MotherHen Privacy Policy

The short version. MotherHen keeps your family’s locations inside your family’s own iCloud. There is no MotherHen server, no MotherHen account, and no copy of anyone’s location that we could see, sell or be asked to hand over.

How it works

Each person signs in with the Apple Account they already use on their iPhone. The parent who creates the family owns a private area in their own iCloud (a CloudKit share). Every family member’s phone writes its own record there and reads the others’. Apple stores that data under your Apple Account and Apple’s privacy policy. We never receive it.

What is stored in the family’s iCloud share

• Each member’s last-known location and when it was recorded
• Events: a drive started or ended, a departure from or arrival at a family place, a low battery
• The family’s places: names and coordinates you add, such as home or school
• Each member’s sharing switches, and whether sharing is paused

What stays on each phone only

The per-place alert choices you make (which family members you want to hear about at each place) are stored on your own phone and nowhere else.

What the phone senses

MotherHen uses Core Location for place events and Core Motion for drive detection. Location is read when the phone wakes the app, when you cross a family place’s boundary, or on a significant change in location, and only to write the member record and events described above. The app never uploads a continuous track.

Sharing is visible and reversible

Everyone sees exactly what they share: location, drives, battery, place events and instant alerts can each be switched off, and sharing can be paused. When someone pauses, the family is told. Leaving the family removes your records from the share.

Notifications

Alerts are generated on your own phone from the family’s shared data. They are not sent through any MotherHen service. If an optional relay is ever offered to make alerts arrive when the app is force-quit, it will see only a place label, never a coordinate, and this policy will say so before it ships.

Purchases

MotherHen is bought through the App Store. Apple handles the payment; we never see your payment details.

Children

MotherHen is designed for families, including children’s iPhones set up through Apple’s Family Sharing. The app collects no data from anyone; everything stays in the family’s own iCloud under the parent’s control.

Deleting your data

Remove a member from the family, or delete the family, and the records are removed from the share. Deleting the app from a phone stops that phone writing to the share. Your iCloud data is also subject to Apple’s own tools for managing and deleting iCloud data.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.