Float (“Float,” “we,” “us”) makes a personal money-tracking app. This policy explains what we collect, why, and the control you have. We've tried to write it in the same plain language we use everywhere in the app.
The numbers that make Float work — your income, payday, recurring bills, and the expenses you log — are created and stored on your device. If you never create an account, this information stays on your device and is never sent to us.
If you choose to create an account for backup and sync, we collect the email address or sign-in identifier from your chosen provider (Apple or Google) and an encrypted copy of your Float data so we can restore it to your other devices.
With your permission, we collect anonymous crash reports and basic, non-identifying usage events (for example, “a recap card was generated”) to find and fix bugs. These contain no transaction amounts, categories, or notes. You can turn diagnostics off at any time in Settings.
If you subscribe to Float Plus, the transaction is handled by Apple or Google. We receive a confirmation that a valid subscription exists — we never see your card or payment details.
We do not use your financial data for advertising, profiling, or resale. We do not build a marketing profile of you.
Float is designed “on-device first.” Your daily number, breakdowns, streaks, and weekly recap are all computed locally on your phone. Because of this, most of the app keeps working with no network connection and without sending anything to us.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We share data only in these limited cases:
When you use a Float Plus feature that reads a receipt photo or interprets a typed entry, the relevant content is sent securely to our processing provider, converted into structured data (amount, category, note), and returned to your device. We instruct our provider not to retain this content beyond what's needed to perform the task, and not to use it to train general-purpose models. Photos are processed transiently and are not stored on our servers.
On-device data lives on your device until you delete it or uninstall the app. If you use an account, your encrypted backup is kept until you delete it or close your account. When you delete your account, we remove your backup from our systems within 30 days, except where we must keep limited records to meet legal obligations.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data, and to object to or restrict certain processing. Because your core data lives on your device, you can already:
To make any other request, contact us at privacy@getfloat.org. We won't charge you for exercising these rights, and we won't treat you differently for doing so.
Backups are encrypted in transit and at rest. Sign-in is handled by Apple or Google, so we never hold a password. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information and to limit how much of it we ever hold in the first place.
Float is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country), and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe a child has provided us data, contact us and we'll delete it.
If we make a material change, we'll update the date above and, where appropriate, let you know in the app. Continuing to use Float after a change means you accept the updated policy.
Questions about privacy? Email privacy@getfloat.org and a real person will reply. You can also reach us at hello@getfloat.org.