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Privacy policy

Applies to the Samsas app and website (samsas.app). Updated 16 October 2026. På svenska. If the two versions ever differ, the Swedish one applies.

Samsas is an app for couples and families: how you're doing, who does what this week, what you'll eat and what you appreciate in each other. That is personal. This page describes what is kept, where, who sees it and how you delete it.

Who is responsible for the data

Samsas is run by Stefan Ödesjö, Sweden. Questions about your data: hej@samsas.app.

What is kept

• Account: the email address from your Google or Apple account, and the name and figure you choose in the app. We never get a password; signing in happens at Google or Apple.
• Your household: the invite code, your partner's name, and the children's names, figures and – if you add them – birthday, sex, preschool or school and free text (allergies, for example).
• The children's own: if a child signs in with their code, the child's daily check-in (one of five feelings and an optional line), the chores they ticked off and the points for them are kept. The child sees only their own things, the family's shared events and tonight's dinner – nothing about you adults.
• Shared custody: if you share a child with another household through the link on the child's page, that household sees the child's name, figure, picture, birthday, school and free text, the child's events and check-ins, and can add events of its own for the child. You can stop sharing at any time.
• Followers: if you give someone your link (grandparents, a babysitter), their own Samsas account sees your names and figures, the children's names and figures, and the week's events (not your me-time, your check-ins or your lists). You can remove them at any time.
• What you write: daily check-ins (feeling, need, optional text), the week's events, lists, the shopping list, what's at home, the weekly menu, notes in the appreciation jar, and what you swiped yes or no to among recipes and films.
• Addresses, if you add them: your home address and each adult's workplace, for travel times, bin days and post days. They are optional and can be removed at any time.
• My finances, if you fill it in: your gross salary, your municipal tax, which children's child benefit comes to you, and the fixed costs you type in (name and amount). Only you see them. Samsas works out an approximate tax; Money shows only the household's sum, and only if you let it count. If you mark costs as shared and choose a split, you both see each other's share of them; what each has left only they see.
• The recipe collection: recipes Bävris suggested (the weekly menu, Explore, Ask Bävris) and recipes you imported from a web page are also kept in a collection with no link to your household – only how many homes a recipe is in. We use it to get better recipes. Recipes from a photo or pasted text are not in it.
• Home Assistant, if you connect it: the values you choose to share from your home (for example a temperature, a door or the washing machine), only the latest value and never a history, and the notifications your automations send through Samsas. The values are seen by the adults in the household, not the kids. Deselect a value in Home Assistant and it is deleted here. Samsas does not take cameras or images.
• Health data, if you choose to: the menstrual cycle – which days you had your period, how heavy, and symptoms. You log this only if you turn the feature on yourself. Your partner never sees the log; they see a summary (phase and days to the next period) only if you choose to share it. Reminders about the forecast (two days before) go to you, and to your partner only if you turn that on yourself; they never contain what you logged.
• Language: the app shows English or Swedish following your phone's language. The language you use is kept so that notifications and Bävris's answers come in the right one.
• Technical: a sign-in cookie and – if you turn on notifications – an anonymous device identifier (push token) from Apple or Google so the app can send notifications to your phone.

Where the data is

Everything is kept on our server at Amazon Web Services in Stockholm, with backups in the same region. The data is never sold and never used for advertising.

Who else is involved

• Google and Apple – for signing in. They only confirm who you are; they don't learn what you do in the app.
• Apple (APNs) and Google (Firebase Cloud Messaging) – to deliver notifications. Notifications never contain what anyone feels or wrote in a check-in, only that something happened and who did it. A comment is shown in the notification with its text, so your partner can read it straight away.
• Anthropic, USA – the AI model Claude, which suggests weekly menus, recipes and films, reads recipes you share to the app and answers in Ask Bävris. For food it gets your food wishes, what's in the fridge and freezer, how many adults and children eat at home (with the children's ages and, with shared custody, which days), what you've already liked and the content of a page you share yourself, or a photo of a recipe you take or choose. We do not keep the photo; only the recipe read from it goes into the cookbook. When you ask Bävris about something on Home it also gets what Home shows you: the week's events, lists, menu, countdowns and the money overview, and the adults' and children's check-ins over the last four weeks – only the chosen feeling and need, never what you wrote with them. No names are sent: everyone in the family is called Adult A, Child A and so on, even in what you write, and the names are put back into the answer only on our side. Text you wrote yourself, in an event for example, is sent as it is. Nothing about the cycle is sent. What you write in Ask Bävris is kept with us so you can see the conversation, until you start over or delete the account. Anthropic does not train its models on what is sent and keeps it only for a limited time under its terms. It is processed in the USA.
• Apple and Google – for the Samsas Plus subscription. The purchase happens in the App Store or Google Play; we get a receipt saying the household has Plus, never card details.
• skolmaten.se and skolmat.info – if you choose a school for school lunch, the school's menu is fetched from there. Only the school and the week are sent, nothing about you or the kids.
• OpenStreetMap (Nominatim) and OSRM – if you add a home address and workplace, they are looked up there to work out travel times. Bin collection days come from your municipality's waste company (VA SYD, for example), with the address as the query.

Who sees what

Your partner sees what you share in the household: check-ins, events, lists, menu, opened notes. Notes in the jar stay hidden until you open it together. Only you see your cycle log, and your salary and fixed costs under My finances. The child's own app (the code on the child's page) shows only the child's events, chores, wish list and tonight's dinner – nothing about you adults. The calendar subscription is a link that shows the week's events; whoever has the link can see them, and you can change the link at any time.

How long, and how to delete

• The data is kept for as long as your account exists.
• You can delete your cycle data at any time under Us → Cycle, and your account under Us → Account → Delete my account. Your check-ins, notes, cycle data and devices are then deleted at once. What belongs to the household (the week, the lists) stays with your partner without your name. When the last person leaves the household, everything is deleted.
• Server backups rotate out within 30 days.

Step by step, and how to delete parts without deleting the account: samsas.app/en/delete-account.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to get, correct and delete your data. Most of it you do yourself in the app; for the rest, email hej@samsas.app. You can also complain to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY).

Children

Samsas accounts are for adults. Information about children is added by their parents. The child's own view in the app opens with a code the parents show and keeps only the child's own check-ins, ticked chores and wishes.

Changes

If the policy changes, the date at the top is updated. We tell you about larger changes in the app.