription; cancel it in your iPhone’s Settings, under your name, then Subscriptions. Stripe, Apple and RevenueCat may keep payment records they are required to keep. Backups and provider logs are erased on their normal schedules.
Changes
If we change what we collect or how we use it, we will update this page and its date first, and tell you in the apps before any change that needs your agreement.