Privacy Policy

Effective October 30, 2026

PlaySafe Together ("we", "us") is a service that helps parents in the same school community arrange after-school play and study sessions. Accounts are for adults (parents and guardians). This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have.

What we collect

• Account information. Your name, email address, and sign-in details (email/password or Google sign-in).
• Verification. The school community you join and the fact that you redeemed a valid invite code for it. Schools do not send us rosters, student records, or any information about your child.
• Your profile. Hosting preferences (capacity, days, notes), what your family is looking for, and — if you choose to host at home — your home address, handled under the address rules below.
• Kid profiles you create. First name, grade band, and interests (favorite color, hero, subject). Optional: a photo you upload, and a private medical note that is visible only to you.
• Activity. Events you post or join, join requests and approvals, group membership, badges, ratings you give or receive, and reports you file.
• Technical basics. Device and app information needed to run and secure the service (for example, app version and crash data).

How we use it

To run the service: showing sessions in your school community, passing join requests to hosts, unlocking addresses for approved attendees, sending notifications, preventing abuse, and enforcing our conduct rules. We do not sell personal information, and we do not use information from school communities for advertising.

How addresses are shared

• Events always show only the neighborhood or street name publicly within your school community.
• An event's exact address is shown only to attendees the host has approved.
• If you add your home address to your profile, verified parents in your school community can see it, as described in the app; private groups can additionally choose whether member addresses are visible by default or only after approval.

Children's privacy

Kid profiles are created and controlled by a parent or guardian. We collect a child's first name, grade band, interests, and — only if the parent chooses — a photo, solely so other verified parents in the same school community can recognize and include the child at sessions. Parents can edit or delete a kid profile at any time in the app, which deletes the information, including any photo and the private medical note. We do not knowingly collect information directly from children.

Who else receives information

• Service providers. We use Google Firebase (hosting, database, authentication, and storage) to operate the service. Providers process information only to provide their services to us.
• Safety and legal. We may disclose information if we believe it is necessary to protect a child, prevent harm, enforce our rules, or comply with the law.
• Your school or district receives no personal information about your family from us.

Retention and your choices

We keep information while your account is active. You can edit your profile and kid profiles in the app at any time. To delete your account and its information, contact us and we will delete it, except where retention is required for safety or legal reasons. You may also ask us what information we hold about you.

Security

Access to information is limited by account verification and database rules enforced on our servers. No system is perfectly secure, but we use reasonable technical and organizational measures appropriate to the information involved.

Changes and contact

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will announce it in the app before it takes effect. Questions or requests: privacy@playsafetogether.org.