Privacy

FamAntics is a shared space for a family or a close-knit group, called a fam. It is run by Development Partners Software LLC ("DevPartners"). This page says what FamAntics keeps about you, who can see it, which companies help us run it, and how to delete it. We don't sell your data, and we don't use it for advertising.

What we keep about you

• Your account: your email address, your name, your photo if you add one, what you write about yourself, and whether you want your fams' news by email.
• Your stories: what you write, the photos and videos you add, and who you chose to share each story with.
• Your fams: which fams you are in, your role in each, and each fam's history: who joined, who became a steward, who was marked in memoriam, and the like.
• What you send us: messages from the feedback form, and email you send to feedback@, privacy@ or [email protected].
• How the service is used: logs of requests and errors, with their time, the page or action, how long it took, your browser and your approximate location (country and city). Your IP address is used only to work out that location and is then stored as 0.0.0.0. PostHog counts the actions people take in the app the same way, without cookies: nothing it does is stored in your browser.
• This site's edge log: on famantics.com, requests for the files that search engines and other automated readers fetch (such as robots.txt and sitemap.xml), and probes for common attack paths, are logged with the IP address and browser identification. A summary without the IP address (the path, the country, and whether the requester is a known search engine) is kept too. Ordinary page visits are in neither, and the app is not covered.

Who can see it

A fam is closed. Only its members can open it, and each member chooses who sees each story they share: nobody else, named people, whole fams, or a mix. Stewards, who look after a fam, get no extra access to what members share.

The DevPartners staff who run FamAntics, called operators, can see each fam's name and its members' names, email addresses and roles, so that they can help when a fam has no steward or asks to be closed. They do not read stories or see photos and videos, and the operator console doesn't show them. Everything is encrypted on disk.

Companies that help run FamAntics

WorkOS · Signing in

WorkOS emails you a one-time code and checks it. It holds your email address and a record of your sign-ins. WorkOS's privacy policy.

Microsoft Azure · Hosting

The app, its database, your photos and videos, its secrets and this site run on Microsoft Azure in its Central US region. Our logs are kept in its Canada Central region, this site's edge log in its East US 2 region, and database backups are copied to the US region paired with Central US. Microsoft Azure's privacy policy.

Cloudflare · Domain, this site's network, and incoming email

Cloudflare runs the famantics.com domain, carries this public site to your browser, runs the small program that writes this site's edge log, keeps that log's summary, and forwards email you send to feedback@, privacy@ or [email protected] to the FamAntics team's mailbox. Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Google Workspace · The team's mailbox

Email you send to feedback@, privacy@ or [email protected] arrives in a Google Group on DevPartners' Google Workspace, where the FamAntics team reads and answers it. Google Workspace's privacy policy.

Resend · Email from FamAntics

Resend delivers the email FamAntics sends you, from its US region. It receives your email address and the email itself, which names people and the fam, never a story or a photo. Resend's privacy policy.

PostHog · Product analytics

PostHog, on its US cloud, counts the actions people take in the app, such as starting a fam or publishing a story, so we can see what works. It is set to discard IP addresses and to work without cookies, and its events never contain names, titles, text, photos or videos. In the app, the events name you only by a random account number. On this public site it receives one event for each request for the files automated readers fetch and for attack probes, with the country and city, never the IP address. PostHog's privacy policy.

We share your data with nobody else, unless the law requires it.

Email we send

FamAntics emails you from [email protected]: when someone asks to join a fam you look after as a steward, when a steward approves your request to join, when you are removed from a fam, when you are marked in memoriam, when a fam you are in is to be closed, and, if you want it, your fams' news. Operators also get an email when a fam with no steward asks for help. You can turn the news off in your profile. Sign-in codes come from WorkOS.

Cookies

FamAntics uses no advertising or analytics cookies, and no site of ours shows a cookie banner, because there is nothing to consent to: PostHog runs without cookies or browser storage. The app sets these:

__Host-famantics· app.famantics.com, operator.famantics.com

Keeps you signed in. Your browser can't read it from a page. It ends after 14 days without a visit, and 30 days after you signed in, whichever comes first.

__Host-famantics-signin· app.famantics.com, operator.famantics.com

Ties the sign-in page to your sign-in, for up to 10 minutes, so nobody else can finish it.

__Host-famantics-af· app.famantics.com, operator.famantics.com

Protects your actions from forged requests by other sites.

famantics-signed-in· famantics.com and the app

Holds only the number 1, so this site can offer “Go to your fams” instead of “Sign in”. It goes when you sign out.

Your choices

If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, the app doesn't load PostHog at all. Our own request and error logs still run: they are how we keep the service working, and they are never sold or shared.

How long we keep it

• Your account and your stories, until you delete them. A story you delete waits 30 days in your trash, then is deleted for good, with its photos and videos.
• Request and error logs, up to 90 days.
• This site's edge log is deleted after 30 days. Its summary without IP addresses is kept for about three months.
• Database backups: we can restore the database to any moment in the last 7 days, and Azure keeps those backups up to a week longer. Anything deleted is gone from the backups within about two weeks.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time from your profile. That deletes your profile, your photo, your stories with their photos and videos, and your sign-in link, here and at WorkOS. Each fam's history keeps what happened, but names you only as “a former member”. Feedback you sent stays, without your name. Your usage events at PostHog, which name you only by a random account number, are deleted too; PostHog finishes that within about a week. It is gone from our database backups within about two weeks.

Children

You must be 13 or older to have a FamAntics account. If you think a child under 13 has one, tell us at the address below.

Changes

When this policy changes, we update this page and the date at the top.

Questions

Email [email protected]. It reaches the people who run FamAntics.