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How Quidly handles your data

Last updated 1 June 2026

Quidly is a personal budgeting app. We try to keep the data footprint as small as the feature set allows. This page lays out what we collect, where it lives, and what you can do about it.

📥 What we collect

  • Account info from your sign-in — name, email, profile picture.
  • Every expense, budget, receipt, and category you create or import — exactly the data you see inside the app.
  • Bank-statement files you import — read once to extract transactions, then discarded. We don't keep the source PDF / CSV.

🗄️ Where it lives

  • Firebase Authentication holds your sign-in.
  • Cloud Firestore holds every expense / budget / receipt under your account, in Google's cloud infrastructure.
  • Firebase Storage holds receipt images, if you attach them.

📡 What leaves your device

  • Bank-statement PDFs you import are sent once to Google's Gemini API to extract transactions. After the response comes back, the file is dropped.
  • Merchant strings from your imports go to Gemini for category suggestions. Strings are lower-cased and stripped of bank prefixes / reference codes before the call.
  • When AI insights or budget generation runs, a brief profile (income range, household size, category list) is sent to Gemini. We do not send individual transaction text for these prompts.

🔮 Planned: cross-user merchant cache

In a future release we plan to maintain a global lookup of common merchant names (e.g. "Netflix" → "Subscriptions") so first-time users don't each have to teach the app the same answers.

✓ What's shared

Only lowercased, prefix-stripped merchant strings + category labels — never amounts, dates, or anything personally identifying. You'll be able to opt sensitive categories (medical, adult, etc.) out of the shared lookup.

🛒 Community grocery prices

When you scan a grocery receipt, the prices feed a shared community price database so everyone can see where items are cheapest. AI online price estimates are stored in the same shared database so they're fetched once and reused — this is what powers cross-store price comparison.

✓ What's shared

Only the item name, pack size, store, price, your rough region (country / city), and date — never your name, your other purchases, or anything identifying you.

📊 BigQuery analytics mirror

Your expense data is also copied to BigQuery, a Google data-analytics service, in the same Google Cloud project as the app database. We use it to run aggregate spending analysis and reports (trends, tax-time summaries).

It never leaves Google Cloud — the same trust boundary as the rest of your data — and is not shared with any outside party. The mirror carries the same "Only me" visibility flags, and our reporting queries respect them.

🔒 Private expenses inside shared spaces

Every expense you log is shared by default with the other members of that space (your household, partner, etc.). When you flip the "Only me" toggle on an expense, that row is restricted to your account — other members' devices never receive it, enforced by Firestore security rules, not just hidden in the UI.

Members who join a space later only see rows that were marked shared at write time; private rows stay private even after they join.

🚫 Sharing with anyone else

We do not sell, rent, or share your data with advertisers, brokers, or third-party analytics. The only third party that sees individual data is Google (Firebase + Gemini), as described above.

🎛️ Your controls

Sign out

Any time, from your account settings.

Settings → Account

Delete account

Permanently wipes every expense, budget and receipt in spaces you solely own, removes you from shared spaces, and deletes your sign-in.

Settings → Account → Delete

Export everything

Download all your data to CSV. Take it with you, any time.

Expenses → Share icon

App lock

Lock Quidly behind your device's biometric or PIN.

Settings → Privacy → App lock

🧒 Children

Quidly is not aimed at users under 16. We do not knowingly collect data from people under 16. If you believe a minor signed up, contact us so we can delete the account.

✉️ Contact

Questions, requests, or anything that looks wrong — email us at support@getquidly.com.

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