Last updated: 2026-08-18
Kettle stores three things about your parent: who, which routine, when. It cannot see what your parent does, says, types, watches, or where they are. This page is the long version of that sentence.
Kettle receives a small signal that an ordinary routine happened. Each signal is exactly three fields: an identifier for the person, the name of the routine, and the date and time. That is the complete record. Kettle's servers are built to discard anything beyond those three fields, and there is no mode, setting, or upgrade that collects more.
No message content, contacts, or call records. No browsing history and nothing about what was watched, read, or typed. No location and no travel history. No microphone, no camera, no photos. No health data of any kind. This is not a retention promise (“we don’t keep it”). The signals Kettle receives never contain these things, so there is nothing to keep.
Kettle also does not infer. It reports that an ordinary routine happened or that it didn’t, and when a day looks unusual it asks your parent first. It does not produce scores, or conclusions about anyone’s health or state.
Your email address, used to sign you in (we send a sign-in link; there are no passwords) and to send you the messages you asked for. The parents you add and the routines chosen for them, which you configure yourself.
If you join the waitlist we store: your email address, your answer to which phone your parent uses, and, only if you typed one, your answer to what you’d like Kettle to help with. We store nothing else: no IP address, no browser details, no referrer. If your note mentions details about your family, it is read by the founder to prepare for a conversation with you, and for nothing else. You can ask us to delete your waitlist entry at any time.
The Kettle website sets no cookies and runs no analytics, trackers, or advertising scripts. We do not know you visited.
Your data is stored with established cloud infrastructure providers in the United States. These providers host the data; they do not use it. Service emails are delivered by our email provider, with delivery tracking turned off. That is the complete list of third parties. We do not sell data, we do not share it with advertisers, and we provide it to no one else unless the law compels us.
Access inside Kettle is deny-by-default: the database refuses reads and writes except through the service itself, and nothing running in a browser or on a phone can read another family’s data, or the waitlist, at all.
Kettle is built on the position that the person being noticed holds the controls, not just the person paying. Your parent can see every signal ever recorded about them. Your parent can turn Kettle off themselves, at any time, without our permission and without telling anyone. We show every parent how during setup. And your parent can ask us directly to delete their entire history, without going through you.
We keep routine history while the family’s account is active, because Kettle’s one job is knowing what your parent’s ordinary looks like. When you close your account, or when you or your parent asks us to delete a parent’s history, we delete it in full within 45 days. Turning off a parent’s setup stops collection immediately.
Kettle is for adults looking after adults. It is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information about anyone under eighteen.
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so plainly on this page with the date of the change, and, for changes that affect what is collected, email account holders before the change takes effect.