Terms of Service
HouseChores, a product of MASONBYTE LLC · Accokeek, Maryland
In effect from 2 August 2026.
What this is
HouseChores is a shared chore board for a household. You create a home, invite the people in it, and the app distributes the work according to what each person can take on.
Your account
- You need an email address to sign in, and you must be 13 or older to have an account.
- Keep access to your email secure — sign-in links go there, so whoever reads your email can reach your account.
- One person, one account. Do not share sign-in with someone who should have their own place on the board.
Households, admins, and guests
Whoever creates a home administers it: they can add and remove chores, invite people, set how work is shared, and make someone else an admin. Everyone else is a member of that home.
A home can also be handed to another admin, who has to accept it. From then on they own it — including the right to ask us to delete it — and the person who set it up stays on as an ordinary admin.
Two things worth being explicit about, because they surprise people:
- An admin can see and change everything on their board, including your assignments and what you have marked done. A household board is a shared document, not private space.
- A household can never be left with no admin. The app will not allow it.
Belonging to any number of boards is free, permanently. A child between two homes, a teenager helping at a relative's house, or a carer covering two households are guests on someone else's board — they run nothing and pay nothing. If a paid tier arrives, it prices administering more than one home, which is a different activity.
What the points mean — and what they do not
HouseChores counts chores. It does not grade people.
Points are a tally and a way of recognising effort. They are not a score you can pass, fail, or lose, and the product does not rank members against each other. If you are looking for a leaderboard, this is not that product, deliberately.
How the app distributes work is a suggestion based on what each person can take on. It is not a judgment about anyone, and it has no authority in your household beyond what you give it.
What you agree not to do
- Use HouseChores to harass, coerce, or monitor someone.
- Add someone to a board who has not agreed to be there.
- Break into, overload, or probe the service, or try to reach another household's data.
- Resell or redistribute the service.
Your content
Your chores, names, and notes are yours. You give MASONBYTE LLC only the permission needed to run the service — to store your data, show it to your household, and back it up. We claim no ownership and will not use it to train anything or sell it on.
Availability
HouseChores is provided as it is. We do not promise it will always be available or error-free, and we may change or discontinue features. It is a chore board — please do not rely on it for anything where failure would matter, such as medication schedules or medical care.
Ending it
You can stop using HouseChores at any time and ask us to delete your account. We may suspend an account that breaks these terms.
Legal
What that means in practice: where these terms are silent, the ordinary default position applies. MASONBYTE LLC is a Maryland company. If and when those clauses are drafted, they will appear here with a new effective date, and this note will say so instead.
Contact
Write to support@masonbyte.com for anything about these terms, your account, or your household.