Tidy Family Privacy Policy: The "No-Nonsense" Edition

Most privacy policies are written by lawyers to protect companies. This one is written by parents to protect families. Here is the deal: We built Tidy Family because we were tired of Big Tech treating our personal lives like a product to be sold. We believe your data belongs to you, full stop.

The Philosophy

We built this tool to help you manage the chaos—the rotational brownie schedules, the bus driver gifts, the subscription renewals, and the endless stream of school emails.

To do that, our system needs to read that stuff. It digests your emails, notes, files, and calendar to turn that noise into structured, useful sanity.

However: That data stays yours. We are not building a map of your desires to manipulate you. We are not selling your kids' data to advertisers. We are digital natives who believe you can have powerful tech without sacrificing your privacy.

The "Absolutely Not" List

We are incredibly strict about what we don't do. For clarity:

  • No Training on Your Data: We do not send your data to public companies or large language models (LLMs) to train their AI. Your family history will not become part of ChatGPT or Gemini's brain.
  • No Selling: We do not sell your data. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone.
  • No "Aggregated" Sneakiness: A lot of companies say they don't sell your data, but then they strip your name off it and sell the "aggregate" patterns. We don't do that. It's gross. We don't want it.

How We Lock It Down

  • You Hold the Key: When you log in, your session generates a unique ID. That ID is the only key that unlocks your data.
  • End-to-End Encryption: Your data is encrypted throughout the entire process. If we looked at our own database, we wouldn't see your emails or your schedule; we would see a bunch of scrambled nonsense.
  • Desktop Archive: For our premium users, the desktop app combs through your entire history to build your local "Mega Brain." This happens locally or via the secure pipeline described above. It doesn't leak out to the open web.

The Two Times We See Anything

There are only two very specific scenarios where Tidy Family interacts with your usage:

  1. The "Is the Engine Running?" Metrics: We collect basic stats on system performance. We know if the server is up, if the processing speed is fast, or if a service crashed. We do not know what you were processing, just that the machine is or isn't working.
  2. The "Help Me" Button: If you get stuck and ask for support, you have to explicitly authorize us to look at the problem. This grants us a temporary, time-boxed window to help you resolve the conflict. Once that window closes, we are locked out again.

The Bottom Line

We are parents too. We want to use the coolest AI to manage our households, but we want to sleep at night knowing our privacy is secure. Tidy Family is the tool we built for ourselves, and this policy is the promise we make to you.