1. Who we are
OwnWorth ("we," "us") — operated by OwnWorth, LLC, a Texas limited liability company — is a home-inventory service that turns photos of your belongings into an organized, valued inventory — for insurance documentation, selling, donating, and simply knowing what you own. This policy explains what we collect, why, and the choices you have. It covers the OwnWorth mobile and web apps and the ownworth.co website. Questions? Email hello@ownworth.co.
2. What we collect
Information you provide
- Account info: your email address (we sign you in with one-time codes, so we never store a password).
- Inventory data: the items you add — names, categories, rooms, brands, conditions, purchase prices and dates, serial numbers, quantities, notes, tags, barcodes, and the photos you take or upload.
- Donation profile (optional): if you generate donation receipts, you can save a donor name, address, and marginal tax-rate estimate so forms pre-fill. You choose whether to save these.
- Records you create: donation receipts (charity name and address, item values), sale records (what sold and for how much), and exports you generate.
Information created or received automatically
- AI results: when you use photo recognition or valuation, the AI's output (item identification, estimated value, listing copy) is stored with your item.
- Subscription status: if you subscribe, Apple processes the payment and our subscription partner RevenueCat tells us which plan is active for your household. We never see your card number.
- Basic technical data: standard server logs (such as IP address and request timestamps) used for security and to keep the service running. We do not run third-party advertising or cross-site tracking, on the site or in the app.
3. How we use your information
- To provide the service: store and organize your inventory, generate valuations, receipts, and exports, and sync across your devices.
- AI processing: when you request it (photo recognition, valuation, listing drafts), we send the relevant photo and item details to our AI provider (currently Google's Gemini API) from our servers, solely to produce the result you asked for. API keys and processing stay server-side — your device never talks to the AI provider directly, and we do not use your photos or personal data to train AI models.
- Shared pricing cache: to keep the service fast and affordable, we cache de-identified product-level pricing — for example, "this barcode is typically worth about $X" — and may reuse it across households. This cache contains no photos and no personal information.
- To communicate: transactional email only — sign-in codes and important service notices. No marketing spam.
- To protect the service: abuse prevention, debugging, and security.
4. What we never do
- We never sell your personal information.
- We never use your data for third-party advertising.
- We never use your photos or inventory to train AI models.
- We never share your inventory with anyone outside your household, except the service providers below acting on our instructions.
5. Household sharing
OwnWorth is organized around households. Members of your household see the household's shared inventory — items, photos, values, and receipts. Only invite people you trust with that information. Access is enforced at the database level (row-level security), so one household can never read another's data.
6. Service providers
We use a small number of providers to run OwnWorth, each only for its job:
- Supabase — our database, authentication, and photo storage (photos live in a private bucket, accessed only through short-lived signed links).
- Google (Gemini API) — AI identification, valuation, and listing-copy generation, invoked from our servers.
- Apple — payment processing for subscriptions (App Store in-app purchase).
- RevenueCat — subscription management; receives your household's app identifier and purchase status from Apple.
- Cloudflare — hosts this website and provides network security.
- Open Library — if the AI recognizes a book, we look up its ISBN by title; only the book's title is sent.
7. Connected marketplace and charity accounts
OwnWorth can help you sell or donate items through outside services (for example, listing an item on eBay). If you connect such an account:
- We store the authorization tokens the marketplace issues, encrypted and server-side only, and use them solely for actions you initiate (such as creating a listing you asked for).
- The item details and photos you choose to list are sent to that marketplace and become subject to its own terms and privacy policy.
- You can disconnect at any time in the app; disconnecting deletes our stored tokens.
- If you close your account on the marketplace itself, we honor the marketplace's account-deletion notifications and delete the associated connection data.
8. Security
Data is encrypted in transit; photos are stored in private, household-scoped storage; database access is enforced by row-level security; and secrets (API keys, tokens) are kept server-side, never in the app on your device. No system is perfectly secure, but we design so that the blast radius of any failure is as small as possible.
9. Retention and deletion
- You can edit or delete any item, photo, or receipt at any time, and export your inventory to CSV or PDF whenever you like.
- Items you mark as sold, donated, or given away are kept in your History as your record — you can delete them like anything else.
- To delete your account and all household data you own, use the in-app option or email hello@ownworth.co from your account email. We complete deletion within 30 days; residual copies in encrypted backups purge on their normal cycle shortly after.
10. Your rights
Wherever you live, we extend the same rights: you can access, correct, export, or delete your personal information, and you can ask us what we hold about you. Residents of California, the EEA, and the UK may have additional statutory rights (such as objection and complaint to a supervisory authority). To exercise any of these, email hello@ownworth.co — we'll verify the request comes from your account email and respond within 30 days. We do not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.
11. Children
OwnWorth is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us data, contact us and we will delete it.
12. Changes to this policy
If we make material changes, we'll update the date at the top and notify you in the app or by email before the changes take effect. Continued use after that means you accept the updated policy.
13. Contact
OwnWorth, LLC · hello@ownworth.co