1. Who we are and what this policy covers
Chorbit is operated by Sean Clements (“Chorbit,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). This Privacy Policy explains how Chorbit handles information when an adult uses the Chorbit mobile app or a Chorbit-hosted web page. Questions or privacy requests can be sent to seanmclements@gmail.com.
Chorbit lets parents and guardians create a private family space, record behavior-linked credits, assign to-dos, set goals, and show a child a limited Kid Mode view. Chorbit is a family record-keeping tool. It is not a bank, payment service, wallet, or proof that money was transferred or paid.
2. Our privacy promise
Chorbit will never sell, rent, or trade personal information or family data. We will never share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, targeted advertising, marketing, data brokerage, profiling, or any third party’s independent use.
Operating an online service requires narrowly limited processing by infrastructure providers. Those providers process data only to deliver Chorbit on our behalf. We also show family data to other parents whom you intentionally place in the same family. These operational disclosures are described below so there are no hidden exceptions to this promise.
3. Information Chorbit handles
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Parent account information: the name, email address, provider account identifier, and sign-in details returned by Google or Apple. If Apple Hide My Email is used, Chorbit receives the private relay address Apple provides instead of the underlying email address.
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Family information: family name, parent memberships, and a protected six-digit family access code used to join a family or return from Kid Mode.
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Device-mode information: a random app-installation identifier, whether that installation is designated for Parent or Kid use, and the selected child profile for a Kid device. Chorbit does not use a hardware serial number or advertising identifier for this purpose.
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Child profile information entered by a parent: a name or nickname, initial, and selected avatar color. Children do not create Chorbit accounts.
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Family ledger information: behavior and category names, credit amounts, assignments, tentative completion-review requests and their status, goals, balances, activity records, dates, and optional notes entered by a parent.
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Notification information, if an adult enables notifications on a device: a random app-installation identifier, device platform, Expo push token, parent/Kid Mode audience, delivery ticket and receipt status, and limited security or error codes. Lock-screen review alerts contain no child name, task, value, balance, family name, family code, account identity, or note.
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Essential technical information: IP address, device and operating-system information, randomized update identifiers, request timing, and security or error logs that may be processed by our infrastructure providers to authenticate users, deliver updates and optional notifications, prevent abuse, and keep the service reliable.
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Support communications: information you choose to include when you contact us.
Chorbit does not ask for payment-card or bank-account information. It does not request precise location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone, or health data. Chorbit has no advertising SDK and no product analytics SDK. Please do not put diagnoses, school records, financial account details, or other highly sensitive information into behavior names or notes.
4. How we use information
We do not use family data to advertise to anyone, build profiles about children, make automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects, or train a commercial artificial-intelligence model.
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Authenticate parents and restore their sessions.
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Create and secure a private family space and let an invited parent join it.
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Remember whether each installation is designated for Parent or Kid use, require confirmation before entering Kid Mode, and prevent the last Parent-designated installation from being switched to Kid Mode.
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Synchronize family records in real time across authorized devices.
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Calculate and display credits, balances, assignments, goals, and activity.
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Provide the limited Kid Mode selected by a parent, including a tentative request for a parent to review an assigned item marked done. A parent must approve it before Chorbit changes a balance.
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If an adult expressly enables notifications on a device, deliver generic completion-review alerts to eligible Parent Mode devices and process delivery status.
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Deliver compatible app updates and operate, protect, debug, and improve service reliability.
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Respond to support, privacy, safety, and legal requests.
5. When limited data is disclosed
We require service providers to use information only to provide contracted services, apply appropriate safeguards, and not use Chorbit family data for advertising or their own marketing.
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Other parents in your family: every adult account that joins the same family can see and manage that family’s shared records. Only give the family code to a trusted adult who should have equal parent access.
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Convex: hosts Chorbit’s backend, authentication integration, database, and real-time synchronization as a service provider acting for Chorbit.
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Expo: builds and distributes the app, delivers over-the-air updates, and—when notifications are enabled—accepts a generic alert and push token for delivery to Apple Push Notification service or Google Firebase Cloud Messaging. Expo may process limited device, operating-system, network, randomized update, push-token, and delivery information needed to deliver and secure those services.
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Apple or Google push services: the device platform receives a generic Chorbit notification through Apple Push Notification service or Google Firebase Cloud Messaging when an adult has enabled notifications. The device’s notification settings control whether and how it appears.
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Google or Apple: handles the sign-in option you select and returns the account information needed to authenticate you. Their own handling of information is governed by the settings and privacy terms of the provider you choose.
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Legal and safety requirements: we may preserve or disclose the minimum information required by a valid legal demand, or reasonably necessary to protect a person from serious harm, prevent fraud or abuse, or defend legal rights. Where lawful, we will narrow or challenge overbroad demands.
Chorbit does not disclose personal information or family ledger content for another company’s own purposes. The limited recipients needed to operate the service are:
6. Children’s privacy
Chorbit accounts are for adults. A parent or legal guardian creates and controls any child profile and is responsible for having authority to provide and manage that information. Kid Mode is a limited view on a device authorized by a parent; it is not a separate child account and does not ask a child for an email address or other account information.
Child profile and ledger information stays inside the family selected by the parent. It is never public, sold, used for advertising, or used to profile a child. Parents can review, correct, or delete child information and can delete the family data they control. We encourage parents to use a first name or nickname and to enter only the details needed for the family ledger.
If you believe a child gave Chorbit personal information directly without appropriate parent or guardian authorization, contact seanmclements@gmail.com. We will investigate and delete it as appropriate.
7. Data retention and deletion
You control your Chorbit data. You can edit or delete family information from the relevant controls and can choose Delete Account in Family Settings at any time. If you cannot access the app, email the contact address below from the address associated with your Chorbit account. We may take reasonable steps to verify that the request comes from the account holder or an authorized parent.
If a family has more than one parent, deleting your account removes your Chorbit identity, sign-in sessions, installation mode and notification registrations, and membership from that family. Shared family records remain available to the other parent members because they also control those records. You can delete specific child or family information you control before leaving, or contact us about a specific shared-data request. If you are the only parent in a family, deleting your account deletes the family and its associated child profiles, behaviors, assignments, completion-review history, device-mode and notification registrations, delivery records, goals, ledger entries, and access code.
Deletion blocks access to the deleted account and active records promptly. Residual copies are normally removed from routine encrypted backups within 30 days, unless a longer period is required to comply with law, resolve a security incident or dispute, or prevent fraud or abuse. Any narrowly retained record remains protected, is used only for that reason, and is deleted when the reason ends.
Deleting or disconnecting a Google or Apple account does not by itself delete a Chorbit account. Deleting Chorbit does not delete the underlying Google or Apple account.
8. Your choices and privacy rights
You may ask to access, correct, delete, or receive a portable copy of personal information associated with your account. Depending on where you live, you may also have rights to restrict or object to processing, withdraw consent, or appeal a privacy-request decision. Use the in-app controls or email seanmclements@gmail.com. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.
Because Chorbit does not sell personal information or share it for targeted advertising, there is no sale or advertising-sharing opt-out to activate. You can stop future collection by deleting your account and uninstalling the app.
9. Security
Chorbit uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the service. Network traffic uses encrypted HTTPS connections, native sign-in session material is stored using the device’s secure storage, family access codes are protected on the server, and backend authorization limits family records to current parent members.
No system can guarantee perfect security. Protect your device and provider account, keep the family code private, rotate it if it may have been exposed, and contact us if you suspect unauthorized access.
10. Processing location
Chorbit and its service providers may process information in the United States and other locations where they operate. Privacy laws may differ from those where you live. When applicable law requires transfer safeguards, we and our providers will use appropriate safeguards for those transfers.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as Chorbit changes or law requires. We will revise the effective date and provide additional notice in the app or by email when a change is material. We will not quietly change this policy to permit selling family data or using it for advertising.
12. Contact
For questions, access requests, or deletion requests, contact Chorbit at seanmclements@gmail.com.