The Shared Cart Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 24, 2026

The Shared Cart, developed by RDMJAPPS, respects your privacy. This policy explains how information is handled when you use the app or contact us for support.

1. Shopping lists and local information

The app stores shopping-list information such as list names, items, categories, quantities, notes, photos, completion status, and preferences on your device.

Personal lists can be used without signing in. List information is sent to Apple CloudKit when you use sharing or enable the app’s optional private iCloud backup, as described below. We do not operate our own server for storing your shopping lists.

Frequently Added suggestions, remembered Custom Sort preferences, and saved shopping-trip history are maintained on your device. These are not included in the app’s private list-content backup. Device backups managed by you or Apple are separate.

2. Shared lists

When you share a list or join an invitation, Apple iCloud and CloudKit store and synchronize the list and its associated information. This can include item names, quantities, notes, categories, completion status, photos, and sharing information.

Participants can view and, where permitted, change shared content. Owners can manage participants or stop sharing. Participants can leave a shared list.

Repeating a saved shopping trip changes the selected existing items’ completion status. For shared lists, those changes synchronize with participants, although the saved trip history itself remains on your device.

3. Optional private iCloud backup

You may enable private iCloud backup for personal lists and choose to include shared lists you own. Lists owned by someone else are excluded.

Backup may include list names, items, categories, quantities, notes, photos, completion status, and archive status. This recovery copy is separate from shared-list synchronization and does not grant other people access to your personal lists.

Restoring a backup creates new personal copies rather than replacing existing lists. Turning backup off stops future app backups but retains the last cloud copy. The app’s Delete Account & Data action also removes its private iCloud backup.

Apple operates iCloud and CloudKit under its own privacy practices and service terms.

4. Photos and on-device image processing

You may optionally use your camera or select photos for shopping items. Selected photos are compressed and stored with list information. Photos may also be stored in CloudKit when their list is shared or included in an enabled backup.

Photo-based item suggestions and sensitive-content checks run on your device using Apple technologies. Images are not sent to our servers for analysis.

Automated safety checks can make mistakes, including flagging ordinary product photos. The app identifies flagged photos so you can review or remove them, or continue sharing without those photos. A safety warning does not mean that your list items must be deleted.

You can manage camera and photo permissions through your device’s Settings.

5. Voice (Beta)

Voice entry is optional and requires microphone and speech-recognition permissions. The app uses Apple’s on-device English speech recognition on supported devices.

The app does not save raw microphone recordings or use a remote transcription fallback. If on-device recognition is unavailable, voice entry is unavailable. Recording stops when you end it, after the recording limit, or when the app leaves the foreground.

You can review and edit recognized text before confirming items. Confirmed items follow the same local storage, optional backup, and sharing rules as manually entered items.

You can revoke microphone and speech-recognition permissions in your device’s Settings.

6. Pasted lists and recipe text

Paste a Whole List and Add from Recipe process text on your device. These features do not send pasted text to an external AI service.

Recipe import currently accepts pasted text, not website links, photos, or PDFs. You review and select content before it becomes shopping-list information. Confirmed item names and notes may include text from your pasted content and follow the storage, backup, and sharing rules above.

7. Optional Sign in with Apple

The app supports optional Sign in with Apple. Apple may provide an identifier and, depending on your choices, your name. The app stores information locally to remember your sign-in status and display name.

We do not operate a separate account server for this information. Sign in with Apple and iCloud are subject to Apple’s privacy practices.

8. Support, advertising, and tracking

If you contact support, we receive the information you send, such as your email address, message, screenshots, or attachments. We use it to respond, troubleshoot, and maintain the app. Opening a prepared feedback email does not send it automatically.

The app does not include third-party advertising, cross-app tracking, or third-party analytics SDKs. We do not sell personal information or use it for targeted advertising.

Apple may independently process purchase, download, diagnostic, TestFlight, or service information under Apple’s own policies.

Support information may be handled by our email or support providers and disclosed when legally required. We retain it only as reasonably necessary for support, security, recordkeeping, and legal obligations.

9. Retention, deletion, and your controls

You can edit or delete list content, manage sharing, control optional backup, and change device permissions.

Archiving hides a list; it does not delete its contents. Archiving a shared list is personal and does not archive it for other participants.

After optional sign-in, Settings → Account & iCloud → Delete Account & Data initiates deletion of the app’s local data, owned cloud lists, and private app backup, and leaves lists owned by others. Deleting owned shared lists affects their participants. This does not delete your Apple Account.

Cloud deletion requires access to Apple’s services. Follow any error messages and retry if deletion cannot finish. Signing out or uninstalling the app is not equivalent to deleting its cloud data.

Information may remain in separate device backups or copies made by other participants. Deletion of app data does not delete support emails; contact us separately about those.

10. Security and privacy requests

We use safeguards appropriate to the information handled, including Apple’s CloudKit protections for cloud features. No storage or transmission method can be guaranteed completely secure.

Keep your device and Apple Account secure and share lists only with people you trust.

The app is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. Contact us if you believe a child has provided personal information directly to us.

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete personal information we hold. We may need to verify requests. We cannot retrieve information stored only on your device.

11. Policy updates and contact

We may update this policy as the app changes and will revise the effective date. We will provide additional notice of material changes where appropriate.

For privacy questions or requests:

The Shared Cart Support — RDMJAPPS
Email: rdmjapps@gmail.com
Support: https://www.rdmjapps.com/support