Notice Me — privacy

Last updated 30 September 2026 · applies to the Notice Me web app and the Notice Me apps for iPhone and Android

Notice Me is one app for your family, your community and everyday life. At its heart, parents notice the good things their children do and keep track of their learning, and the wider family stays close in Grandma's House. Around that, mosques, schools, clubs and associations run their notices, classes and records; local shops sell and buy from suppliers; and people find taxis, work and property. It is made for families in West Africa and abroad, built and run by one person, not a company, and it is made to hold as little as it can.

Who is responsible

Cherno Barrie, London, United Kingdom, is the data controller. Questions or requests: cdianrouga@gmail.com.

What is collected, and why

Nothing else is collected. No contacts, no precise location unless a parent sets one, no device identifiers, no behavioural analytics, no advertising identifiers.

Who can see what

• Parents see everything in their own family and control who is in it.
• Children see their own points, records and learning, the family tree, and the shared faith and story content. They cannot give points or see the grown-ups' own reward list.
• Grandparents, uncles and aunties ("family members") can give a small number of points and see the family's shared screens.
• Tutors see only the children a parent has assigned to them, and only those children's learning and points. They cannot see other children, parents' notes, requests or gifts. This is enforced by the database's security rules, not just by the app.
• Nobody outside your family can see any of it unless a parent chooses to share, as below. There are no leaderboards.
• Connections (grown-ups only). A grown-up can connect with another grown-up by sending their link or QR code, through a house, community or susu they already share, or by name if the other person has switched on "Let people find me" (off to start). A "find me" card holds only the name, town, country and, if they choose, their own photo. Nothing is shared until the other person says yes. Each person decides how they file the other: someone filed as family sees the first names and faces of that parent's children; what the children have been noticed for, their badges and their learning are shown only to family the parent has ticked for it (off to start); someone filed as a friend sees only the name and photo. Children are never searchable and are never connections. Either person can remove the connection, and block and report, at any time.
• Filters and silly faces in the camera. These are made on your own phone. Notice Me doesn’t look for faces, measure them or send anything about a face anywhere; the picture is only changed where you point, and only the finished photo or video you choose to send leaves your phone.
• Stories in a Grandma’s House. A grown-up in a house can record an elder telling their stories, only after the elder has said yes (we keep who heard the yes, when, and a short recording of it if they made one). Recordings, photos and the notes written about them are seen only by people in that house, never by a visiting teacher. The AI that suggests questions, writes a title and summary, or answers the house organiser’s questions reads only the words written in the house, not the recordings, and nothing about health is kept. The elder can ask for any or all of their stories to be removed; the person who runs the house removes them and the recordings are deleted.
• Taxi rides and deliveries. After a ride, the rider can give the driver 1 to 5 stars, and the driver can give the rider 1 to 5 stars. A rider’s stars are shown as an average to drivers who get a request from them, never to the rider, and never with who gave them. Children’s rides are never rated. A delivery from a shop has a 5-number code on the buyer’s phone; whoever brings it (a driver, or the shop itself) types it when they hand the order over, so everyone knows it arrived. They also take one photo of the goods (not of a person), and their phone notes where the hand-over happened and how far that was from the buyer’s pin. Only the buyer, the shop and whoever brought it see the photo and the place. If there’s no signal, these are kept on the deliverer’s phone until they can be sent. If the goods are left with someone else, their name and how they know the buyer are kept with the order.
• AI helpers for shops, committees and work. When a shop owner, a committee member or someone using Work taps a helper, the words and numbers it needs (a shop’s stock and sales counts, a meeting’s rough notes and the members’ names, a job and the profiles of people who applied or work nearby) are sent to our AI provider to write a suggestion. Nothing is saved, sent or posted until that person says so. We keep only a count of how many times each group used a helper this month.

Where it is stored

All data is stored in Google Firebase (Firestore and Firebase Authentication), in a project that belongs to Notice Me. Google acts as a processor under its Firebase privacy terms; data may be stored on Google's servers outside the UK, under Google's standard contractual safeguards. Photos are stored inside the family's own records, reduced in size, not in a separate photo library.

The app loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, which means Google receives your device's IP address when the app loads, as it would for any website using those fonts. That is the only other party the app talks to.

Children

Notice Me is used by children, always under a parent's account. A parent creates a child's login, decides what is recorded about them, and can remove them at any time. The app never contacts a child, never shows adverts, never asks a child for personal details, and never shares a child's data with anyone. Points are for turning up and being noticed, never for being right, so nothing about a child's learning is scored or ranked against other children. We follow the UK Information Commissioner's Age Appropriate Design Code as the standard for how children's data is handled.

Reading aloud with Nuuru. When a child reads a line to their companion, the phone can listen and check a tricky word, but only if a parent has turned this on for that child in Settings (it is off to start). The phone’s own speech service (Apple’s on an iPhone, Google’s on Android) turns the voice into words. Notice Me never receives, stores or shares a recording; it keeps only which word was read. With it off, a grown-up listens and taps how the word went.

Mosques, madrasahs and community centres

Notice Me can also be used by a mosque, madrasah or community centre ("a community"). A community is set up by one adult, its admin, who takes responsibility for it. This section says what changes when you join one.

What a community holds

Who can see what in a community

• Everyone in the community sees the announcements, the prayer times, the rotas and the list of classes. Nobody outside it sees any of that. If the community has chosen to be findable, people outside can see only its name, kind and area.
• The committee and admin also see who has asked to join, and any reports.
• A teacher sees only the children enrolled in their own class, and only their first names. They do not see the rest of the family's app: no points, no other children, no parents' notes.
• A note a teacher writes about one child is seen by that child, that child's parents and the teacher. No one else.
• Children see announcements and their own class. They do not see the community's people list or anyone's details.
• No adult in a community can send a private message to a child. There is no such feature, and the database rules would refuse it.

Young people and their connections

A child under 13 can't connect with anyone outside their family. Once a parent marks their child as a young person (13 to 17), that young person can connect with other young people, and with grown-ups only after one of their parents says yes. Young people never appear in the list people search by name. Their parents can see everyone they're connected to and remove anyone, and can read their chats with grown-ups. Chats between two young people are private to them.

When you share a journey

Notice Me never follows where you are on its own. When a grown-up taps "I'm travelling", only the people they choose (up to ten) see where they're going (and, if they choose one, the place on the map), when they expect to arrive and, if they allow it, a rough spot (to about 10 metres) sent while Notice Me is open on their phone. A long trip can take days, so it lasts until they say they've arrived or stop it; if it's forgotten, it ends by itself a week after the last update. The spot is removed when it ends. Children can't start one.

Emergencies and pickups

The Emergency page shows emergency numbers and the ambulance services listed on Notice Me. Your phone's location is used only when that page is open, to say where you are in landmark words and to sort the nearest services. If you tap "Send where I am", the service's crew (the people it chose, up to ten) gets your location, the words you wrote to help find you, your name and a phone to call back. A pickup request holds who it is for, the day, the time and where to pick them up. None of these ever holds a reason, a symptom or anything about anyone's health: Notice Me keeps no health details. Only you and that crew can read a request, and Notice Me deletes it 30 days after it was made.

Traffic on the map

Traffic on Notice Me's map comes from people's own trips, and only from people who said yes. When you use Go there by car or bus, tap Start and agree to "Help show traffic", your phone sends how fast you went along each stretch of about 100 metres and which way, every minute and a half while Notice Me is open. The first and last 300 metres of every trip are never sent, so where you started and where you ended stay on your phone. Nothing sent carries your name. Readings are stored by map square and quarter of an hour; to count how many different people a reading comes from, each person gets a short code that changes every quarter of an hour and can't be turned back into who they are. Readings are deleted after about three hours. You can stop at any time from the Go there screen. Children and cousins never send any.

Children in classes

A child is enrolled in a class only by their own parent, from the parent's account, and only the parent can withdraw them. Before enrolling, the parent is shown the teacher's recorded check, or told plainly that none is recorded. Everything the teacher writes to the class or about the child is visible to the parent. A parent can report anything about a class to the committee and admin; the report does not go to the teacher.

What Notice Me does and does not do

• Notice Me provides the noticeboard, the rota and the class record. It does not run the mosque, appoint its teachers, check them, or supervise its classes. Those are the community's responsibilities, and the admin agrees to them when the community is set up.
• Notice Me never holds or moves money, including for a rota or a susu. It records only who said yes.
• There are no adverts, no analytics and no tracking in a community, as everywhere else in the app.

How long community data is kept

Announcements are kept for the latest sixty, and older ones drop off. A rota and its days are removed when the committee removes the rota. A class, its enrolments and its notes are removed when the class is closed. When a member leaves, their name is removed from the community's list; things they posted while a member stay on the noticeboard under their name unless the committee removes them. If the admin wants a whole community removed, they email cdianrouga@gmail.com and it is deleted within 14 days.

Your rights in a community

The same as everywhere in Notice Me: you can see what is held about you, correct it, leave, and ask for it to be deleted. For a child, the parent exercises those rights. For a community as a whole, the admin does. An admin can export the community's announcements, rotas and class records at any time from the community's front page.

Coming back with Face ID

When you hand your phone to someone in the family, you can choose to come back with Face ID or your fingerprint instead of typing your sign-in. Your phone's own lock makes a key for Notice Me on that phone. Notice Me keeps only the public half of that key, which can check a signature but can't sign anything, and the phone keeps which person and which key it is. Your face and fingerprint never leave the phone; Notice Me never sees them. No password or sign-in is kept on the phone. You can forget it on the phone at any time (the ✕ on the sign-in screen), and deleting your account removes the key from Notice Me too.

How long it is kept

For as long as your family uses the app. A parent can remove any member from the family, and any account holder can delete their own account from Settings — that removes them from every family they belong to and deletes their login. A family with no history can be deleted outright by the parent who created it. The family's shared record of points and marks belongs to the family, not to one person, and stays with the family until the family is deleted.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you can ask to see the data held about you or your child, have it corrected, have it deleted, or object to how it is used. Most of this you can do yourself in the app; for anything else, email the address above and it will be dealt with within a month. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

Security

Every request to the database is checked against security rules that know who you are and what your role allows — the same rules whether you use the app or not. Passwords are handled by Firebase Authentication and are never visible to the app or to the person running it. The rules are tested automatically before every change goes live.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the app will say so the next time a parent opens it. The date at the top is always the date of the current version.

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