Privacy

Prepperland privacy policy

This policy covers Prepperland, the app that keeps a household's emergency supplies, its plan and its checklists, and the website prepperland.info. Both are published by Multizone Limited.

Last updated 10 November 2026.

The short version

On its own, Prepperland keeps everything on your phone. There's no analytics, no crash reporting and no tracking.

Three things send something, and each sends only what it needs:

• Adverts. If you use the app on your own, it shows a small advert from Google, chosen without using anything about you. Google's software on the phone still collects some technical details to show it (see Adverts below). There are no adverts on Amazon Fire tablets, or while your group is sharing.
• Scanning a barcode. The barcode's number is sent to Open Food Facts to look the product up. If you share with a group and it isn't known there, it's looked up on prepperland.info too, and what you type for the product itself is sent there so other households can use it.
• Sharing with a group. If you sign in to share with your household, your group's supplies, plan and checklists are kept on our server in the United Kingdom, and you have an account there.

What the app keeps on your phone

Your supplies: what they are, how many, use-by dates, where they're kept, the sort of food and the energy in it, and any notes. Your household: how many adults, children and pets it's for, the water you allow each person, and the places you keep things. The plan: the contacts you add (a name, what they do, a phone number and notes), your meeting points (their addresses, who meets there, what's there and where to leave a note) and the plan's note. Your checklists, and any recipes your group writes.

All of it is kept in the space iOS and Android set aside for the app, and it's removed when the app is deleted.

What the app deliberately doesn't ask

Nobody's name, age or health. The household is a number of adults, children and pets, and that's all the app needs to work out how long food and water would last. The app has no location permission and never asks where you are.

The contacts in the plan are other people's details, typed by you. Please only add people who'd expect to be in your household's emergency plan.

Scanning a barcode

The camera is used only while the scanner is open, to read the barcode. It records no sound and saves no pictures. The barcode's number is sent to Open Food Facts, a free, open database of food products, which sends back the product's name, size, sort of food and energy. Like any website, Open Food Facts sees the internet address the request comes from. No identifier, account or anything else goes with it.

Products other households typed in. If Open Food Facts doesn't know a barcode and you're signed in to share with a group, the app asks prepperland.info, which keeps a list of products that households have typed in. If nobody knows it and you type it in, the app sends the barcode with what you typed for the product itself: its name, its sort, the sort of food or drink, its energy or volume, what it's counted in and which date its packet gives. Never your notes, how many you have, where it's kept or its dates. We record which group sent it, not who, and once three households agree on it, any household sharing in Prepperland can be offered it. You can report one that's wrong or offensive, and it's taken out until we've checked it. Used on your own, without signing in, nothing is sent.

Meeting points and maps

When you tap Open in Maps on a meeting point, its address is handed to your phone's own maps app (Apple Maps on an iPhone, or whichever app opens map links on Android, or OpenStreetMap in the browser on a Fire tablet), which looks it up under its own privacy policy. Nothing goes to us.

Reminders

Use-by reminders are made on the phone itself, from the dates it already holds. Nothing is sent to us or anybody else to make them.

Sharing with a group

Sharing puts everybody in your household on the same supplies, plan and checklists, each on their own phone. It starts with a free trial. None of this happens unless you choose to sign in.

Signing in. You type your email address in the app and we email you a link, which works for 24 hours. If you already have an account, following it signs the phone in; if you don't, it lets you make one on prepperland.info first. The phone never holds a password, only a token that our server can cancel. Your account holds your name and email address, and your place in each group you belong to.

Your phones. For each phone signed in to your account, the site keeps what sort of phone it is and the app's version, so you can see your phones and remove one. To stop the sign-in form being misused, each request is kept until a week after its link expires, with the internet address it came from stored only as a scrambled code that can't be turned back into the address.

What the group holds. Everything listed under What the app keeps on your phone, as the group's members type it, and the group's name. It's stored on a server we run in the United Kingdom, professionally hosted in London. Every member's phone keeps its own copy, so the app carries on with no signal. Recipes a group writes are seen only by that group's members.

Who's in it. The person who makes a group looks after it: they decide who's in it, who can change things and who can only look, and can remove anybody.

Paying for sharing. Sharing is bought in the app, and Apple, Google or Amazon take the payment, so we never see card details. We use RevenueCat to read the store's receipt and tell our server the group has paid. When the Sharing page is opened, and while a group is open, the app talks to RevenueCat about the purchase: it sends the group's identifier (a random code, not a name), the store's receipt, and technical details such as the app version and the phone's operating system. RevenueCat processes this on our instructions and for no purpose of its own. Its servers are in the United States, and that transfer is covered by the data protection terms in our contract with it.

Adverts

Somebody using Prepperland on their own sees one small advert, above the tabs, on the Supplies, Recipes and Checklists pages. Never on the plan, a meeting point or anything you're typing, and never full screen. Adverts stop while your group is on its free trial or has paid for sharing, and Prepperland from the Amazon Appstore shows none.

The adverts come from Google AdMob, and they're non-personalised: Google chooses them without using what you do in other apps or on other websites, and the app doesn't ask to track you. To show an advert, count it and stop fraud, Google's software on the phone still collects technical details: the internet address, the phone's advertising identifier where the phone provides one, the make and model, the app's version, and whether an advert was shown or tapped. It doesn't see anything you've typed into Prepperland.

In the UK and the European Economic Area, Google's consent form asks you first, when adverts are first wanted. You can change your answer at any time under Privacy choices for adverts on the Sharing page. Google uses what it collects under its own policy, explained at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Leaving, and deleting

To stop sharing on a phone, use Sign out on the Sharing page. Everything stays on the phone, and it stops following the group.

To leave a group, or delete your account, use the account page on prepperland.info, or ask us and we'll do it. A group where you're the only member is deleted with everything it holds; one with other members carries on.

To delete everything on a phone, delete the app.

Reporting something, or complaining

If you use Report or complain on prepperland.info, or the Report button on a product in the app, we keep what you tell us:

• what the report is about, the reason you gave and what you wrote;
• a copy of what you reported as it was at the time, so we can still see it if it changes;
• your account, or the email address you gave if you weren't signed in.

To stop the page being misused, we keep the internet address a report came from only as a scrambled code that can't be turned back into the address.

We use all this to look into what you reported, to reply to you, and to keep a record of what was reported and what we did. The Online Safety Act expects us to keep that record. We never tell the person you reported who you are. If a report suggests somebody is in danger, or that a crime has been committed, we may pass it to the police or the National Crime Agency.

If a report is about you, you can ask us what we hold about you, as with anything else. We'll tell you, without saying who made the report.

A report is kept while it's open, and deleted a year after it's closed. If you delete your account, we take your name and email address off the reports you made, and your name off any report about you. What was reported and what we did stays, as the record.

Permissions

Camera, only when you scan a barcode. Notifications, only for use-by reminders, and only if you allow them. And network access, for scanning, sharing and adverts.

On Android, Google's advert software also uses the advertising identifier and a few permissions of its own to show adverts, and Google Play's billing permission is there to buy sharing.

No location, microphone, contacts, photos or storage access, on any device.

Children

Prepperland is for the adults who look after a household's emergency supplies. It isn't directed at children, and it never asks for a child's name or age: children are counted, not named.

This website

We count visits to prepperland.info with Ahrefs Web Analytics, which sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device: it sees which pages are read, the site you came from, and your browser and country, not who you are. There's no advertising and no tracking across other sites, and the fonts are served from our own server, so your browser doesn't contact Google for them. The only cookie keeps a visit working, and goes when you close the browser.

Links to Amazon. When you're signed in, a supply with an Amazon product code has a Restock on Amazon button. It's an affiliate link: as an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no cost to you. We send Amazon nothing about you. Following the link takes you to Amazon, which records that you came from us so it can pay the fee, under Amazon's own privacy notice and cookies. The app never shows these links.

Who else sees it

RevenueCat checks purchases, Google shows adverts, Open Food Facts answers barcode lookups, Ahrefs counts visits to the website, and Amazon sees that you came from us if you follow a Restock on Amazon link, as described above. Our sign-in emails are sent through Postmark, which delivers them on our instructions and for no purpose of its own. Its servers are in the United States, and that transfer is covered by the data protection terms in our contract with it. Apple, Google and Amazon take payment for sharing under their own privacy policies. If a report suggests somebody is in danger, or that a crime has been committed, we may pass it to the police or the National Crime Agency.

Nobody else. We don't sell anything to anybody.

How long we keep it

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, or object to what we're doing with it. Ask at the address below and we'll answer within a month.

Multizone Limited is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a data controller, registration number ZA366637.

If you're not happy with how we've handled something, you can complain to the ICO at ico.org.uk. We'd rather you told us first, but you don't have to.

Contact

We aim to answer emails to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. within two working days.

Prepperland is made by Multizone Limited, Mobile apps, software and product management consulting since 1998. Registered in England and Wales, company no. 3504416. Leatherhead, KT23 4JY, United Kingdom