Privacy policy

Cubbycheck republishes public childcare inspection records. You can use every record page without an account. If you create one, this policy explains what we keep, why, and how to take it with you or delete it.

What we keep

• Without an account: nothing about you. Reading records needs no account, and nothing you do is saved in your browser. Saving daycares, comparing them, notes and tour answers need an account.
• With an account: your email address; your Google account ID if you sign in with Google (we ask Google for your email address only); your saved daycares, statuses, tour dates, notes, tour answers and your own questions; your alert settings; an optional age band for your child (infant, toddler, preschool or school age); and a record of the emails we sent you.
• To keep you signed in: a session cookie, stored in our database only as a scrambled hash, and a second cookie that just tells the page a session may exist. When you ask for a sign-in link, a third cookie holds a random code for 30 minutes, so opening the link in the same browser signs you in without an extra click.
• To stop abuse: when someone asks for a sign-in link we keep the address it went to and a scrambled form of the network address for seven days, so we can limit how many links are sent. When someone sends a message from the contact page, we keep scrambled forms of their email and network address for seven days for the same reason.
• Messages you send us: a contact-page message goes to our inbox with the email address you give, so we can reply. We don’t keep it in our database.

We never ask for your child’s name, birth date or photo.

Before 29 September 2026, lists made without an account were kept in the browser. If one is still there, we offer to add it to your account when you sign in; whether you add it or not, it is then removed from the browser.

What we use it for

To show your list on every device you sign in to, send the sign-in links and alerts you ask for, email you a tour plan when you request it, and answer messages you send us. Nothing else.

What we never do

• Sell or rent your information.
• Tell a daycare, or anyone else, that you saved, compared or asked about it.
• Show counts of how many parents saved a daycare.
• Send marketing email. We only send what you asked for: sign-in links, alerts, a weekly summary if you choose it, your tour plan, and account confirmations.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to understand which pages and tools people use. They see pages visited, clicks and device details. We never send them your email address, notes or answers. Your browser’s Do Not Track setting doesn’t change this; you can block these tools with a browser extension without losing any Cubbycheck feature.

Who helps us run the site

Vercel hosts the site. Supabase runs the database. Resend delivers email. Google provides sign-in, if you use it, and analytics. Microsoft provides Clarity. Each handles data only to provide their service to us.

How long we keep it

• Your account data stays until you delete it or your account.
• Sign-in links expire after 15 minutes, and our record of them is deleted after seven days. Sessions end after 30 days without use, and 90 days after you sign in. A sign-in email sent to an address that never became an account is forgotten after 30 days.
• When you delete something, it’s removed from the live database at once. Database backups keep deleted rows until those backups expire, usually within a few weeks.

Your choices

• Download everything in My account.
• Delete your account there too. It removes everything listed above and stops all email at once.
• Stop any alert with one click from the email itself, no sign-in needed.
• Sign out of every device from My account.

California residents, and anyone else, can also ask what we hold about them or ask us to delete it by writing to the address below.

Children

Cubbycheck is for parents and other adults. We don’t knowingly collect information from children.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we’ll say so on this page and, for account holders, by email before it takes effect. Questions or requests: hello@cubbycheck.com.