Privacy policy

Last updated September 21, 2026

ConsoleMeNow is an inventory tracker for your home or business. This page explains what we collect, why, and what you can do about it. Questions? Email consolemenow@gmail.com.

What we collect

• Sign-in details. When you continue with Google we receive your name, email address and profile picture. We do not receive your Google password and we cannot see your other Google data.
• Your inventory. Everything you enter: item names, locations, costs, serial numbers, notes, tags and custom fields. Because you decide what to type, please do not store passwords or other secrets in item notes.
• Photos. If you attach photos to an item, we store the pictures. Before storing a photo we remove the camera details and GPS location that phones add to it. Please do not photograph documents that show other people’s personal or financial details, such as full card numbers or passwords.
• Connected apps. If you connect an app such as Claude, we record which app, what you allowed it to do, and when you connected it and it was last used. We also store the secure access tokens that let it act for you, only in scrambled (hashed) form so nobody, including us, can read them back.
• Billing status. Whether your subscription is active and when it renews. Your card details are handled entirely by Stripe and never reach our servers.
• Internal notes. Short notes we may write about an account, for example why it has complimentary access or a different item limit. They are deleted with the account.
• Technical data. Standard server logs from our hosting provider, such as IP address and request times, used to keep the service secure and working.

How we use it

Only to run the service: to sign you in, show your inventory back to you, bill your subscription, answer support emails and keep the site secure. We do not sell your data, we do not use it for advertising and we do not share your inventory with anyone, other than an app you choose to connect (see “Connected apps” below).

Who processes it for us

• Cloudflare hosts the website and stores your data in its database and your photos in its file storage.
• Stripe takes payments and manages subscriptions.
• Google provides the sign-in.

Each of these companies has its own privacy policy and handles data under its own terms.

Connected apps

You can connect ConsoleMeNow to an AI assistant such as Claude, made by Anthropic. This is optional and off until you do it. When you connect, you see what the app is asking for and choose which permissions to give: viewing your items and photos, adding and changing them, and deleting them. Viewing is always included, and deleting is off unless you turn it on.

An app you connect can then read and, if you allowed it, change your inventory while you use it. Anything it reads, such as item names, notes, serial numbers or a photo you ask it to look at, is sent to that app and becomes part of your conversation with it. That conversation is covered by your own account with the app provider and by its terms and privacy policy, not by ours. We do not control what the provider does with it, so please think before asking an assistant to look at anything sensitive.

You can disconnect an app at any time from Account → Connected apps, and it stops working straight away. Deleting your account removes every connection. Only websites we have approved can connect: at the moment that means Claude.

Cookies and local storage

We use one main cookie, a sign-in cookie that keeps you logged in for up to 30 days. While you are connecting an app we also set a ten-minute cookie that only remembers which page to return you to. Both are strictly necessary, so there is no cookie banner. Your browser also stores your light or dark mode choice and your sort preferences on your own device. We use no advertising or analytics trackers.

Your choices

• Download your data from the Account page, as CSV or JSON, while your subscription is active. These files do not include photos: use “Download all photos” on the same page to get them as a ZIP.
• Remove a photo at any time from the item it is attached to. Deleting an item removes its photos too.
• Delete your account from the Account page. This cancels your subscription and immediately erases your profile, sign-in sessions, every item and every photo.
• Email us to ask for a copy of your data, or to have your account deleted sooner than the schedule below, including after your subscription has ended. We will respond as soon as we can.

Retention

We keep your data while you are subscribed.

If your subscription ends, or a payment fails and is not fixed, you lose access to the app, but your saved items stay in your account for five months so you can pick up where you left off by subscribing again. If you have not subscribed again five months after your access ended, your account, all your items, all your photos and your sign-in details are permanently deleted. This happens automatically, and subscribing again before then cancels the deletion.

We do not currently send a reminder before deleting, and once your subscription has ended you cannot use the app to download your data. If you want a copy, export it from the Account page while you are subscribed, or email us and we will send you one.

Accounts that signed in but never subscribed hold only the name, email address and profile picture from Google. We keep those until you ask us to delete them.

When you delete your account yourself it is removed from our database straight away. Photo files are removed from storage at the same time. Copies of the database may remain for a short time in our provider’s recovery history, and any backup copies we keep of photos are deleted on a rolling schedule. Stripe may keep payment records for as long as the law requires it to.

Security

All traffic uses HTTPS. Each account can only reach its own items and photos. Photos are stored privately and can be viewed only while signed in to the account that owns them, or by an app you have connected and allowed. If an assistant offers you a private link to add photos, it works for one item only, adds photos but cannot read anything, and expires after 30 minutes. No system is perfectly secure, so if we ever learn of a breach that affects you, we will tell you.

Children

ConsoleMeNow is not meant for children under 16 and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If we change this policy in a meaningful way we will update the date above and, for significant changes, email account holders.