Privacy policy

Last updated 10 November 2026

FridgeBoard puts your household’s chores, calendar, lists and reminders on a shared screen at home, and on your phones. To do that we have to keep what you put into it. This page says what we keep, why, who else is involved, and what you can ask us to do with it.

FridgeBoard is run by Mind & Mantle Pty Ltd (ABN 77 673 875 664, ACN 673 875 664), Australia. We’re responsible for (the “controller” of) the information on this page. “We” and “us” on this page means Mind & Mantle Pty Ltd. For anything about your privacy, reach us at hello@fridgeboard.me.

What we keep

• Your email address, so you can sign in. We email you a code each time; we keep the code only in scrambled form, and only until it expires.
• What your household puts in: the names, colours and kinds (adult, child, pet) of the people and pets you add; chores, jobs and rewards; shopping and other lists; meal plans and recipes; calendar events; reminders, including medicine names, doses and times; bills you add (their names, due days and amounts); habits, and anything you note down about them, such as how a headache was and when; little notes and messages sent to your screens; photos you take, such as of a medicine box; and the history of what’s been done and by whom.
• Photos you add: a photo for each person or pet, shown instead of their initial, and up to 10 photos for the sleep screen. Your phone makes them smaller before they’re sent. We keep only the latest photo for each person or pet, and delete a photo’s files when you take it off or delete the household.
• The people you invite to sign in: their email addresses, whether they’re an adult, a child with their own phone, or a helper, and for a helper, what they can see and their last day.
• Add by voice and Apple Reminders, if an adult sets them up. Each adult gets a private link for their iPhone’s Shortcuts. Siri turns what you say into words on your iPhone, and the shortcut sends us those words, never a recording. For Apple Reminders, the shortcut sends the reminders that aren’t done yet. We keep the lists you choose to show, and only the names and number of items of your other lists, so you can pick from them.
• Recipe links you paste: we keep the link and the recipe’s name, ingredients and method.
• Calendar links you add, such as a shared iCloud calendar’s link. We treat these as secret: they never appear on a screen. We use them only to read that calendar so your screens can show it; FridgeBoard can’t change a calendar added this way.
• Your town, if you set one for the weather, stored as a rough location (to about 1 kilometre).
• Your screens: the name you give each one, when it was connected and last checked in, and the type of browser it uses.
• The household PIN, if you set one, kept only in scrambled form.
• What you’ve bought. Whether you’ve bought FridgeBoard or an extra screen, when, the amount, and Paddle’s reference for the payment. Paddle takes the payment; we never see or keep your card number.

We use your IP address briefly to slow down repeated sign-in and connection attempts. We don’t store it with your account. Our hosting provider keeps standard access logs, which include IP addresses, for a short time for security. If a shared screen’s page crashes, it sends us a short report (the screen’s name, the kind of device and what went wrong) so we can fix it; these go in a log that’s cleared as it fills.

Connecting a Google or Microsoft calendar

If you connect a calendar account so FridgeBoard can show and change your events, we keep:

• the list of your calendars and the ones you choose to show;
• the events in those calendars, so your screens can show them and you can add, move or delete them from a shared screen or your phone;
• the key the provider gives us to reach your calendar, stored encrypted.

We use this only to show your calendar in FridgeBoard and make the changes you ask for. We don’t read your email, contacts or anything else in your account, and we don’t share your calendar with anyone. You can disconnect at any time from the phone app: we delete the key straight away, and the copied events within a couple of hours. You can also remove FridgeBoard’s access from your Google or Microsoft account settings.

FridgeBoard’s use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Cookies and storage

Your phone gets one cookie that keeps you signed in. A shared screen keeps a connection key in its browser’s storage so it stays connected. We don’t use advertising or analytics cookies, and there are no trackers on FridgeBoard.

On our website, our server counts visits to each page: how many each day, which site or link a visit came from, the country and the kind of device. To count how many different people that was, it uses a scrambled code made from the visitor’s IP address and browser. The code changes every day and is never stored, so nobody can be followed from one day to the next. The website sets no cookies for this.

If you came to our website from a link or another site, your browser remembers which one (a single word, like “Facebook” or “Google”) for 7 days, in its own storage, not a cookie. When you set up a household, that word is saved with it, so we can see which places bring families who stay. We only ever look at totals for each place.

What we use it for

To run FridgeBoard: showing your household’s information on your screens and phones, sending sign-in emails and emails about your account (a welcome, help getting set up, and before your trial ends or your household is deleted), answering you when you write to us, keeping the service secure, and fixing problems. We also look at what households have set up during their free trial, such as whether a screen is connected, to see what helps people get started and how many are likely to buy. We don’t sell your information, we don’t show ads, we don’t share it with anyone for their marketing, and we don’t use it to train AI models.

If you’re in the UK or Europe, the legal bases we rely on are: to provide the service you asked for (running your household, sign-in emails, payments); our legitimate interests in keeping FridgeBoard secure and fixing problems; your consent when you connect a calendar account, which you can withdraw by disconnecting it; and legal obligations, such as keeping tax records of payments.

Helpers

An adult can invite a helper, such as a house-sitter or a cleaner. A helper sees only the parts of your household the adult picks (for example the shopping list and the pets), until the last day the adult sets. They never see bills, coins or settings. Any adult can change what a helper sees, or take them off, at any time.

Children

FridgeBoard is for parents and other adults to run. An adult adds each child’s name and chooses what goes on the screens. Children use the shared screen without an account.

An adult can also give an older child FridgeBoard on their own phone. The adult types the child’s email address on their card, and we keep it so the child can sign in with a code sent to it. On their phone, a child sees their own chores, jobs and routines to tick off, the lists, the calendar and the meals. They can’t change settings, give coins or buy treats. An adult can take a child’s phone off at any time, and the email address is deleted with it. We don’t ask children for anything else. If you think a child has given us information without an adult in their household agreeing, email us and we’ll delete it.

Habits and notes

Each habit shows where you choose: on every shared screen, just some, or just on phones. An adult’s habits never show on another adult’s phone. Habits for noting things down, like headaches, are only ever on phones, never on a shared screen. They’re kept with the rest of your history, for as long as it’s kept (see below).

Who else is involved

We use a few other companies to run FridgeBoard. Each gets only what it needs:

• Amazon Web Services hosts FridgeBoard, stores your household’s information and our backups of it, in Australia (Sydney), and sends our emails.
• Paddle (paddle.com) takes payment when you buy FridgeBoard or an extra screen. Paddle is the Merchant of Record for our orders: it handles your card, the receipt, sales tax and refunds, under its own privacy policy. We never see your card details. We get back what you bought, when, and that it’s paid for.
• MET Norway provides the weather. It receives the rough location of your town, not who you are.
• OpenStreetMap helps find your town when you search for it. It receives what you type in the search.
• Google Fonts supplies some of the lettering on the screens, so Google sees your device’s IP address when a page loads.
• Zoho hosts our email inbox (hello@fridgeboard.me). If you email us or send feedback from the app, your message, your email address and the household and device it came from are kept there so we can reply.
• ESPN provides live scores, if you add the Live scores card or sleep screen. Your screen asks ESPN for the scores and team logos itself, so ESPN sees its IP address, and nothing else about you.
• Recipe websites: when you paste a recipe link, our server fetches that page once. The website sees our server, not you.
• Apple, if you use Add by voice or Apple Reminders: Siri and Shortcuts run on your iPhone under Apple’s privacy policy.
• Discord, where we get a message when someone signs up, buys FridgeBoard or is refunded. It includes the email address and the household’s name.
• Home Assistant, only if you link your own: FridgeBoard swaps the readings and actions you pick with it. It runs in your home, not with us.
• Your calendar provider (Google or Microsoft, if you connect an account, or whoever runs a calendar whose link you add, such as Apple’s iCloud) is asked for that calendar.

We’d also share information if the law requires it, or to protect someone’s safety.

Where it’s kept

Your household’s information is stored in Australia (Sydney), with Amazon Web Services. If you live somewhere else, your information comes to Australia to provide the service. Amazon is bound by contract to protect it, and we protect it in the same way wherever you are.

How long we keep it

We keep your household’s information while you use FridgeBoard. Past meals and one-off events are tidied away about two months after they happened. The history of what’s been done, including anything you note down such as medicine or symptoms, is kept for up to about two years, or about one year if your household chooses that in Settings. After that it’s deleted, and only each person’s monthly coin totals stay, because their coins are worked out from them.

If your free trial ends and you don’t buy FridgeBoard, your household is kept for 30 days in case you change your mind, then deleted. We email its adults a week before.

When you delete your household or your account in the phone app, it’s deleted from FridgeBoard straight away. Copies in our backups are kept for up to 30 days, then deleted too.

When something goes wrong on our server, an error report is emailed to us so we can fix it. It can include details of what was being done at the time, such as which household it was for. We delete these reports once the problem is fixed.

Keeping it safe

Everything travels over an encrypted connection. Sign-in codes, screen keys and the household PIN are kept in scrambled form. Only the people who run FridgeBoard can get to the stored information, and only to keep the service running or to help you.

What you can ask us

You can do most of this yourself, in the phone app under Settings, Household, Your information: download a copy of everything your household has put in, delete the household (if you made it), or delete your account. Everything else you’ve added can be changed or deleted in the app.

You can also ask us for a copy of your information, to correct it, or to delete it. Email hello@fridgeboard.me from the address you sign in with. We’ll reply within 30 days.

If you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled your information, tell us first and we’ll try to put it right. You can also complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au), or, if you live in the UK or Europe, to your local data protection authority.

Changes

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. If a change matters, we’ll tell you by email or in the app before it applies.