Home Inventory: privacy policy

Last updated 7 October 2026.

Home Inventory is a free app for tracking food and household supplies. It is run by Sagar Pandit as a personal project. This page says what the app does with your information. The short version: your inventory lives in a Google Sheet in your own Google Drive and on your own device, and it is never sent to the app's owner.

What the app stores, and where

• Your Google Sheet. Everything you log (items, stores, prices, dates, barcodes) is saved in a Google Sheet in your Google Drive. You own it and can open, edit, download, or delete it in Google Drive at any time.
• Your device. A copy of your inventory, changes not yet sent, your Google account's email address, and a short-lived Google sign-in token are kept in your browser's storage, so the app opens quickly and works without a signal. The sign-in token lasts about an hour.
• Nowhere else. The app has no server and no database of its own. The owner of the app cannot see your inventory, your Sheet, or your sign-in.

Your Google account

When you sign in, the app asks Google for one permission: to see, edit, create, and delete only the specific Google Drive files you use with this app. In practice that means the inventory Sheet the app creates for you, or a Sheet you choose yourself in Google's file picker. The app cannot see any other file in your Drive. It reads your Google account's email address only to keep each account's inventory separate on a shared device.

Home Inventory's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Data from Google is used only to show and update your inventory. It is not sold, not used for advertising, not used to train AI models, and not read by any person.

Other services the app talks to

• Google, for sign-in, the file picker, and reading and writing your Sheet. Google's own privacy policy applies to your Google account.
• Cloudflare serves the app's files. Like any website host it sees your IP address and which files were requested. It never receives your inventory, which goes straight between your device and Google.
• Open Food Facts, a free public product database, receives a barcode number when you scan a product that is not already in your own history, to look up its name. Nothing else is sent, though like any website it sees your IP address.
• jsDelivr may serve the barcode-reading library to your device the first time you scan. It sees your IP address.

Camera

When you tap Scan, the camera picture is read on your device to find the barcode. Camera images and photos are never uploaded or saved, and the camera turns off as soon as a barcode is read or you cancel.

Sharing an inventory

If you add someone under Share, Google Drive gives their Google account edit access to that one Sheet, and they can see and change everything in it. You can remove them at any time from Share or from the Sheet's sharing settings in Google Drive.

No tracking

The app has no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking cookies.

Removing your data

• To stop the app reaching your Google account, remove Home Inventory at myaccount.google.com/connections.
• To delete your inventory, delete the "Home and Food Inventory" Sheet in Google Drive.
• To remove the copy on a device, sign out in the app and clear the browser's site data for this app, or remove the app from your home screen.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13.

Changes and questions

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too. For questions, use the developer contact email shown on Google's sign-in screen for Home Inventory.

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