Privacy, in plain words
We don’t have your details. There’s no account, no server that stores anything, no analytics and no cookies. Here is every place your information goes.
On your phone
What you type on the parent side is saved in this browser on your phone, and nowhere else. “Save a copy” makes a file you choose where to keep. “Clear everything” removes it all. We never see your passcode, and your phone doesn’t save it.
When you make a link
The card is built on your phone from only the parts you ticked. It is squeezed small and placed in the link after the # sign (the fragment). Browsers never send that part to a website, so it doesn’t reach our host or anyone in between. By default the card is also locked on your phone with a passcode of four random words before it goes in the link. You can type your own (at least 10 characters) or turn the lock off.
When you send the link
The link goes wherever you send it: the Share sheet, a text message or a copy you paste. That app or message service will carry the whole link, and with it the card, so it can see it, unless it is locked with a passcode that you tell the sitter separately. The link also ends up in the browser history of whoever opens it.
The passcode strongly protects the card if the link is forwarded or seen by someone else, for as long as the card lasts. It isn’t unbreakable: someone holding the link can keep guessing offline, so a longer passcode is safer, and a short number is not accepted. Say it out loud or send it in a separate message.
The link itself holds the card. Anyone who has it (and the passcode, if you set one) can read it. Only send it to the sitter. The end time stops the card opening in the browser after that time, but it can’t take back a link someone has already copied the card from. Without a passcode, someone who has the link and knows how could change the end time in it. With a passcode the end time is locked and can’t be changed. A locked link shows its end time, but not its contents. Please don’t put door or alarm codes on a card.
When the sitter opens it
The page loads from our host like any web page, and nothing from your card is sent to us or anyone else. The card is read on the sitter’s phone. It stores nothing, unless they tap “Keep on this phone until it ends”. Then the link is saved in their browser until the end time, and is removed when it ends or when they tap to remove it. Their browser may also keep the page files so the app works offline.
When you print
“Print” sends the card to your printer through your phone or computer’s print dialog. Printed paper is as private as where you leave it.
Fonts, images and tracking
Everything the pages need is hosted with the app. No third-party requests, no adverts, no tracking.
What this isn’t
Sitter Card passes on what you tell it. It isn’t medical advice and it doesn’t replace calling emergency services.
Questions
Email us at hello@pointithere.com and we’ll help.