Last updated: October 3, 2026
This policy explains how Parent Sphere: Family Planner handles information. Parent Sphere is published by Soft Flourish, an independent software studio and publishing house based in California, USA. It supplements the general Soft Flourish Privacy Policy and controls where the two differ for this app.
Parent Sphere is local-first. Family sync is optional and is available only to active parents who joined the same private household with an expiring invite. Free accounts on iPhone, iPad and Android see non-personalised ads, and Pro removes them. We do not sell personal data or family data.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Account identity and invited-parent email | To create the private household, verify membership, and make an invite usable only by the intended parent. Sign-in is by email, Google or Apple on iPhone, iPad and Mac; Apple, email or a code from your phone on Apple TV; email or Google on Android; email, Google or Microsoft on Windows. |
| Your family's calendar, handoffs, messages, decisions, expenses and observations | The content of the app. Stored so both parents can see the same week. |
| Sync revisions and last-change metadata | To prevent one parent's offline edit from silently overwriting the other's change. |
| Subscription status | RevenueCat records whether you have Pro and which store it came from, keyed to your account ID, so a subscription bought on one device unlocks on the others. Apple or Google handle payment, and Stripe does on Windows; we never see your card details. |
| Ads data (free tier, iPhone, iPad and Android only) | Google AdMob shows non-personalised ads and receives approximate location from your IP address, a device identifier, ad interactions and diagnostics. None of it is linked to your account. One small banner sits at the end of the Today, Calendar, Grow and Circle pages; none appears on handoffs, messages or decisions. On Android, Google's consent form appears first where the law requires it; on iPhone and iPad no ad is requested at all in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland. No ads on Mac, Apple TV or Windows, or for Pro. |
| Usage and diagnostics (Apple devices and Android) | Firebase Analytics counts basic app usage and how the app performs, without advertising-ID collection or ad personalisation signals, and not linked to your account. Firebase Remote Config delivers ad settings. |
Accounts, household sync, analytics and ad settings: Google Firebase. Subscriptions: RevenueCat, with Apple, Google or Stripe handling payment. Ads: Google AdMob and, on Android, Google's User Messaging Platform.
The Apple TV surface is deliberately reduced: private messages and sensitive health details never appear on it. A shared living-room screen is not a private one, so the app treats it as public within the household.
The app works locally without an account. If you turn on family sync, records travel over TLS to Parent Sphere's dedicated Firebase tenant and are readable only by active members of that household. Provider credentials are never stored in family records.
Export is available inside Family circle. Delete account removes your identity, email, invitations and member metadata immediately. If another parent remains, shared family records remain for that parent without your identity; if you are the last active parent, the whole household is deleted. Local device data remains until you clear it or remove the app. Purchase records stay with Apple, Google, RevenueCat and Stripe as the law requires, and deleting the account does not cancel a subscription: cancel Pro first where you bought it. If you cannot sign in, write to [email protected].
If this policy changes materially we will update the date at the top and describe the change here. Continuing to use Parent Sphere after a change means you accept it.
Questions about this policy, or a request about your data: [email protected], or the contact form.