Privacy

What stays on your device

There are no accounts and nothing to sign in to. Everything you tell the app is saved in your browser's storage on the phone or computer you're using, and it is never sent to us:

• your child's name (if you give one) and birthday or age
• what you chose to leave behind and to carry forward, and the voice you picked
• which guides you've read, your favorites and hidden guides, and when each is due to come back
• the moments you log, and your reminder settings

What reaches our server

Three things, each only if you use the feature:

• Reminders. If you turn them on, we store the delivery address your browser creates for notifications, the hour you chose, your time zone, and how often you want them. The reminder we send is an empty nudge; your phone writes the notification itself from what's stored on it, so we never learn your child's age or which guide you'll see. Turning reminders off deletes this record.
• Anonymous counts. Once a day the app sends the date you set it up and how many days ago that was, so we can count how many people come back. When you tap whether a guide was useful, we add one to that guide's yes or no tally. Neither message carries an ID, so we can't link two of them together or to you. You can switch both off in Settings.
• Page visits. The public pages of this site use cookieless analytics from our hosting provider to count visits per page. It sets no cookies and builds no profile of you. The app itself, once you've set it up, is not included.

What any website sees

Like every website, our hosting provider receives your IP address and browser type when you load a page, and keeps short-lived logs for security and troubleshooting. To stop abuse of the features above, we keep a scrambled form of your IP address for up to an hour to limit how often one connection can call them. We don't use it for anything else.

What we don't do

• No advertising, no ad trackers, and no selling or sharing of data with advertisers or data brokers.
• No cookies for tracking.
• No AI chat: nothing you type in the app's search box leaves your device.

Companies that help us run it

Vercel hosts the site and provides the page-visit counts. Upstash stores the reminder records and the anonymous tallies. Reminders travel through the notification service built into your browser or phone (run by Apple, Google or Mozilla, depending on your device). Each handles only what is described above.

Your choices

• Back up and restore: Settings has a button that saves everything the app has stored as a file, and another that loads such a file back in, on this device or a new one. The app will suggest a backup now and then, because without an account that file is the only copy besides your browser.
• Delete: Settings has a button that erases everything on the device and removes your reminder record from our server. Clearing your browser's site data also erases the device copy.
• Because nothing identifies you in the anonymous tallies, we have no way to find or remove an individual's past counts; switching them off stops new ones.

Children

Dandelion Parent is written for parents and other adults who look after young children. It isn't meant to be used by children, and what you enter about your child stays on your device.

Changes

If we change what the app collects, we'll update this page and its date before the change takes effect, and say so in the app when the change is significant.