Safety

Technology that serves your home, on your terms.

A tool for discipling children has to be safe for children. Here is what Doorpost does, what it does not do, and where the controls are. Where something is our policy and not a lock in the software, we say so.

Kids' profiles

Children do not have accounts.

Children cannot sign up for Doorpost. A parent creates each child’s profile and decides what it holds. We do not collect a child’s email address, phone number or location.

On the wall
A child taps their picture and, if you set one, enters a PIN. PINs are stored only as a one-way hash. The child's session ends after 15 minutes.
On their own device
Off for every child until a parent turns it on for that child. Pairing takes a six-digit code from the parent's own app, good once, for ten minutes.
What a child sees
Their own day: their lessons, chores, verse and requests. Nothing a parent manages is reachable from a child's view.
Taking it back
A parent can remove a child's device at any time, and can download or remove one child's information in Settings.

Children under 13. When you add a child under 13, or leave the birthday blank, we ask you to confirm that you are the child’s parent or guardian and that you have read our children’s privacy notice. We record that confirmation with its version and time.

Parent controls

The grown-up controls stay with the grown-ups.

A parent PIN guards the grown-up controls on the wall.
Chores can wait for a parent’s OK before they count, and rewards are the ones you set.
Turn on “Parent checks schoolwork” for a child and finished work waits for your check.
A child can ask for screen time or to go outside. A parent answers yes or not now.
The household vault is for parents and co-parents only. Children and sitters cannot open it, and it never appears on the wall. Its passwords are encrypted.
A sitter you invite gets a sitter’s view: the care sheet you wrote, today’s schedule and chores, and the children’s requests. A sitter cannot open the vault.

Ads and data

No ads. No selling your family's data.

We do not run ads, and we do not sell family data. We do not show ads to children or build advertising profiles of them. There are no analytics or advertising trackers in Doorpost.

Your family’s information goes only to the companies that run Doorpost for us: hosting, the database, sign-in, email and, when AI features are used, our AI provider. The privacy policy names each one.

Doorpost does not sell in-app currency or prizes to children. Points are earned from chores and spent on rewards a parent set.

Photos you upload are stored privately and shown only to your family.

AI is a helper for parents, and the switches start off.

Doorpost uses AI in a few named features, such as turning a sentence into school records or suggesting passages of Scripture. Most of Doorpost has no AI in it. The full list of where it is used, and where it is not, is on How the technology works.

AI runs only when we have it switched on for Doorpost. While it is off, the AI buttons are hidden and nothing is sent.
Children’s names are replaced with placeholders such as “Child 1” before a request is sent.
Two switches in Settings → Privacy are off until a parent turns them on: one for private prayer requests, one for children’s details. A child can use the Scripture coach only if a parent turns on a third.
A sitter’s care sheet (allergies, medicines, conditions) and emergency contacts are never sent to the AI provider.
Verse text is never written by AI. It comes from your translation.
If a child or parent writes something to the Scripture coach that suggests they may be in danger, the coach shows where to get help now: a trusted adult, a pastor, or the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.

There is not yet one switch that turns every AI feature off for a single family. Today a parent controls what is shared with the switches above, and Doorpost works without any of the AI features.

Screen time

The wall is shared. It is not a feed.

We think the safest screen in a house is the one everybody can see. The wall sits in the kitchen, shows the whole family’s day, and has nothing on it to scroll through for an hour.

Nothing to keep you there
No infinite feed and nothing to buy. A child ticks off the day and walks away.
No streak that punishes rest
If you turn Sabbath mode on, chores are off that day with a quiet note and no broken streak.
Few notifications
By default a parent gets one morning summary email and a few alerts, not constant pings.
A child's device shows their day
On their own device a child gets lessons, chores, a verse and a way to ask a parent for something. There is no social feed in it and no way to message anyone outside the family.

What Doorpost is not. It is not a parental-control app. It does not block apps, filter the web or set time limits on a device. For that, use the controls built into your phone or tablet. Doorpost lets a child ask for screen time and lets you answer.

Community

Nothing is shared with other families today.

Doorpost does not share your family’s information, or a child’s, with other families. The co-op and church circle are planned and not open.

A community for parents is being prepared and is not open yet. It is built with these safeguards, and it will not open without them:

It is for parents and co-parents. Children are never in it.
Every post is screened for profanity, phone numbers, email addresses, links and spam before it is published.
Any parent can report a post, and block or mute another member.
Moderators can take a post down and remove a member, and every moderation action is logged.

Your data

Take it with you, or delete it.

A parent can download a copy of the family’s information from Settings at any time, as one file. A parent can also delete the family there. Deletion waits seven days so it can be undone, and then everything goes for good.

The complete statement of what we collect and why is in the privacy policy and the children’s privacy notice. If you see something on this page that does not match what Doorpost does, write to hello@ourdoorpost.com and we will fix the product or fix the page.

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