Home Phone is a family calling app. A parent sets it up, kids call friends and family on a shared home phone, and only people the parent approves can call. This policy explains what information the app uses, why, and the choices you have.
Home Phone is made by Mina Doroudi. Questions or requests: contact us.
The short version
- We use only what’s needed to set up your household and connect calls.
- Calls are voice only, encrypted, and never recorded.
- No ads, no tracking across other apps or websites, and we don’t sell your information.
- Kids don’t make accounts or give an email address.
- You can delete your account and household in the app at any time.
Who uses Home Phone
A parent signs in with Apple or Google, sets up the household and approves every connection. The home phone uses an automatically created account, so children never sign in or enter an email address. Friends and family (for example, grandparents) sign in with Apple or Google and can call your home phone only after a parent adds them.
Information we use
- Sign-in: when a parent or friend signs in with Apple or Google, we receive an account identifier and email address through Firebase Authentication.
- Household details: household and phone names (like “Mom” or “Home”), optional photos you add, who belongs to the household, and which families you’ve connected with.
- Device details: an app installation identifier and a push token, so incoming calls ring the right phone.
- Call history: who called whom, when, and whether the call was answered, missed or declined. This is shown in the app’s Recent calls.
- Call quality: after a call, technical measurements such as delay, lost audio and the type of network path used, to help fix bad connections. These don’t include call audio.
Names and photos are visible to members of your household. Your household’s name, photo and home phone are visible to families you’ve connected with, so they can see who’s calling. Parents’ own phones are never visible to other households.
Calls
Calls are voice only. Audio travels directly between the two phones using encrypted WebRTC, and Home Phone does not record, store or listen to calls. To connect a call, the phones briefly exchange network addresses. Google’s STUN servers help them find each other, and when a direct connection isn’t possible, Cloudflare’s relay forwards the encrypted audio without being able to decrypt it.
Incoming calls are delivered by Apple (on iPhone) or Google (on Android). The caller’s name may appear on the lock screen and in the phone’s own call history.
Photos and permissions
- Microphone: used only during calls.
- Camera and photos: used only when a parent chooses a household or profile picture. Photos are resized before they’re saved.
- Local network: lets two phones on the same Wi-Fi connect directly, for clearer sound.
Home Phone doesn’t access your contacts, location or advertising identifier. The optional clay-house guide opens ChatGPT or Gemini in your browser; Home Phone never sends your photos there. Anything you choose to upload to those services is covered by their own policies.
Children
Home Phone is designed to be set up and managed by a parent. Children don’t create accounts, give an email address, or see ads. The only information about a household that’s shared outside it is what the parent chooses to add, and it’s shared only with families the parent approves. If you believe a child’s information was added without a parent’s permission, contact us and we’ll delete it.
Service providers
We use a few trusted services to run Home Phone, and they process information only to provide their service:
- Google Firebase (Google Cloud): sign-in, database and server functions. Firebase privacy
- Apple: Sign in with Apple and incoming-call delivery on iPhone. Apple privacy policy
- Google: Google Sign-In, which processes sign-in and security information including IP address, and incoming-call delivery on Android. Google privacy policy
- Cloudflare: the call relay used when phones can’t connect directly. Cloudflare privacy policy
How long we keep information
- Household details and call history: until you delete your account or household.
- Call connection data (network addresses used to set up a call): deleted automatically, usually within about a day of the call.
- Pairing codes expire after 30 minutes and invite codes after 3 hours, and are then deleted.
- Short-term security records that prevent code guessing: deleted within a few hours.
- Safety backups of the database: deleted after 30 days.
Deleting your information
Parents: in the app, open Manage household and tap Delete account. If you’re the only parent, this deletes the household, its phones, connections and call history. If there’s a second parent, only your own line and calls are deleted and the household stays with them. If you signed in with Apple, we also revoke Home Phone’s access to your Apple ID.
Home phone: open Privacy & support and tap Delete account to unpair it and delete its calls.
To stop calls with another family, remove them in Manage household → Friends & family. You can also contact us to delete your information. Copies kept by others, such as the phone’s own call history, aren’t affected.
Security
Information is sent over encrypted connections and stored with Google Cloud. Access is limited by strict rules: only members of a household, and families it has approved, can see its information. No system is perfectly secure, so please share invite codes only with people you know.
Your choices and rights
You can see and change your household’s information in the app, and delete it at any time. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete your information, or to object to how it’s used. Contact us and we’ll help, usually within 30 days.
Changes
If we change this policy, we’ll post the new version on this page and update the date at the top.
Contact
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