Hone Week privacy

Effective October 24, 2026. This is also the date it was last updated.

This page covers Hone Week: the planner at honeweek.com and the Hone Week app for iPhone.

The short version

• Without an account, the iPhone app keeps your tasks on the phone and does not send them to us.
• If you sign in, each task outside a private list is sent to us and kept on your account, so it follows you to your other devices.
• Hone Week has no ads, no analytics, no crash reporting code and no tracking, and we do not sell your data.

Your account

Hone Week works without an account. If you sign in, you make an account with us. In the iPhone app you sign in with your email address and a six-digit code we email to you. The key that keeps you signed in is kept in the phone's secure storage, and we keep only a hash of it. On honeweek.com you can also sign in with Google, and Google's sign-in code loads only when you choose it. We also keep a display name. If you sign in from the iPhone app, it is the part of your email address before the @. If you sign in with Google on honeweek.com, it is the first name Google shares.

Your tasks, signed in

For each task outside a private list we keep its title, day, time, length, steps, the list it is filed under, how it repeats, a day you picked to work on it, its due date, note and link, when it was made and last changed, whether it is done or marked important, and the day it was checked off. If there are tasks on the phone when you sign in, the app asks first. Add sends them to your account. Keep separate leaves them on this phone, and they are not sent.

When you remove a task, we mark it as removed so your other devices learn it is gone. The removed task's details stay in that record on our servers until you delete your account.

Private lists

While a list is marked private on this phone, its tasks are not uploaded from this phone, and neither are edits to them. There is one exception. If you delete a task that was uploaded before you marked the list private, the phone sends that task's ID, with no title or other details, so it comes off your account on your other devices and honeweek.com. Making a list private does not remove copies that were uploaded before. Those stay in your account as they were. As with any task you remove, the details from that earlier upload stay in its record on our servers until you delete your account, and deleting your account removes them. Which lists are private is saved only on the phone, so we do not learn it, and another phone on the same account does not know either, so mark the list private on each phone you use. A change that was already on its way when you marked the list private may still arrive. Tasks in a private list are left out of the copy in Reminders and Calendar, and out of Siri, Spotlight, widgets and notification text.

Phone backups

If your phone backs up to iCloud or to a computer, that backup can include Hone Week's data, private lists too. The backup goes where you send it; Hone Week does not send it to us.

Handled on the iPhone

• Receipt photos you add to a task are kept only in the app's own storage, left out of phone backups, and deleted with the task.
• If you pick a photo or paste a screenshot of a plan, the words in it are read on the phone by Apple's Vision framework. The image and its text are not sent to us. Only the tasks you choose to add are kept, like any other task.
• A task you remove is kept on the phone for 30 days in Recently let go so you can bring it back. That copy is not uploaded.
• Saved places are kept in the app, and the phone itself shows the reminder when you arrive or leave. We don't receive your saved places. When you search for a place, what you type goes to Apple Maps, under Apple's policy.
• Your calendar events and reminders are read on the phone, only if you allow it, to show them beside your tasks. We do not receive them. If you turn on the link, the app keeps a copy of your tasks in a Reminders list and a calendar called Hone Week, and those copies sync wherever your reminders and calendars sync.
• Reminders are scheduled on the phone. The app does not use push notifications, so no notification address is sent to us.
• On iPhones that support it, a few optional suggestions are written by Apple's on-device model. Suggestions for your week are made on your phone. Nothing you write is sent to us or anyone else to make them.
• If you turn on the lock, the phone checks your face, fingerprint or passcode before the app opens. The phone does that check, and we never receive it.

Sending a copy

Send a copy and Send my free times open your phone's share sheet. What you send, and to whom, is your choice, and it goes through the app you pick, not through us.

Siri and Shortcuts

If you ask Siri or Shortcuts to add or check off a task, the app saves it on the phone first; if you are signed in, it syncs like any other change. If you ask Siri what is on today, the app reads your tasks on the phone and leaves out private lists. What you say to Siri is handled by Apple under its own policy.

Requests that leave the phone without an account

At most once a day, when it opens, the app asks the App Store's public listing whether a newer version is out. The request carries no account and none of your tasks. Place searches go to Apple Maps. Apple receives these requests with your IP address, as with any request on the internet.

honeweek.com in a browser

Signed out, the planner keeps your tasks in this browser and does not send them to us. If you turn on notifications, your browser gives us an address at its push service, run by Apple, Google or Mozilla. The notification is sent as an empty wake-up, and your device asks us for the text itself. Turning notifications off, or signing out on that device, removes the address. If you make a calendar link, any calendar app you paste it into fetches your dated tasks with that link. We keep only a hash of the link, it cannot sign you in, and you can replace it or turn it off. If you use Say it, your browser turns your voice into words with its own speech recognition, which in some browsers sends the sound to the browser's maker. We receive only the words.

What we receive, and who else sees it

When you are signed in, the app sends your sign-in, your tasks outside private lists, and a request to delete your account if you make one. If you delete a task from a private list and that task was uploaded before, the app also sends that task's ID, with nothing else about it. Like any request on the internet, each one carries standard information such as your IP address, which our hosting providers may log. To stop abuse, our server counts some requests, such as signing in, by IP address and the page asked for. The count is not filed under your account, and old counts are cleared as newer requests arrive. There is no fixed time yet after which every count is deleted. Our providers are a hosting company, a database company, a DNS company and an email company that sends sign-in codes.

How long we keep it

• Your account and the tasks synced to it: until you delete your account.
• A task you remove: its details stay in the removed record on our servers until you delete your account.
• Recently let go on the iPhone: 30 days, on the phone only.
• Request counts by IP address: cleared as newer requests arrive, with no fixed deadline yet.
• Copies kept to recover from a failure: until they are replaced or deleted.

Age

Hone Week is for ages 16 and up, or 13 and up with a parent's permission. Accounts are for people 13 and over, and the iPhone app works without one. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 13, we delete it. A parent can write to support@honeweek.com.

Shared lists

Shared lists are not in version 1.0 of the Hone Week app. If you used them in a test version, this is what we keep: the list's name, its tasks with their days and times, the name you chose for the list, when each person joined, who added and who checked off each task, and for 30 days a line for each change. A private list cannot be shared. Reports you made, and the log of actions we took, can stay after an account is deleted; they refer to people by internal ids. Invite codes stop working after 7 days, and we keep only a scrambled form.

Deleting your account

In the app: Settings, Delete account. On the web: /account/delete. It deletes your account and what is stored for it, apart from the few things below. If you also use Hone Coding or Hone Jobs with the same email, it is the same account, and your progress there is deleted too. If you cannot sign in, email support@honeweek.com from the address on the account and we delete it for you.

What stays:

• We keep the account's internal number and the time it was deleted, so the number is never reused and a restore cannot bring the account back.
• Copies kept only to recover from a failure can hold the account until they are replaced or deleted. They are never used to bring a deleted account back.
• Tasks you added to someone else's shared list stay there, without your name, and some safety records about shared lists can stay.
• Request counts kept by IP address are not filed under your account and clear on their own.

On the iPhone, deleting your account also clears every Hone Week task on the phone, including private lists, tasks you kept separate and tasks made while you were signed out, along with Recently let go, Spotlight entries and the receipt photos of the tasks it clears. The only tasks it keeps are ones set aside for a different account that signed in on this phone before. It also clears task titles from Hone Week's widgets and cancels its scheduled reminders. Copies in Reminders or Calendar can stay, so delete the Hone Week list and calendar there if you want them gone. Another phone that was signed in keeps what it had until you remove the app there.

Seeing your data

Email support@honeweek.com from the address you signed in with and we will send you a copy of your record.

Changes to this page

The effective date at the top is the date this version took effect. When this page changes, we post the new version here with a new effective date. If a change affects what we collect, how we use it or who we share it with, we post it here before it applies, and the top of this page says what changed for at least 30 days. Hone Week does not track you across other companies' apps or websites, so a browser's Do Not Track signal changes nothing we do. Questions: support@honeweek.com.