Your Family. Your Data. Your Control.
Almost every app asks you to trust a promise. We asked ourselves to prove one. Here is exactly how your family’s information is protected — and the only times we would ever touch it. Plus a comparison to others at the end.
Written into who we are
Most companies put their privacy promise in a policy they can quietly rewrite. We put ours in our Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws — the legal foundation of the company itself. Our commitment never to sell, lease, trade, or monetize your data cannot be changed by a marketing decision or a new owner; it would take an overwhelming vote of both our board and our shareholders. We did this on purpose, because it matters as much in our own family as it does in yours.
The honest part: the times we ever touch your data
We will never sell your family’s information or make money from it through anyone else. There are only three times we would ever use or share it — and we think you’ll agree none of them is “selling, trading or getting something in exchange”:
1. In a real emergency, to help find your loved one. If someone you love is missing, you want their photo and details in the right hands fast — that’s the entire point of being prepared. Getting the information out to recover them isn’t selling it. It’s the promise keeping itself.
2. When the law compels us. If a court issues a subpoena, we have to comply — every company does, and you’d want a company that follows the law rather than one that pretends it’s above it. We don’t profit from it, and you’ll see it happen: even a subpoena shows up in your transparency log.
3. To make the app work better for you — inside our walls. Some of your data helps power the features you rely on. That work stays inside Protect Our Family. No third party pays us for it. No one else sees it. It exists only to serve you.
That’s the whole list. Three uses, all for you, none for sale — and every one of them visible to you the moment it happens. See privacy done right— join the waitlist.
The transparency log
Trust shouldn’t require faith. Every single time your data is accessed — for a feature, for an emergency, even for a subpoena — it is recorded in a log only you can see, any time you want. You never have to wonder. You can simply look.
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Life360
What it is: A location and driving-safety app for a group (a “Circle”). It shows where members are, gives place alerts, and — on paid tiers — adds crash detection, roadside help, and driver reports.
What it costs: Free $0; Silver $7.99/mo; Gold $14.99/mo ($99.99/yr); Platinum $24.99/mo ($199.99/yr).
What Protect Our Family adds: A police-ready missing-person packet, the Special Conditions Alert for medical and cognitive needs, one-tap community emergency broadcast, and age progression — plus a lifetime promise that your family’s data is never sold.
→ Source — Life360 Plans & Pricing: https://www.life360.com/plans-pricing
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Google Family Link
What it is: Free parental controls from Google — screen-time limits, app approvals, content filters, and device location for a child’s phone.
What it costs: Free. (Works best on Android; limited on iPhone; built for children, not aging parents or special-needs adults.)
What Protect Our Family adds: Coverage for the whole family — kids, aging parents, and special-needs adults — plus the missing-person packet, Special Conditions Alert, and community broadcast that a screen-time tool simply doesn’t do.
→ Source — Google Family Link — official page: https://families.google/familylink/
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Apple Find My
What it is: Free location sharing built into Apple devices — see a person or device on a map, share your location, and use precision finding.
What it costs: Free. (Apple devices only; no profiles, medical flags, or case packet.)
What Protect Our Family adds: Works for every family member on any phone, and turns “where are they?” into a complete, share-ready recovery packet with medical and condition flags — not just a dot on a map.
→ Source — Apple — Set up and use Find My: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105104
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Qustodio
What it is: A parental-control app for screen-time limits, app blocking, and web filtering across a child’s devices.
What it costs: Free (1 device); Basic $59.95/yr (5 devices); Complete $109.95/yr (unlimited devices).
What Protect Our Family adds: Everything beyond screen-time: a police-ready packet, the Special Conditions Alert, community broadcast, and protection for aging parents and special-needs adults — not just kids’ screens.
→ Source — Qustodio — Premium plans: https://www.qustodio.com/en/premium/
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AngelSense
What it is: A wearable GPS device and service made for children and adults with autism, special needs, or dementia — real-time location, a 2-way speakerphone, and alerts.
What it costs: Plans about $44.99–$64.99/mo; the device is free the first time (valued about $229) with a plan; one wearer per device.
What Protect Our Family adds: No extra hardware to buy, lose, or charge — the whole family is covered in one app, with the same Special Conditions Alert, a police-ready packet, and community broadcast.
→ Source — AngelSense — Pricing: https://www.angelsense.com/pricing/
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Medical Alert (e.g., Medical Guardian)
What it is: A wearable SOS button or watch for seniors that connects to a 24/7 monitoring center, often with fall detection.
What it costs: About $28–$47/mo, plus equipment ($150–$200) and fall detection (about +$10/mo); one wearer per device.
What Protect Our Family adds: One app for the whole family instead of a single-person pendant — with the missing-person packet, condition flags, and community broadcast that a call-center button doesn’t provide.
→ Source — NCOA — Medical Guardian review: https://www.ncoa.org/product-resources/medical-alert-systems/medical-guardian-review/
→ Source — Aging in Place — Medical alert system costs: https://aginginplace.org/medical-alert-systems/medical-alert-systems-cost/
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FBI Child ID app
What it is: A free FBI app that stores a child’s photo and details on your phone so you can email them to police in an emergency.
What it costs: Free. (Children only; info is stored on the phone — if the phone is lost, so is the info; no GPS, geofencing, broadcast, or condition flags.) Additionally, the app is know to crash and is not well maintained.
What Protect Our Family adds: Secure cloud storage so nothing is lost with the phone, coverage for the whole family (not just kids), the Special Conditions Alert, age progression, geofencing, and one-tap community broadcast.
→ Source — FBI — Child ID app: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/child_080511/child-id-app