Budget privacy policy

Effective 13 November 2026

This policy covers the Budget app on iPhone, Android and the web, made by Bushati ("we", "us"). If you have a question about it, write to hello@bushati.app.

What Budget keeps on your device

Budget stores what you enter, so it can show it back to you:

• spending and income entries: amounts, currencies, dates, categories and any notes;
• bills, their schedules and the payments you mark;
• names of people you add to entries, such as "Mum";
• your settings, such as payday, reminder times and currencies.

This data lives in the app's private storage on your phone, or in your browser's storage on the web. Budget also saves a backup copy there each time you open it, so you can roll back a mistake. None of it is sent to us.

Your phone's own backup (iCloud Backup on iPhone, Google's backup on Android) may include the app's storage. That is a feature of your phone and your Apple or Google account, under their privacy policies, and you can turn it off in your phone's settings.

Sync with Google Drive (optional)

Sync is off until you sign in with Google in Budget's settings. When you do:

• Budget asks Google for one permission, to keep its own data in your Google Drive (the drive.appdata permission). Google keeps this data in a hidden app folder that only Budget can open. Budget can't see, open or change any other file in your Drive.
• Each of your devices saves a copy of your Budget data to that folder and reads the copies of your other devices, so all of them show the same entries. The copies are stored with Google under your account, and Google's privacy policy applies to them.
• Google Sign-In also tells the app your Google account's name and email address. Budget shows them in Settings, so you know which account syncs, and keeps them on your device.
• Budget talks to Google directly from your device. Your data and sign-in never pass through a server of ours.

Budget's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Budget uses this access only to sync your own data between your devices. It doesn't share it with anyone, use it for advertising, or let anyone read it.

Turning sync off

• To stop a device syncing, open Settings in Budget and choose Stop syncing on this device. Your data stays on the device.
• To delete the copies in your Drive, open Google Drive on the web, go to Settings → Manage apps, find Budget, and choose Delete hidden app data.
• To withdraw Budget's access to your Google account, remove it at myaccount.google.com/connections.

Files you import and export

When you import a CSV file or restore an exported file, Budget reads it on your device. When you export your data, Budget hands the file to your device's share or save options, and it goes where you send it.

Reminders

Bill reminders and the check-ins that ask what you spent are scheduled on your device. They don't come from a server, and answering them stays on your device.

What we don't do

• We don't collect, receive or store your personal data. We can't see what you enter.
• No ads, analytics, crash reporting, tracking or third-party code that reports on you.
• We don't sell or share data. There's nothing to sell.
• Without sync, Budget doesn't connect to the internet (on the web, apart from loading the app itself).

This website

bushati.app is hosted by Cloudflare, which handles visitors' IP addresses and basic request details to deliver pages and protect against abuse, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. The site sets no cookies and runs no analytics.

Your choices and rights

Your data is on your device and, if you sync, in your own Google Drive, so you're in control: edit or delete entries in the app, delete the app (or clear its site data in your browser) to remove everything on that device, and remove the Drive copies as described above.

Because we hold none of your data, we can't look it up, correct it or delete it for you, but you're welcome to ask us anything about it. Depending on where you live, you may have rights under data protection law, such as the EU's GDPR or Albania's data protection law, including the right to complain to your data protection authority.

Children

Budget isn't made for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect anything from anyone, children included.

Changes to this policy

If Budget starts handling data differently, we'll update this page and the date at the top before the change reaches the app, and say so in the app's release notes.

Contact

Bushati · hello@bushati.app