Privacy Policy — Coparent Ally

Last updated: 28 September 2026

Coparent Ally is an iPhone app for parents who share the care of their children across two homes. It is made by Nikita Shinde ("we", "us"). You can reach us at support@coparentally.com.

The short version

• We do not collect your family's information. There are no Coparent Ally accounts and no servers of ours. We use no analytics, advertising or tracking, and the app contains no third-party code that collects data.
• What you enter is kept by you, on your iPhone and in the backups you keep, never by us. It goes elsewhere only when you choose: to the other parent, to your lawyer, to your own calendar, or to the backup folder you pick.
• We only receive what you send us yourself, such as an email asking for help.

What the app keeps on your iPhone

The app keeps the following on your iPhone, protected by iOS data protection:

• your name and the other parent's name;
• your children's names and, if you add them, their pictures, birthdays, school, clothing and shoe sizes, allergies, conditions, medicines, vaccinations, blood group, doctor and insurance details, and a health record of visits and results with any letters you attach;
• contacts you add for the children, such as their doctor, teachers or friends' parents;
• documents you add, such as passports, insurance cards or school reports, and photos of the children you share into the family album;
• lists the two of you keep, calls you ask for and how they went, and how handovers went;
• your parenting schedule, holidays and changes to nights;
• shared expenses and receipt photos, your settlements, and each parent's answers to the other's expenses;
• records of payments between the parents, with any photo of a transfer you add, requests for payment, and a child support schedule if you set one;
• the ways you choose to share for being paid, such as a PayPal.me name or bank details;
• your journal notes and their photos;
• handover check-ins, and any photo you take at one;
• a signing key that never leaves the iPhone;
• messages between the two parents, and the photos and voice recordings sent with them.

Contacts are added one at a time, by typing them or choosing one in the system's contact picker; the app never reads your address book.

We cannot see any of this. We have no copy of it and no way to get one.

When information leaves your iPhone

Information leaves your iPhone only when you do something, and the app tells you what goes before it goes.

• Sharing your record with the other parent, through iCloud.
• When it starts: only after you invite the other parent and they accept. Until then, nothing is shared.
• What is shared: the signed entries that keep the two phones in step. That means:
  • the schedule and holidays;
  • changes to nights and the answers to them;
  • expenses and receipt photos for shared expenses, settlements, and answers to expenses;
  • payments, requests for payment and child support schedules, with any photo of a transfer, and the ways you chose to be paid;
  • check-ins, with their time, but not their place;
  • messages, the photos and voice recordings sent with them, the words of a voice message as your iPhone wrote them out, and when each was first seen;
  • that journal notes were written, but not their words or photos;
  • the children's details, including allergies, doctor and insurance, because both parents need them.
• Where it is kept:
  • Your entries, and the files that go with them, are stored in your own iCloud account, in a space shared with the other parent's Apple Account. They can read it but not change your entries. Their app can leave only two kinds of small notice there: one that makes your iPhone show an alert, and the link to their own space. Notices are removed after a week.
  • Their entries are stored in their iCloud account in the same way.
  • Each phone keeps both parents' entries up to date by itself, as they are made.
  • Nothing passes through us.
• Encryption: the contents of every entry and notice are end-to-end encrypted with keys kept in your and the other parent's iCloud Keychain, and each file is encrypted by the app before it is uploaded. Neither we nor Apple can read them. Apple can see that the records exist, their size and when they changed.
• Who stores it: Apple stores this data under Apple's Privacy Policy. We cannot read it.
• Alerts: when the other parent sends a message, a question or an answer, Apple's push service tells your iPhone that something arrived. The push itself carries no content: your iPhone fetches the notice, checks it was signed by the other parent's iPhone, and only then shows who it is from and, for a message, its first line.
• What the invitation shows: each of you the name, email address or phone number of the other's Apple Account.
• Pro: if you buy Pro, your iCloud also tells the other parent's app that your purchase is current and when it renews, so it unlocks Pro for them too. It shares nothing else about the purchase.
• Stopping: you can stop sharing at any time. The other parent keeps what they had already received.
• Messages between the two parents are shared in the same way as the record.
• They are signed by the phone that sent them.
• They cannot be edited or deleted after sending.
• The other parent's phone records when each message was first shown to them, and your phone does the same for messages you receive.
• The tone check that can help you word a message runs entirely on your iPhone. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, a calmer wording can be suggested when you ask, by Apple's on-device model. Your drafts are never sent to us or to any other service, and nothing about the check is kept.
• Reports, lawyer packs, backups and exports.
• These are files the app makes when you ask, and you choose where they go: Files, Mail, a printer, or your lawyer.
• A lawyer pack includes your journal's words only if you choose to include them.
• While iCloud is on, the app also keeps your latest backup in your own iCloud account, in a space nobody else can read, end-to-end encrypted in the same way as your record. A new iPhone, or this one after the app is deleted, offers to restore from it.
• Automatic backups are written after changes to a folder you choose, such as one in iCloud Drive, where Apple stores them in your iCloud account under Apple's Privacy Policy. Until you choose one, they are written to your iPhone, where deleting the app deletes them, and your iPhone's own iCloud Backup includes them if you use it. We never receive them.
• Calendar. If you turn on publishing to Calendar, the schedule is added to the calendar you choose. That calendar's provider (for example iCloud or Google) may sync it under their own privacy policy.
• Handover check-ins.
• Your location is read only when you tap to check in, and never in the background.
• The check-in stores the coordinates and their accuracy on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. The other parent sees that you checked in and when, never where. The place leaves your phones only in a report or pack you choose to send.
• Photos at a check-in are taken with the camera when you tap, and stay in your own record: the other parent does not see them unless you send one to them yourself.
• Voice messages.
• The microphone is used only while you tap to record a voice message, and the recording goes only to the other parent, in your record.
• Its words are written out by speech recognition on your iPhone. The app asks iOS to do this on the iPhone only, so the recording is never sent to Apple for it; where your iPhone cannot recognise your language by itself, the message is sent without its words.
• We never receive the recording or its words.
• Payments. The app never moves money, and never asks for a card or for access to a bank account.
• "Pay with…" opens the other parent's payment app, such as PayPal or a UPI app, from the name they chose to share. That app's own privacy policy then applies.
• A payment you record is shared with the other parent in your record, so that they can confirm or dispute it.
• The ways you choose to be paid, including any bank details you type in, go only to the other parent, in your record.
• Emails you send us.
• If you contact us or request a feature, we receive your email address and whatever you write.
• We use it only to answer you and to improve the app. We keep it for up to 24 months, then delete it.
• Our legal basis, where the GDPR applies, is our legitimate interest in answering you.

Purchases

Subscriptions and purchases are handled by Apple. We never see your payment details or your Apple Account. Apple gives us sales figures and the country of purchase, without names.

Children

The app is for adults. Parents enter information about their children, and children do not use the app. We do not knowingly collect any information from or about children, because the information parents enter stays on their devices.

Keeping the record honest

The record is designed so that neither parent can quietly change what was written.

• Whose entries you can erase: deleting everything on your iPhone removes your copy.
• What stays with the other parent: entries you already sent remain on their phone as part of their record. They were shared with them, and removing them from their phone would defeat the purpose of a record both parents can rely on.

The app explains this before you invite the other parent.

Your choices and rights

• See, correct or delete your data. Everything is in the app. Corrections are added as new entries, so the history stays honest. Settings › Delete everything erases the app's data on your iPhone.
• Copies you made yourself, such as backups in Files or reports you sent, are yours to delete.
• Emails you sent us. Ask us at support@coparentally.com to see or delete them. We answer within one month.
• Where you live.
• In the UK you may complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.
• In India you may contact our grievance officer at support@coparentally.com.
• In California and other US states with privacy laws: we do not sell or share personal information, and we do not use it for targeted advertising.

Security

• Your data is protected by your iPhone's passcode and iOS data protection.
• Each entry in the record is signed with a key held in the iPhone's secure keychain, and linked to the entry before it, so any change is detectable.
• Files you send are protected by the channel you choose to send them through.

Requests for your records

We hold no copy of your record, your messages or your backups, and have no way to get one. If anyone asks us for them, whether a court, a lawyer or the other parent, all we can say is that. Your record can be produced only by you or the other parent, from your own iPhones.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the date above and describe the change in the app's release notes. If a change affects what leaves your iPhone, the app will tell you before it happens.

Contact

Nikita Shinde, support@coparentally.com.