Privacy for kids

What we keep

• Your first name and the month and year you were born.
• A picture or avatar, if your grown-up adds one.
• Messages and drawings you make in CircleNest. Voice notes go away after a while, and so do drawings nobody saves.
• Plans you say yes or no to.
• If you're 10 or older, the goals and steps you write in "My Goals". They're yours: nobody else sees them, and you can change or delete them whenever you want.

What we DON'T do

• We don't sell anything about you.
• We don't show ads.
• We don't share your personal stuff with people outside the app for ads.
• We don't count how often you open the app to make you feel bad.

"Peace of Mind" (if your grown-up turns it on)

Your grown-up can save places like "School" or "Home". If they turn this on, your phone checks by itself whether you're at one of those places, and tells them just that — like "at School" or "not at a saved place". It does not show a map, and it does not keep a list of everywhere you've been.

You can tap I'm okay, Running late, or Please call me — you never have to type anything. If you don't answer, nothing bad happens and nobody gets an alert. You can pause this any time, and only your own parents can see it — nobody else.

When you tap a button

When you tap something like Love you or Get my grown-up, CircleNest says "CircleNest got your message." That means we have it — it does not mean a grown-up has seen it or read it yet. Phones and internet can be slow, so we won't pretend to know more than we do.

Get my grown-up goes to your own parents. It does not call the police, an ambulance, or anyone outside your family. If something scary or urgent is happening, tell a grown-up who is near you right now.

If we can't send it, we tell you that plainly instead of pretending it worked.

The group schedule

A grown-up in your family can let you see the plans you're included in in a circle — the name, the day, the time, and the place if the plan shares it. That's all it shows. You can't message anyone from it, and it doesn't create a new way for anyone to reach you. A grown-up decides whether it appears, and they can turn it off whenever they want.

A circle conversation, if a grown-up turns it on

If you're 13 or older, a grown-up in your family can let you read one group conversation in a circle, and they can also let you write plain messages in it. Anything written there can be read by the grown-ups in it, including a grown-up in your family — so it isn't a private place. You only see messages written from the time it's turned on. You can't open files, and you can't message anyone one-to-one from it. A grown-up can turn it off whenever they want, and then it stops right away.