First Bell: School To-Dos privacy policy

Last updated: November 10, 2026

What First Bell does

First Bell reads emails from your children's schools and turns them into a short list of things to do, things to pack and dates to remember.

What we access in your Google account

When you connect Gmail, First Bell asks for read-only access to your email. We use it to find senders that look like schools, and to read new email from the senders you choose to follow. We cannot send, delete or change email.

What we store

• The first names, schools and grades of the children you add.
• A profile picture for a child, if you choose to add one. Only you and that child can see it, and you can remove it at any time in Settings.
• The email address of a child you invite, and whether they have joined. A child who joins signs in with Google so we can confirm that email. We do not read a child's mail.
• The school senders found in your inbox and which ones you follow.
• For each school email we read: its sender, subject, date and Gmail ID, and the short summary we made from it.
• An encrypted token that lets us keep reading your school email until you disconnect.
• Your settings.
• If you subscribe: the App Store transaction ID and when your subscription ends. Apple handles the payment; we never see your card or Apple ID.
• Anything you send us with "Something's wrong".

We do not store the full text of your emails. When you ask to read an original email, we fetch it from Gmail at that moment.

How email is processed

To write the summaries, the text of each school email you follow is sent to Anthropic's Claude AI model through Anthropic's commercial API. Anthropic does not train its models on this data. We do not use your email to train AI models, and we do not use it for advertising.

Who we share data with

We do not sell your data. It is handled only by the services we run on: Vercel (hosting), Neon (database), Anthropic (the AI that writes the summaries) and Apple (notifications and payments).

Google API Services User Data Policy

First Bell's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Deleting your data

In the app, open Settings and choose "Delete my account and data". This removes everything listed above and revokes our access to your Gmail. You can also remove access at any time from your Google Account under Security, then Third-party access.

Contact

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