Alien Brain

Privacy Policy

Effective 7 November 2026

Who we are

Alien Brain is a family app where kids complete tasks, earn stars, spend them on rewards their parent sets up, and look after a virtual pet. It is made and operated by Andrii Bezmen ("we", "us"), 1001 Carroll Pkwy, Frederick, MD 21702, USA. Questions about this policy go to privacy@alienbrain.app.

Accounts

Only a parent signs up, with an email address and a password. Kids are profiles inside the parent's family, not accounts. A kid's own tablet joins the family with a one-time code that the parent creates; it does not need an email address or any other contact details.

What we collect

From the parent

• Email address and password, to sign in. The password is stored only as a secure hash.
• The parent's name as shown in the app.

Family information entered in the app

Entered by the parent, or by the kids on their own profiles:

• Kids' names and profile pictures (an emoji, or a photo the parent chooses).
• The 4-digit PINs that stop one family member using another's profile.
• Tasks, when they were done, stars earned and spent, rewards, challenges, achievements and the pet.
• Check-ins, if a kid uses them: a face picked for how they feel (for example "happy" or "tired"), and how strongly, on a scale of 1 to 10.

This is stored on each of the family's devices and on our server, so the parent's phone and a kid's tablet show the same thing. Only devices signed in to that family can read it.

The daily activity summary

Once a day, each device sends us a summary of how the family is using the app: each kid's first name, star balance and streak, the tasks and check-ins from that day, and totals for the last 14 days, together with the app version, the kind of device and a random identifier for that installation of the app. It never includes photos. We use it only to understand how the app is used and to improve it, and only the developers can read it.

Brain, the assistant — only if a parent turns it on

Brain lets the family use the app by talking or typing instead of tapping. It is off until the parent adds a key for their own Claude (Anthropic) or ChatGPT (OpenAI) account and agrees to what it sends. Then:

• The parent's AI key is stored encrypted on our server and used only to send Brain's requests. It is never shown again, and never sent to a kid's device.
• What is sent to the AI service, only when someone talks to Brain: what they typed or said, any photos a parent attaches (or a few still frames from a video they attach — never its sound), the kids' first names, and the part of the family's information the question is about — for a kid, today's tasks, stars, rewards and pet; for the parent, also what they ask Brain to look at, such as reports and check-in counts. It goes under the parent's own account with that service, on that service's terms.
• Story Time. A kid can write picture books with Brain. While they write, what they say and the book so far go to the AI service as above. Everything Brain writes for a story is checked twice before the kid sees it — against a list of words that never go in a children's book, and by a second request to the same AI service that reads only the words. The finished books are stored with the family's data and synced to the family's own devices, so the kid can read them back and the parent can read every one and remove any. The conversation that wrote a book is not kept.
• Speech. If someone uses Brain's microphone button, the phone's speech recognition (Apple's, on the device where it can) turns speech into text. Audio is not recorded, and is never sent to us or to the AI service.
• What we keep: the number of messages each profile sends Brain each day, to enforce the daily limit a parent sets, and the same count for Story Time (kept for 14 days); questions a kid asks a parent through Brain, with the answer; and a plain list of what Brain did for each kid, which the parent can see. So a parent can see what Brain costs them, we also keep, per day and per person, how many answers Brain gave, how many tokens they used and their estimated price (kept for about a year), and the account balance a parent chooses to tell Brain — only the amount, never any payment details. Only the family account can see these. Conversations themselves are not stored on our server — they stay on the device, and only until Brain is closed for a while.
• Notifications. If a parent has allowed notifications, their phone registers a notification address and its time zone with us. We use them to tell the parent when a kid finishes a task that needs approval, asks for something, changes mood or reports feeling unwell, when a task is missed or a reward is coming up, when something has stopped working, and when Brain is worried about a kid. That last one says only that the kid may need them, never what was said. A parent can turn most kinds off on their own phone. A notification carries the kid's first name and what happened, such as the task's name or the mood they picked. The time zone keeps notifications out of the night.

Feedback you send us

If anyone in the family uses the in-app feedback button, we receive what they wrote, a screenshot if they attached one, the profile name, the screen they were on, the app version, the kind of device and the installation's random identifier.

Error reports

If something goes wrong inside the app, the device tells us what the error was, the name of the screen it happened on, the app version, the kind of device and the installation's random identifier. It never includes a name, a task, or anything anyone typed.

What we do not collect

We do not collect location, contacts, advertising identifiers or browsing history. The camera is used only when a parent chooses to take a photo to show Brain. The microphone is used only while someone holds a conversation with Brain and has tapped its microphone button, and nothing it hears is recorded. There are no ads, no third-party analytics and no tracking across other apps or websites.

How we use it

• To run the app and keep a family's devices in sync.
• To send account emails: sign-up and password-reset codes. We send no marketing email.
• To find and fix problems, and to decide what to improve, using the daily summaries and feedback.

We do not sell, rent or trade personal information, use it for advertising, or build profiles of anyone.

Children

Alien Brain is made for families, and kids use it under their parent's account. We collect information about a child only through the parent's account and the kid profiles the parent creates, and we never ask a child for an email address, phone number or other contact details. The parent controls every kid profile, and can change it, delete it, or delete the whole family account at any time.

Check-ins are shown to the parent as simple counts and trends, and the parent is notified when a kid's mood changes or they report feeling achy or poorly. The app does not diagnose anything or give medical advice.

The kids' Brain can only do what a kid could already do by tapping — tick off a task, send an idea or a question to their parent, spend their own stars after confirming — and only helps with the app. A parent can switch it off for each kid, and set how many messages a kid can send it each day.

If you are a parent and want to review, change or delete what we hold about your child, email privacy@alienbrain.app, or delete the family account in the app.

Who else handles the data

We use a small number of service providers, only to run the app:

• Supabase hosts the database and the sign-in system, in the United States (Oregon).
• Resend delivers the sign-up and password-reset emails.
• Expo delivers app updates. Your device contacts Expo's servers to check for them.
• Apple distributes the app through the App Store, delivers notifications, and provides the speech recognition Brain's microphone uses.
• Expo also relays notifications to the parent's phone, so the words of each notification pass through Expo and Apple.
• Anthropic or OpenAI, only for a family whose parent turned on Brain with their key — as described above, under the parent's own account with them.

We would otherwise share information only if the law required it.

How it is protected

Everything travels over encrypted connections. On our server, each family's data is walled off from every other family's, and the daily summaries and feedback can be read only by the developers. The profile PINs keep siblings out of each other's profiles on a shared device; they are a convenience, not a password, and are not a substitute for locking the device itself.

How long we keep it

Family information and daily summaries are kept for as long as the family account exists. Deleting the family account (in the app: Settings → Devices → Delete family account) permanently removes the family's information from our server, including the daily summaries, and signs out every device in the family. Copies in our hosting provider's routine backups are removed as those backups expire.

The AI key is deleted when the parent removes it from Settings → Brain, or deletes the family account.

Feedback reports are kept as reports to the developers after an account is deleted. To have them deleted too, email us.

Your choices

• Delete the family account from inside the app at any time.
• Change a kid's details, or delete one kid and everything that is theirs, from that kid's settings in the parent area.
• Turn Brain or Story Time off for a kid in their settings, or Brain for everyone by removing the AI key in Settings → Brain. Read or remove a kid's stories from their settings.
• Turn photo access, the microphone or notifications off in your device's Settings; the app works without them.
• Email us to ask for a copy of your family's information, or to have anything deleted.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top. If a change affects what we collect or how we use it, we will tell parents before it takes effect.

Contact

privacy@alienbrain.app
Andrii Bezmen, 1001 Carroll Pkwy, Frederick, MD 21702, USA