Privacy Policy

HOMEFRONT is a private digital space for military and long-distance families to stay connected through shared activities, memories, and correspondence. HOMEFRONT is offered as a mobile and web application. The product owner and operating entity are to be confirmed. For any question about this policy, contact help.homefront@gmail.com.

We collect the minimum needed to create and run your account:

• Account credentials: the email address and password you register with. Passwords are handled by our authentication platform and are not stored in plain text.
• Authentication information: when you sign in with Google, Microsoft, Facebook, or Apple, we receive the account details those providers return (such as your email address). We do not receive or store those providers' passwords.
• Profile information: the display name, family title, profile image, birthday, time zone, military affiliation selection, service branch, relationship note, interests, and help-goal selections you choose to provide.
• Family membership information: the family groups you belong to, your role (guardian, adult, teen, or child), relationship titles, and invitation records.
• Notification and comfort preferences: the settings you choose for notifications, quiet hours, read receipts, and similar options.
• Device and diagnostic information: standard technical information our platform collects to operate the service, such as browser type and request logs.

To be confirmed: the exact device and diagnostic data collected by the hosting platform, and any crash or performance reporting.

Most information in HOMEFRONT is optional. Military affiliation is optional. Military verification is never required. Unit names, ranks, duty stations, and deployment locations are never requested, and we ask you not to enter them.

You decide whether to share your birthday with your family, which family groups to join, and what profile details to fill in. You can leave most fields blank.

A family group is invitation only. There are no public family directories and no member search. Family content is not automatically shared. Only members of a family group can see that group's content, and only according to the role and permissions assigned within the group.

Guardians manage invitations and member permissions. Invitations are single use, can expire, and can be revoked. You control who can access content you share within a family group, and you can remove members.

Direct messaging, photo and video sharing, and voice messages are planned features and are not part of the current release. When introduced, content shared in a family space will be visible only to the members of that family group, in line with the permissions above.

HOMEFRONT cannot prevent a recipient from screenshotting, copying, or forwarding content once it has been shared. Please share with care.

The scrapbook and memory features are planned and are not part of the current release. When introduced, scrapbook contributions will be visible to the members of the family group that owns the scrapbook. Removing a member does not automatically remove content they previously contributed; a guardian can manage that content within the family space.

The military affiliation and service branch selections are optional and are used only to tailor the experience and content you see. They are not verified, and they are not shared with any military organization. We never ask for, and ask you never to share, unit names, ranks, duty stations, deployment dates, schedules, or operational details.

HOMEFRONT is designed for family use under guardian oversight. Family memberships support guardian, adult, teen, and child tiers. A guardian is responsible for a child's participation and for any content a child shares. Account creation requires an email address; children participate through accounts managed by their guardians.

To be confirmed: the minimum age for account creation, the handling of accounts for users under 13, and the parental consent process. These must be finalized before publication.

• To create and maintain your account and authenticate you.
• To connect you with the family groups you choose to join.
• To display your profile and shared content to the family members authorized to see it.
• To send transactional messages such as verification codes and invitations.
• To operate, secure, and improve the service.
• To provide the notifications and preferences you have chosen.

We do not use your information to show advertising inside private family spaces.

HOMEFRONT is built on a backend platform (Base44) hosted on Cloudflare Workers. Account and family data is stored by the platform. Profile images and other files you upload are held in private storage and opened only for people with access, through short-lived signed links. The brand logo is stored publicly. Data is transmitted over encrypted connections and is stored encrypted at rest by the platform.

We cannot honestly claim end-to-end encryption for shared content at this time. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. We limit access to personal data to the people who need it to operate the service.

The following third parties process information as part of running HOMEFRONT:

• Our hosting and backend platform, Base44, which stores account, family, and preference data and serves the application.
• Authentication providers you choose to sign in with — Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple — each under their own privacy practices.
• Email delivery services used to send verification codes, invitations, and account-related messages.

We do not currently use third-party advertising, analytics tracking, or social tracking SDKs. If that changes, this section will be updated before the change takes effect.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not share your information with advertisers. We share information only: with the family members authorized to see it within a family group; with the third parties listed above to operate the service; and when required by law or to protect the rights, safety, or property of HOMEFRONT, our users, or others.

We keep your information for as long as your account is active. You can delete your HOMEFRONT data at any time from Settings. When you delete your data, your profile, preferences, family memberships, and sent invitations are removed. Families left with no members are removed entirely. Your platform sign-in account remains after data deletion; to request its removal, contact support.

Some information may remain in platform backups for a limited period before it is overwritten. Shared content you contributed to a family space may remain visible to that family until a guardian removes it; you can request its removal by contacting support.

You can delete your HOMEFRONT data from Settings → Your data. The process explains what will be removed, asks you to confirm, and completes only when the deletion has actually run. Removing a member from a family group is separate from deleting their account and data. Removing someone from a family does not delete their account or their other data.

A web-based account deletion request is also available at /delete-account, including for users who can no longer sign in. See our Terms of Service for more detail.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you.
• Correct inaccurate personal information.
• Delete your personal information.
• Object to or restrict certain processing.
• Withdraw consent for optional processing.
• Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

To exercise these rights, use the in-app deletion tools or contact help.homefront@gmail.com.

HOMEFRONT uses essential technologies to keep you signed in and to operate the service. We do not use advertising cookies or cross-site tracking cookies. Authentication providers may set their own cookies as part of sign-in.

To be confirmed: whether any analytics or preference cookies are used before publication, and a cookie consent banner where required.

We may update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date and, for material changes, notify you in the app. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated policy.

For privacy questions or requests, contact HOMEFRONT Support: help.homefront@gmail.com.

To be confirmed: the legal entity name, business address, and any registered contact once provided by the product owner.