Your data stays yours.

The short version

Chorey is a client for a server you run yourself. Dark Studios does not operate a Chorey server, and does not collect, receive, store, or have access to any data about you, your household, or your children — not chore names, not photos, not usage statistics, nothing.

What Chorey is

Chorey's web dashboard and its native apps are, together, a self-hosted household chore tracker. "Self-hosted" means the actual data — your family's profiles, chores, and completion history — lives in a database on hardware you control (a Raspberry Pi, a NAS, a home server, or any machine you choose to run the open-source Chorey server on). The app and the web dashboard are simply the interface to that server. Dark Studios never sees what's stored there.

What the app stores, and where

• Your API key is stored in the iOS Keychain, the secure, encrypted storage Apple provides for exactly this purpose. It never leaves your device except in requests you make to the server you configured.
• A local cache of your chores and household data is kept on-device (via SwiftData) so the app stays responsive. This cache is a copy of data that already lives on your own server, and it's removed when you delete the app.
• Face ID, when you enable it to lock the parent view, is handled entirely by iOS on-device. Chorey never receives, stores, or transmits any biometric data — it only receives a yes/no unlock result from the operating system.

What Dark Studios does not do

• No analytics or usage tracking, in the app or on this website's product pages.
• No crash reporting services that transmit data off your device.
• No advertising, and no advertising SDKs.
• No third-party data sharing — there is no third party in the loop at all, because there is no Dark Studios server for Chorey in the loop either.
• No account system. There is nothing to sign up for with Dark Studios, so there is no Dark Studios account record to protect or lose.

Children's privacy

Chorey is designed for children to use as part of a household their parent operates — the Child Portal deliberately requires no login and collects no information beyond what the parent themselves enters into their own server (a first name and an avatar emoji, typically). Dark Studios has no visibility into this data at all: it never leaves the parent's own server, and no version of it is ever transmitted to, processed by, or stored by Dark Studios. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children, because we do not collect data from Chorey households at all.

Your own server

Because you control the server, you also control this data directly — you can back it up, export it, or delete it at any time using the tools in your own Chorey web dashboard. This privacy policy describes what the Dark Studios-published app and this website do; it isn't a substitute for good practice in securing the server you choose to run it on (for example, putting it behind HTTPS, which also enables passkey sign-in — see the support page).

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page will change with it. Material changes will also be noted in the project's release notes.

Contact

Questions about this policy: [email protected].