Principles
Six promises we keep.
Tiny Beacon is built for families who want safety and growing independence together. These principles keep the product honest, open with children, and calm.
01We do not sell family data.
We use your family's data to run the safeguards you choose and to keep the app working. We do not sell it or use it for advertising.
02Your child sees what is shared.
Every safeguard you choose is shown to your child in plain words, along with what it shares with you.
03Nothing is shared until you choose it.
SOS is always on for emergencies. Every other safeguard starts only after a parent or legal guardian confirms it. Phone status is suggested at setup and you can untick it; the rest stay off until you switch them on.
04A parent or legal guardian controls consent.
Your child can see what is on and raise a concern with you. You decide what stays on, and you can switch off anything except SOS. If you shorten how long data is kept, older data is deleted.
05We send a useful heads-up, not a wall of data.
A heads-up helps you decide whether to check in, talk, adjust a safeguard or respond to an SOS.
06We protect what is collected.
Every edition encrypts your family's data while it is sent and while it is stored. In the supervised Android edition, which is no longer offered for download: Screenshot evidence kept for a parent is end-to-end encrypted — only your family's devices hold the key. Each frame is checked by our safety service first, and frames that are not a concern are never stored. Location and other safety data are encrypted in transit and at rest. We describe only the protection we can prove.
Signed by Dr. Shamir Rajadurai & Steve D'Angelo, Co-founders.