Flatmate Court

Privacy Policy

How the Flatmate Court app handles your information.

Effective date: 13 June 2026 · Last updated: 30 July 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.

The short version. Flatmate Court has two halves. The solo half (your private casebook, personal house laws, settings) lives only on your phone. The household half is shared by design: when you create an account and join a household, your display name, your generated avatar, and the cases and house rules your household votes on are stored in the cloud so your flatmates can see them — that is the whole point. You can delete your account, and everything that is only yours, from inside the App at any time (how, below).

1. Information stored only on your device

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.

2. Information stored in the cloud (accounts & households)

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:

Account: your email address and authentication details (managed by Firebase Authentication; sign-in with email/password or Google).
Public profile: the display name you choose and your generated avatar (a drawing, never a photo). Your household members see these.
Household data: household names, membership lists, invitations (including the email address you enter when inviting someone), shared invite codes, cases filed to a household (the charge, the parties, the answers that generate the verdict), votes, witness statements, and house rules with their voting history. This content is visible to the members of that household — that is its purpose.
Evidence photographs: if you attach a photo to a case, it is uploaded so your flatmates can view it, and it is automatically deleted from the server once every member has seen it. Photos you take with the in-app camera are also saved to your own device gallery in a “Court Evidence” album, under your control.
Push token: a device token so the App can notify you when your household files a case, votes, or summons you as a witness. You can mute any household’s notifications inside the App.

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.

3. Deleting your account and your data

In the App: Settings → Delete my account. This permanently deletes your authentication account, your email address, your profile (name and avatar), 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.

4. Crash diagnostics (Sentry)

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.

5. Advertising (Google AdMob)

The App may show occasional advertisements supplied by Google AdMob. To serve ads, Google may collect and process information including a device advertising identifier, IP address, and general device and usage information, governed by Google’s policies:

6. Consent (EEA, UK & Switzerland)

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.

7. Legal bases for processing (GDPR)

Performance of a contract — account, profile, household and case data: the shared court you signed up for cannot work without it.
Consent — personalised advertising and any associated identifiers.
Legitimate interests — crash diagnostics used solely to keep the App stable and secure, and service emails needed to protect accounts (verification, password reset).

8. Children

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.

9. Data retention

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.

10. Your rights

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.

11. Third-party services

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

12. International transfers

Household data and crash diagnostics are processed in the EU. Google may process authentication and advertising data in the United States and other countries under appropriate safeguards described in its privacy policy.

13. Changes to this policy

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.

14. Contact

Questions about this policy or your data? Contact us at:
flatmatecourt.app@gmail.com