WOVN
Privacy Policy
Effective October 20, 2026 · Updated November 5, 2026 (WOVN Plus purchases)
The short version
- WOVN is a checkbook you and your partner keep by hand. It never connects to your bank, so it never sees bank logins or account numbers.
- We store what you type in, plus your name and email, so it can sync between your phones.
- Everyone in your household can see everything in it. Nobody else can.
- No ads, no analytics, no tracking, and we never sell your information.
- You can export everything, or delete your account, from Settings at any time.
Who we are
WOVN is made and run by Joshua Orihood, an independent developer in the United States. In this policy, “we” means Joshua Orihood. Questions go to support@wovn.money.
What WOVN collects
Your account
Your name, your email address and your password. The password is handled by Google’s Firebase Authentication, which stores only a scrambled (hashed) form of it. We never see it.
Your household’s ledger
Whatever you and your partner enter:
- Account names, types and balances.
- Transactions: payee, amount, date, category, memo, and whether it has cleared.
- Buckets (money set aside for a goal), recurring bills and paychecks, and your own categories.
- A history of changes for the last 90 days: who added, edited, cleared or deleted what, and when, with a copy of each transaction involved so a deleted one can be restored. Your household’s members can see it; nobody can edit it.
These amounts are whatever you choose to type. WOVN doesn’t verify them against a bank and doesn’t know your real balances.
Your household
The name, email address and color of each member, and the household’s six-character join code.
WOVN Plus purchases
If someone in your household buys WOVN Plus, a record of the purchase: the plan, Apple’s transaction number, when it renews or ends (or that it was refunded), and which member bought it. Apple handles the payment; WOVN never sees your card or your Apple ID.
Technical information
Like any internet service, the companies that run WOVN’s servers (listed below) receive your IP address, your device and browser type, and the app’s version when your phone talks to them. We don’t use this to identify or follow you.
What WOVN doesn’t collect
Bank credentials or account numbers, your location, contacts, photos, or advertising identifiers. WOVN contains no analytics, advertising or tracking code.
Who can see it
Your household
Everyone in your household can see and change everything in it, including each other’s name and email address. That’s the point of a shared checkbook, so only share your join code with someone you mean to share your finances with. Security rules on our database stop anyone outside the household from reading it, including someone who has an old join code or has been removed.
The services WOVN runs on
- Google Firebase provides sign-in and the database where your household is stored, in Google data centers in the United States. It also sends password-reset emails.
- Netlify hosts the web version of the app.
- Google Fonts serves the typefaces the app uses, so Google receives your IP address when they load.
- Apple and Google distribute the app if you install it from the App Store or Google Play, under their own privacy policies. Apple also takes payment for WOVN Plus and tells WOVN when a subscription renews, ends or is refunded.
These companies process information only to provide their service to WOVN. We don’t sell your information or share it with anyone for advertising. We’d disclose it only if the law required us to.
On your phone
So WOVN works without a signal, your phone keeps a copy of your household’s ledger and any changes that haven’t synced yet. It also remembers display preferences, such as which sections you’ve collapsed. Signing out deletes the copy of the ledger from that phone.
How long we keep it
As long as your account and household exist. When you delete something in WOVN, such as a transaction, account or bucket, it’s removed from the household. A deleted transaction stays in History for up to 90 days, so it can be put back.
- History entries are deleted once they’re 90 days old, the next time someone in your household opens the app.
- Leaving a household (Settings) removes you from it. If you’re the last member, the household and everything in it is deleted.
- Deleting your account (Settings → Delete my WOVN account) deletes your sign-in and profile right away and takes you out of your household. If you were its last member, the household is deleted too. If not, your partner keeps the household, including entries you made, because it’s a shared ledger.
Our providers may keep their own short-term logs or backups for a limited time after something is deleted, under their own policies.
Your choices
Wherever you live, you can:
- See and download everything in your household: Settings → Export, as a spreadsheet (CSV) or a full backup (JSON).
- Correct anything by editing it in the app.
- Delete your account and data from Settings, as described above.
- Ask us about your information, or for help with any of this, at support@wovn.money.
Security
Information travels between your phone and our servers encrypted (HTTPS), and Google encrypts it where it’s stored. Access is limited to members of each household by the database’s security rules. No system is perfectly secure, so use a password you don’t use anywhere else. The copy on your phone is as safe as your phone, so keep it locked.
Children
WOVN is meant for adults managing a household’s money. It isn’t intended for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them. If you think a child has signed up, contact us and we’ll delete the account.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we’ll update the date at the top. If a change affects how your information is used, we’ll tell you in the app before it takes effect.