bickford family — Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 25, 2026

bickford family ("the app") is a private household organizer published by Bickford Technologies Inc. ("we", "us"). This policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have. The short version: your family's data is used only to run the app for you. We don't show ads, we don't sell your data, and we don't use it for advertising or third-party tracking.

What we collect

• Account: your email address and an authentication identifier (via email one-time codes or Sign in with Apple).
• Family content you create: calendar events, lists and tasks, meals, shared photos/memories, family-member profiles, and household settings.
• Assistant conversations: messages you send to the in-app assistant and facts it saves to help your household, which you can review and delete in the app.
• Location (optional): only if you turn on location sharing, and only to show your chosen places to your own household. It is off by default.
• Financial data (optional): if you link a bank or financial account, we receive read-only account balances and transactions through Plaid. We never move money. This feature is off unless your household enables it.
• Push token: a device token so we can send you notifications.

How we use it

Solely to provide and operate the app's features for your household — syncing your shared calendar, lists, meals, memories, budget, and (if enabled) account balances, and powering the assistant. We do not sell personal data, and we do not use it for advertising or cross-app tracking.

AI assistant & third-party AI processing

The app includes an optional in-app AI assistant (the "bickford" tab). It is off until you choose to use it, and the app shows a disclosure you must accept before it sends any data.

When you send the assistant a message, the following is transmitted to our AI provider, Anthropic (the Claude API), solely to generate a response:

• The text of the message you send.
• Only the household information needed to answer your request, retrieved at that moment — for example shared calendar events, lists, planned meals, or family photo captions you ask about. Your photos themselves are not sent.
• Household member names, and any facts you explicitly ask the assistant to remember.
• If, and only if, you have enabled the optional finance feature (off by default): budget figures and account balances or transactions relevant to your question. Bank login credentials are never sent.
• Any file you choose to attach to a message.

Nothing is sent in the background — only when you send a message — and everything stays scoped to your own household. Per Anthropic's commercial terms, your inputs and outputs are not used to train Anthropic's models, and are retained only for a limited period for trust-and-safety purposes and then deleted. If you don't use the assistant, no data is sent to Anthropic.

Service providers

We share data only with providers that help us run the app, under their terms:

• Supabase — secure database, authentication, and storage.
• Anthropic — processes assistant messages to generate responses; not used to train models.
• Plaid — read-only account aggregation when you link an account.
• Google — calendar/spreadsheet sync, only for sources you authorize.
• Apple — Sign in with Apple and push delivery.
• Expo — push notification delivery.

Children

bickford family is for families to manage together. Children can appear as profiles created and managed by the adult account holder; the app does not create independent accounts for or knowingly collect personal information directly from children.

Security & retention

Data is encrypted in transit, access is restricted to your household, and sensitive credentials (including any financial access tokens) are kept server-side only. We retain your data for as long as your account exists.

Your choices & deleting your account

• Location sharing is opt-in and can be turned off anytime.
• You can unlink financial accounts at any time.
• Delete your account in Settings → Delete account. This permanently removes your account and your household's data, removes any linked financial connections at Plaid, and revokes Sign in with Apple access.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: bickfordd@gmail.com.