Privacy policy

Effective November 13, 2026 · Questions: support@behaviortrail.com

BehaviorTrail helps parents and caregivers keep a daily log for a child and share a summary with the child's care team. It's built so the family's records stay with the family.

What BehaviorTrail keeps, and where

Everything you enter, including:

• the child's first name or nickname, optional date of birth, and optional diagnoses
• what you track: behaviors and their descriptions, toileting, sleep, health flags, medications and supplements with each dose
• your check-ins and notes, and the times they were logged

It's kept in two places:

• On your iPhone, in BehaviorTrail's storage, protected by your device's passcode and encryption.
• In your iCloud account, when iCloud sync is on, so your records are backed up and can be shared with another caregiver you invite. This uses Apple's iCloud (CloudKit). Apple stores it in your iCloud account under Apple's privacy policy, and we don't have access to it.

BehaviorTrail also keeps a few settings on your phone: which areas you track, reminder times, and times it learned from your check-ins.

Sharing with another caregiver

You can invite another caregiver (for example, a co-parent) to see and add to your child's records:

• You choose who. Apple's sharing screen sends them a private link.
• They can see everything in the shared records, and add to them. Each entry shows which phone logged it.
• You can remove them or stop sharing at any time. Their phone keeps what it already received, so only share with people you trust with this information.
• If someone shares records with you, you can leave at any time; their copy isn't affected.

Reports and exports

• The "Report for your care team" PDF and the "Export all data" files are made on your phone. They only go where you send them (email, Messages, Files, AirDrop, print).
• The report can show initials instead of the child's first name.
• Once you share a file, it's handled by whoever receives it; BehaviorTrail can't recall it.

Optional features that send information off your phone

Two features, part of the optional BehaviorTrail Plus subscription, send some information to be read by an AI. Both are off until you use them, and nothing is saved to your records until you check it and tap Save.

Reading a school sheet. When you scan or choose a photo of your child's daily school sheet:

• Your iPhone first covers names, signatures, and initials on the photo with white boxes. You see exactly what will be sent before you tap Read it.
• That picture, the date, and the layout of the form (if you've scanned it before) are sent through our server to Anthropic's AI to read what's marked.
• The picture isn't saved: not on your phone, not on our server. It exists only while it's being read.

Tell me about today (voice check-in). When you talk through the day:

• Your speech is turned into text on your iPhone; the audio never leaves your phone.
• On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, the follow-up questions are written by Apple's on-device model, on your phone. BehaviorTrail never uses Apple's Private Cloud Compute.
• To sort what you said into check-in entries, the text is sent through our server to Anthropic's AI, with your child's name and other first names you listed replaced by placeholders, and a list of what you track (behavior names, medication names, and today's entries, with no names or diagnoses). The names are put back on your phone.

What's never sent: your child's name, date of birth, or diagnoses; other people's names you listed as private; audio; your location; and anything from features you don't use.

Our server (Supabase) passes requests through and doesn't store their content. Each request carries a random ID for your child's profile (not their name) and, if you subscribe, Apple's signed record of the purchase, so the server can check access. Neither is stored. Like any web service, Supabase keeps short-lived technical logs (time, size, and result of each request), without the content.

Anthropic provides the AI. Under its commercial terms, what we send isn't used to train its models, and it's deleted within 30 days; content its automated safety systems flag can be kept up to 2 years. See Anthropic's privacy policy.

Subscriptions

BehaviorTrail Plus is sold by Apple. Apple handles payment and your Apple Account; we never see your name, email, or payment details. With Family Sharing on, people in your Apple family can use it too. Logging, check-ins, sharing, reports, export, and erasing your data never need a subscription.

Siri, widgets, and controls

If you use Siri, Shortcuts, the Home Screen widget, or Control Center buttons, Apple's systems run BehaviorTrail's actions on your phone. Siri may process what you say according to Apple's privacy policy. BehaviorTrail receives only the action (for example, "log bedtime").

Notifications

Check-in reminders, if you turn them on, are scheduled on your phone. No notification server is involved.

What we don't do

• No advertising, and no advertising or analytics tools in the app.
• No tracking across apps or websites.
• No selling or renting of information.
• No collection of location, contacts, or audio. School sheet photos you choose to have read are sent with names covered and not kept (see above).
• No sending your records to us, or to anyone you didn't choose. The optional AI features send only what's described above.

This website

This site has no cookies, analytics, or tracking scripts. Like any website, our hosting provider (Cloudflare) briefly processes standard connection information, such as IP addresses, to deliver pages and protect against abuse.

Children's information

BehaviorTrail is for parents and caregivers to use, not for children. The information about a child is entered by the parent or caregiver and stays in their control as described above.

Health information

BehaviorTrail is a record-keeping tool. It doesn't diagnose, give medical advice, or recommend medications or doses. The reports show what was logged; decisions belong to you and your care team.

Deleting your information

• In the app: Profile → Erase all data. This removes all records and settings from your phone, and your own records from iCloud. If you were sharing, sharing ends.
• Deleting the app also removes the records stored on your phone.
• Copies you exported or shared, and backups of your phone, aren't affected; delete those where you keep them.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date. Changes that affect how your information is handled will be noted in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@behaviortrail.com