Privacy Policy
Bass Parenting Coach
Last Updated: October 23, 2026 Effective Date: October 23, 2026
1. Who We Are
Bass Parenting Coach (the "App," "we," "us," "our") is operated by Bass Parenting Coach LLC, a Texas limited liability company based in San Antonio, Texas.
Questions about this policy or your data: richard@richardbassauthor.com
2. Who This App Is For
Bass Parenting Coach is designed for and directed to parents, guardians, and caregivers who are 18 years of age or older. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly permit children to create accounts or use the App directly.
Parents using the App may choose to enter information about their children. That information is provided by the parent, about their child, and remains under the parent's control. See Section 5.
3. Information We Collect
3.1 Information You Provide Directly
Account information. Your email address and password, or your Google account identifier if you sign in with Google. We do not store your password in readable form.
Child profile information. If you create a child profile, we collect the name or nickname you enter, the child's age, and the neurodivergence profile you select (autism, ADHD, AuDHD, ODD, ODD + ADHD, or ODD + autism). You are not required to use your child's real name — a nickname or initial works equally well, and we encourage this.
Progress log entries. Behavior notes, mood selections, and any free-text notes you choose to record.
AI Coach conversations. The messages you send to the AI Coach and the responses you receive. These are stored so you can return to past conversations. If you share a conversation with a co-parent (Section 5.2), we also store a record of that choice, including the conversation's first message — up to 80 characters — as its title.
Subscription information. If you subscribe, whether your subscription is active and when it renews or ends. One Premium subscription also covers one co-parent with whom you share at least one child. To provide this, we store your subscription status in our database using information from RevenueCat, and your covered co-parent's App can see that your subscription is active and when it ends — nothing else about your purchase. Coverage ends when your subscription ends, or when you no longer share a child with that person. We never see or store your payment card details. Payments are processed entirely by Apple's App Store or Google Play.
Co-parent sharing information. If you use co-parent sharing (Section 5.1), we store which accounts are linked to each child, the display name on your account alongside entries you write, and — while an invitation is outstanding — the invite code you created, the child it applies to, your account identifier, and the code's expiry time.
3.2 Information Collected Automatically
Technical and diagnostic data. Device type, operating system version, app version, crash reports, and general usage patterns such as which features are opened and how often. We use this to fix problems and improve the App.
We do not collect precise location data. We do not use advertising identifiers, and we do not display advertising in the App.
4. How We Use Your Information
We use the information described above to:
- Provide the App's features and maintain your account
- Personalize content based on the neurodivergence profile you select
- Power the AI Coach, AI-generated routines, tips, and charts, and maintain your conversation history
- Enable co-parent sharing when you choose to use it, and extend Premium access to a co-parent you share a child with
- Process and manage subscriptions
- Diagnose crashes, fix bugs, and improve the App
- Respond to your support requests
- Send service-related communications, such as notice of changes to this policy
We do not sell your personal information. We do not share your personal information with third parties for their own advertising or marketing purposes.
5. Information About Children
We take information about children especially seriously.
- Child profile data is entered by you, the parent or guardian, and is visible only within your account — and to one co-parent, if you choose to share that child (Section 5.1).
- We do not require your child's full name or any identifying detail beyond what you choose to enter. We recommend using a first name only, a nickname, or an initial.
- We do not use child profile information to build advertising profiles. We do not share it with third parties, except the service providers described in Section 6, who process data on our behalf to operate the App — and, if you choose it, a co-parent you share that child with (Section 5.1).
- You may delete a child profile, and all associated progress logs and conversation history, at any time. See Section 8.
The App is not directed to children and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us at richard@richardbassauthor.com and we will delete it.
5.1 Sharing a child's profile with a co-parent
You can choose to share a child's profile with one other parent or caregiver (a "co-parent"). Sharing never happens automatically. It happens only when you create an invite code in the App and the other person enters that code in their own account. Each code works once and expires after 48 hours. Before the App creates a code, it asks you to confirm that you want to share that child's information, including health-related information, with the person you are inviting.
When a child's profile is shared, both of you can see and add to:
- the child's profile — the name or nickname, age, and neurodivergence profile entered
- every progress log entry for that child, including entries made before sharing began
- every saved routine for that child
Each progress log entry shows which of you wrote it, using the display name on the writer's account at the time. Saved routines do not show who created them. Your display name is shown to your co-parent, so if you would rather not show your full name, use a first name or an initial.
Sharing does not give your co-parent your email address, your account settings, your other children, or your AI Coach conversations — unless you choose to share a conversation (Section 5.2).
A child can be linked to no more than two parents in total. Each child is shared separately; sharing one child does not share any other.
Two things to understand before you share. First, sharing cannot be undone from one side only: either of you can end your own access, but neither of you can remove the other, and the person who stays keeps the child's full record, including the entries you wrote (Section 5.3). Second, if your co-parent later ends sharing, they may keep their own copy of the child's profile, logs, and routines as they stood at that moment, including entries you wrote.
Only share a child's profile with someone who has the legal right to see this information about your child. We do not verify parentage, custody arrangements, or court orders. See Section 8 of our Terms of Service.
5.2 AI Coach conversations stay private unless you share one
Your AI Coach conversations are private to you, including conversations about a child you share with a co-parent.
You can choose to share an individual conversation with your co-parent. When you do, your co-parent can read that conversation, including anything you add to it afterwards, but cannot write in it. You can share one conversation at a time, and your account's display name is shown with a conversation you share.
A conversation stops being shared when you stop sharing it, when either of you stops sharing the child, or when the conversation is deleted.
5.3 When sharing ends
Either parent can stop sharing a child at any time. The parent who stops sharing immediately loses access to that child's profile, progress logs, routines, and any shared conversations. The other parent keeps the child's full record, including the entries the departing parent wrote. Neither parent can remove the other.
When you stop sharing, you can choose to keep your own separate copy of the child's profile, logs, and routines as they stand at that moment. Your copy is yours alone — your former co-parent cannot see it, or anything you add to it afterwards. Your own AI Coach conversations about that child move to your copy.
We do not decide disputes between parents, and we are not a custody-enforcement service. We may, at our discretion, end a sharing arrangement where we are served with a valid court order, or where we have credible reason to believe sharing is being used to harm a child or an adult.
6. Service Providers and Third Parties
We use the following third-party services to operate the App. Each processes data on our behalf, under contractual restrictions on their use of it.
| Provider | What it does | What it may process |
|---|---|---|
| Google LLC (Firebase, Cloud Run) | Authentication, database, file storage, crash reporting, and the server function that records subscription status | Account information, child profiles, progress logs, conversation history, co-parent links, subscription status |
| Google LLC (Vertex AI / Gemini) | Powers the AI Coach and AI-generated routines, tips, and charts | The content of your AI messages and your child's profile context |
| RevenueCat, Inc. | Subscription management | Your account identifier, and your subscription status — whether it is active, and its renewal or expiry date |
| Apple Inc. / Google LLC | Payment processing (App Store, Google Play) | Payment details, which we never receive |
About the AI features. When you send a message to the AI Coach, or generate a personalized routine, tip, or chart, that request — along with your child's selected profile and age — is sent to Google's Vertex AI service to generate a response. Please do not include your child's full name, address, school name, medical record numbers, or other identifying details in AI Coach messages.
Your co-parent is not a service provider. If you share a child, the co-parent you invite receives that child's information because you chose to share it with them, as described in Section 5.1 — not because we have disclosed it to a third party for our own purposes.
We may also disclose information, including a shared child's records, if required by law, such as in response to a valid legal process, or where necessary to protect against imminent harm to a person.
7. How We Protect Your Information
We use industry-standard measures to protect your information, including:
- Encryption of data in transit and at rest
- Database access rules that restrict each child's records to the parents linked to that child, and the rest of your account's data to your account
- Required authentication for all access to personal data
- Verification that requests originate from the legitimate App
- Limited access to production data
No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
8. Your Rights and Choices
You can, at any time:
- Access the information in your account through the App
- Correct your profile and child profile information in the App
- Delete individual entries, an entire child profile, or your whole account
- Clear your AI Coach conversation history
- Export a copy of your data by contacting us
- Cancel your subscription through your Apple or Google account settings
To delete your entire account and all associated data, use the Delete Account option in the App's settings, or email richard@richardbassauthor.com. We complete deletion requests within 30 days.
Shared children. A shared child's profile cannot be deleted by one parent alone. Stop sharing first (Section 5.3); you can then delete your own copy.
Deleting your account. Children only you are linked to are deleted along with all of their records. Children you share stay with your co-parent, with their records. You are removed from them, and your display name is removed from the entries you wrote. Your AI Coach conversations, including any you had shared, are deleted.
If you are in California
Under the CCPA and CPRA, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, to request deletion, to correct inaccurate information, to limit use of sensitive personal information, and not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under California law.
If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom
Under the GDPR and UK GDPR, you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and objection.
Our legal bases for processing are: - Contract — to provide the App's features you have signed up for - Consent — for consumer health data, including the child profile information you choose to enter - Legitimate interests — to secure the App, prevent abuse, and fix problems
You may withdraw consent at any time. You may lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority, and in the UK with the Information Commissioner's Office.
Your data is processed and stored in the United States. Transfers are made under Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent safeguards maintained by our service providers.
9. Data Retention
We keep your information for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we delete your personal information within 30 days, except where we must retain limited records for legal, tax, or fraud-prevention purposes. Backup copies may persist for up to 90 days before being overwritten.
An invite code is deleted as soon as it is used. A code that is never used stops working after 48 hours and is deleted automatically within 24 hours of that.
Entries you wrote about a child you shared remain part of that child's record held by your co-parent after you stop sharing or delete your account, with your display name removed. Those entries form the child's record, which your co-parent holds in their own right as that child's parent.
10. This App Is Not Medical Care
Bass Parenting Coach provides educational and informational content and AI-generated coaching suggestions. It does not provide medical, psychological, psychiatric, or diagnostic services, and it is not a substitute for professional care. The AI Coach is an automated system, not a licensed professional, and it can be wrong.
Always consult a qualified healthcare provider regarding your child's health, development, or treatment.
If you or your child are in crisis or in danger, contact your local emergency services immediately. In the United States, call 911, or call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. In the United Kingdom, call 999, or contact Samaritans at 116 123.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy. If we make material changes, we will notify you in the App or by email before they take effect. The "Last Updated" date above always reflects the current version.
12. Contact Us
richard@richardbassauthor.com
Bass Parenting Coach LLC San Antonio, Texas United States