Privacy policy
This is a courtesy translation. In case of any discrepancy, the French version of this policy prevails.
Majord'Home is a household upkeep app published by Sébastien Gillard. This policy explains what data is processed, why, and how you keep control of it. It covers both the iOS app and this website.
For any question or request about your data: admin@majordhome.app.
1. Data controller
Sébastien Gillard, publisher of the Majord'Home app. Contact: admin@majordhome.app.
2. The majordhome.app website
2.1 Cookieless audience measurement
This site measures its traffic with Matomo, free software installed on a server belonging to the publisher. The pages you visit are therefore sent to no third-party service: no Google Analytics, no remote web font, no social network button, no advertising.
The measurement is deliberately limited to knowing which pages are read:
- No cookie is set. You are not recognised from one visit to the next: two visits two days apart are counted as two separate visitors.
- Your IP address is anonymised before being stored, and serves only to infer a country and an approximate city.
- No cross-site tracking, no advertising profile, no cross-referencing with app data or with your beta application.
- If your browser sends the Do Not Track signal, nothing is measured at all.
That is why you are shown no consent banner: with no cookie, no identification and no plain-text IP address, this measurement falls under the consent exemption the French data protection authority (CNIL) grants to audience measurement alone. The resulting statistics are aggregated and cannot identify you. Legal basis: legitimate interest (improving the site); to object, simply switch on Do Not Track in your browser.
2.2 The only cookies set
A technical cookie named mh_ft is set only when you open the page containing the
application form. It holds a random value unrelated to your identity, exists solely to stop a
third-party site submitting the form on your behalf, and expires after two hours.
A second cookie, mh_lang, is set only if you change language: it remembers your
choice so the home page serves you the right version directly. It contains nothing but "fr"
or "en". Neither allows any tracking whatsoever.
2.3 Beta application
| Data | Why | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| First name | To address you properly | Consent |
| Email address | To confirm the application, then send the TestFlight invitation | Consent |
| Household make-up, device, interests | To assemble a representative test panel | Consent |
| Free-text message | Optional, at your initiative | Consent |
| Language of the application | To write to you in the language you applied in | Consent |
The application is only recorded once you have clicked the confirmation link received by email (double opt-in). Without that click, the information entered is erased automatically after seven days. No IP address is kept: only anonymous fingerprints are used, for at most 24 hours, to limit abusive submissions.
This data is kept until the end of the beta phase, then deleted. You can ask for it to be erased at any time with a simple email. It is used for no marketing and passed to nobody.
3. The app — data processed
3.1 Account
| Data | Why | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Email address | Login identifier, invitations, summaries | Performance of the contract |
| Password | Authentication — stored as a hash, never in clear text | Performance of the contract |
| Display name | To identify you to the other occupants of the household | Performance of the contract |
3.2 Household contents
You enter these yourself: households, rooms, appliances, plants, surfaces, upkeep tasks and completed activities. This data serves only to make the app work for you and the occupants of your household.
3.3 Address and location
A household's address is optional. When you provide it, it is converted into coordinates to show the household on a map. The app does not track your position: no background location, no movement history.
3.4 Photos and documents
You can attach photos and documents (receipts, manuals, warranties). They are stored on the app's server and are accessible only to the occupants of the household concerned. Access to the camera and photo library is requested only at the moment you add an image.
3.5 Receipt analysis
The app can extract the name, price, purchase date and warranty length from a photo of a receipt. This analysis runs entirely on your iPhone. The image is sent to no server for this operation.
3.6 Mental load
Mental load declarations (domains, contingencies, relationships) are personal data sensitive in terms of household privacy. They are visible only to the members of the household concerned, and one member's declaration is revealed to the others only once the calibration session is closed — a rule enforced by the server, not only by the interface.
3.7 Contacts
Access to contacts serves only to suggest an email address when you invite an occupant. No contact is transmitted or kept on the server.
3.8 Face ID / Touch ID
Used to unlock the app. Authentication is handled by iOS; no biometric data is received or stored.
3.9 Notifications
If you accept them, a device identifier provided by Apple (APNs token) is kept in order to send you reminders. It cannot identify you outside the app and is deleted when you sign out.
4. What is never done
- No advertising, no ad tracker, no profiling.
- No resale or sharing of your data with third parties for commercial purposes.
- No third-party behavioural analytics tool: the site's audience measurement is self-hosted, cookieless and anonymised (section 2.1).
5. Sharing within a household
A household's data is visible to its occupants: contents, tasks, completed activities and how the load is shared. That is the very principle of the app. An occupant who leaves a household, or whose membership is closed, immediately loses access to that data.
6. Processors
| Provider | Role | Data concerned |
|---|---|---|
| Apple (APNs) | Delivery of push notifications | Device token |
| Apple (TestFlight) | Beta distribution | Tester's email address |
| Server host | Storage of the database and files | All account data |
| Email sending service | Invitations, password resets, summaries | Email address |
No data is transferred outside the European Union beyond what notification delivery and TestFlight distribution by Apple require.
7. Retention
Your data is kept as long as your account exists. After the account is deleted:
- Personal data is erased immediately.
- The history of activities completed in a shared household is kept anonymously, attributed to "Former occupant". Without that, deleting an account would retroactively distort the task split shown to the other occupants, who are also concerned by that history.
8. Deleting your account
Deletion happens from within the app: Settings → Account → Delete my account. It is permanent and requires your password.
- You are the only member → the household and its contents are deleted.
- Other people live there → the household stays with them; your upcoming tasks are transferred.
- You are the sole owner of an inhabited household → you must appoint a successor.
9. Your rights
Under the GDPR, you have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability.
- Portability: Settings → Account → Download my data produces a JSON copy of your households, rooms, items and tasks.
- Rectification: your data can be edited directly in the app.
- Erasure: see section 8, or a simple email for beta application data.
To exercise any other right: admin@majordhome.app. You may also lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the CNIL (www.cnil.fr).
10. Security
- All communication with the server is encrypted (HTTPS).
- Passwords are stored as hashes and are never reversible.
- The session token is kept in the secure iOS keychain.
- Access to a household's data is checked on every request, server-side.
11. Children
The app is not intended for children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their data. A "child" account within a household is created and administered by a responsible adult.
12. Changes
Any significant change to this policy will be announced in the app. The date at the top of the document indicates the latest revision.