Privacy, in plain English

Short version: your plan and your lists stay on your device. We don’t have a copy, and we never sell information about you. If you choose to share what a program told you, only those numbers are sent, anonymously. We may publish or license totals built from what parents share, never anything that identifies anyone.

What stays on your device

Your plan (due date or birth month, start date, town, budget) and everything in My list (programs, notes, fees, messages) are saved in your browser’s storage on the device you’re using. They are not sent to us. That’s also why they don’t sync between devices; use “Save a backup” in My list to move them.

We never ask for your child’s name.

Your location

If you choose “Use my location,” your device works out distances on its own. Your location is not sent to us.

Things that do leave your device

• Maps. When you open the map, your browser loads map images from OpenFreeMap. They see that a map was requested, not your lists.
• Messages you send. When you tap “Open in email” or “Text it,” your own email or messaging app sends it. We don’t see it.
• Visit counts. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page visits without cookies or tracking you across sites.

If you share what a program told you

Sharing is optional. When you tap an answer under “Called them? Tap what they told you,” only your taps are sent: the program, the age group, what they said about openings, the wait they quoted (as a range), any fee to join the list, and the price they quoted (full or part time, per week or per month). From My list you can also share the months you joined a list and got an offer. Never your name, your child’s details, your notes, your contact information or exact dates.

• No way to link reports to you. Each report carries a random code made on your device, a different one for each program, so you can update or remove it later. We store only a scrambled version of that code, and we don’t store your IP address. (Cloudflare, which runs the site, handles IP addresses to deliver it.)
• A bot check. When you send a report, Cloudflare Turnstile checks that you’re a person. It loads only then, and Cloudflare says it doesn’t use the check for ads or to follow you across sites.
• How reports are shown. Never with anything about who sent them. A fee, or what a program said about openings, can appear from one parent’s report, with the month it was shared. Prices need 2 or more parents, and waits are shown only across a whole town. See how reports from parents work.
• Totals beyond this site. We may publish or license totals built from parents’ reports, such as typical fees or quoted waits for a town, combined so no one parent can be picked out. Never a single report, and never anything about who sent it.
• How long we keep them. About 13 months, then they’re deleted. Tap “Undo” to remove yours sooner.

If you report a problem

The “Report a problem” form sends the page, what’s wrong and any note you write. Directors can also send their program’s fees and a reply email so we can confirm a change with them. We use notes and emails only to fix the site, never publish them, and delete them 90 days after they arrive. Fees appear on a program’s page only after we confirm them with the program.

Deleting your data

Go to My list and choose “Delete everything,” or clear your browser’s site data. “Delete everything” also deletes the reports you shared from this device.

Programs’ information

Program details come from public state records and, in Connecticut, 211 Child Care. For home-based programs we show only the town and an approximate map spot, never a street address, and we never show an email a program has chosen to hide.