87 Family website and app
Privacy Policy
Effective: November 10, 2026 · Contact: [email protected]
87 Family is a private, invitation-only family platform: a website (87family.com) and an app for iPhone, iPad and Android. Only people the family approves can sign in. This policy explains what information the website and app collect, why, who can see it, how long it is kept, and the choices you have.
Who we are
87 Family is run by Ren Anderson in Utah, United States, for the Anderson family and the families who use the same platform. Write to [email protected] with any question or request about your information.
Information we collect
- Account information: your username, display name, e-mail address and password (stored only as a secure one-way hash), your membership in the family and the roles you are given.
- Profile and family information: what you or the family add to your profile and to the Family Tree, such as names, dates, relationships, photos and life events.
- What you post and send: messages, photos, videos, files, voice messages, announcements, comments, calendar events, Dance Cards, Career Planning, Budget and Direction entries, and other things you create.
- Calls and Family Meetings: who joined and when. Family Meetings are recorded and transcribed into the family Archive, and the meeting screen says so. Calls in Messages are transcribed to text only; their audio and video are not saved.
- Your phone or computer: the camera and microphone only while you are in a meeting or call, recording a message or taking a photo to send, and photos or files only when you choose them. If you allow notifications, the app stores a notification address for your device. The app keeps your sign-in in your device's secure storage.
- Safety and security records: sign-in times, the approximate type of device or browser, reports and blocks you make, and a short audit history of important actions, used to keep accounts safe and to look into problems.
- PCard (optional): if you link your PCard, your PCard username and password, stored encrypted on the family's server and used only to show you your own PCard balance and recent activity. Your balance and activity are fetched from PCard when you open the page and are not saved.
We do not collect your location, contacts or calendar, and the app does not read other apps, your clipboard (except when you paste), or what you type before you send it. There are no ads, no advertising identifiers, and no third-party analytics or tracking.
How we use information
- To run the family platform: sign-in, Messages, meetings and calls, the Family Tree, the Archive, the calendar and the other features you use.
- To send the notifications you choose.
- To keep the family safe: posting rules, reports, blocks, and the parental and oversight features described in the family's Terms and Conditions.
- To answer questions with The Watchman, the family's own AI assistant. It runs on the family's own server, only uses what you are allowed to see, and your questions are not sent to an outside AI company.
- To fix problems and protect the service.
We never sell your information or use it for advertising.
Who can see your information
- Your family: what you post is seen by the family members it is shared with, following the family's permissions. Direct messages are seen only by the people in the conversation, and by a parent, guardian or reviewer only where the family's oversight rules allow it and you were told.
- Family administrators: they manage accounts and permissions and review reports. When you report something, the item you report and your note are shared with them.
- Service providers we rely on: Cloudflare (secure connection to our server), and Apple or Google, including Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging on Android (to deliver notifications to your device, if you turn them on; this is not switched on in the app yet). They only process what is needed for that service.
- American Digital Systems (PCard), only if you link your PCard: the site sends them your PCard login to ask for your own balance and activity. Only you see them on the site.
- When the law requires it: we may share information if required by law or to protect someone's safety.
Where it is stored and how it is protected
Information is stored on the family's own server in the United States, protected by encrypted connections (HTTPS), access controls on every page and file, and backups. The server's disks are not encrypted. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information and limit who can reach it.
How long we keep it
We keep your account while you are a member. Messages follow the family's retention settings. Family history (the Family Tree, the Archive and meeting recordings) is kept as the family's shared record. When you delete your account, see below.
Your choices and rights
- See and correct your profile and settings at any time, and change which notifications you get.
- Unlink your PCard at any time on the PCard page; this deletes the saved login.
- Block people and report content or people (press and hold a message, or use Report).
- Delete your account in the app (More › App settings › Delete account) or on the website at 87family.com/account-deletion. You are signed out at once; after 30 days your account and personal data are deleted. The family keeps messages you already sent, your Direction and Dance Cards, and its shared history (your Family Tree person, meeting recordings and transcripts, Archive documents, and photos and posts shared with the family), as described on that page.
- Ask for a copy of your information, or for something to be corrected or deleted, by writing to [email protected].
Children
Children and teenagers use 87 Family only as part of their family, with an account approved by the family and with a parent or guardian involved as the family's Terms require. A parent or guardian can ask to see, correct or delete their child's information by writing to [email protected]. We do not knowingly collect information from a child under 13 without a parent's or guardian's consent.
Changes
If we change this policy, we will post the new version here with its date, and tell members in the app or on the website when the change is important.
Contact
[email protected] · 87 Family, Utah, United States