Data & Safety help

Core Finvue finance data is stored in this browser profile for this site origin. Separate browser profiles, devices and origins such as app.finvue.me and localhost do not automatically share that data.

Clearing browser or site data can remove the local Finvue database. Private or incognito sessions are not suitable for ongoing use.

A full Finvue JSON backup is the portable recovery copy of the local finance database. Keep backup files somewhere durable that you control.

Finvue can record that a manual or linked full backup was created, but it cannot verify that the file still exists or that it contains every change made afterward.

Restore replaces the destination browser profile's local Finvue database. It is not a merge.

Browsers can expose whether this site's storage is persistent or best-effort. Persistent storage reduces the risk of automatic eviction under storage pressure, but it does not protect against manually clearing browser data and it does not replace a backup.

The request is real, but the browser decides whether to grant it. Chrome and Edge normally make that decision automatically rather than showing a prompt; site engagement and installed-app status can help, but a request can still be denied. Firefox can ask the user directly. A denied request does not mean Finvue storage is broken: the database continues to work in best-effort mode and you can try again later.

Finvue intentionally does not surface storage-quota figures in the main UI. Browser quotas vary by browser, device, available disk space and browser policy, and Finvue's normal record-based finance data is expected to remain modest compared with modern browser storage capacity. Quota becomes materially relevant only if Finvue later stores large files or other binary data locally.

On browsers that support the File System Access capability, Finvue can keep a selected backup file linked and update it while the app is open.

For most users, the preferred location is a locally synced OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox folder. Finvue writes to the selected local file; the cloud-drive application handles the off-device sync.

Those providers also offer file-version recovery features, with retention depending on the provider and account plan. That can add another recovery layer if the linked Finvue backup is overwritten or corrupted. Cloud sync is still not a substitute for occasionally keeping an independent full backup.

Clearing browser data can remove Finvue's stored permission to that file even when the file itself still exists.