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.
What the attic keeps, why, and who can see it
Only people invited to your family’s attic can see any of it. Nothing is public, and search engines are told not to index any page.
| What the attic keeps | Why | Who can see it |
|---|---|---|
| Your name and email address | So a one-time link can sign you in. There are no passwords. | Only people invited to your family’s attic. |
| The memories you add: their words, photographs, voice recordings, dates and places, and who is in them | They are what the attic is for. | Every member of the family, or only the people you choose, plus whoever added it and the administrators. |
| What administrators record about relatives: names, birth and death dates, relationships and portraits | So the family tree and the years work. | Only people invited to your family’s attic. |
| A record of changes: who invited, edited or deleted what | So there is a record of who did what. | The family’s administrators. |
Never
- No advertising, and no tracking across other apps or websites.
- Nothing is sold or shared with data brokers.
Your 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.
Edit a memoryAdministrators can download a copy of the family’s records from Settings.
Download a copyDelete 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.
Delete my accountWhere 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.