Privacy
Your family’s moments belong to you.
The details of your family’s everyday life are personal. This page explains, in plain words, exactly where your records live and what we can and cannot see. It is written to be precise rather than reassuring — that is the point.
In plain terms
Three things that are true today.
It stays on your phone
Your records are written to your own device and nowhere else. There is no Tiny Beginnings server holding them, because there is no Tiny Beginnings server.
There is no account
No sign-up, no login, no email address. You open the app, pick where you are in your journey, and start. We have no way to identify you.
Nothing is sold or tracked
No advertising SDK, no behavioural tracking, no third-party analytics. Nothing about your family is sold, shared or profiled.
Where your information lives
Everything, and the one place it is kept.
- Your records
- Feeds, sleep, diapers, growth, milestones, notes and appointments are saved in the app’s own storage on your phone, in the area your phone’s operating system keeps separate from other apps.
- Your photos
- Photos you add are saved as files in the app’s own storage, on the same phone. They are not uploaded anywhere.
- Your child’s name and birthday
- Typed by you, kept on the phone with everything else. We never see it, and nothing asks you to prove it.
- Nothing else
- There is no account, so there is no email address, no password and no profile. The app makes no network call of its own, so nothing is transmitted to us at all.
The limits
What “on your phone” does not mean.
Local storage is a real privacy advantage, and it is also not magic. These are the things we would rather you knew now than discovered later.
We do not add encryption of our own
Your records sit in the storage your phone’s operating system gives the app, which keeps it separate from other apps. Tiny Beginnings does not add encryption on top of that, and we do not claim it does.
Anyone with your unlocked phone can read it
There is no passcode on the app itself. If someone can open your phone, they can open Tiny Beginnings and read what is in it.
Uninstalling the app deletes your records
Your phone removes an app’s own files when the app is removed, photos included. For a product whose promise is remembering, this is the worst outcome that exists, so we would rather be blunt about it than quiet.
Your phone’s own backup may include the app
iCloud Backup on iOS and Google One on Android back up app files, which means a copy may sit with Apple or Google under their own privacy policies. That is your backup, under your control — and it is what lets you restore everything if you lose your phone. We think that trade is the right one, and the full policy explains it.
The app stores know you downloaded it
Google Play and the App Store distribute the app and handle that under their own privacy policies. Nothing about that reaches us.
Accounts and syncing
Planned, optional, and not built yet.
Backup and syncing between devices are on the roadmap. They do not exist today, and nothing on this site should be read as saying otherwise.
When they arrive, an account will be needed for exactly one reason: your records have to leave the device for backup, restore or syncing to be possible at all. That is the only boundary it will mark.
You will not be asked to create one because you have used the app for a while. The prompt will appear when you reach for a feature that needs it, it will explain why, and it will be dismissible.
An account would hold an internal user id, an email address or an Apple/Google sign-in identifier, and an optional display name. Never your legal name, never your child’s legal name, and never a phone number, address or any government identifier.
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Optional, always
The app stays fully usable with no account, exactly as it is now.
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Explained first
We will say what leaves the device, and where it goes, before you turn anything on.
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Never on a timer
No prompt that appears simply because you have been using the app for a few days.
The full document
The Privacy Policy says all of this precisely.
This page is a plain-language summary. The policy is the document that governs, it covers both iOS and Android, and it is worth reading if any of the above matters to you.
Not legal advice, and the app is not released yet. The retention periods in the policy — thirty days for deleted records, backups and closed accounts — describe the optional backup and syncing that is planned but not built. Today nothing leaves your device, so there is nothing held anywhere for any length of time. Those promises take effect on the day syncing does.
The document
Privacy Policy
Last updated 2 October 2026
The short version
Tiny Beginnings does not collect anything. Everything you record — feeds, sleep, diapers, growth, milestones, notes and photos — is written to a database on your own phone and stays there.
There is no account to create and no server to send anything to. The app contains no analytics, advertising or tracking software, and makes no network requests of its own. We cannot see your child's information, because it never reaches us.
1 Introduction and scope
This policy covers the Tiny Beginnings mobile app and this website at tinybeginnings.net. It explains what the app does with information, and is written to match what the app's code actually does rather than what it might do in future.
In this policy, "the app" means Tiny Beginnings, and "you" means the person using it.
2 Information you enter into the app
The app exists so you can keep track of your pregnancy and your child. Depending on which features you use, what you enter may include:
- Your child's name, due date or date of birth, and sex, if you choose to give them, plus a profile picture
- Feeds — bottle, breast or solids, with amounts and notes
- Diapers, sleep and pumping sessions
- Growth measurements: weight, height and temperature
- Medicine and vaccination records
- Milestones, notes, moods and symptoms
- Appointments and reminders you set
- Photos you add as memories
- Kick counts and contraction timings, during pregnancy
All of it is written to a database file inside the app's own private storage on your device. None of it is uploaded, synchronised or shared, and no part of it is readable by us.
3 Information collected automatically
None. The app makes no network requests of its own. It contains no analytics software, no advertising software, no crash-reporting service and no third-party tracking of any kind. It does not create or transmit a push notification token, and it does not use an advertising identifier.
We do not know how many people use the app, how they use it, or what they record in it.
4 How information is stored and used
Your records are stored in a database file and, for photos, as image files, both inside the app's private storage area on your device. They are used for one purpose: to show you what you recorded, in the app.
There is no account system, no login, no cloud storage and no synchronisation between devices. Opening the app and using it requires no connection at all.
5 Data sharing and third-party services
We do not share your information with anyone, because we never receive it. The app integrates no third-party service that processes what you record.
Two things are worth stating plainly:
- The app stores — Google Play on Android, the App Store on iOS — distribute the app and collect their own information about installation and use of the store, under Google’s Privacy Policy and Apple’s Privacy Policy. That is their processing, not ours, and it happens whether or not you open the app.
- Links that leave the app. Tapping "Contact Us" opens your own email app with a message addressed to us; if you choose to send it, we receive what you wrote. Other links open in your browser, where the site you visit is governed by its own policy.
6 Device permissions, photos and notifications
Photos and camera
The app asks for permission to use your photo library or camera only at the moment you choose to add a picture. A photo you select is copied into the app's own private storage so it stays available inside the app. Photos are never uploaded, and the app does not read your photo library at any other time.
Notifications
Reminders you set are scheduled and delivered by your phone's own operating system. They are local notifications: nothing passes through a notification server, and no notification token is created or stored. The text shown on your lock screen is the title you typed.
The app asks for notification permission the first time you create a reminder, not when you first open it. If you decline, your reminders are still saved and still visible in the app — they simply will not alert you.
Your phone's own backups
This is the one route by which your Tiny Beginnings records may leave your phone, and it is worth understanding.
If you have turned on your device's backup service — Google One backup on Android, iCloud Backup on iOS — that service may include the app's data in its backup, as it does for other apps. That copy is held by Google or Apple under their own privacy policy and security, not ours. We have no access to it and no involvement in it. You can control this in your phone's backup settings.
7 Data retention and deletion
Because everything is on your device, you control all of it:
- Delete an entry and the record is removed from the database. If the entry had a photo, the image file is deleted with it.
- Uninstall the app and its entire database and all its stored photos are removed with it.
Your records are kept until you delete them. There is no retention period we apply, because we hold nothing to retain, and there is nothing for you to request from us.
Please note that uninstalling is permanent. If you want to keep what you have recorded, save it before you uninstall.
8 If optional backup or sync is added later
Optional cloud backup and sharing between devices are planned but not built. They do not exist in the app today, and nothing in the app uploads anything.
If they are added, they will be opt-in and off unless you turn them on, this policy will be updated before the feature is released, and the following will apply to it:
- Records you delete are removed from our servers, and the marker noting the deletion is purged, within 30 days
- Backup copies are kept for no more than 30 days before being overwritten or destroyed
- If you ask for an account to be deleted, it is held for 30 days so you can change your mind, then permanently erased
Until such a feature exists and you switch it on, none of this applies.
9 Children's privacy
Tiny Beginnings is made for parents and carers, who are adults, to record information about a child in their care. It is not directed at children and is not intended to be used by children. In the app stores, it is listed for adults.
Information about a child recorded in the app is handled exactly as described above: it stays on the adult's device and is not collected by us.
10 Security
We want to be precise here rather than reassuring.
Your records are stored in the app's private storage area, which your phone's operating system keeps separate from other apps. That separation, and whatever device-level protection you have enabled — a screen lock, and the device encryption your phone applies — are what protect your information. The app does not add encryption of its own on top of that, and we do not claim it does.
Because nothing is transmitted and nothing is stored on a server, there is no account of yours for us to lose and no database of ours for anyone to breach.
Anyone with access to your unlocked phone can open the app and read what is in it.
11 Your rights
Data protection laws such as Malaysia's Personal Data Protection Act, the UK and EU General Data Protection Regulation, and the California Consumer Privacy Act give you rights to access, correct, export and delete personal information held about you.
We hold no personal information about you, so there is nothing for us to produce, correct or erase. Your information is on your device, where you can view, change and delete it directly at any time.
12 Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this address with a new "last updated" date. Any change that affects how your information is handled — in particular the optional backup or sync described in section 8 — will be published before the change takes effect, not after.
13 Contact
Questions about this policy, or about privacy in Tiny Beginnings, can be sent to: