Privacy Policy

Last updated November 9, 2026.

Who we are

FamilyHome is made by Harborline (“we”, “us”, “our”). You can reach us at harborlineapps@protonmail.com.

What FamilyHome reads

A home screen has to know which apps are on the phone. FamilyHome reads, on the phone only:

• The apps that have a home-screen icon: their names and icons, to show them and open them.
• The widgets that apps offer, to list them when you add one. A widget is drawn by its own app, under that app’s privacy policy; FamilyHome only places it on the page.
• Which apps are the phone’s texting, phone and contacts apps, for the dock.
• Whether the other Harborline apps are installed, by name.

It doesn’t read what is inside any app, and it keeps no record of which apps are opened or when. None of this leaves the phone.

What the app stores on the phone

All of the following is stored only on the phone, in FamilyHome’s own private storage; the Parent PIN details are encrypted with a key held in the phone’s Android Keystore. None of it is sent to us or to anyone else.

• The layout: which icons, folders and widgets are on which page and in the dock.
• A parent’s choices: which apps are unticked, the dock’s shortcuts, who picks the free spots, who may move icons and add widgets, and the wallpaper rule.
• Which wallpaper was chosen for the Home screen, the Lock screen and the Cover screen.
• Your Parent PIN, and an optional second parent PIN, each stored as a salted hash (PBKDF2), never as the PIN itself.
• A recovery code, stored only as a salted hash, and an optional backup question with its answer as a salted hash.
• The count of wrong PIN tries, with any wait.
• Small choices: the light or dark theme, whether the first tour was shown, and whether the Parent PIN is shared with FamilyLock.

None of it is included in Android cloud backups or device-to-device transfers.

Wallpaper and your pictures

The 25 Harborline wallpapers are part of the app. If a parent allows any picture, you choose one in Android’s own photo picker. FamilyHome gets only the one picture you pick; it has no permission to look through your photos or files. It hands that picture to Android as the wallpaper. A picture chosen for a foldable’s Cover screen is copied into FamilyHome’s own storage on the phone, because FamilyHome draws that screen itself.

What we never collect

• No account, sign-in, email address or phone number.
• No list of your apps, no record of which apps are used, and no pictures.
• No analytics, crash reporting or usage statistics.
• No advertising, and no ad or tracking software.
• No contacts, messages, location or browsing.
• We never sell or share data, and we never pass it to data brokers.

Other services the app uses

None. FamilyHome has no internet permission and no third-party services. Feedback, Privacy and Terms in the app open our website in the phone’s browser; FamilyHome itself sends nothing.

Why the app asks for the permissions it does

• Home app. You make FamilyHome the phone’s home screen through Android’s own question. That is what lets it show when you press Home.
• Set wallpaper. To put the wallpaper you chose on the Home screen and the Lock screen.
• Seeing apps. FamilyHome doesn’t ask for the permission to see every app on the phone. It sees the apps with a home-screen icon, the apps that offer widgets, the phone’s texting, phone and contacts apps, and the other Harborline apps by name.
• Widgets. Android asks “Create widget and allow access?” before FamilyHome may show another app’s widgets.
• Photo picker. Needs no permission. Android shows the picker, and FamilyHome receives only the picture you pick.

FamilyHome does not ask for internet access, location, the camera, the microphone, contacts, or your photos and files.

Working with other Harborline apps on the same phone

FamilyHome is complete on its own. If other Harborline apps are on the same phone, these things can happen, all on the phone, directly between the apps. Nothing is sent over the internet. Each app checks that the other is really a Harborline app, by its package name and signing certificate, and answers no other app.

• One Parent PIN, if you choose. With FamilyLock on the phone, Setup offers your FamilyLock PIN and a separate PIN as equal choices. If you share it, the two apps hand each other one-way codes (salted hashes) of the parent PINs, the recovery code and the backup answer, along with the backup question’s text. Never the PIN itself.
• The dock. With FamilyPhone on the phone, the dock’s Messages, Calls and Contacts open FamilyPhone. FamilyHome only opens them; it reads no calls, texts or contacts.
• The same theme. With “Same as my other Harborline apps” on, the apps tell each other whether you last chose Light, Dark or Match the phone, and when.

Deleting your data

Uninstalling FamilyHome, or clearing its storage in Android’s settings, deletes everything it stores. The wallpaper already set on the phone stays until you change it. We hold no copy of anything, so there is nothing to request from us.

Children

FamilyHome is made for a child’s phone and is set up by a parent. We don’t collect personal information from anyone, children included, because the app has no way to send it.

Security

A parent’s choices are behind the Parent PIN, which is stored only as a salted hash: after 3 wrong tries there is a wait that grows. If you find a security problem, please email us.

This website

This site is hosted by Netlify. Like any web host, Netlify’s servers see the ordinary technical details of a visit, such as your IP address, when they deliver a page. We don’t use analytics, tracking or advertising on this site. The light or dark theme you pick is remembered only in your own browser. Fonts and images are served from this site, so your browser doesn’t contact Google Fonts or any other third party.

The report form. If you send us a bug report or an idea through the form on the home page, the details you enter (your email address, your message, and any phone details you choose to give) are received and stored by Netlify’s form service and delivered to us by email. We use them only to understand the problem and reply to you. We don’t share them with anyone else. Email us if you would like a submission deleted.

Google Play

FamilyHome isn’t on Google Play yet. When it is, Google Play will handle installation, and any purchase, under its own privacy policy.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. Because the app has no account and no way to contact you, this page is the place to check.

Contact

Questions about this policy: harborlineapps@protonmail.com.