Keeping kids safe

Our promises

How to manage or clear the binder

Because everything is stored in the browser on your device, you are always in control. To remove it all, use the "Clear my binder on this device" button at the bottom of the My binder page, or clear your browser data. Using a different device or browser starts fresh, because nothing is linked to an account.

What we store, and only when you ask us to

There is nothing on this site a child can submit. The forms are for adults, they are entirely optional, and nothing is stored unless you fill one in and give your express permission. There are two: adding a store to our directory, and sending us a story or photos for the site.

When you do use one, we keep what you sent, your name and your email address, the date, and the exact permission wording you agreed to. We keep it so we can check it before anything is published, credit you, and come back to you if there is a question. Nothing you send is published automatically. A person reads it first.

• ✔Photos showing children. We only accept these from the child's own parent or guardian, or from someone who has that parent's permission, and we ask you to confirm it as part of the form. We do not publish a child's full name.
• ✔You can change your mind. Ask us and we will take your photo or story down and delete what we hold. You do not have to give a reason.
• ✔We never sell it, never pass it to advertisers, and never use it to build a profile of anyone.
• ✔Where it lives. Submissions and any photos are held by our hosting provider, Vercel, on servers outside Australia and New Zealand, which is normal for websites and worth stating plainly.

Like every website, our host also keeps basic technical logs, such as the address your request came from, to keep the site running and to stop abuse. That happens whether or not you fill in a form, and we do not use it to identify anyone.

Designed with the rules in mind

We have built this site to line up with the direction of child privacy and online safety guidance in Australia and New Zealand, including the best-interests-of-the-child principle, data minimisation, age-appropriate design, and most-restrictive defaults. The default is that nothing leaves your device, so a child using this site is not handing over data in the first place. The only exceptions are the adult forms above, which are opt-in, consented, and reviewed by a person before anything appears.

• ✔Australian Privacy Act and the forthcoming Children's Online Privacy Code: data minimisation, best interests of the child, age-appropriate design.
• ✔Australia's Online Safety Act and the eSafety expectations for services likely to be used by children.
• ✔New Zealand Privacy Act 2020, which asks for particular care when any information is collected from children.
• ✔The website has no accounts, no profiles, no feeds and no way for users to contact each other, so Australia's under-16 social media rules do not apply to it. Sending us a story through a form is not the same as posting: it goes to us, a person checks it, and no one can reply to it on the site. Our community chat is a separate, parents-led Discord with its own age rules (Discord's minimum age is 13), which you opt into.

About our Discord community

Our community lives on Discord, a separate chat app run by Discord, not by us. It is a parents-led space: it is framed and moderated for parents and guardians, and because Discord's own minimum age is 13, younger children take part through a parent rather than with their own account. We do not collect data inside Discord, and joining is your choice. If you join, please read and follow the server rules, and supervise younger children as you would on any chat platform.

This page explains our approach in good faith and is not legal advice. We are having it reviewed by a privacy professional and will update this page when that review is done. If anything here turns out to be wrong, we would rather hear it and fix it than leave it standing, so please tell us. Last reviewed 11 September 2026.