Privacy Policy
Compass is a family app for tracking behavior, points and goals. It is made by Vanessa Robine ("we", "us"). This policy explains what Compass collects, why, and what you can do about it. We wrote it to be read, not skimmed past.
The short version
- Parents create an account with an email address and password.
- Parents enter a child's first name, the behaviors they want to track, point values and a goal.
- Children never create an account. They join with a short family code, and no email, phone number, photo or location is collected from them.
- We do not sell data. We do not show ads. We do not use data for advertising.
- You can delete everything at any time.
What we collect from parents and other adults
- Account: email address and a password (stored only in encrypted form).
- Family: an optional family name, an optional display name (for example "Mom"), and the role of each adult in the family.
- What you enter: each child's first name or nickname, the behaviors you track, point values, goals and what the goal is for, colors, and the daily checks you record or approve.
- Purchases: if you subscribe, Apple handles payment. We receive confirmation that a subscription is active; we never see your card details.
What we collect from children
Compass has a kid mode so a child can see their own progress and propose checks for a parent to approve. In kid mode:
- The child does not create an account, and we do not ask for an email, name, age, photo, contacts or location.
- The child's phone receives an anonymous sign-in token so it can be linked to the card a parent created. That token is not tied to any personal information about the child.
- The only data that flows from kid mode is the checks the child taps and the name color they choose.
Everything Compass knows about a child was entered by a parent. A parent can unlink a child's phone, edit the child's information or delete the child's card at any time from the app.
What we do not collect
No advertising identifiers, no location, no contacts, no photos, no microphone, no third-party analytics or tracking SDKs. Compass does not read anything else on your phone.
How we use it
To run the app: showing your family its points, syncing between family members' phones, and letting a parent approve a child's checks. To keep the service working: standard server logs (such as request times and error messages) that we look at when something breaks. That is all.
Where it lives
Data is stored with Supabase, our database and authentication provider, on servers in the United States, protected by encryption in transit and at rest and by access rules that limit each family to its own data. Apple processes subscription payments under Apple's own privacy policy.
Who can see it
Only the adults in your family (the Family Head and any Family Members the head has invited), and each child for their own card only. We do not share data with anyone else except the service providers above, who act on our instructions, or where the law requires it.
How long we keep it
For as long as your account exists. Deleting a child's card deletes that child's data. Deleting your account deletes your family's data. Server logs are kept briefly for troubleshooting and then discarded.
Your choices
- See and change your data: everything is editable in the app.
- Delete a child: Edit the child's card → Delete.
- Delete your account and family: Settings → Delete my account. It removes your login, your family and every child's data immediately. You can also email us at vanessadestaing@gmail.com from your account address.
- Unlink a child's phone: Edit the child's card → Unlink.
Children's privacy
Compass is designed for parents and is used by children only with a parent's setup and supervision. We do not knowingly collect personal information from a child under 13 without a parent's involvement; the kid mode is built so that no such information is requested. If you believe a child's personal information has reached us in another way, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will update the date above and tell you in the app.
Contact
vanessadestaing@gmail.com
Vanessa Robine, New York, USA