We wrote this to be readable — not to bury you in legal jargon. If you're a parent using MyFamilyBrief, we want you to clearly understand what information we collect, why we need it, and how we protect it. Your family's privacy matters to us.
1. Who We Are
MyFamilyBrief ("we," "us," or "our") is a family activity coordination service. We help parents keep their household organized by pulling together calendar events and activity emails into a single daily SMS summary sent to the people who need it — parents, grandparents, babysitters, coaches, or anyone else in your family's orbit.
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through our website, web application, and SMS service (collectively, the "Service").
2. What Information We Collect
We only collect what we need to make the Service work. Here's a plain-language breakdown:
Category
Specific Data
How It Gets to Us
Account Information
Parent/guardian name, email address, family name (optional label you choose)
You provide it when you sign up
Calendar Data
Event titles, dates, times, locations, descriptions from your connected Google Calendar
Google Calendar integration (OAuth — you authorize it)
Forwarded Email Content
Activity and event details from emails you choose to forward to us
You forward emails to a MyFamilyBrief forwarding address provided in your account
Children's Information
First names only (optional); activity schedules and event details
You enter names; event details come from your calendar and forwarded emails
Recipient Phone Numbers
Mobile phone numbers of people you want to receive the daily SMS
You provide them in your account settings
Usage Data
Log data, browser type, IP address, pages visited, feature usage
Automatically collected when you use the Service
What We Do Not Collect
We do not collect data from children directly. Children do not create accounts, submit forms, or interact with our Service.
We do not collect payment card details directly — payments are processed by a third-party processor (e.g., Stripe).
We do not use tracking pixels, behavioral ad profiles, or cross-site tracking cookies.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your data for one core purpose: making MyFamilyBrief work for your family. Specifically:
Deliver your daily SMS briefing — compile calendar events and activity details into a readable daily digest sent via text message to your chosen recipients.
Maintain your account — authenticate you, store your preferences, and keep your family's information organized.
Process forwarded emails — parse activity information from emails you forward and include relevant details in your briefing.
Sync your calendar — read authorized Google Calendar events to build your daily summary.
Improve the Service — analyze usage patterns (in aggregate and anonymized form where possible) to fix bugs and improve features.
Communicate with you — send transactional emails (receipts, account notices, service updates). We do not send marketing emails without your separate consent.
Comply with legal obligations — retain records and respond to lawful requests as required by applicable law.
We do not use your data to build advertising profiles, sell to third parties, or train AI/ML models on your family's personal information.
4. Children's Privacy (COPPA)
This section is important. Please read it carefully.
How We Handle Children's Information
MyFamilyBrief is designed for parents and guardians — not for children. Our Service is not directed at children under 13, and we do not allow children to create accounts or directly submit information to us.
That said, the nature of our Service means we do store information about children — specifically, first names (if you provide them) and activity or schedule details pulled from your calendar and forwarded emails. This information is provided entirely by you, the parent or guardian, in your role as the account holder.
Our Approach Under COPPA
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) restricts the collection of personal information from children under 13 by operators of websites and online services. Because children do not use our Service, interact with it, or submit information directly, we believe MyFamilyBrief operates outside the primary scope of COPPA's operator obligations.
However, we treat any information about children with heightened care:
Children's names and schedule data are used only to generate your family's daily SMS briefing.
We do not use children's names or activity data for advertising, analytics profiling, or any purpose beyond delivering your briefing.
We do not share children's information with third parties except as strictly necessary to operate the Service (e.g., our SMS delivery provider).
When you delete your account, all children's information is deleted along with it.
📋 A note for parents:
You are in full control of what information about your children enters MyFamilyBrief. Children's first names are optional — the Service works without them. You can update or remove this information at any time from your account settings.
5. SMS Messages & Text Consent (TCPA)
SMS is the core delivery mechanism for MyFamilyBrief. Here's everything you need to know about how it works and your choices.
What We Send
We send one daily SMS per day to each phone number you have added to your account. Each message contains your family's activity summary for that day — events, schedules, and relevant details from your connected calendar and forwarded emails.
Message frequency: approximately 1 message per day per recipient. Message and data rates may apply depending on your mobile carrier.
Your Consent
By adding a phone number to your MyFamilyBrief account, you confirm that the recipient has agreed to receive SMS updates from MyFamilyBrief. Immediately after you add a number, that recipient will receive a one-time confirmation text and must reply YES before any digest messages are sent to them. Recipients who do not reply YES remain in pending status and receive no further SMS from MyFamilyBrief.
You are responsible for ensuring that each recipient whose number you add has agreed to receive these messages. Only add numbers belonging to people who have given you permission to do so.
Important: Only add phone numbers belonging to people who have agreed to receive SMS updates from MyFamilyBrief. Adding someone's number without their knowledge may violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and is a violation of our Terms of Service.
How to Opt Out
🚫 To stop receiving SMS messages:
Any recipient can reply STOP to any message at any time. You will receive one final confirmation message and no further SMS messages will be sent to that number.
You can also remove a phone number from your account at any time by logging in and updating your recipient list under Account Settings.
We do not sell your personal information. Period. We do not rent, trade, or share your data with advertisers or data brokers.
We do work with a small number of trusted service providers who help us operate the Service. These providers are contractually required to protect your information and may only use it to perform services on our behalf:
To comply with law — if required by a valid court order, subpoena, or applicable law.
To protect safety — if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of MyFamilyBrief, our users, or the public.
In a business transfer — if MyFamilyBrief is acquired or merges with another company, your information may transfer as a business asset. We will notify you before any such transfer occurs and give you the opportunity to delete your account.
7. Data Retention & Deletion
How Long We Keep Your Data
We keep your information for as long as your account is active and for a reasonable period after, to resolve disputes, maintain security, and comply with legal obligations. Specifically:
Account data (name, email, family settings) — retained while your account is active, plus up to 90 days after deletion.
Calendar event and email content — used to generate your daily briefing and retained for up to 30 days to support briefing history features, then purged.
SMS logs — delivery logs (not message content) retained for up to 12 months for troubleshooting purposes.
Billing records — retained for up to 7 years as required by tax and financial regulations.
Deleting Your Account
You can request deletion of your account and all associated data at any time by:
Using the "Delete Account" option in your account settings, or
Upon deletion, we will remove your personal data (including any children's names and activity details) within 30 days, except where retention is required by law.
8. Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. This includes:
Encrypted data transmission (TLS/HTTPS)
Encrypted data storage
Access controls limiting who within our team can access personal data
Regular review of our security practices
No system is 100% secure. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately at hello@myfamilybrief.com.
9. California Residents — Your Privacy Rights (CCPA)
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), gives you specific rights regarding your personal information.
Your CCPA Rights
Right to Know — You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources of that information, how we use it, and who we share it with.
Right to Delete — You have the right to request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions (e.g., information we must retain for legal compliance).
Right to Correct — You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing — We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. You do not need to opt out because we do not engage in these practices.
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information — We do not use sensitive personal information (as defined by the CPRA) for purposes beyond those necessary to provide the Service.
Right to Non-Discrimination — We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
Categories of Personal Information Collected (CCPA)
In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information:
Identifiers (name, email address, IP address)
Internet or other electronic network activity information (usage logs)
Geolocation data (not precise — only general location inferred from IP)
Inferences drawn from the above to build your family activity summary
We have not sold or shared any of these categories of personal information with third parties for commercial purposes.
We will verify your identity before processing your request and respond within 45 days, as required by law. If we need more time, we will notify you of the extension.
10. Your Rights (All Users)
Regardless of where you live, you have the following rights with respect to your personal information:
Access — Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
Correction — Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
Deletion — Request that we delete your personal information (see Section 7).
Portability — Request your data in a structured, commonly used format.
Withdrawal of Consent — Where processing is based on your consent (e.g., Google Calendar access), you may withdraw that consent at any time by disconnecting the integration in your account settings.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at hello@myfamilybrief.com. We will respond within 30 days.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. If we make significant changes — especially changes that affect how we handle children's information or your rights — we'll notify you by email or by posting a prominent notice in the app.
Your continued use of MyFamilyBrief after changes are posted means you accept the updated policy.
12. Contact Us
Questions about this Privacy Policy? We're real people and we're happy to talk.
Response time: We aim to respond within 2 business days.
For formal legal requests (CCPA, subpoenas, law enforcement), please email the above address with the subject line "Legal Request."
13. Governing Law
This Privacy Policy and any disputes arising from it are governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. By using MyFamilyBrief, you agree that any legal action or proceeding relating to your use of the Service or this Privacy Policy shall be brought exclusively in a court of competent jurisdiction located in New York.