Privacy policy

Last updated September 24, 2026

Draft for legal review - not yet in effect.

Family Slate is a family calendar and kitchen organizer made by BP Tech LLC (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what information Family Slate collects, how we use it, and the choices you have. It covers our website, the Family Slate service, and the Family Slate wall screen.

In short: we use your Google Calendar data only to show your family its own calendar and to add the events you create. We don’t sell data, we don’t show ads, and our screen has no camera or microphone.

Information we collect

What	Where it comes from	Why we need it
Your name and email address	Your Google account, when you sign in	To create your account and contact you about it
Your list of Google calendars	Google Calendar, with your permission	So you can choose which calendars appear on your board
Events on the calendars you choose	Google Calendar, with your permission	To display them on your family’s board, including on your phone
Events you add from Family Slate	You	To save them to the Google calendar you picked
Household details: family names and colors, chores, lists, meal plans, recipes, pantry items, and an optional note about how your family eats	You	To run the features you use
Your town	You	To show the local weather, and to fit meal ideas to where you live
Grocery store and cart connection (optional)	You, and the grocery store you connect	To look up products, prices and aisles at your store, and add your shopping list to your cart there
Drawings made on your Family Slate screen	You and your family	To keep them for your household and email them to your home’s owner
Launch updates: your email address, and if you choose, your first name, ZIP code and usual grocery store	You, when you sign up on our website	To email you about Family Slate’s launch, and to learn which areas and stores to support first
Basic technical logs (time, device type, errors)	Our servers	To keep the service secure and working

We do not collect location from your device, contacts, photos, or anything from a camera or microphone.

How we use Google user data

When you connect Google Calendar, Family Slate asks for permission to see the list of your calendars, view events on your calendars, and add or delete events on calendars you own. We use this data only to:

show events from the calendars you select on your Family Slate board, including in your phone’s browser;
create or delete an event when you ask Family Slate to; and
keep your board up to date when events change.

We do not use Google user data for advertising, we do not sell it, and we do not use it to train artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models.

Family Slate’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

People at BP Tech LLC do not read your calendar data, except when you ask us to for support, when needed for security (for example, investigating abuse), or when the law requires it.

Sharing

We don’t sell or rent personal information. We share it only:

With service providers who run parts of Family Slate for us (for example, our hosting and email-delivery providers), under contracts that limit them to doing that work. To show your weather we send only your town, or its map location, to a public weather service and a map look-up service - never your name or email.
With services you choose to connect, and only what that feature needs. When you send a shopping list to your grocery store, the products go to your cart there. When you ask for a meal idea, we send our AI provider your request, your pantry list, how many people you cook for, your town, and the note you wrote in settings about how your family eats - that note goes exactly as you typed it, so keep it about food and leave names out. We never send your calendar or your email address.
When the law requires it, or to protect people’s safety, or as part of a merger or sale of our business (you would be told first).

How long we keep it

We keep your information while your account is open. Calendar events are kept only as a short-lived copy so your board loads quickly, and are refreshed from Google. When you delete your account, we delete your information within 30 days, apart from records we must keep by law (for example, payment records).

Your choices

Choose calendars: change which calendars appear at any time.
Disconnect Google: from Family Slate’s settings, or from your Google account at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Family Slate then stops reading your calendar and deletes its copy.
Launch emails: every launch email has an unsubscribe link, or email us and we’ll remove you.
Delete your account: in Family Slate, open the account menu (your picture) and choose Delete my account - it happens straight away - or email [email protected].
See or correct your data: email us and we’ll help.

Security

Information travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS). Sign-in keys for Google and your grocery store are stored encrypted and are never shown to anyone, including you. Access to our systems is limited to the people who run the service.

Children

Family Slate accounts are for adults. Parents can add their children’s names to their Family Slate board; we don’t knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we’ll tell you by email or in the app before the change takes effect.

Contact

BP Tech LLC, Michigan, USA · [email protected]