Privacy policy

Who we are

MyLittleWay is made by Foo Zing Fung ("we", "us"). We're responsible for the information you save in the app. You can reach us any time at support@mylittleway.com.

Who the app is for

MyLittleWay is for parents and caregivers. You use it to save moments about your child. It isn't made for children to use, and children don't have accounts.

Because you'll write about your child, we treat everything about them as sensitive. In the US, this means we follow the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA): the parent is the one who uses the app, decides what's saved, and can see or delete it at any time. If you think a child has signed up on their own, email us and we'll delete the account.

What we keep

About you

• Your sign-in. If you use Sign in with Apple, Apple gives us an ID and either your email or a private relay email that hides it. If you sign in with an email code, we keep your email.
• The name you give yourself in the app, and what your child calls you.
• A notification address for your phone, if you turn notifications on. Apple gives us this so we can send you a notification. It isn't your phone number.

About your child

• Their name, birthday and photo, if you add them.
• What helps them and what to go gently with, if you add these.
• The moments you save: words, photos, videos, dates, moods, small wins, first times and big feelings, and the notes you add about what was going on before.

Some of this can be about your child's health or development. We only use it to show it back to you and to the people you choose.

About your family

• The names you give people you invite, and the invite codes.
• For each person who joins: the name they gave, how they signed in, and the hearts they leave.

Kept only on your phone

• Your app settings, reminders, and your answers in Grow (things like allergies and what your child loves). These stay on your phone and never reach our servers.
• Your answers in the welcome questions when you first open the app.

What we don't do

• We don't sell or rent your data, to anyone.
• We don't show ads, and we don't share your data with advertisers or data brokers.
• We don't use your data to train AI, ours or anyone else's. No outside AI service reads your moments.
• We don't track you across other apps or websites, and the app has no analytics.
• We never post anything from your child's moments publicly.

Who can see your child's moments

• You. Everything you save.
• The other parent, if you invite them and let them in. Two parents see the same things and have the same controls.
• Family you invite. They only see moments a parent has shared with family. They can leave a heart, and that's all. They can't add or change anything. A parent can remove them at any time.
• Nobody else. Our database rules stop anyone else reading it. We test those rules every time we change them.

We only look at your data ourselves if you ask us to help with a problem, or if the law makes us.

Where it's kept, and who helps us

Your moments, photos and videos are first saved on your phone, then sent over an encrypted connection to our database. These companies help us run the app. They can only use your data to provide their service to us:

• Supabase stores the database, photos and videos, and handles sign-in. The servers are in the United States (US East).
• Apple handles Sign in with Apple, notifications, and payments for subscriptions. We never see your card details.

Subscriptions

You pay for MyLittleWay through Apple. Apple tells us whether your subscription is active. It doesn't tell us your name, card or address.

How long we keep it

We keep what you save until you delete it, or until you delete your account. Deleted moments and files are removed straight away from the app and our database. Copies in our host's backups go when those backups expire.

Deleting your account

Go to Settings, then Privacy and data, then Delete everything. What happens depends on whether there's another parent:

• Only you: your account, your child's page, every moment, photo and video, and all family access are deleted.
• Two parents, and you choose to delete your child's moments for both of you: the same, for both of you. Only the parent who set up the child's page can choose this.
• Two parents, and you choose to leave and let the other parent keep it: your account is deleted, but your child's page stays with the other parent. That includes the moments you added, because they're part of your child's story. If you want any of them gone, delete them before you leave.

Family members can delete their account from their profile page, with Delete my account. Their account and their hearts are deleted. The child's moments stay with the child's parents.

Your choices and rights

• See and change: everything you've saved is in the app, and you can edit or delete any moment.
• Get a copy: email us and we'll send you a copy of your data.
• Delete: in the app, as above, or email us.
• Stop sharing: stop sharing any moment, turn off automatic sharing, or remove a family member at any time.

Depending on where you live (for example California), you may have more rights under local law, such as the right to know what we hold and to ask us to delete it. We give these rights to everyone. Email us and we'll answer within 30 days. We'll never treat you differently for asking.

Keeping it safe

Data is encrypted on the way to our servers and while stored. Each family's data is walled off by database rules, and only our delete-account function can remove a whole account. No system is perfect: if something ever goes wrong that affects your data, we'll tell you.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect. The date at the top shows when it last changed.

Contact

Questions, requests or worries: support@mylittleway.com.