Privacy & Data

Familiar is built around collaboration, which means information inside a family is meant to be usable by the people who belong there. The practical question is not whether family members can see shared household information, but whether the right people are in the family and the wrong people are not.

• Review membership when household relationships or responsibilities change.
• Keep admin access tighter than general participation access.
• Use notes and share links thoughtfully when information becomes more sensitive than routine household coordination.

Shareable content should be intentional. A convenient link is still a distribution decision.

• Only share notes that are appropriate for the recipient and the channel you are using.
• Avoid turning highly personal or security-sensitive information into a broadly shared link without necessity.
• Recheck a note before sharing if it has evolved over time or accumulated comments and attachments.

• Log out when you are done using a device that is not yours.
• Avoid saving credentials casually on devices with mixed ownership.
• If you installed the app as a PWA on a borrowed device, remove it afterward instead of assuming logout alone is enough.

When someone no longer needs access, clean removal matters more than assuming they will simply stop opening the app. The same goes for old phones, tablets, or family devices that are no longer in active use.

• Remove or downgrade membership when appropriate.
• Log out and uninstall on devices that are leaving the household.
• Revisit shared note links if they exposed information that no longer needs to stay accessible.

• Before deleting an account, confirm another admin can still operate the family workspace.
• Expect household history and collaboration context to be easier to reason about when account ownership has stayed clean over time.
• Treat deletion as a final access decision, not as a casual troubleshooting step.