Privacy Policy
Last updated: 20 September 2026
The short version
Alia is a place to write down what happened today. It is not a place we go looking for things to sell.
- If you don’t create an account, nothing you log ever leaves your phone. Not to us, not to anyone. The app is completely usable that way.
- An account is optional and does exactly one thing: it lets you share the log with another caregiver. That is the only reason your entries are ever uploaded.
- There is no analytics and no crash reporting in the app, and no third-party SDKs of any kind.
- We don’t sell your information, run ads, or track you across other apps and websites.
- This website sets no cookies and loads nothing from anyone else. There’s no banner to dismiss because there’s nothing to consent to.
- Nothing you log is deleted to make you pay. On the free tier, older entries are hidden, not destroyed.
This summary is here because you are tired and it should be possible to know the gist in twenty seconds. The sections below are the actual terms.
Who we are
Alia is made by Ogden A.D. Ventures LLC, DBA Alia Childcare, at 13249 154th St, Jamaica, NY 11434. In this policy, “we” and “us” mean that company.
This policy covers the Alia iPhone app and this website. It doesn’t cover anything else you might reach from here.
The most important thing on this page
Without an account, your log never leaves your device.
Alia stores everything you log in a database on your iPhone. Signing in is optional, and the app is fully usable without ever doing it — every feature that doesn’t involve a second person works with the radio off and no account at all. If you never sign in, we never receive your entries, your baby’s name, or anything else, because there is no connection to receive them over.
When you sign in, that changes — deliberately and visibly. At the moment you create an account, everything already logged on the device uploads, so that a second caregiver can see it. From then on, entries sync.
What we collect
If you never sign in
Nothing. Your entries stay in the app’s local storage on your phone, and they’re included in your device backup if you have one turned on — that backup is Apple’s, under Apple’s terms, not ours.
If you create an account
Once you sign in, we store the following on our server:
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your Apple account identifier | A stable, Apple-issued ID for your account. We use Sign in with Apple only — we never see or store a password. |
| Your email address | Only if Apple gives it to us. If you chose “Hide My Email,” what we get is Apple’s private relay address, not your real one. |
| A display name | So a co-caregiver can tell who logged what. |
| Your baby’s name, date of birth and sex | Sex is stored as male, female, or unspecified, and unspecified is a real option. |
| Your log entries | Feeds, diapers and sleep — the type, when it started and ended, details like bottle volume or diaper type, and any note you typed. |
| Who is on the log | Which accounts share a baby, each one’s role, and any invite code until it’s used or expires. |
| Session records | So you stay signed in. We store a one-way hash of each session token, a device name, and when it was last used — never the token itself. |
| A push notification token | If you allow notifications, so we can tell your phone a co-caregiver logged something. |
| Subscription status | Which plan you’re on and whether it’s active, plus Apple’s transaction identifier. Never your card details — see Payments below. |
A note about the notes field. Notes on an entry are free text, so whatever you type there is stored exactly as written. If you’d rather something sensitive not sit on our server, the simplest answer is not to type it there — or not to sign in at all.
Payments
Subscriptions are sold by Apple, not by us. Apple processes the payment and we never see, receive, or store your card number. What Apple tells us is whether a subscription is active, which product it is, and when it renews or expires.
Where your data lives
On your phone first, always. If you have an account, a copy also sits in a PostgreSQL database operated for us by Render, in their Oregon region, in the United States.
Traffic between the app and that server is encrypted in transit over HTTPS. We do not use Apple iCloud or CloudKit to store your log.
Sharing the log with another caregiver
You share a log by generating a single-use invite code, which expires after seven days. Whoever redeems it can see the full log and add to it — that is the entire point, so both parents see one timeline instead of two half-timelines.
The person who created the baby is the owner, and can invite people, remove them, and delete the baby. Everyone else is a caregiver, and can log and edit entries.
Removing someone revokes their access on our server. Entries they logged remain part of the shared history, attributed to them. Be aware that a copy of the log may remain in the app on their own device after removal.
If someone deletes their account while a log is shared, the log survives for whoever else is on it — ownership passes to the longest-standing remaining caregiver, so the other parent is never left holding a log they can read but cannot share. A baby’s log that nobody else is on is deleted along with the account.
Your child’s data
Alia is used by parents and caregivers, not by children. The account holder is an adult, and the information about a baby in the app is information a parent chose to write down.
We use it to show it back to you and to anyone you invited. We don’t use it to build advertising profiles, we don’t sell it, and we don’t use it to train anything.
How we use it
- To show you your own log.
- To sync it with a caregiver you invited.
- To work out your baby’s patterns and sleep forecasts — from her own logged history, never from a published table of averages for her age.
- To know whether your subscription is active.
- To send a push notification when a co-caregiver logs something.
- To answer you when you write to support.
That list is exhaustive. We don’t do anything else with it.
Who else touches it
We don’t sell or rent your information. Only two companies are involved in running Alia:
| Who | What they do |
|---|---|
| Render | Hosts our server and database in Oregon, USA. They hold the data described above on our behalf. |
| Apple | Handles sign-in, sells and processes subscriptions, and delivers push notifications. Apple’s own privacy policy governs what they do with that. |
There are no others. No analytics company, no advertising network, no data broker, no marketing platform.
We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect someone’s safety. If the company is ever sold or merged, user information would transfer as part of that, and this policy would continue to apply until you’re told otherwise.
What we don’t do
Each of these was confirmed against the source code, not just intended:
- No analytics. The app contains no analytics SDK and no behavioural tracking of any kind.
- No crash reporting. No Crashlytics, no Sentry, no equivalent. The app ships with no third-party SDKs at all.
- No advertising, and no advertising networks.
- No cross-app or cross-site tracking. We don’t ask for tracking permission, because we don’t track.
- No selling or renting of personal information.
- No profiling of you or your baby for anything other than running the features described above.
This website
This site sets no cookies, includes no analytics, and makes no requests to any third party. Even the typeface is served from this site rather than a font network. Nothing here follows you.
This site is hosted by Render, who keep standard server logs including IP addresses for operational and security purposes. Those logs are retained for 30 days.
How long we keep it
Two different things get confused here, so plainly:
- The free tier’s history limit is not deletion. On the free tier the app shows the last 14 days. Older entries are hidden, not destroyed, and they come back intact if you subscribe later. We do not delete what you logged in order to make you pay.
- Deleting an entry hides it and marks it deleted. That marker is how a co-caregiver’s phone learns the entry is gone. Being straight with you: those marked-deleted rows are retained in our database rather than erased the moment you tap delete. We are setting a retention period after which they are removed permanently, and we will state it here once it is in place. In the meantime, you can ask us to permanently erase your data at any time by writing to the address below, and we will do it.
Your choices
You can, at any time:
- Use Alia with no account at all, in which case there is nothing for us to hold.
- See everything in your log, in the app.
- Edit or delete any individual entry, in the app.
- Remove a caregiver’s access to your log.
- Sign out, which revokes that device’s session.
- Delete your account from inside the app, under Sharing → Delete account. This is a permanent erase, not a hide — your account and its records are removed from our database outright.
- Ask us for a copy of what we hold about you, or ask us to delete it, by writing to hadi@ogdenventures.io. We’ll respond within 30 days.
Depending on where you live you may have additional rights — for example under the CCPA and CPRA in California, or the GDPR in Europe and the UK — including the rights to access, correct, delete, and port your information, to object to processing, and to complain to your data protection regulator.
One honest gap, rather than a quiet one:
- There is no data export feature in the app yet. A request for a copy of your data is fulfilled by hand today. We’d rather say that than describe a button that doesn’t exist.
Security
Traffic is encrypted in transit over HTTPS. We use Sign in with Apple, so there is no password for us to store or lose. Session tokens are kept only as one-way hashes, so a copy of our database does not yield a working session. Access to production systems is limited to the founder, who is currently the only person with production access.
No service can promise perfect security and we won’t pretend otherwise. If there’s ever a breach affecting your information, we will tell you and the relevant regulator as the law requires.
Where your data is processed
On your device, and — if you have an account — on servers in the United States (Oregon). If you use Alia from outside the US, your information is transferred to and processed in the US.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy we’ll update the date at the top, and if the change is significant we’ll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. We won’t make a material change quietly.
Contact
Questions about any of this, or a request about your own data: hadi@ogdenventures.io, or write to us at 13249 154th St, Jamaica, NY 11434.