Budget Bestie Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 24, 2026

Budget Bestie Corp ("Budget Bestie", "we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard information when you use the Budget Bestie mobile application (the "App") or visit our website.

Budget Bestie is a manual budgeting app. We do not connect to your bank accounts and we do not ask for bank login credentials. You choose what budgeting, income, expense, goal, subscription, and profile information to enter.

What Data We Collect

Depending on how you use Budget Bestie, we may collect:

• Account and contact information, such as name, email address, and account identifiers.
• Budgeting and financial journal information you choose to enter, such as income, expenses, dates, categories, goals, and reminders.
• App usage information, such as feature interactions and screen activity.
• Device, app, network, and diagnostics information used for security, debugging, performance, and reliability.
• Device identifiers, such as a vendor identifier, an advertising identifier if you allow tracking, identifiers set by our analytics and measurement services, and IP address.
• Purchase and subscription information, such as plan type and billing status.
• Customer support and feedback information, such as messages you send us, survey answers, and reasons you give when you cancel a subscription.
• Website usage and marketing measurement information, when applicable and permitted.

How We Collect Data

You directly provide most App data when you:

• Create or sign in to an account.
• Manually enter budgets, envelopes, income, expenses, and goals.
• Configure reminders, notification preferences, or app settings.
• Purchase, restore, cancel, or change a subscription.
• Contact us, complete a survey, or provide feedback.

We also collect some usage, diagnostic, and security information automatically when you use the App or visit our website.

We may also receive information about you from partners, such as which ad or campaign led you to install the App.

How We Use Data

We use your data to:

• Provide, maintain, and secure the App and related services.
• Authenticate users and protect accounts and sessions.
• Store and sync your budgeting information and generate budget views.
• Send reminders and service-related notifications you request.
• Process subscriptions, purchases, renewals, refunds, and restores.
• Diagnose issues, maintain reliability, and prevent abuse.
• Understand how features are used and evaluate improvements to the App.
• Send marketing communications only where you have consented or where permitted by law.
• Show ads for Budget Bestie on other apps, websites, and services when we advertise, and measure how those ads perform.

How We Protect Data

We use technical, administrative, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the information we process. No internet service can guarantee absolute security, but we work to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.

Third-Party Services and Data Sharing

We use service providers to operate, secure, monitor, and improve Budget Bestie. Relevant information may be processed by providers that support:

• App distribution, authentication, and account access.
• Cloud hosting, storage, networking, and security.
• Subscription and payment processing.
• Analytics, diagnostics, reliability, and customer support.
• Communications and marketing measurement where permitted.
• Advertising, attribution, and measurement.

We require service providers that receive personal information to provide the same or equivalent protection described in this policy and required by applicable law.

Analytics and Diagnostics

We use analytics and diagnostic services to understand how people use the App, evaluate improvements, and maintain reliability. These services may process app, device, and interaction information and may associate it with your account after you sign in.

Interaction information may include recordings of in-app activity. We use safeguards designed to obscure user-entered content and limit sensitive financial information in analytics and diagnostics. We do not use recordings of in-app activity, or the budgeting information you enter, for cross-app advertising tracking.

We may also use website analytics to understand traffic and page performance. Website analytics are separate from the financial information you enter in the App.

Our help center at help.budgetbestie.app uses PostHog to collect page views, searches (including the words of a search that finds nothing), answers to “did this page help?”, and clicks on its contact links. It does this without cookies and does not store an identifier on your device. Help center analytics are not linked to your App account.

Analytics and diagnostic information is kept only as long as needed for these purposes. Privacy questions or deletion requests can be sent to [email protected].

Device Identifiers

Device identifiers are values that can recognize a device or an app installation. The App and the services we use may collect:

• Vendor identifier: an identifier that Apple gives to apps from the same developer on your device (the identifier for vendors, or IDFV).
• Advertising identifier: the identifier for advertisers (IDFA) on Apple devices, or a similar advertising identifier on other platforms. The App can read it only if you allow tracking.
• Service identifiers: identifiers that our analytics, diagnostics, subscription, and measurement services assign to your app installation or account.
• Network information: such as IP address.

We and our service providers may use device identifiers to operate subscriptions, prevent fraud, diagnose issues, understand how the App is used, and attribute and measure advertising. We may link device identifiers to your account, and we may share them with advertising and attribution partners as described below.

Marketing Communications

We may use your personal data to send you marketing communications about our products and services. You will only receive marketing emails if you consent or where otherwise permitted by law. You can unsubscribe at any time by using the opt-out link in those emails or by contacting us at [email protected].

We may send marketing emails through email service providers. Those emails may include pixels or tracked links that tell us whether an email was opened or a link was clicked.

Attribution and Advertising Measurement

Where enabled and permitted, we may use measurement services to understand app installs and campaign performance. These services may process campaign, device, and interaction information subject to device settings, consent choices, and applicable law.

We may advertise Budget Bestie and measure our ads with these kinds of partners:

• Advertising networks and platforms, such as social media, search, video, and in-app ad networks, that show ads for Budget Bestie.
• App store advertising, such as Apple Ads (formerly Apple Search Ads), whose attribution token the App collects.
• Attribution and measurement partners, which connect app installs, trials, and purchases to the ads that led to them.
• Our subscription provider, which may collect device identifiers and attribution data and may pass them to the partners above.

We may add software development kits (SDKs) from these partners to the App, and tags or pixels from them to our website. These partners may receive information such as device identifiers, your user ID, IP address, device and app information, and app events such as installs, sign-ups, trials, and purchases. Where permitted, we may also share your email address in hashed (scrambled) form, so that a partner can show you ads for Budget Bestie, leave you out of ads, or measure our campaigns.

Some advertising partners may act on their own behalf, not only for us. They may combine the information they receive with information they collect elsewhere, and use it under their own privacy policies. We do not share the income, expense, and other budgeting information you enter with advertising partners.

Tracking and App Tracking Transparency

Tracking means linking information from the App or our website, such as your user ID or a device identifier, with information from other companies' apps, websites, or offline sources to show you ads or to measure ads. We and our advertising partners may track you for these purposes: to show ads for Budget Bestie on other apps and websites, to measure which ads lead to installs, trials, and purchases, and to find people who may like Budget Bestie.

On Apple devices, the App asks your permission through Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt before it tracks you or reads your advertising identifier. If you choose "Ask App Not to Track", the App cannot read your advertising identifier and we do not use the App to track you. Some measurement does not need this permission, such as Apple Ads attribution and reports that do not identify you. We may use that kind of measurement whatever you choose.

You can limit tracking at any time:

• On your iPhone or iPad: go to Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Tracking, and turn off tracking for Budget Bestie or for all apps.
• On our website: block or delete cookies in your browser settings.
• With advertising partners: use the ad and privacy settings those partners offer.
• By email: ask us at [email protected] not to use your information for advertising.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies, from us and from analytics and advertising partners. We may use them to keep the website working, remember your preferences, understand traffic, and show and measure ads. If you block or delete cookies, some parts of the website may not work as expected.

Data Retention and Deletion

We retain personal data only as long as necessary to provide our services, maintain security and reliability, comply with legal requirements, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

• Active accounts: App data is retained while your account is active.
• Inactive accounts: If your account remains inactive for 24 months, we may notify you by email. If we receive no response within 30 days, your account data may be deleted.
• Deletion requests: You may request data deletion by contacting us at [email protected]. Users can also delete their data by selecting the "Delete all data and account" option in the App's settings.

Some backup, log, security, analytics, purchase, or legal records may be retained for a limited period where needed for security, fraud prevention, compliance, accounting, dispute resolution, or service reliability.

International Data Transfers

Your data may be processed in the United States, Canada, and other countries where we, our service providers, or our partners operate.

Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to certain processing of your personal data. You may also request a portable copy of your data where required by applicable law.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this policy periodically. Significant changes may be communicated through the App, our website, or by email where appropriate.

Contact Us

If you have questions or privacy requests, contact us at:

Email: [email protected]