Privacy policy
Effective November 13, 2026
The short version
- A parent agrees before anything about a kid is collected.
- We collect photos of finished chores and homework so Roo can check them. Faces are blurred on the phone before anything is sent.
- Task photos are kept while your account is open, so you can look back at the proof. They're deleted when you remove a kid or delete your account, or after 12 months without use.
- Our team may look at task photos to fix mistakes and make Roo more accurate. They're never shared for anything else.
- About your kid, we keep only their name, age and gender.
- We never sell information or use it for ads.
Who we are
Pinky Proof is an app made by Amin Shaykho LLC ("we", "us"). It keeps a kid's chosen apps locked through Apple's Screen Time until Roo, the app's AI helper, checks that their chores and homework are done. This policy explains what information Pinky Proof collects, how we use it, and the choices you have. Questions: hello@pinkyproof.com.
Pinky Proof is meant to be set up and managed by a parent or legal guardian. A kid uses it on their own device only after a parent has set it up and agreed to this policy.
What we collect
From parents
- Your Sign in with Apple account: Apple's private identifier for you, and the name and email address Apple shares if you allow it (Apple lets you hide your email).
- Your family's settings: the tasks you choose, the days they repeat, your own rules for a task ("done looks like"), bedtime, school hours, lock settings, and your time zone.
- "Done" photos you take in Pinky Proof's camera to show what a finished chore looks like (optional). Faces are blurred first.
- What you teach Roo, like "That's fine in our house" or a note when you send a task back.
- Your review decisions (approve, ask for a redo) and when you made them.
- A push notification address for your device, so we can send you alerts.
- Your phone number, so we can reach you about your kids. In the US and Canada we confirm it with a code we text you at sign-up.
- How you heard about Pinky Proof, if you tell us at sign-up.
- Feedback you send us from Settings (optional): your message, with your app version, iOS version and phone model so we can look into problems.
- Your family plan's status, if you subscribe: which plan, whether it's in its free trial, when it renews or ends, whether it's set to renew, and refunds. Apple handles the payment itself; we never see your card or payment details. Apple tells our server about these changes, and the app sends us Apple's signed receipt for your purchase, which includes a store country and price.
About kids (with a parent's permission)
- Name, age and gender (boy or girl), entered by the parent. We don't ask for a birthday, school, photo of the kid or contact details.
- Photos of finished tasks, taken only in Pinky Proof's own camera (never from the photo library). Some chores also have a "before" photo taken when the kid starts. Faces are blurred on the device before any photo is sent.
- Room checks: the kid walks around the room with the phone facing in. Up to 20 photos from the walk are sent for checking, plus a summary of the walk (which directions the phone faced, how far it moved, and how much of the floor it saw). This is never your location or address.
- A room check's video, only when the check needs a parent to look. Before it leaves the phone, faces are pixelated, the sound is removed and it's made smaller.
- Homework pages photographed in the app, and answers to Roo's homework questions, spoken or typed. Speech is turned into text on the device by Apple's speech recognition; only the text is sent, never the audio.
- Lock status (whether the Screen Time lock is on) and a push notification address for the kid's device.
- Task results: when a task was done, Roo's checklist marks, and what Roo asked the kid to fix.
What stays on your devices
- Which apps are locked. Apple's Screen Time gives Pinky Proof private tokens for the apps you pick, not their names. We never see which apps your kid has or how long they use them.
- Room maps. Apple's map of each room's shape (made by the camera's motion tracking, not photos) and which floor the phone saw stay on the kid's device, so it recognizes the room next time. They're not in iCloud backups and are deleted when the device is unlinked.
- Kid profile photos you choose in Settings stay on your phone and are never sent anywhere.
- The last good photo of each task, shown faintly in the camera to help line up the next one, stays on the kid's device.
Collected automatically
Our servers briefly process your device's network address to deliver the service and to stop abuse (for example, limiting wrong 6-digit codes).
How the app is used. Pinky Proof records how it's used so we can find problems and improve it: which screens are opened and buttons tapped, how each check went (for example Roo's answer, how many tries it took, how long a room walk was), the text you type into Pinky Proof (like your rules for a task or a note when you send a task back), errors, and your app version, iOS version and phone model. Each install has a random ID, linked to your account once you sign in. On your kid's device this includes their checks and when they open a locked app (never which app). This stays with us: we don't use outside analytics or advertising companies, sell it, or track you across other apps and websites. It's kept while your account is open; when you delete your account, it's kept only without anything that says who you are.
How we use it
- To check whether a task is done and tell the kid what's left, or send it to a parent to decide.
- To unlock and lock apps according to your list, bedtime and school hours.
- To show parents the proof for each task, and to send alerts and updates between devices.
- To know whether your family has a plan, so Roo stays on. Without one, Roo pauses (no checks and no lock) and everything is kept for when you come back.
- To make Roo more accurate for your family, using your "done" photos, your rules, and up to 6 photos from a day the task was fully done or that you approved.
- To keep the service secure and working, find and fix problems, and measure how accurate Roo is (for example, how often a parent sends back a task Roo passed), using the usage records above.
- To improve Roo: our team may look at your family's task photos and Roo's results to fix mistakes and make Roo's checks more accurate. We tell you this here, and you agree to it when you sign up, before anything is collected. Only our team sees them for this, and they're never used to train an outside company's AI.
We don't use kids' information for advertising, and we don't build profiles of kids.
Who we share it with
We share information only with companies that help us run Pinky Proof, under agreements that limit how they use it, and never for their own purposes:
| Who | What for | What they get |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | The AI that checks photos and homework, and writes task checklists | Task photos (faces blurred), the task's checklist and rules, the kid's age, and homework text. OpenAI's business service doesn't use this to train its models, and we ask it not to store our requests. |
| Apple | Sign in with Apple, push notifications, Screen Time, on-device speech recognition, and payment for the family plan (App Store) | What each feature needs, under Apple's own privacy policy. Apple, not us, takes your payment |
| Twilio | Texting you a code to confirm your phone number | Your phone number |
| Our hosting and database providers | Running our servers and storing your family's data securely | The data described above, stored on our behalf |
We may also share information if the law requires it, to protect someone's safety, or as part of a merger or sale of the business (and we'd tell you first, and this policy would still apply to your information). We never sell personal information.
How long we keep it
- Task photos (every try, including "before" photos and the room-walk photos Roo saw) are kept while your account is open, so you can look back at the proof. They're deleted when you remove that kid or delete your account, or after 12 months without anyone in your family using Pinky Proof.
- Room videos are deleted after you review them, and always within 7 days.
- Usage records (how the app is used) are kept while your account is open. When you delete your account or remove a kid, the records stay only with everything that identifies you or your kid removed, including any text you typed.
- Comparison photos (up to 6 per task) are kept until they're replaced by a newer good day, the task is removed, or you delete your account.
- "Done" photos are kept until you remove them, the task is removed, or you delete your account.
- Feedback you send is kept while your family's account is open, and deleted when the account is deleted.
- Your account, kids' names, ages and genders, tasks and task results are kept while your account is open. When you remove a kid or delete your account, we delete them.
- Your plan's status is deleted with your account. A record of plan changes (like a renewal or a refund), with nothing that names you, is kept for our accounts. Deleting your account doesn't cancel an Apple subscription: cancel it in Settings, then your name, then Subscriptions.
How we protect it
- Faces are blurred (and videos pixelated, with sound removed) on the device before anything is sent.
- Information travels over encrypted connections, and each device's sign-in is kept in Apple's secure Keychain.
- Only Pinky Proof's camera is used for checks, and each check starts with a one-time code from our server.
- Pinky Proof refuses tasks that would film a bathroom or a kid's body, like showering or getting dressed.
No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information and will tell you if a breach affects it, as the law requires.
Children's privacy
Pinky Proof is made for families, and we follow the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Here's how:
- Parent consent first. A parent signs in with their Apple account and agrees to this policy in the app before we collect anything from or about their kid.
- Only what's needed. We collect only what's needed to check tasks and run the lock. A kid can't sign up, share information publicly, or message anyone in Pinky Proof.
- No training on kids' data. Our AI provider doesn't use kids' information to train its models. If that ever changed, we'd ask for a separate opt-in first.
- Improving Roo. Our team may look at your kid's task photos to fix mistakes and make Roo more accurate, as this policy says, and you agree to it when you sign up. We never give your kid's photos to an outside company to train its AI; that would need a separate yes from you.
- Your rights as a parent. You can see the proof for your kid's tasks in the app at any time, change their name or age, remove a kid (which deletes their tasks, photos and results), or delete your whole account. You can also ask us to send you what we have, delete it, or stop collecting it, by emailing hello@pinkyproof.com. If you withdraw consent, we'll delete your kid's information and they won't be able to use Pinky Proof.
Pinky Proof isn't listed in the App Store's Kids category, because it sends photos to an outside service for checking.
Your choices and rights
- Delete anything: remove a task, a "done" photo, a kid, or your whole account in the app (Settings, then More settings, then Delete account). Deleting your account removes your family's data and disconnects Sign in with Apple. If another parent shares the family, only your own sign-in is removed.
- Notifications, camera and microphone can be turned off in your device's Settings.
- Depending on where you live (for example California, or the EU and UK), you may have extra rights to access, correct, delete or move your information, or to object to how we use it. Email hello@pinkyproof.com and we'll respond within 30 days. We won't treat you differently for using these rights.
Where your data is stored
Pinky Proof is run from the United States. If you use it from elsewhere, your information is transferred to and stored in the United States.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we'll update the date above. If a change affects what we collect from kids or how we use it, we'll ask parents to agree again in the app before it applies.
Contact us
Amin Shaykho LLC
hello@pinkyproof.com