Privacy policy
Family Docket · Last updated November 11, 2026
Who runs it
Family Docket is a family dashboard. It runs on a small computer in the home of the person who runs it. Households join by invitation. Each household's data is kept in its own database file on that computer, and no household can see another's.
What it keeps
- What a household enters: profiles (names, colors and pictures; PINs and passwords are stored only as one-way hashes), calendars and events, chores, points, rewards, routines, recipes, meals and shopping lists.
- The email each parent signs in with.
- The location a household gives for the weather, and the latest forecast for it.
- A request for an invite: the household's name, the requester's name, an email to reach them and their note. It is erased 30 days after it is answered, or as soon as the household signs up.
What Google data it uses
- The email address of the Google account a parent connects, to show which account is connected.
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Read-only access to that account's calendars (
calendar.readonly), to show the events of the calendars the household chooses. It never creates, changes or deletes events.
How it is used
Only to show a household's own data on that household's own screens: a kitchen display and family members' phones. Nothing is used for advertising, sold, shared with anyone, used to train AI models, or analysed. Screens reach the computer through Cloudflare's tunnel, which encrypts the connection and carries it, but keeps no data of the app.
Where it is kept
On that computer. The sign-in token Google issues is stored encrypted, and copies of the chosen calendars' events are stored so the screens can show them. Nightly backups are kept on the computer and on a backup drive in the same home. The app sends this data to no other server, with one exception for the weather: the location a household gives, rounded to about 1 km, goes to Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com) to get the forecast, and nothing else goes with it.
How long, and how to remove it
A household's data is kept while the household uses the app. A parent can delete the household at any time in Settings, Family: that erases all of it, its backups included, revokes the app's access to Google and signs out every screen. Disconnecting a Google account in Settings, Calendars revokes the app's access at Google, erases the stored sign-in token and takes that account's calendars off every screen. You can also remove access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
Google API Services User Data Policy
Family Docket's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.