Earn by Huhu ("the app") is made by Huhu Inc. ("Huhu", "we", "us"), based in California, USA. This policy explains what we collect, why, and what control you have. The short version: Earn is a chores and allowance app for families; the balances in it are a tally your family keeps, not real money moving through us; a kid's profile is created and controlled by their parent or guardian; kids can swap stickers with other families only when the grown-ups in both families say yes; and we don't show ads, don't sell data, and don't track you.
Earn is for grown-ups, parents and guardians, coordinating chores and allowance with their kids. You must be an adult to create the family account, using the same Google or Apple sign-in the other Huhu apps use. Kids do not create their own accounts. A grown-up adds a kid profile to the family account, and the kid uses that profile on the grown-up's own device. It's a shared device, not a separate account for the kid.
Account information (grown-up). When a grown-up signs in with Apple or Google we receive their email address, display name, and an authentication identifier, the same sign-in already used across Huhu's apps. We use this to create the family account and let family members recognize each other. Kids never see this sign-in flow and never create their own account.
Grown-up PIN (optional). A grown-up may set a PIN to protect their profile. We store it hashed, never in plain text.
Kid profile. A grown-up adds a kid profile with the kid's first name, an illustrated animal avatar (no photo), and a birth date. The birth date is used only to set age-based defaults, like chore card size and whether the kid starts in picture mode (for kids who can't read yet), which a grown-up can change. It's never shown outside the family. A kid may also have their own PIN on the shared device, stored hashed the same way.
Chore and allowance data. What a grown-up sets up (chore titles, schedules, and star values) plus what happens as the family uses the app: completion records (who did it, when, who approved it), jar balances (Spend, Save, Give), spend requests, and transaction history. This is a running tally the family keeps together, not a bank account. See "The family ledger" below.
Perks and stars. The perks a grown-up creates (a name and a price in stars), the stars a kid has earned and spent, and each perk a kid has asked for or been given.
Sticker album. The stickers each kid has collected, how many of each, and a log of when each one dropped. Drops are decided on our server when a to-do is finished, so an album can't be edited from the app.
Wants list (optional). A kid or grown-up can add a want by sharing a product link into the app, typing a name, or taking or picking a photo. We send that link, text, or photo to our server, which asks an AI model (Google's Gemini, working for us) to read off a title, price, store, and category. We store those, and any photo you add, with the family's wants list (photos are kept in Firebase Storage). The photo is only the one you take or pick; we never get access to your whole photo library. A want's link opens in your phone's browser, not inside the app. Nothing is ever purchased through the app.
Push notifications (grown-up only, optional). If a grown-up allows notifications, we store their device's push token so we can tell them about chore completions, spend requests, sticker trades, and pay day. Notification buttons (like Approve) act on the family's records the same way the app does. Kid devices do not register for push notifications.
Live Activities (grown-up device, optional). If Live Activities are available and on, the Lock Screen can show today's progress and pay day. To update them, we store the tokens Apple gives the app for each Live Activity, next to the grown-up's account, and our server sends the updates. Turn them off in Settings, Notifications.
Feedback (optional). If a grown-up taps "Send feedback", we receive what they write, a screenshot of the screen they were on if it could be captured, the device model, OS version, and app build, and the app's most recent log lines. Nothing is sent unless you tap Send.
Usage events. To see which parts of Earn work and where families get stuck, the app records simple events as it's used: things like "app opened", "kid added", "to-do marked done", which screen was shown, and the app version and device type. Each event is tied to the family account (and to which profile, grown-up or kid, was in use). Events never include names, chore titles, typed text, photos, or money amounts. We use them only to improve the app; they're processed by Google Firebase (including Google Analytics for Firebase) on our behalf, and never used for advertising or shared with anyone else.
Joining a family (QR invite). A grown-up can join a family by scanning a QR invite code. This uses the camera live, for a single scan; no image is saved or sent anywhere.
What we do NOT collect: a kid's location or contacts; advertising identifiers; bank account or card details; or kid device push tokens. We have no ad SDKs, and the app does not track you across other apps or websites.
A kid's profile (name, avatar, birth date) and everything they do in the app (chore completions, spend requests, their wants list) belongs to your family. We use it only to run the app for your family, we never sell it, never share it for advertising, and never let a third-party AI train on it. A grown-up can view, edit, or delete a kid's profile and everything under it at any time in Settings. See "Children's privacy" below for the full picture.
Kids can swap stickers with kids in other families, but only after the grown-ups say yes. Here is exactly how it works and what crosses between families.
An invite link opens a plain web page on app.meethuhu.com that shows the code and hands off to the app. The page has no forms, no cookies, no analytics, and stores nothing; it only reads the code and, if the sender chose to include one, a first name from the link's address so it can say who sent it. That first name is the one the sender's family chose to put in the link, so anyone who has the link can read it.
When two families connect through an invite, the kids involved can get one rare-or-better sticker as a thank-you: the kid whose link it was (if a kid made it), and a kid on the other side who is picked to receive it. Each kid and family can only get a limited number. To keep that fair we keep a small record of which family invited which, how many bonuses a kid or family has had, and which pairs have already received one. These records hold family and kid identifiers, not names or contact details. A bonus never costs anything and is never something you can buy.
A grown-up can connect an AI assistant, like ChatGPT or Claude, to their family's Earn data. Nothing is connected unless a grown-up chooses to. In Settings, Assistants (grown-up profile only), the app makes a short pairing code; the grown-up types it into the assistant's own approval page, which links that assistant to their family. While connected, the assistant can read the family's kid profiles (first names and ages), to-dos, stars, jars and allowance, wants, perks, and notification settings, and can make the changes a grown-up could make in the app (adding to-dos, approving, adjusting money, and so on). It cannot see the sticker album or sticker trades. Every change an assistant makes is logged and shown in Settings, Assistants, which also lists what is connected and lets a grown-up disconnect it at any time. Whatever the assistant reads is then handled under that assistant's own provider's terms, not ours, so connect only providers you trust with your family's information. We store the connection (which assistant, when, and a hashed access token) so it keeps working until you disconnect it.
Some things happen on our servers, not on your phone, so they can't be tampered with from the app: posting pay day and the allowance split into the jars, recording money that moves, deciding sticker drops, running sticker trades, sending notifications and Live Activity updates, reading a shared want link or photo to find its title and price, and the assistant connector. These all run on Google Firebase and Google Cloud, working for us, and act only on your family's records.
Earn is a family tally, not a bank. Star values, allowances, and jar balances are numbers your family agrees on and keeps track of inside the app. No real money moves through Huhu. We don't process payments, we don't link a bank account or card, and we don't collect any financial account information. When it's time to pay out, that happens between the account holder and their kid, in person, the way families have always handled allowance. Earn just keeps the tally.
Where GDPR-style laws apply, our legal bases are: performing our agreement with you (storing the family, kid, chore, and ledger records the app needs to work), your consent for the optional things (push notifications, Live Activities, adding a link or photo to the wants list, connecting sticker friends, connecting an AI assistant, sending feedback, and the camera permission to take a photo or scan a QR invite); and our legitimate interest in keeping the service secure and improving it (usage events). We don't do automated decision-making with legal effects, and we don't profile you or your kid for advertising.
We may disclose information if the law genuinely requires it (a valid legal demand), to protect someone's safety, or to defend our legal rights, and if that ever happens we'll tell you unless the law forbids it. If the app is ever acquired or handed to a successor, your data goes only with the same promises in this policy, and we'll notify you before anything changes.
Your data is stored with Google Firebase on Google Cloud servers in the United States, and Google processes it on our behalf under Google's data-processing terms. If you use the app from outside the US, your data comes to US servers. We want to be plain about that. Google LLC participates in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and its data-processing terms for Firebase include the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses for onward processing; we rely on those Google commitments rather than pretending we've signed separate transfer paperwork with each user. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is controlled by per-family security rules (only your family's accounts can read your family's records), and we keep the data we hold to the minimum the features need. No system is perfect: if we learn of a breach that affects your personal data, we will notify you without unreasonable delay, in the app or by email, and as required by applicable law.
We keep a family's kid profiles, chores, ledger, and wants list for as long as the family account exists, or until a grown-up deletes them in the app. Deleting a kid's profile deletes that kid's data; deleting the family account deletes all of it. Push tokens and Live Activity tokens are kept only while notifications or Live Activities are enabled for a grown-up's device. An assistant connection is kept until a grown-up disconnects it. Sticker trades and links are kept while the two families are connected and for the history both families can see. Usage events are kept for up to 13 months, then deleted; email us to have yours deleted sooner.
Earn is directed to grown-ups, parents and guardians, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children, online or otherwise. The information about a kid (their name, avatar, birth date, and everything they do in the app) is provided by their parent or guardian through the grown-up's own account, on the grown-up's own device. (US children's privacy law, COPPA, governs data collected from children using a service; a kid using their profile inside a parent's account, on a parent's device, is not the same thing.)
A parent or guardian can, at any time, from Settings: view what's stored about their kid, edit it, or delete a kid's profile and everything under it, or delete the whole family account, which removes your family's Earn records. We do not show ads anywhere in Earn, we do not sell a kid's information, we do not use tracking, and we do not share a kid's information with anyone outside the infrastructure providers named above (Google Firebase and Google's AI service). The only other things that leave your family are the ones a grown-up chooses: a kid's first name, animal avatar, and stickers shown to a sticker-friend family a grown-up connected, and whatever an AI assistant a grown-up connects reads (see those sections above). If a parent or guardian has a question or request about their kid's data, email us: app_support@meethuhu.com.
Depending on where you live, privacy laws give you rights to access, correct, export, delete, or object to processing of your data. Honestly: we're a small operation, and some of these laws (like California's CCPA) technically apply only to businesses far larger than us. We don't lean on that. We give the same controls to everyone, everywhere: the in-app edit and delete controls cover access, correction, and erasure directly; and for anything else (objection, restriction, a question, or exercising a right through an authorized agent) email us and we'll handle it within the timelines the strictest applicable law would set: app_support@meethuhu.com. We will never discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right (there's nothing to discriminate with: the app is free and the same for everyone). We do not sell or share personal information as California law defines those terms, so there is nothing to opt out of. If you're in the EU/UK and we can't resolve a concern, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
If we change this policy we'll update the date above and, for meaningful changes, tell you in the app before they take effect.
Huhu Inc. · app_support@meethuhu.com · meethuhu.com
Based in California, USA.