Cadence Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 18, 2026

Overview

Cadence is designed by Evla LLC so that we never hold your data. We do not operate any servers and we do not collect any personal information. Your household’s information lives on your device and, if you turn on sync, in your own cloud account, where it is governed by that company’s privacy policy and is not accessible to us. If you share your household with another person, Cadence passes that data between your accounts using that company’s sharing. It still never passes through us.

This policy covers Cadence on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Android. The two apps store and sync your data in different places, so where that matters, a line marked “On Android” says what is different.

On Android: sync uses your own Google Drive instead of iCloud, and it is off by default.

What We Collect

Nothing. Cadence does not operate any servers and does not receive any of your information. We do not collect personal information, usage data, or analytics. We do not ask for an email address, password, or any account credentials. There is no Cadence account to create. There is nothing for us to forget, leak, or be subpoenaed for.

When you use household sharing, Cadence stores an identifier that Apple provides for your iCloud account alongside the household member you’re linked to. It is what lets the app tell which member is using which device. That identifier stays in your household’s own data, in your iCloud account. We never see it.

If you turn on Share iPhone Analytics in your device settings, Apple sends us crash reports and aggregate usage numbers for the app. Apple does not tell us who you are in those reports, and we read them only inside Apple’s own developer tools. You can turn it off in Settings, Privacy and Security, Analytics and Improvements.

On Android: if you turn on sync, you sign in with your own Google account so the app can create and share one household file in your Google Drive. That sign-in is between you and Google. Cadence still receives nothing, and there is still no Cadence account.

How Your Data Is Stored

All information you enter, including household member names, activity schedules, reminders, costs, photos, and documents, is stored on your device using Apple’s SwiftData framework.

Optional iCloud syncing uses Apple’s CloudKit service to keep your data in sync across your devices. Cadence does not operate any servers and has no access to your iCloud data. iCloud data is governed by Apple’s privacy policy and your iCloud account settings.

If you pair an Apple Watch, Cadence sends a copy of your household to the Watch so the Watch app works on its own. That copy includes households, members, children, activities, and attendance. The Watch app also syncs through your own iCloud account, the same as your phone.

Cadence writes automatic backup files inside its own storage on your device: one the first time version 1.2 sets up your household, and backup copies (this device’s own data and the shared household) before each ownership handoff. Cadence does not upload these files, and they are removed when you delete the app.

If iCloud Backup is on for your device, everything Cadence keeps on the device is included in that backup, the same as any other app. That covers your household data, your photos and documents, and the backup files above. It goes to your own iCloud account under Apple’s privacy policy, and we cannot see it. You can leave Cadence out of it in Settings, Apple Account, iCloud, iCloud Backup, but then a new phone restored from that backup starts with no Cadence data.

To show your schedule in widgets, on the Lock Screen, and through Siri, Cadence writes a short summary of your upcoming activities to a shared container on the same device. It holds activity names, the person each one belongs to, times, and locations. It stays on the device.

Widgets, the Lock Screen, and the Dynamic Island can show activity names, times, and the name of the person an activity belongs to, which for a child’s activity is your child’s name. A leave-by Live Activity can start on its own and appear on the Lock Screen with no widget added. To stop this, remove the Cadence widgets and turn off Live Activities in Settings, Cadence.

Cadence also offers a Download My Data feature that exports all household data as a JSON file. The export includes your photos and documents inside the file itself, and the Apple-provided identifier for each member who has joined a shared household. The file is saved wherever you choose, such as the Files app, email, or a cloud drive. Cadence does not transmit this file anywhere. You can use it to restore your data on a new device or after reinstalling the app.

Cadence can also make a weekly summary as a PDF. You choose where it goes when you save or send it. Cadence does not send it anywhere on its own.

On Android: your information is stored on your device using Android’s Room database and the app’s private storage. If you turn on sync, a copy of your household is also stored as one file in your own Google Drive so an invited co-parent can stay in sync. Download My Data works the same way.

On Android: your profile photos are included in that Google Drive file in full, so they reach your co-parent’s device and sit in your Google Drive. Document files are not uploaded. Only their entries sync, and each file stays on the device that added it.

On Android: if backup is on for your Google account, which is the Android default, Android’s Auto Backup copies the app’s data to your Google account. That covers your household database, your photos and documents, the account email and device identifier the app keeps for sync, and any Download My Data file still sitting in the app’s storage. Google limits an app’s backup to 25 MB and skips the whole app’s backup above that without telling you, so a household with several photos may not be backed up at all. You can turn backup off for Cadence in your device settings under Google, Backup.

On Android: the Next Up widget shows the name of the person an activity belongs to as plain text on your home screen. The leave-by countdown is an ongoing notification, and on Android 16 and later it also appears as a Live Update, with a chip in the status bar and a card on the lock screen. Remove the widgets or turn off that notification to stop this.

Sharing Your Household

You can invite another person to share your household. Sharing uses Apple’s CloudKit sharing. The invitation is a link you send with Messages or Copy Link, and whoever you send it to can use it to join. Mail can’t send household invites. Send it only to the person you intend to invite.

When someone joins, they can see the household’s information: members and their photos, activities and schedules, costs and budgets, documents, and notes. You choose whether they can also make changes. Cadence has no access to any of it, and neither does anyone you haven’t invited.

Apple tells the app the name, and in some cases the email address or phone number, that each person uses with their Apple Account, so Cadence can show you who is in the household. That comes from Apple’s sharing and stays in your household’s data. We never see it.

You can remove someone at any time from Manage Household. Removal ends their access to the shared data. Anything they exported with Download My Data before that is a copy on their own device, and removing them does not reach it.

Cadence does not send you notifications about what another member views. Both people are working in the same household, and the app treats them as equals.

When you type another person’s contact details into Cadence, such as the co-parent you invite or an email on a registration reminder, the app uses them only for the thing you asked for. We never receive them. They are stored in your household’s data, which means they travel wherever that data travels, including your sync account and your device backup.

On Android: the email address you type to invite a co-parent is sent to Google so that person can open your household file in your Drive. Cadence does not store that address anywhere. It exists only in the sharing list for that file in your Google Drive.

On Android: sharing works through the one household file in your Google Drive. You share that file with the co-parent you invite, and they open it to sync. Cadence uses Google’s “drive.file” access, which limits the app to only the files it creates or that you explicitly open with it, so it cannot see the rest of your Drive. The data lives in your Google Drive, is governed by Google’s privacy policy, and is shared only with the co-parent you choose. You can turn sync off at any time in Settings, which disconnects the account and stops syncing.

Ownership of a Shared Household

On iPhone and iPad, a shared household is held in one person’s iCloud account. That person is the owner. Cadence can move ownership to another member’s device in a guided handoff, which copies the household into that person’s iCloud account.

Nothing is deleted during a handoff. The previous owner’s copy stays in their iCloud account, dormant and no longer updated. If you want it gone, delete Cadence data from iCloud in your device settings, as described under Data Deletion.

Subscription

Cadence offers an optional paid subscription managed entirely through Apple’s App Store and StoreKit framework. Cadence does not process payments directly and has no access to your payment information. Subscription transactions are governed by Apple’s terms and privacy policy.

On Android: billing is managed through Google Play Billing, and transactions are governed by Google’s terms and privacy policy. Cadence still does not process payments and has no access to your payment information.

Third-Party Services

Cadence does not use any third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking tools. No data is shared with any outside parties. Ever.

Device Permissions

Cadence may request the following device permissions to enable optional features. Each permission is requested only when you use the related feature, and the data stays on your device or in your own iCloud account.

• Calendar Access. Required for calendar sync. Cadence creates a calendar named “Cadence” on your device and writes your activities to it. If your device is signed in to iCloud, Cadence creates that calendar on your iCloud account, so the activities in it, including titles, locations, and notes, are stored in Apple’s iCloud Calendar and appear on every device signed in to your Apple Account. If you share that calendar with someone in Apple’s Calendar app, they can see them too, and you control that sharing in Calendar, not in Cadence. Cadence does not send this anywhere else, and we never see it. To keep your activities out of iCloud Calendar, leave calendar sync off in Cadence Settings.
• Location (optional). When you add an activity and search for a place, Cadence asks to use your location so nearby addresses show up first. It uses reduced accuracy, and your typed search goes to Apple’s Maps service to find matching addresses, handled under Apple’s privacy policy. Cadence never stores or shares your location. If you say no, address search still works without the nearby-first sorting.
• Notifications. Required for activity reminders, leave-by alerts, overlap alerts, registration deadlines, and weekly summaries. All notifications are generated locally on your device and can show activity names and the person they belong to on your Lock Screen.
• Photos. Adding a profile photo opens the system photo picker. You choose one photo; Cadence never gets access to your photo library, so iOS never shows a permission prompt.
• Siri. If you use the Cadence Siri shortcuts, Siri reads the same on-device summary described above. Your requests to Siri are handled by Apple and governed by Apple’s privacy policy.

You can revoke any of these permissions at any time in your device’s Settings app.

On Android: calendar sync creates a “Cadence” calendar on your device and manages activity events there. Nothing is read from your other calendars’ events. Documents are added through Android’s file picker and copied into the app’s private storage. When you type a location while adding an activity, that text goes to Google’s Places service for address suggestions, handled under Google’s privacy policy. Cadence does not store these searches and never links them to you or your family’s data. If you turn on sync, it uses your Google account to store and share the household file in your Google Drive, limited to files the app creates or that you open with it. You can revoke any permission at any time in your device’s Settings.

Security

Cadence does not operate any servers, so there is no Cadence database to break into. Your information is protected by the systems that hold it. On your device, it sits inside the app’s own storage, protected by your device passcode and the device’s built-in protections. If you turn on sync, your data is protected by your iCloud account’s security, including any two-factor protection you have set up. No system is perfectly secure, so protect the accounts your data lives in: use a passcode and keep two-factor turned on.

On Android: your data sits in the app’s private storage on the device, and the household file in your Google Drive is protected by your Google account’s security.

Retention

We keep nothing because we receive nothing. There is no retention schedule, because there is no data with us to schedule. Copies of your information exist only where you put them: on your devices, in your own cloud account if sync is on, in your device backup, and in any Download My Data file you saved. Each copy is removed the way the Data Deletion section describes, and removal is under your control, not ours.

Children’s Privacy

Cadence is designed for parents and adults managing household schedules. It is for adults only and is not for use by anyone under 18. Cadence does not collect data from anyone, including children. Information about children that parents enter, such as names, activity schedules, and photos, is stored on the parent’s device and, if sync is enabled, in the parent’s own cloud account, which is governed by that company’s privacy policy.

If a parent shares the household, that information is also visible to the people they invite. Invite only people you trust with your children’s information.

Data Deletion

Deleting the app removes its data from that device immediately. There is no deletion request to submit, no confirmation email, and no waiting period.

If iCloud sync is on, your data is also in your own iCloud account, and deleting the app does not remove it. To remove synced data, go to Settings > Apple Account > iCloud > Manage Storage on your device and delete Cadence data.

If you share your household, deleting the app on your device does not remove the data from anyone else’s account. To end someone’s access, remove them in Manage Household first. If you have ever transferred ownership, a dormant copy may also exist in the other person’s iCloud account, and only they can delete it.

You can use Download My Data to export a copy of everything before you delete anything.

On Android: uninstalling the app removes all local data immediately. If you used sync, turn sync off in Settings first. While sync is on, the app keeps the shared file up to date and will recreate it if it goes missing. Once sync is off, you can delete the household file in your Google Drive. Anything already synced to your co-parent’s device stays on their device. A copy may also remain in your Google account backup until that backup is replaced or deleted.

Changes to This Policy

If Cadence ever changes how it handles data, this policy will be updated and you’ll be notified through an app update.

Website

This policy is about the Cadence apps. Our website, cadencefamilyhub.com, is hosted by Squarespace, which collects standard visitor analytics such as pages viewed, browser type, and approximate location from your IP address, using cookies. That information is about website visits only; it is not connected to anything you enter in either app, and we do not use it for advertising. Squarespace’s handling of it is governed by Squarespace’s privacy policy.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Reach us at hello@cadencefamilyhub.com