Our promise
What we can and can’t see.
homebird is built so that we can’t see where you are. Here’s exactly what that means.
We cannot see
Locations
Where you or anyone in your nest is or has been.
Saved places
The names and spots of your places, and who arrived where.
Messages
What your nest chat says.
Photos
Profile photos and nest photos.
Calendar information
What’s planned, and when.
Family vault contents
Documents, notes and Wi-Fi details.
We do store
Account email
So you can sign in.
Display name
The name your nest sees.
Birth year
Only to check you’re 13 or older. Other members can’t see it.
Encrypted data
Scrambled blobs we can’t read, kept only as long as needed.
How it works, in plain English
Every phone has its own lock and key. When you join a nest, your phone gets a copy of the nest’s key, sealed so that only your phone can open it.
Your phone locks everything before sending it. Your location, places, messages and photos are encrypted on your phone. What reaches our servers is scrambled data. Without the key, it’s just noise, and we never have the key.
Your family’s phones unlock it. Only the phones in your nest can turn that scrambled data back into a pin on the map.
When someone leaves, the lock changes. The nest gets a new key, so they can’t read anything new.
Notifications stay private too. Alerts tell your phone something new arrived; the details are decrypted on your phone.
We don’t sell data, show ads, or use trackers, and this website doesn’t either. For the full details, read our Privacy Policy.