Privacy Policy

Information we collect

• Account information — the email address and password you sign up with. Passwords are stored only as a secure hash, never in plain text.
• Your budget data — the accounts, categories, transactions and goals you enter. This is yours; we use it only to provide the app to you.
• Payment information — handled by our payment processor, Stripe. We never see or store your full card details; we keep only a customer reference and your subscription status.
• Minimal technical data — short-lived server logs (such as IP address and request time) needed to keep the service running securely. We do not keep your IP address alongside your account: a signed-in device is recorded only by a name like "Chrome on macOS" and a one-way keyed fingerprint of the address, which lets us stop someone locking you out of your own devices but cannot be read back as a location.
• Usage counts — for each day you use Pigglet we keep a count of how many times you signed in and roughly how long the app was open, so we can tell whether the service is working for people. We do not record which pages you visit or what you do in them, we keep these counts for about a year, and they are deleted with your account.

What we don't do

• We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information.
• We do not share your data with advertisers, and we run no advertising or third-party tracking cookies.
• We do not ask for information we don't need — no phone number, no mailing address, no data-broker imports.

Cookies

We use only essential cookies required to run the app: a cookie that keeps you signed in, and small preference cookies that remember your layout (for example, whether a section is collapsed). We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies of any kind.

Service providers

We rely on a few trusted providers to operate Pigglet: Stripe processes payments, and an email provider delivers transactional messages such as verification and password-reset links. These providers process only what's needed to perform their function and are not permitted to use your data for their own purposes.

Retention and deletion

We keep your data for as long as your account is active. If you cancel and ask us to delete your account, we remove your personal data and budget content, except where we're required to retain limited billing records by law. To request deletion, email contact@plainlysoftware.com.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit. The names you give payees, accounts, categories and other budget items, and the notes you write, are also encrypted at rest with a key unique to your account; deleting your account destroys that key, so those details can no longer be read, even from our backups. Passwords are hashed, and your budget is only ever visible to you. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable measures to protect your information.

Your rights

You can access, correct, or delete your information at any time — most of it directly in the app, and the rest by emailing contact@plainlysoftware.com. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under applicable privacy law.

Children

Pigglet is not directed at children and is not intended for anyone under 16. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Questions? Email contact@plainlysoftware.com.