Safeguarding Statement

• It is not a reporting mechanism to the police, children's social care, a school, a GP, or any other authority. Writing something in this app does not tell anyone outside the people you've given access to.
• It is not monitored in real time by any person. There is no crisis team, duty worker, or moderator watching what is logged.
• It is not a substitute for calling 999 in an emergency, or for contacting the statutory safeguarding services described below.
• The automatic detection described further down is not a clinical or legal safeguarding assessment. It is a language-pattern check on newly logged entries, nothing more, and treating it as anything more would be a mistake.

This app is a place to keep a private, dated, hard-to-tamper-with record of what happened — which is genuinely useful after or alongside raising a concern through the right channel, because a contemporaneous record with timestamps, photos, and an audit trail can help a professional or a court understand a pattern over time. It is a record-keeping tool that can support a safeguarding process someone else is running — it is not itself that process.

Specifically, the app offers:

• A dedicated Incidents log, separate from the ordinary diary, for recording a safeguarding-relevant or otherwise significant event. An incident defaults to visible only to you until you deliberately choose to share it.
• The ability to attach photos, video and audio as evidence, with their original file metadata (including capture date and, where present, location) preserved rather than stripped.
• Export tools that produce a dated, audit-trailed record you can choose to hand to a professional, a solicitor, or an authority yourself, on your own initiative.

When a new diary entry is logged, it is automatically scanned by an AI model for language that may indicate a safeguarding-relevant concern (for example, language suggesting possible harm). If the scan flags something, the entry is marked internally and the Family Owner is notified within the app.

That is the entire process. A flag does not leave the app, does not go to any authority, and does not do anything on its own beyond notifying the Family Owner, who can review the flag, read the reason the entry was flagged, and dismiss it if it doesn't reflect a genuine concern. This exists to help a busy parent notice something in their own writing they might otherwise scroll past — it is an internal prompt to look again, not an alert to anyone else.

• A safeguarding flag, and the reason for it, is visible only to the Family Owner— never to a Contributor, never to a professional with access to the child (this is enforced by never including those columns in what a professional's access can retrieve, not merely by hiding them in the interface), and never to another family through a shared-access arrangement.
• An Incident you record follows the same Private-by-default rule as any other entry you mark Private — visible to you and, unless you choose otherwise, the Family Owner, and nobody else, until you deliberately share it.
• If you want a professional or authority to see something you've recorded, you have to actively share or export it — the app never does this for you.

• The AI detection can miss a genuine concern (a false negative) written in language it doesn't recognise as concerning, and can flag ordinary text that isn't actually a concern (a false positive). Neither the presence nor the absence of a flag is evidence of anything on its own.
• Nobody is reviewing entries on our side for safeguarding content. The obligation to notice and act on a concern rests with the person using the app, exactly as it would with a paper diary.
• This app has no relationship with, and does not report to, any local authority, the NSPCC, the police, or any other safeguarding body. Any such contact has to be made by you, directly, through the channels below.

You can use this app's Incidents log and evidence export after or alongside contacting one of the above, to build the record you may want to share with them or with a solicitor — but the first contact has to be with them, not with this app.

Questions about this statement, or about how safeguarding-related data is handled in the app: donnie.eastwood@icloud.com

See also: Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and the Data Retention Policy.