Data-minimal by design.

True Father is data-minimal by design. We collect only what we need to operate the service, and we treat that as a feature, not a compliance chore.

• We do not create child accounts.
• We do not build child profiles.
• We do not ask for custody arrangements, marital status, divorce status, legal custody percentages, or co-parenting conflict details.
• We do not run a social feed or public profile system.
• We do not monitor, judge, classify, or score fathers.
• We do not sell personal information.

What we do collect is the limited information needed to run the service: account access, email delivery, billing status, support, content generation, and your saved dashboard history.

Account information: your email address, your first name, and basic account details. Your password is stored by our database provider in hashed form — we never see it.

Billing status: your Stripe customer ID, subscription plan, and subscription status, mirrored from Stripe so the app knows what you’ve paid for. Payment details are handled by Stripe; True Father does not store full card numbers.

Content inputs: the lightweight information you enter to generate prep — a first name or nickname, an age range, current interests, a tone, how it should end, and optionally a value you want to reinforce. These are stored as a snapshot on the content they created, not as a standing record.

Generated content: saved only so you can access it in your dashboard and archive.

Optional preferences: including Current Parenting Setup, if you choose to provide it. It is used only to lightly tailor recommendations. It does not define you, restrict the product, or put you in a separate user category — and “prefer not to share” is a fully valid answer.

Email logs: delivery status for the emails we send you, so we can troubleshoot when one fails.

Technical and security information: the limited data needed to protect the service and rate-limit abuse, plus routine operational logs (for example, whether a weekly delivery run completed) so we can keep the service reliable. Where practical we store it hashed — our rate limiter, for example, stores hashes, not raw addresses.

None of the following exists anywhere in the product, and none of it is needed to help you show up well:

• Child accounts
• Child profiles
• Custody arrangements or legal custody percentages
• Marital or divorce status
• Co-parenting conflict details
• The reason a father and child may be apart
• Court paperwork
• Therapy history
• Private family disputes

If information like this were offered to us, we’d decline it. It has no place in what we build.

Your stories, prayers, and prep are saved so the product works the way you’d expect: your dashboard shows your current material, your recent archive (or full archive, depending on plan) lets you reuse what worked, downloads are available where your plan includes them, and your weekly prep history builds into a practical record of the connection material you’ve made. That’s useful memory for you — not surveillance of you. It stays in your account, for you.

We use trusted service providers to operate True Father, each for one job:

• Supabase — account and database infrastructure
• Stripe — billing. Payment details are processed by Stripe; True Father does not store full card numbers.
• Resend — email delivery
• Our AI model provider — your prep inputs are sent to it to generate your content
• Our hosting provider — deployment and availability

Each receives only what its job requires.

True Father is built for dads, not for children to create accounts. Children do not create accounts, do not log in, and do not use True Father directly.

The product runs on lightweight inputs — a first name or nickname, an age range, and general interests — so content can be age-appropriate and useful. That’s the extent of it. We ask dads not to submit sensitive personal information about their children, and to use their own judgment about what they enter. If we become aware of sensitive child information submitted to us, we’ll remove it.

Your account, saved content, and delivery logs are kept while your account exists, so your archive works as promised. Free sample requests are kept so we can honor one free sample per email. When your account is deleted, your content goes with it.

Want your content or your whole account deleted, or have any question about your data? Contact us through the support page and we’ll take care of it — no hoops.

Generated content is supportive material for father-child connection — stories, questions, prayers, and practical prep. It is not legal advice, therapy, medical guidance, or crisis support, and it should never be treated as any of those. If you or your child are in crisis, contact a professional or emergency services.