How the Flatmate Court app handles your information.
Effective date: 13 June 2026 · Last updated: 4 September 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Ricou Developments (“we”, “us”) handles information in connection with the Flatmate Court mobile application (the “App”). Flatmate Court is a light-hearted entertainment app for settling household disputes. It is not a real legal service and provides no legal advice.
Your private casebook (cases you judge solo), your personal house laws, and your settings are stored locally on your device only. They are never uploaded. You can erase them from Settings → Clear Casebook, or by clearing the App’s data or uninstalling. The App also offers a full export (Settings → Export Casebook) that shares a copy of your data as a document you control.
To share a court with your flatmates, the App uses Google Firebase (Google Ireland Limited / Google LLC), with data stored in the European Union (europe-west1). When you sign up we store:
We also send certain service emails through our providers: account verification and password-reset emails, and — if you invite someone who does not have the App — a one-off invitation email to the address you entered.
A household can seat a member by email address alone, so somebody who has not installed the App can still take part. If your household does that, then when a case is filed we email that address a ballot: it names the person accused, states the charge, includes what the accuser wrote, and links to a private web page where that person casts their vote. If the case has an evidence photograph, the page shows it once, and the photograph is destroyed as soon as it has been displayed.
Two things follow from this, and you should know both before you file a case or invite somebody by email. First, the link is unguessable but it is a web address, so anyone who is given that email can open it — it is not protected by a password. Second, the address you enter belongs to a real person who has not signed up to anything: only add an address whose owner is content to receive it. That person can ask us to remove their address and their ballots at any time using the contact details below, whether or not they ever use the App.
Your profile records whether the App should call you he, she, or they. This is a grammatical setting, not a declaration of identity, and we do not treat it as one: the App is translated into fifty-one languages, many of which inflect verbs, adjectives and articles according to the person being spoken about, and without this setting a sentence naming you would simply be wrong in those languages. It is shared with your household members for exactly that reason — their copy of the App has to build sentences about you on their own device. They is the wording the App uses everywhere by default, so choosing it discloses nothing at all. You can change the setting whenever you like by tapping your avatar, and it is deleted with your profile.
In the App: Settings → Delete my account. This permanently deletes your authentication account, your email address, your profile (name, avatar and the setting in Section 2b), your push token, any pending email-verification record, and your witness index, and removes you from every household (ownership passes to the longest-standing remaining member; an empty household dissolves).
What remains: cases your households already decided, and votes already cast, stay in those households’ shared records — they belong to the household’s history, and after deletion they are no longer linked to any account. Content on your own device stays on your device until you clear or uninstall the App.
Without the App: email flatmatecourt.app@gmail.com from the address on the account and we will delete it for you.
To find and fix bugs, the App and its server functions may send crash and error diagnostics to Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.): the type of error, a stack trace, the App version, your device model and operating-system version. They do not include your cases or the content you created. Crash data for this App is processed in the European Union (Sentry’s EU region). See Sentry’s privacy policy.
The App may show occasional advertisements supplied by Google AdMob. The advertising SDK collects and shares information of its own, separately from anything described above, and Google uses it for advertising, analytics and fraud prevention. According to Google’s own disclosure for that SDK, this includes:
Why our Play Store listing mentions approximate location. Flatmate Court asks for no location permission and declares none; it does not know or want to know where you are, and nothing in the App reads your position. But because the advertising SDK sends your IP address, and an IP address can be used to estimate a general location, Google Play requires that to be disclosed as approximate location. It is worth saying plainly which of us is doing that, since the listing cannot: it is the advertising SDK, not the Court.
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the App presents a consent message (via Google’s User Messaging Platform) before personalised ads are shown. You may choose non-personalised ads where offered, and you can change your choice later from your device’s Google ad settings.
Flatmate Court is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your country). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Cloud data is kept while your account exists and is removed as described in Section 3 when you delete it. Evidence photos are deleted automatically once every household member has seen them. Unverified accounts created without an invitation are disabled after 48 hours and deleted after a further 7 days. Undecided cases are retired after 14 days (their ballot closes; the record remains with the household). Local content stays on your device until you delete it. Crash diagnostics are retained by Sentry, and advertising data by Google, under their own retention policies.
Depending on your location (e.g. under the GDPR), you have rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of personal data, to data portability, and to object to processing or withdraw consent. In the App: your profile is editable at any time (tap your avatar), your data is exportable (Settings → Export Casebook), and your account is deletable (Section 3). For data held by our providers, you can also exercise rights directly with Google and Sentry. For anything else, use the contact details below.
| Service | Purpose | Policy |
|---|---|---|
| Google Firebase | Accounts, household data, photos, notifications (EU region) | Firebase Privacy |
| Google AdMob | Advertising | Google Privacy Policy |
| Sentry | Crash & error diagnostics | Sentry Privacy Policy |
| Resend | Delivery of the service emails described above (verification, password reset, invitations, ballots) | Resend Privacy Policy |
Household data and crash diagnostics are processed in the EU. Google may process authentication and advertising data, and our email provider may process the addresses and message contents described above, in the United States and other countries under the safeguards described in their respective privacy policies.
We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, through an in-app notice.
Questions about this policy or your data? Contact us at:
flatmatecourt.app@gmail.com