The Left For You app
By default, household data lives only in a local SQLite file on that computer or phone. User names, passwords, and account numbers are encrypted with an unlock code you choose. That code is never stored, and it is never sent to this website.
If the unlock code is lost, encrypted secrets cannot be recovered. Keep a printed copy of the most important logins as well.
Optional backups (Settings → Back up this guide)
Backup is off until you tap the button. Nothing is copied here just because you installed or opened the app.
When you back up, the app packages the local database and attached files (letters, PDFs, and similar) and sends that package to this website over HTTPS. This site is the only process that writes to SQL Server. Phones and home PCs never connect to the database server.
- Keyed to this install, not to an account. Each copy of the app has a unique install id stored on the device (outside SQLite). The backup is stored under that id. There is no Left For You login, email, or name attached to the backup row.
- One backup per install. A later backup replaces the previous package for the same id. We do not keep a history of older backups.
- Secrets stay encrypted. Passwords and account numbers in the package remain wrapped with your unlock code. Restoring requires that same code. This website cannot read those secrets, and we do not have a reset if the code is forgotten.
- Restore is explicit. Settings shows Restore from backup only after a backup exists for that install id. After you erase the local guide (Create new account on the unlock screen), restore is offered on the next screen. The install id is not deleted when the local database is wiped, so the same backup can be found.
- What we store with the package. The zip, its size, the time it was saved, the app version, and the device platform (for example iOS or Windows). We do not use the backup to send mail or ads.
- What we do not do. We do not browse the contents of a backup, share it with other companies, or use it to restore a different family’s install. Left For You cannot access your data: secrets stay encrypted with your unlock code, which is never sent here. Uninstalling the app removes the install id from the device; that backup cannot be retrieved. Erasing the local guide in Settings keeps the id, so restore still works.
There is no in-app button to delete the server copy. A new backup overwrites it. To remove a backup entirely, contact the person who runs this copy of Left For You.
This website (downloads and notices)
The public pages also store installer versions, download clicks, and optional notify-me emails in SQL Server so we can offer Windows, Mac, and later mobile builds, and paid licenses. That is separate from a household-guide backup.
- Download clicks may include time, platform, IP address, and browser name.
- Notify-me forms store the email you type and which platform you asked about.
- Installer rows record version, file name, and which build is current.
You can ask to have an email removed from the notify list, or a backup row removed, by contacting the person who runs this copy of Left For You.