HuddlePrivacy
Updated October 6, 2026. The same policy is in the app, under Profile → Privacy.
What Huddle keeps
Your name and face, and a profile photo if you choose one. How people pay you back, if you add it.
If you sign in with Google: your Google account’s email and name, so you can sign back in on any phone. Huddle never sees your Google password, and gets nothing else from your Google account.
If you sign in with Apple: your name (the first time) and an email, or a private relay address if you choose Hide My Email, and a token from Apple used only to end that sign-in when you delete your account. Huddle never sees your Apple ID password.
What your groups add: cards, reminders and their answers, notes, trip boards, What to bring, expenses and payments, proof photos when a task asks for one, and photos put on notes. A photo on a note is seen only by the people who can see that note.
Who did what in your groups, and when, for Activity: cards, notes, expenses and payments added, finished, changed or deleted. Each person sees only the lines about what they can see. And when you last opened Activity, to count what’s new for you.
If you try Huddle without an account, it has no email or password and lives on this phone.
If you decline and block someone’s invite: who you blocked, with the name and face their invite showed, until you unblock them. Only you see it; they aren’t told.
If you buy Huddle Plus: that your account has it, the plan, until when, and the number Apple gives the purchase, so Plus stays on for the groups you run and ends when it should. Apple handles the payment: Huddle never sees card details or your Apple ID. Huddle also counts the smart cards used: your free ones, and each month’s from a subscriber’s Plus. People in a group you run can see that it has Plus from you.
Who sees it
The people in your groups, and only what each can see: a card or note marked Only me is yours alone, Full members only is hidden from limited members, and limited members never see money.
No one outside your groups sees it. The services that run Huddle handle it only to do their part, and must protect it as Huddle does: a hosting provider stores it, an outside AI service (Claude, by Anthropic) turns words into cards if you allow smart cards, and a map service looks up places. Huddle shows no ads, doesn’t track you across apps, and never sells your data.
Smart cards
Only if you allow it: what you say or type to add cards is sent to an outside AI service, Claude by Anthropic, so it can turn your words into cards. With it go the names of the people in the group as they were entered, whether it’s a family, friends or a trip, a trip’s What to bring list, and today’s date and your time zone. Your voice recording isn’t sent: your phone turns speech into text first (for some languages, with your phone’s own online speech service).
Anthropic doesn’t train its AI on what Huddle sends, and deletes it within 30 days (unless it’s needed to check for misuse). If you mention medicine or health, those words are sent too, only to make the card.
Limited members can’t add cards, so they never use smart cards. The name of someone added by name is sent only when someone names them in something they say or type.
Without smart cards, what you say or type becomes one card you edit yourself.
People added by name, and who can use Huddle
Huddle is for people 13 and older (16 or older where that’s the local rule). Anyone can be added to a group by name, with an illustrated face and no account: a young child, a grandparent, a trip guest. They have no email, phone number or password in Huddle, and no photo of them is kept.
Someone added by name gets their own phone in Huddle only after an organizer confirms they’re 13 or older (16 where that’s the rule). Huddle keeps who confirmed it, when, and the words they agreed to. Their phone is linked with a code, and only once the organizer taps Allow.
A proof photo is seen only by the people who can see that task, and is kept as long as the task.
An organizer can remove someone added by name from People at any time. Their face, the cards that were only theirs, the photos they took and their phone’s sign-in go. If they were part of the group’s money, their name stays on those payments, so the rest of the group can still square up.
Your phone’s calendar and places
Huddle reads your calendar on your phone to show My day and the family calendar. Nothing leaves the phone unless you switch on “Share when I’m busy” for a family, and then only when you’re busy, never what the events are. Birthdays, holidays and calendars you only follow are never shared.
If you switch on “Add Huddle’s plans to my calendar”, Huddle adds your groups’ plans to a calendar on your phone and keeps them up to date. It only changes the events it added, and removes them when you switch it off. Your calendar app may sync that calendar to its own servers (iCloud, Google).
A place typed on a trip board is sent to a map service to find it on the map, and kept with the card. Huddle doesn’t use or keep your location.
Where it’s kept, and for how long
On Huddle’s servers, run by a hosting provider in Singapore, for as long as your account and groups exist. Proof photos go when their task does, and a note’s photo when it’s taken off or the note is; photos nothing uses anymore are removed nightly.
Deleting your account
Profile → Delete account deletes your profile, photo, calendar sharing, invites, and everything marked Only me. Groups only you ran are deleted; the others pass to another member.
If you signed in with Apple, Huddle also ends that sign-in with Apple, so Huddle leaves your Apple ID’s list of apps.
Your name stays on the cards and payments you shared, because the rest of the group still needs to square up.
Questions
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