Privacy
Open Attic is a private place for one family’s memories. This is what it keeps, who can see it, and how to take it away.
The short version
Only your family sees it
Nothing is public. Only people invited to your family’s attic can open it.
No advertising, no tracking, nothing sold
Not across other apps or websites, and not to data brokers.
What the attic keeps
Your name and email, the memories you add, the family’s details and a record of changes.
You can change it, take it or delete it
Change or delete your memories, or delete your account. Administrators can download a copy.
The full policy
What the attic keeps4 things
- Your name and email address, so a one-time link can sign you in. There are no passwords.
- The memories you add: their words, photographs, voice recordings, dates and places, and who is in them.
- What the family’s administrators record about relatives: names, birth and death dates, relationships and portraits.
- A record of changes (who invited, edited or deleted what), which administrators can read.
Who can see it2 rules
- Only people invited to your family’s attic. Nothing is public, and search engines are told not to index any page.
- A memory for everyone in the family is visible to every member. A memory for some people is visible to them, to whoever added it, and to the family’s administrators.
What it never does2 things
- No advertising, and no tracking across other apps or websites.
- Nothing is sold or shared with data brokers.
Where it is kept3 places
- The attic runs on Cloudflare, which stores its records and files and sends its sign-in emails.
- When questions written by AI are on for your family, the attic sends Anthropic, which makes the Claude AI, what it needs to write the week’s question and to read each question before it goes out: first names from the family tree, how people are related, who has died, and the family’s questions, asked or waiting. It never sends the words, photographs or recordings of your memories, and Anthropic does not train its models on what it is sent. Administrators can turn this off.
- On your own device, words and recordings you have not sent yet are kept until they reach the attic, so a lost connection never costs them. The iPhone app also keeps photographs and recordings you have opened for a short while, and asks the attic again after an hour. Signing out removes all of it from that device.
Your choices3 choices
- Change or delete the memories you added. A deleted memory waits 30 days in Recently Deleted, then it and its files are removed for good.
- Administrators can download a copy of the family’s records from Settings.
- Delete your account from Settings, on the website or in the iPhone app. Your sign-in, your email address and your unfinished drafts are deleted. Memories you already added stay with your family, unless you or an administrator delete them first.