Privacy Policy

Effective 16 September 2026

What PadPing stores on your device

PadPing keeps everything it needs to run your maintenance plan in local storage on your phone. That can include:

• your home profile: the answers you gave during setup, including the ZIP code used to work out seasonal timing;
• your tasks, their schedules, due dates and completion history, and any names you give to extra units (such as "Basement");
• notes you write, for example filter sizes or who serviced something;
• install years, expected lifespans and rough replacement costs for the things you're tracking toward replacement.

None of this is uploaded to PadPing. There is no sign-in, because there is nothing to sign in to.

What we measure

We collect a small amount of anonymous usage data so we can tell whether the app actually works: whether people finish setup, whether tasks get marked done, and whether anyone comes back after a week. Specifically:

• whether setup was completed or skipped, how many setup questions were answered, and how many tasks were matched;
• when a first task gets marked done, and how long after setup;
• whether the app is opened again a week later;
• when a custom task is created: its category, season and frequency, and whether you started from a blank form or one of the built-in suggestions;
• when you add an extra unit of something: which task it was and how many you now track, never the name you gave it.

None of this includes anything you typed. We never receive your notes, your address, any detail about your home, or the names of your tasks, except in a template suggestion you choose to send (below). There is no account to attach it to, and we do not try to identify you. This is handled by PostHog, our analytics provider.

Every event also carries basic technical information, attached automatically by PostHog: the device type (always "Mobile"), your device manufacturer and model, whether it is a simulator, operating system and version, screen size, language and time zone, PadPing's name, bundle identifier, version and build number, and the analytics library's name and version. Each event is also tagged with random identifiers generated on your device: one for the app install, a separate device identifier, one for the current session, and one for the event itself. None of them is your name, your email, or an account, and we never connect them to one.

We have turned off PostHog's location lookup, so no city, region or country is worked out from your connection. As with any app that talks to a server, the request itself travels over the internet and carries an IP address. We do not use it to work out where you are.

We do not record your screen, we do not use advertising SDKs, and we do not sell or share this data with anyone. If what we collect changes, it changes here first. See Changes to this policy.

Suggesting a template

If you create a task PadPing didn't already know about, you can choose to send it to us as a template suggestion. When you tap that, a box opens pre-filled with the task name, and you can edit it to anything you like before sending. We receive the text in that box and the category, along with the same technical information that comes with every event (above), and nothing about your home.

This only happens when you tap send. If you never use it, nothing is ever sent.

Notifications

Reminders are scheduled locally by your device. PadPing does not use push notifications delivered from a server, so no notification token is registered with us and no reminder content leaves your phone. You can decline notification permission and still use the app.

Backups and exports

You can export your PadPing data from Settings. The export is plain JSON that you control: PadPing does not encrypt it, so anyone who can open it can read it. Store and share exports carefully.

PadPing has no backup of its own. If you delete the app or lose your device, your PadPing data goes with it, unless you exported it first or your phone's own backup (iCloud or Google) included it. Whether that happens depends on your device's backup settings. Those backups are held by Apple or Google under your account, never by us.

Permissions

PadPing does not request location, contacts, or photo-library access. Your ZIP code is typed by you during setup and is used on-device to set seasonal timing; it is never sent to us.

This website

padping.co is a static site hosted by Netlify. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and includes no third-party trackers or embedded scripts.

If you join the early access list, the site collects the email address you submit, using Netlify Forms. We use it to tell you when the beta opens and when PadPing reaches the app stores, and for nothing else: no newsletter, no sharing, no selling. Ask us at any time to remove your address and we will. As our hosting provider, Netlify processes submissions and standard web-server request data, including IP addresses, on our behalf.

Children

PadPing is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.

What you control

• Everything in the app is yours to edit or delete, at any time.
• You decide when to create an export and who to give it to.
• You decide whether to send a template suggestion, and what it says.
• Uninstalling PadPing removes its local data from your device.
• You can ask us to delete your email address from the early access list.

Changes to this policy

We will update this page as PadPing changes, and the effective date above will change with it. Anything new that would change what leaves your device, such as accounts, a backend or crash reporting, gets a review before it ships, not after.

Contact

Privacy questions go to feedback@padping.co, and a person will answer.

PadPing is a product of Random Tuesday, a trading name of RANDOM TUESDAY LLC, 187 E Lake Cove Cir, Saratoga Springs, UT 84045-4742, United States.