This policy covers the Dads Moving Forward website at dadsmovingforward.com and the Dads Moving Forward app (together, "DMF", "we" or "us"). Questions? Email dadsmovingforward@gmail.com.
What stays on your phone only
- Voice typing (🎤): when you tap the microphone on a writing box, your phone's browser turns your speech into text using its own speech service (on Android, usually Google's). DMF never receives or keeps the recording. Only the typed words stay in your box, on your phone.
- DMF Restore: your progress, details, story drafts and Proof Vault documents are saved only on your phone and are never uploaded to us. If you copy a summary or prompt into an AI app, that app's own privacy policy applies.
- Kid Moments: your photos and captions are saved only on your phone. They are never uploaded to us.
- Exchange Mode and Journal patterns: arrival times and the patterns summary are figured out and kept on your phone. If you choose to text a trusted person, that text goes from your phone's own messaging app.
- Alienation Check: your answers and score stay on your phone and are never sent to us. We only count how many checks are finished each day, with nothing about who took them.
- Custody Journal: every entry, reminder and check-in is saved only in your phone's browser storage. It is never sent to us. If you make a backup file, it goes wherever you save it.
- Letter to my child (Message Vault): saved only on your phone.
- DMF Witness: uses your camera (and your microphone only if you turn sound on) and your location to record and stamp clips. Clips, GPS, seals and notes are saved only on your phone. They are never uploaded to us. SOS opens a text message on your phone that you choose to send.
- My Locker and Settings: your locker name, PIN, recovery answer, gifts, badges and settings are saved only on your phone. Your PIN and recovery answer are stored only as scrambled fingerprints, never as the actual numbers or words.
- Fun places near me: if you tap "Use my location", your phone shares your location with the page to find nearby spots. We don't store it.
Contact City
- Your people: names, numbers, houses, photos and notes are saved on your phone and are never uploaded to us.
- Screenshots and contacts files: read on your phone and then thrown away. They are not uploaded to us.
- Weather: if you use it, the city or ZIP you type, or a rounded location if you choose to share yours, goes to Open-Meteo to get the forecast. We don't store it.
- Texts and calls: these go through your phone's own apps, and only when you choose to send or call.
Live two-player games
These are optional. Your nickname, your character's position and look, emotes and game moves pass between the two phones to run the game. A connection service (PeerJS) helps the phones find each other and they connect directly when they can; if they can't, moves pass through a relay we run on Cloudflare. We don't save your moves or nickname. These services and the other player can see basic connection details, like your internet address, and those services have their own privacy rules. Send a game link only to people you know.
What we collect when you send it to us
- The Hangout: your nickname, email address, the comments you post, the reactions you give, and a random code that identifies your phone (used to stop spam and to block people who break the rules). Your email is never shown publicly. Your nickname and comments are public.
- Live alerts: your email (and name if you give it), so we can email you when DMF goes live on TikTok. Every email has an unsubscribe link.
- Join the community and reserve forms: your name, email, state, and the details you enter, like the item, size, color and message for a reservation.
- Share your story: your first name, state, story and email, if you choose to give them. We only share a story publicly if you give permission on the form.
- App tester sign-up: your Gmail address (and first name if you give it), so we can add you to the Android app test.
- Beta feedback: your message, which part of DMF it's about, the page you came from and your phone/browser type, plus your email only if you give it.
- Marketing emails: only if you check the box to get DMF news, new drops and member offers. You can unsubscribe at any time.
How we use it
- To run the Hangout, send the alerts and emails you asked for, and answer reservations.
- To keep the community safe: moderating comments, stopping spam and blocking people who break the Hangout rules.
- If a Hangout post suggests someone may be in danger, it is kept private and sent only to the DMF founder so a real person can see it. We may point that person to 988 or 911.
We never sell your information. We don't run ads, and we don't use advertising trackers.
Services that help run DMF
These companies process data on our behalf, only to make the features work:
- Netlify: hosts the website and receives the join, reserve and story forms.
- Google (Workspace and Apps Script): stores Hangout and Live alert data in our private Google Sheets and sends our emails through Gmail.
- Open-Meteo: the weather feature receives the place you ask about.
- PeerJS and Cloudflare (Workers): connect phones for optional live two-player games.
- OpenStreetMap: the map and place search on Fun places near me receive your search area.
- Google Fonts and Cloudflare (cdnjs): deliver the page fonts and map code.
- Dad Deals partners: when you tap a deal, you go to that brand's own site, which has its own privacy policy. We only count how many times each deal was tapped, with nothing about who tapped it. Some links are partner links that may pay DMF a small commission.
- TikTok: if you tap "Watch my latest TikToks" on the home page, TikTok's player loads and may set its own cookies. Nothing from TikTok loads until you tap.
Links to TikTok, Facebook and Value Shot Mobile take you to those services, which have their own privacy policies.
How long we keep it
We keep your information while your account or subscription is active. When you ask us to delete it, we remove it within 30 days, except where we must keep a record by law, or where we keep only an email address on a block list to keep someone who was blocked for breaking the rules from rejoining.
Delete your data
You can delete your Hangout account yourself, or ask us to delete everything we hold about you. See Delete my data.
Kids
Most of DMF is made for adults 18 and older, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 there. One exception is a Guest Mode visit on Forward St.: a friend's link that anyone invited can open. A guest makes no account, types nothing, and gives us no name, email or phone number. To run the visit, your character's position, look and fixed emotes pass through our relay on Cloudflare. We don't save them. Like any internet connection, the relay can see your internet address, and Cloudflare handles it under its own policy. If you think a child sent us information, email hello@dadsmovingforward.com and we'll delete what we hold.
Security
Everything is sent over an encrypted connection (HTTPS), and only the DMF founder can open the Hangout and member records. No system is perfectly secure, so please don't post private details like your children's names, the other parent's name or case numbers.
Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. Big changes will be announced on the site.