What stays on this phone or computer

• Household names, people, pets, and places
• Guide entries, photos, and routines
• Safety notes

These live in your browser’s local storage and, for photos, IndexedDB. Clearing site data for this site deletes them. We do not receive a copy.

What we never collect from your guide

• No account. No email required to use the app.
• No sale of data. No advertising profiles.
• We count anonymous usage so we know the app works: which screens are opened and when a guide is created or sent. Each browser gets a random number instead of a name. We never send names, guide text, photos or questions with these counts.
• No uploading of photos or guide text to Domela servers in ordinary use.
• Caregiver links are short private links that expire after 14 days. The guide for that visit is stored temporarily so the babysitter gets a link that fits in WhatsApp. After it expires, the link stops working. Photos are included only if you tick “Include photos in this link” — anyone with the link can then see them.
• App updates keep what you already saved on this device. A backup copy of your household is kept locally so a bad upgrade does not wipe guides, trips, or notes.

Health details

You may write health details into a guide, such as a child’s allergies, medicines or an inhaler. That is sensitive information, so treat it with care:

• It stays on your device unless you send a caregiver link.
• A caregiver link holds the guide, including any health details in it, for 14 days so the person looking after them can read it. Only send it to that person.
• Ask never sends safety notes to the AI provider.
• Write only what the caregiver needs to know.

Ask (optional)

If you use Ask, the question and the selected guide snippets needed to answer it are sent to our AI provider, Anthropic, so an answer can be written. Answers come only from what is in the guide. Safety fields are excluded from that request. If Ask is not configured, nothing is sent and the app still works offline for reading the guide.

Trial usage (anonymous)

During early trials we record only coarse, anonymous events: app opened, guide opened, Ask used. These events do not include names, addresses, guide text, photos, or questions. An optional trial code from your invite link may be included so we can see whether that household opened the app more than once — still without reading what is inside it.

Who runs Domela

Domela is run by its founder, who is responsible for this data. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk).