Privacy

BettsNest is a small Mother’s Day Out program run by Arian Betts in her home in Cedar Hill, Texas. This page explains what we collect through this website and the BettsNest app, who can see it, and how to have it removed. The short version: we collect only what we need to care for your child and keep you informed, we never sell it, and photographs of children are never public.

What we collect

• Inquiries from this website: your name, email, phone, your child’s name and date of birth, the start date you would like, and anything you write to us.
• Registration: parent and emergency contacts, who may pick your child up, custody notes you choose to share, your child’s doctor and preferred hospital, the getting-to-know-you answers about your child (including allergies and routines), and your typed acceptance of the enrollment agreement.
• The app: your email address (to sign you in — there are no passwords), a notification token for your phone if you allow notifications, and what Arian records during the morning: photographs, notes and newsletters, and your child’s daily care log (diapers and what they ate).
• Messages: if you write to Arian in the app, we store the text you send (text only, no attachments), who sent it and when. Arian’s replies are stored the same way.
• Notification choices: how you would like to hear about daily report updates (every update, a few minutes after, once at pickup, or off). The notification token for your phone is used only to send you notifications from BettsNest. It is switched off when you sign out and removed when your account is deleted. Choosing “off” stops daily report notifications; you can also turn notifications off for the app in your phone’s Settings.
• Payments: tuition is paid through Stripe. We receive the payer’s name and email, the amount and whether it succeeded. We never see or store card or bank details.

Who can see it

• Arian sees everything, because she is caring for your child.
• You see posts meant for every family, posts that include your own child, and your own child’s daily care log. You never see another family’s care log or registration details.
• Your messages are visible only to your family and Arian. No other family can see them, and there is no public messaging in the app.
• Nobody else. Photographs of children are never posted on this website or on social media, and every photograph in the app is fetched through a check that you are allowed to see it.

Notifications and saving photos

Notifications are optional and never contain a photograph. Message and daily-report notifications contain no message text, no child’s name and nothing about what was logged: a message notification only says who it is from (for example “New message from Arian”), and a daily-report notification shows the time. A notification about a new post shows the start of Arian’s caption. If you choose to save a photograph to your phone, it is saved to your own photo library on your device. The app can only add the picture; it cannot look through your photos, and nothing about the save is sent to us. Sharing a photograph uses your phone’s standard share menu, and what happens next is up to you.

What we do not do

We do not sell or share your information for advertising. The app and this website contain no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. We do not use your information for anything other than running the program.

Services we rely on

Our servers are run by us in the United States. Email is sent through our mail provider (PurelyMail), notifications to iPhones go through Apple, and payments are processed by Stripe. Sentry receives error reports from our server, with names, emails, phone numbers and what you typed removed before anything is sent. Each receives only what it needs to do that one job.

Children

The app is for parents and guardians of enrolled children, not for children to use. Information about a child is provided by their parent or recorded by Arian while caring for them. Each child’s appearance in photographs follows the photo-consent choice on the signed registration form.

How long we keep it, and deleting it

We keep a family’s information, including your messages with Arian, while they are enrolled. Messages belong to your family’s thread and are deleted when Arian removes your family’s records; deleting your account removes your sign-in and notification registration. When a photograph is taken down, the picture itself is deleted from our servers, not just hidden. To have your account and your family’s information deleted, or to get a copy of it, email [email protected] from the address on your account. In the app, Family → Delete my account removes your sign-in immediately and tells Arian, who then deletes your family’s records and confirms by email. Records a registered child-care home is required to keep are kept only as long as the law requires.

Contact

Questions about this page: [email protected].