The Foreman
Last updated 12 September 2026
The short version. The Foreman stores your business records so the app can show them back to you. We do not sell your information, we do not advertise to you, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.
You can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app, at any time, without asking us.
This policy covers The Foreman iPhone app and this website. It is written to be read, not to be survived. If something here is unclear, that is our problem, not yours — email us and we will fix the wording.
The Foreman is made by Waterman Holdings LLC, a New Jersey company. When this policy says “we”, that is who it means. When it says “you”, it means the contractor using the app.
Your email address and a password. We never see the password itself — it is stored scrambled by our login provider, and even we cannot read it back.
Business name, owner name, trade, phone, email, logo, state, and the rates you set: labor rate, default tax rate, materials markup, crew size. The rates are there because the app does your quote and invoice arithmetic with them.
Jobs, quotes, invoices, payments, expenses, logged hours, mileage, reminders, notes, punch lists and files. This is the point of the app. It is stored so that it is there tomorrow.
When you add a customer, you are giving us someone else's name, phone number, email and address. That person never agreed to anything with us. We store it only so the app can do your work, we never contact them for our own purposes, and we never sell or share it for advertising. You are responsible for having a legitimate business reason to hold their details — the same as a paper job folder in your truck.
Receipt photos, job-site photos, your logo, and anything you file against a customer. Photos and files are stored privately. Your logo is stored at a public web address, because it has to appear on the quotes and invoices you send to customers.
If you use in-app support, we keep the messages so we can follow the thread.
We record which voice actions ran and whether they worked — not what you said, but which action was taken. That is how we find out that a feature nobody can get working is broken rather than unpopular.
Speaking into the app sends that audio to Apple's speech recognition service to be turned into text. It goes to Apple, not to us, and Apple handles it under its own terms. We store the text you dictated as part of your job records; we do not keep the audio.
When the app writes a quote from your description, or when you ask the in-app assistant to do something, that text is sent to Anthropic, the company that makes the AI model we use, so it can produce an answer. Job details and a customer name may be part of that text — they have to be, or the answer would be useless. Anthropic processes it to return a result to us. It is not used to advertise to you.
Your location never leaves your phone. If you allow it, the app takes a single rough position — only while the app is open, never in the background — and uses it right there on the device to work out which job site you are standing at, so the right job is at the top of the list. It is not stored and it is not sent to us or to anyone else. If you say no, everything still works; the list is just ordered by what you touched most recently.
Quotes and invoices go out through Resend, our email provider. If you connect a Gmail account, the app can send mail as you instead, which means Google holds that mail — and we store the permission token that lets us do it, until you disconnect or delete your account, at which point we cancel it with Google.
Card payments from your customers run through Stripe. We never see or store card numbers. Venmo, Cash App and Zelle payments do not run through us at all — the app simply hands your customer a link or your handle, and the money goes directly between them and you.
Weather comes from Apple Weather. Push notifications go through Apple, which requires storing a device token for your phone.
These are the companies that hold or process some of it so that the app can work. Each one gets only the part it needs.
| Company | What it does |
|---|---|
| Supabase | Stores the database, your files, and your login |
| Anthropic | The AI that writes quotes and runs the assistant |
| Stripe | Card payments from your customers |
| Resend | Sends quote and invoice emails |
| Apple | Speech-to-text, weather, push notifications, the App Store |
| Only if you connect Gmail, and only to send mail as you | |
| Vercel | Hosts this website and your customer quote and payment pages |
In the app: Settings → Login & password → Delete my account. It asks you to type your business name and your password, and then it is done — immediately, with no thirty-day holding period. Your customers, jobs, quotes, invoices, expenses, hours, receipts and photos are removed from our servers, and any Gmail permission you granted is cancelled with Google.
Two things survive, and you should know before you tap it. Card payments your customers already made stay in Stripe's records, because Stripe has its own legal obligation to keep them — we cannot reach in and erase those. And anything you have already emailed or texted to a customer is in their inbox, not ours. Deleting your account cannot un-send it.
Because deletion is immediate and permanent, save anything you need for your taxes first.
Your records stay until you delete them or delete your account. We do not quietly keep a copy afterwards. Routine backups roll off on their own within a short window.
Everything travels encrypted. Your records are fenced off at the database level, so one contractor's account cannot read another's. Your files are stored privately, apart from your logo and the customer-facing quote and payment pages, which have to be reachable by the customer you sent them to — those are keyed to a long random link that is not listed or searchable. No system is perfect, and we will not pretend otherwise: if something goes wrong that affects you, we will tell you.
You can see everything we hold about you inside the app — it is your own screen. You can correct any of it by editing it. You can delete all of it yourself. If you want a copy in some other form, or you have a request we have not thought of, email evan@theforeman.us and a person will answer. Depending on where you live, the law may give you further rights, and we will honour them.
The Foreman is a tool for running a business and is not meant for anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect information from children.
If we change it in a way that matters, we will say so in the app rather than quietly swapping the page. The date at the top always tells you which version you are reading.
Waterman Holdings LLC, New Jersey, USA — evan@theforeman.us.