Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 14, 2026 · Applies to the Hi, Dad? / Hey, Mom? app and website.

The short version: We collect only what the app needs to figure out which life-admin tasks apply to you and to let a persona named Dad (or Mom) help you stay on top of them. We don't sell your data. You can ask us for a copy of it or to delete it at any time. This page explains exactly what we hold, where it goes, and your rights.

1. Who we are

"Hi, Dad?" (also operating as "Hey, Mom?") is a life-admin app operated by an individual sole proprietor doing business as Hi, Dad? TODO: replace operator name; update to the LLC once formed. In this policy, "we," "us," and "the app" mean that operator. If you have questions, contact us at admin@hidadapp.com TODO: confirm delivery once MX points at Google Workspace.

The app is currently offered in the United States only and is intended for users 18 and older.

2. What we collect

Short version: Your login details, the onboarding answers that drive the task engine, your tasks and what you've completed, your chats with Dad/Mom, and basic usage/error data. That's it — we practice data minimization on purpose.

We collect the following categories of information:

Category	Examples	Why we collect it
Account & identity	Name, email address, and login credentials. If you sign in with Google, we receive your basic Google profile (name, email) via OAuth. Passwords are handled by our authentication provider and stored only as salted hashes — we never see your plaintext password.	To create and secure your account and sign you in.
Profile & onboarding answers	Age bracket, state/location, whether you rent or own your home, whether you have a vehicle, and life-event status (e.g., buying a home and its stage, financing, moving). Some answers are demographic or financial-adjacent.	This is the core of the product: your answers determine which tasks, deadlines, and hidden steps the rules engine surfaces for you.
Tasks & activity	The tasks assigned to you, custom tasks and categories you create, due dates, and your completion/snooze history. Some task titles can be health-adjacent (e.g., "schedule a dental cleaning").	To build and maintain your personalized checklist and remind you before things slip.
Chat messages	The messages you send to and receive from the AI persona ("Dad"/"Mom"), including anything you choose to type into the chat.	To generate helpful replies and let Dad/Mom create or manage tasks for you. This is free-text, so treat it as our most sensitive store (see Section 5).
Usage & diagnostics	Event counts (e.g., a task was completed, chat was opened), AI message counts used for rate-limiting, proactive-nudge logs, and error/crash logs. We deliberately do not put task titles or chat text into analytics or logs.	To keep the app running, enforce fair-use limits on AI chat, and fix bugs.
Beta / waitlist signup	If you sign up via our landing page, the name, email, and mode/interest you provide.	To contact you about the beta and let you in.

We do not collect payment or card information (the beta is free), and we do not knowingly collect any information from anyone under 18.

3. How we use your information

To run the core service: figure out which tasks apply to you, schedule reminders, and let Dad/Mom help you manage them.
To power AI chat replies (see Section 4).
To authenticate you, keep your account secure, and prevent abuse (including AI-usage rate limiting).
To send you account and service emails (e.g., email confirmation, password reset, and beta updates).
To debug, monitor reliability, and improve the product.
To comply with the law and enforce our Terms of Service.

We do not use your personal data to build advertising profiles, and we do not sell or "share" your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

4. AI chat and how your messages are processed

Short version: When you chat with Dad/Mom, your message is sent to Anthropic's API to generate a reply. Dad/Mom is an AI, not a professional — it does not give financial, legal, medical, or tax advice.

The "Dad" / "Mom" persona is powered by a large language model provided by Anthropic. When you send a chat message, the content of that message (and relevant context such as your task titles) is transmitted to Anthropic's API so it can generate a response. If the assistant runs a web search to answer you, a search query derived from your message may be sent to the search provider.

Per Anthropic's API terms, your inputs and outputs are not used to train their models, and Anthropic retains API data only for a limited period (generally around 30 days) for trust-and-safety purposes. We do not use your chat content to train any model.

Dad and Mom are AI, not licensed professionals. Their replies are for general informational and organizational purposes only and are not financial, legal, medical, tax, or other professional advice. Do not rely on them for decisions that need a qualified professional, and don't share information in chat you wouldn't be comfortable sending to a third-party AI provider.

5. Sensitive and consumer health data

Short version: We are not a HIPAA healthcare provider. But some task dates and anything you type in chat could count as "consumer health data" under laws like Washington's My Health My Data Act, so we treat it carefully and give everyone the right to access and delete it.

Hi, Dad? is a direct-to-consumer app. We are not a HIPAA "covered entity" or "business associate," and HIPAA does not apply to us. However, some information you provide — for example, a task like "schedule a mammogram" together with a date, or a health detail you type into chat — may qualify as consumer health data under laws such as the Washington My Health My Data Act and similar state statutes.

For that data, we commit to the following:

We collect health-adjacent information only to provide the task-management service you asked for, and by enabling those tasks and using the app you consent to that collection and use.
We do not sell consumer health data, and we do not disclose it to third parties except the service providers listed in Section 6 that are necessary to run the app.
You have the right to access and to delete your consumer health data — see Section 8.

Because chat is free-text, please avoid sharing more sensitive detail than you need to. We minimize what we store and never place task titles or chat content into third-party analytics.

6. Who we share it with (service providers)

Short version: A small set of vendors help us run the app. They process your data on our behalf, not for their own purposes.

Provider	Role	Data it handles
Supabase	Hosting, database, and authentication. Also stores our first-party usage/error data.	Account, profile, tasks, chat history, usage/diagnostics.
Anthropic	AI provider for the Dad/Mom chat.	Chat message content and related task context (see Section 4).
Google	Optional "Sign in with Google" (OAuth).	Basic Google profile (name, email) — only if you choose Google sign-in.
Resend TODO: pending integration	Transactional and beta email delivery.	Email address and message content of account/beta emails.

We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect our rights or users' safety, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets (in which case we'll notify you and this policy will continue to govern your data). Analytics and error logging are currently first-party (stored in our own Supabase instance); we do not use third-party ad or tracking SDKs.

7. Data retention and security

We keep your information for as long as your account is active, and delete it when you delete your account or ask us to (subject to short backup-retention and any legal obligations). Our authentication and database provider encrypts data in transit and at rest. Access to your data is restricted per-user by database row-level security, and privileged operations run through server-side functions rather than the browser.

No system is perfectly secure. If we become aware of a breach affecting your personal or health data, we will notify you and any regulators as required by law.

8. Your rights and choices

Short version: You can get a copy of your data, correct it, or delete it — and we honor these for everyone, not just residents of states that require it.

Regardless of where you live, you can ask us to:

Access / export — get a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Correct — you can edit your onboarding answers in-app at any time, or ask us to fix other details.
Delete — delete your account and associated data. Deleting your account cascades to your profile, tasks, chat history, usage, and nudge logs. (An in-app "delete my account" button is on our roadmap; until it ships, email us and we'll complete deletion, generally within 30 days.)
Withdraw consent — for consumer health data collection, by disabling the relevant tasks or deleting your account.
Opt out of non-essential email — every marketing/beta email includes an unsubscribe link; account and security emails are essential and can't be opted out of while you have an account.

To exercise any of these, email admin@hidadapp.com. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights. We do not sell your personal information and do not "share" it for cross-context behavioral advertising — so there's nothing to opt out of there, but we state it plainly for California (CCPA/CPRA) and similar laws. Depending on your state, you may also have the right to appeal a denied request or to lodge a complaint with your state Attorney General.

The app is offered to US users and is not directed at the EU/EEA or UK. The access/deletion rights above mirror the core of the GDPR (access, rectification, erasure, no sale of data) and we honor them for everyone.

9. Cookies and tracking

We use only the cookies and local storage needed to keep you signed in and remember basic preferences. We do not use third-party advertising cookies or cross-site trackers.

10. Children

Hi, Dad? is for adults 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has given us information, contact us and we'll delete it.

11. Changes to this policy

Because we're in active beta, this policy may change as the product evolves. We'll update the effective date at the top and, for material changes, give notice in-app or by email. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the updated policy.

12. Contact

Questions, requests, or complaints: admin@hidadapp.com TODO: confirm delivery once MX points at Google Workspace.

This Privacy Policy is a good-faith launch draft written specifically for how Hi, Dad? actually works. It has not been reviewed by an attorney and is not legal advice. Before or shortly after public launch — and especially once an LLC is formed, the support mailbox is live, and the governing-law/entity details are finalized — have it reviewed by qualified counsel.