Privacy Policy

Due Notice · Effective 7 November 2026

Due Notice (formerly called Lodge App) is a calendar and attendance tool for Masonic lodges. A lodge posts its events; its members say whether they are coming; the app reminds them when it matters. That is all it does, and this policy is short because the app collects very little.

What the app collects

When you create an account, you provide:

• Your name, as you wish your brothers to see it.
• Your email address, which is how you sign in.
• A password, which is stored by Google Firebase Authentication and is never visible to us or to anyone else.
• An invite code issued by your lodge, which is how the app knows which lodge you belong to.

As you use the app, it also records:

• Your response to each event — attending or not attending — and the date you answered.
• The number of guests you indicate you are bringing, where the event allows guests.
• Whether you have confirmed seeing a change or cancellation to an event you said you would attend.
• Whether your lodge has approved your account, and whether you have been given administrator permissions by your lodge.
• The lodges you belong to — your home lodge, and any other lodge whose administrator has approved you as a member — and any request you have made to join another lodge.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, your phone gives the app a notification address (a "push token") — a code that lets a message be delivered to that phone and no other. The app stores it with your account, and uses it only to send you lodge notices:

• a new event you can attend, or a change or cancellation to one;
• a reminder five days before an event you haven't answered, and the day before one you said you'd attend;
• for a new member, word that a lodge has approved you; for a lodge administrator, word that someone has asked to join.

That is the complete list. There are no promotional or marketing messages. The address is removed from your account when you log out, and an address that stops working (because the app was removed, for example) is deleted automatically. You can turn notifications off at any time in your phone's settings.

To deliver a notice, its text — such as an event's name, date and place — passes through Expo's notification service and then Apple (for iPhones) or Google (for Android phones). They handle it only to deliver it.

"Add to my calendar"

This button opens your phone's own calendar screen, already filled in with the event's details, and you decide whether to save it. The app does not read your calendar, cannot see what is in it, and cannot change anything you have saved. On iPhones running iOS 16 or older, Apple requires the phone to ask your permission before that screen can open; even then, the app only offers the one event you asked to add.

What the app does not collect

This list is deliberate, and it is as much a part of the design as anything the app does do:

• No dues, payments, or financial information of any kind.
• No Masonic membership records — no degrees, dates, standing, or history. Your standing as a Mason is established by your Grand Lodge and has nothing to do with this app.
• No minutes, ballots, or lodge proceedings.
• No location data. The app never asks for your location and does not track where you are.
• No access to your contacts, photographs, camera, microphone, or the contents of your calendar.
• No advertising, no analytics, no tracking of any kind, inside the app or across other apps and websites.

Who can see your information

Members of each lodge you belong to can see your name and your response to that lodge's events. That is the purpose of the app — a lodge that cannot see who is coming cannot plan a supper.

For events open to the whole district, brothers from other participating lodges can also see your name and your response to that event. They cannot see your lodge's own private events, its member list, or anything else.

Administrators of a lodge you belong to can additionally see the list of its members who have not yet answered, and the email addresses of its members. An administrator of one lodge can see nothing belonging to another lodge.

The District Inspector — the officer who calls district events, such as a School of Instruction — can see the names and email addresses of members of every participating lodge in the district, so he can follow up with officers who have not answered a district event.

A practice lodge exists for people helping to test the app. Its members see only the practice lodge's own events, and no one outside it sees them.

Your notification address is visible to no one — not your lodge, not its administrators, not the District Inspector. Only the server that sends notices uses it.

Nobody outside the app sees anything. Your information is never sold, rented, traded, or shared with advertisers, data brokers, or any other third party.

Where your information is kept

Data is stored using Google Firebase (Authentication, Cloud Firestore and Cloud Functions), on Google's servers in the United States. The notices and reminders are sent by a small program running there. Google acts as a service provider and does not use this information for its own purposes.

App updates and notifications are delivered through Expo. For updates, Expo receives no personal information about you; for notifications, it receives only your notification address and the notice being sent, as described above.

How long it is kept, and how to remove it

Your account and your responses are kept for as long as your account exists.

To delete your account from the app: open Profile, press Delete my account, then Delete. It takes effect at once.

Or by email: write to the address below from the address you signed up with. Requests are honoured without question, within 7 days.

Either way, deletion permanently removes your login, your profile, the lodges you belong to, your notification addresses, and your event responses. The only thing that remains for a short time is the server's routine activity log, which can include your name and is erased automatically within 30 days.

A lodge's app administrator, or the District Inspector, is asked to request deletion by email, so that someone else can be set up first and the lodge isn't left without anyone to approve members or post events.

Security

Access is controlled by rules enforced on the server rather than by the app on your phone. A modified or counterfeit copy of the app gains no additional access. A brother sees nothing at all until his own lodge has approved his account.

No system is perfect, and this one is maintained by one person rather than a company. What can be promised is that the app holds very little worth stealing, by design.

Children

The app is intended for members of Masonic lodges, who are adults, and for a small number of adults helping to test it. It is not directed at children and is not knowingly used by anyone under 18.

Changes to this policy

If the app begins collecting anything it does not collect today, this policy will be updated before that change reaches you, and the date at the top will change. The previous version (15 October 2026) did not cover membership of more than one lodge, the practice lodge, or deleting an account from inside the app, all of which arrived in November 2026.

Contact

Due Notice is built and maintained by Matt Larsen, District Inspector of the 214th Masonic District, Grand Lodge of California. It is an independent project and is not a product of any lodge or of the Grand Lodge.

Questions, requests for deletion, or anything else: lodgeappsupport@gmail.com