Privacy

The shortest version

• Your financial details are never sold, shared, or used for advertising.
• There is no connection to any bank, so we never hold your bank credentials.
• There is no analytics or tracking inside the app itself. Nobody can see your data but you.
• You can leave when you want. There's a full export and the delete is fast, thorough and permanent. No questions asked.

What the app stores

Only what it needs to do the job:

• Your account: email address, display name, a securely stored password, and your preferences - time zone and preferred currency.
• Your assets: the name, type and currency. Along with optional notes and optional photo for each thing you track.
• Your valuations: each value you record, its date, and the exchange rate used at the time.
• Sign-in records: your active sessions, and a log of sign-in attempts, including IP address and browser. We need to track this to prevent hacking attempts.
• Diagnostics: when something goes wrong, an error record is written so it can be fixed. It may include your IP address and browser.

Passwords are stored only as a salted hash, never as text. Nobody, including us, can ever read your password.

What we never do

• Sell, rent or share your financial data with anyone.
• Use your figures for advertising, profiling or "insights" of any kind.
• Send marketing emails. The only emails the app sends are password resets.
• Ask for bank credentials, card numbers, or government ID.

Cookies

The app has one cookie, CYW.Auth, which keeps you signed in. Sorry EU, we need it. It is essential - without it there is no way to stay logged in - and it holds nothing beyond a session reference. Signing out or deleting your account invalidates it.

This marketing website uses Google Analytics to count visits, which sets its own cookies. That is the only tracking anywhere on this site, and it does not run inside the app. If you would rather not be counted, any browser-level tracking blocker will stop it, and nothing on the site or in the app will behave differently. We just want to know if anyone reads our articles!

Other services involved

The app talks to a small number of outside services, and never sends them anything about you. Only that Count Your Wealth is interested in something.

• Share price lookups. If you track a holding by ticker, that ticker symbol is sent to a market data provider to get a price. The request contains no information about you and no indication of how much you hold.
• Exchange rates. Currency codes and a date are sent to a public exchange rate service. Again, nothing about you, and no amounts.
• Email delivery. Password reset emails go out through a third-party mail provider, which necessarily sees your email address.
• Hosting. The app and its database run on servers operated by our hosting provider, who can technically access the systems your data sits on, as any website host can.

Getting your data out

From your settings you can export your entire account to a spreadsheet - every asset and every valuation you have recorded. Individual assets can be exported on their own too. There is no export limit and no waiting period.

Deleting your data

Deleting your account from your settings removes it along with your assets, valuations, photos and sessions. It is a real deletion, and it's immediate - so export first if you want a copy.

Backups

The database is backed up daily by the hosting provider so a failure doesn't lose your history. A deleted account will persist in those backups until they age out, which is a normal consequence of having backups.

Children

Count Your Wealth isn't intended for anyone under 16, and accounts shouldn't be created for them. We have no way of knowing your age though, so trust.

Changes to this page

If what we do with your data changes, this page will change with it and we'll let you know so you can decide what to do accordingly.

Who are "we"?

Good question. I say "we" a lot above, but it just makes me sound fancier. I'm really just a guy in New Zealand who was bored of his spreadsheet and wanted an easy way to update his family's net worth without the hassle of Excel.

I am a real developer during the day though, and have worked in Finance and Banking for most of my career, so I know a bit about privacy and security. I'd love you to sign up. I believe financial literacy is important and this is a small way I can give back. Sharing it with the world didn't seem too much extra work.

Getting in touch

For any questions about any of this email [email protected].

Last updated: 3 August 2026.