Privacy Policy
AppSimple LLC
Line & Leaf is a private family relationship application provided by AppSimple LLC. This policy explains what information we process, how app access works, and what happens to a Family Record when a person leaves the app.
Information we collect
- Account information: your email address, authentication records, account identifiers, preferences, and notification settings.
- Family Records: names, birth and death information, locations, email addresses, relationships, photos, clips, and other details added to a Family Space.
- Communications: private text or voice messages, family announcements, their intended recipients, and related dates or media.
- Subscription information: product and entitlement status supplied by Apple and RevenueCat. We do not receive your full payment card information.
- Technical information: limited device, security, and diagnostic data needed to operate and protect the service.
- Support messages: information you send when contacting us.
Family Curators and app access
A Family Curator is a person authorized through Line & Leaf to access and help maintain a particular Family Space. It is an app role only. It does not create legal custody, guardianship, ownership, fiduciary responsibility, or authority outside Line & Leaf.
A Family Space is not public and is not open automatically to relatives. Only Family Curators authorized in Line & Leaf for that Family Space can access it. Invitations should be sent only to people the sender trusts with that access.
How Family Records work
Relationships are treated as part of the shared Family Record. Information, photos, and clips attached to a person are treated as part of that person’s record. All authorized Curators may edit person and relationship records, and any authorized Curator may remove a relationship.
Only the Curator or Curators who created a person profile may delete that profile. This deletion safeguard is an app permission, not legal ownership of the person or their information. If a creator leaves, that permission transfers to the earliest-joined Curator who still remains. Private messages and announcements remain associated with their author.
How we use information
- Authenticate accounts and provide authorized access to Family Spaces.
- Store, display, synchronize, and protect Family Records and communications.
- Send invitations, account confirmation, password recovery, notifications, and essential service messages.
- Manage subscriptions, prevent abuse, troubleshoot problems, and improve reliability.
- Comply with applicable law and respond to valid legal requests.
Service providers
Line & Leaf uses service providers to operate the app: Supabase for authentication, database, and private media storage; Backblaze for protected independent media backups; Vercel for website and service hosting; Resend for transactional email; RevenueCat for subscription status; and Apple for App Store distribution and payment processing. These providers process information for the services they supply and under their own privacy commitments.
Sharing and visibility
We do not sell personal information. Family Records are visible only to accounts authorized for the relevant Family Space. A message is visible to its participants, and an announcement is visible to its selected audience. We may disclose information to service providers, to comply with law, to protect people or the service, or as part of a business transaction subject to appropriate safeguards.
Media reports include the reported item, reason, reporter, and review status. Blocking stops new direct messages between the two accounts.
Account deletion and retention
You can delete your account immediately inside the app after entering your current password and confirming the permanent action. Deleting an account removes that person’s login, app access, preferences, notification connections, authored messages, and announcements. Deleting a Line & Leaf account does not cancel an Apple subscription; subscriptions are managed through Apple.
People, relationships, and the information and media attached to those people remain in the durable Family Record. If another Family Curator remains, person-deletion rights transfer to the earliest-joined Curator who still remains. If the departing person is the final Curator, the Family Record becomes inaccessible rather than being deleted. A person already represented in that record may later ask Line & Leaf Support to review a claim under our identity-verification policy.
We may retain limited records when required for legal, fraud-prevention, security, or accounting purposes. Deleted information may remain temporarily in protected backups until those backups expire and is not restored to normal app use.
Security and backups
We use access controls, encrypted network connections, private storage policies, operational database backups, and separate media backups designed to protect Family Records. No system can guarantee absolute security. Backups are restricted from normal app access and maintained separately for each AppSimple service.
Your choices and rights
You can update your account information and request account deletion in the app. You may also ask for access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information about you, subject to verification and applicable law. A request about information attached to your person record is different from a Curator attempting to erase a shared Family Record. Depending on where you live, you may have additional privacy rights.
Children
Line & Leaf accounts are intended for people age 13 or older. An adult may record information about relatives, including children, within a private Family Space when they have an appropriate basis to do so. We do not knowingly permit children under 13 to create their own accounts.
International processing
AppSimple and its service providers may process information in the United States and other countries. We use appropriate protections where required.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as the product develops. We will post the revised date here and provide additional notice when a material change requires it.
Contact us
Email admin@appsimple.com.
Terms of Use
AppSimple LLC
These Terms of Use govern your access to Line & Leaf. By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these terms.
1. The service
Line & Leaf provides tools for privately recording people, family relationships, media, and family communications. Features may change as the service develops. We may add, modify, suspend, or discontinue features when reasonably necessary.
2. Accounts
You must provide accurate account information, protect your credentials, and promptly tell us about suspected unauthorized access. You are responsible for activity performed through your account unless applicable law provides otherwise.
3. Family content
Relationships are maintained as part of a shared Family Record. Information, photos, and clips attached to a person are maintained as part of that person’s record. All authorized Curators may edit person and relationship records, and any authorized Curator may remove a relationship. Only the Curator or Curators who created a person profile may delete that profile; this safeguard is an app permission, not legal ownership.
Copyright and other legal rights remain with their lawful owners. By adding content, you confirm that you have permission to share it with the authorized Family Curators for that Family Space, and you give AppSimple a nonexclusive permission to host, protect, process, reproduce, and display it as needed to operate Line & Leaf. That permission continues while the content remains in the Family Record, including if the account that added it later leaves.
You must respect the privacy, publicity, intellectual property, and other rights of living people. AppSimple may restrict or remove content when reasonably necessary to address a verified rights request, safety concern, or legal obligation.
4. Acceptable use
You may not use the service to break the law, harass or impersonate another person, violate privacy or intellectual property rights, distribute malicious code, probe security controls, or interfere with the service or other users.
Line & Leaf may review reports and remove content or restrict accounts. Use Report for media concerns, Block to stop direct messages, or contact admin@appsimple.com.
5. Invitations and shared family spaces
A Family Curator is a person authorized through Line & Leaf to access and help maintain a particular Family Space. Curator is an app role only. It does not create legal custody, legal guardianship, ownership, fiduciary responsibility, or authority outside the app.
A Family Space is not public or automatically available to relatives. Invite only people you trust. All authorized Curators may edit its person and relationship records. Paid status does not provide additional editing authority.
6. Subscriptions and billing
Optional paid features may be offered through Apple. Prices, renewal periods, and trial terms appear before purchase. Apple processes billing and manages cancellation and refunds under its policies. Deleting a Line & Leaf account does not automatically cancel an Apple subscription.
7. Suspension, departure, and deletion
You may stop using the service and permanently delete your account in Subscription Management. Deletion is immediate after password verification and confirmation. It ends your app access and removes your account settings and authored communications, but the durable Family Record remains. If another Curator exists, person-deletion rights transfer to the earliest-joined Curator who still remains. If no Curator remains, the record becomes inaccessible and may be claimed only through Line & Leaf’s identity-review process.
We may restrict or terminate access for a material violation of these terms, risk to people or the service, legal requirements, or prolonged service closure. Where practical, we will provide notice and a reasonable opportunity to export content.
8. Disclaimers
Line & Leaf is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis to the extent permitted by law. Family information is entered by users, so we cannot guarantee that it is complete or accurate. The service is not a source of legal proof, legal custody, medical advice, or professional genealogical conclusions.
9. Limitation of liability
To the extent permitted by law, AppSimple LLC will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, profits, or goodwill arising from use of the service. Any liability that cannot be excluded is limited to the greater of the amount you paid for the service during the preceding twelve months or US $100.
10. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, excluding conflict-of-law principles, except where the law of your residence requires otherwise.
11. Changes
We may update these terms as the product develops. We will post the effective date and provide reasonable notice of material changes. Continued use after the change takes effect constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.
Contact us
Email admin@appsimple.com.