Trust

We never sell your data

Every company in this category says this. Here is what would have to be true for it to be false.

The claim, and the mechanism

There is no advertising product.

We have never built ad targeting, an audience segment, or a partner integration that receives user data. Selling location would not be a policy change; it would be a project.

There is no data broker relationship.

We do not sell your location. Google provides map backgrounds and requested address or public-venue lookups; those lookups can receive the selected coordinate without your Orbities account identity. Apple and Google also deliver push notifications. These services and the information they receive are explained in the privacy policy.

Revenue is subscriptions.

Families pay for the product. That is the entire business model, which is also why the free tier is genuinely useful rather than a funnel — a product funded by subscriptions has to be worth subscribing to.

Even we cannot read it.

Support and administration connect to the database through a Postgres role with no grant on the location tables. Whatever we might one day want to sell, we would first have to grant ourselves access to it — and that change is visible in the schema.

Why this is worth saying at all

Location is the most valuable consumer data there is, and the family-safety category has a poor record. Products in it have been caught selling precise location to data brokers, sharing it with advertising networks, and burying the permission to do so in a privacy policy nobody read.

So a promise is not worth much here. What is worth something is a structure in which the promise would be hard to break quietly.

What to check if you do not believe us

Read the privacy policy. It names every outside party that touches anything — there are three — and gives the exact retention window for every category of data, with the reason for each. A policy that says “as long as necessary” is a policy that commits to nothing; compare ours to whatever you are using now.

Then, once you are signed in, open Privacy → Who has looked. Every view of your location is there, including views by your own family, in an append-only log that cannot be edited without breaking a hash chain. A company selling your location would have to either record it there or build a path around it.

If that ever changes

It will not change quietly. If we ever changed what we collect, who receives it, or how long it is kept, we would say so in the app before the change took effect — not by editing a page and hoping nobody diffed it.