Saga privacy policy

This policy covers Saga: Baby Names for iPhone, iPad and Android, and the Saga web app at saga-baby-names.web.app. Saga is published by HOLLINGSWORKS LLC (“Hollingsworks”, “we”, “us”), a small software studio in Michigan. It explains what Saga keeps about you, where it goes, who sees it, and how to clear it.

On your device

Saga saves what you do on your phone or in your browser: your swipes and lists, your notes, your family’s details, each child’s profile, and what Saga has learned about your taste. The names themselves are stored on the device too, so Saga works offline. In the apps, the Name of the day widget reads the same data on the phone.

Naming a pet or just exploring stays on the device too: the pet’s swipes, lists and setup, the names of your other pets, the name and birth year you type into Your name, and your Peak results. None of it goes into your Saga backup, and Saga never sends it anywhere. On Android, the phone’s own Google backup (if you’ve turned it on in Android settings) can include these files along with the rest of the app’s data, so they come back if you restore your phone.

In the apps you can also save a backup file yourself, to move to a new phone.

Your private backup

Once you’ve set Saga up, it backs up as you go to Google Firebase. The backup holds every swipe (passes included) and your setup: your first name and role, family name, siblings’ names, the family roots you picked, and each child’s nickname, sex, due date, middle name and chosen name. Notes stay on your device until you sign in.

To hold the backup, Saga signs your browser or phone in anonymously, with no email or password. Saga’s security rules let only that browser or phone (or your signed-in account) read it. Firebase stores it in the United States. The people who run Saga can see what Firebase stores.

Signing in (optional)

You can sign in to keep your names in step on every device:

• On the web: with Google, or with an email address and password.
• On iPhone: with Apple or Google.
• On Android: with Google.

Firebase then keeps your email address (with Apple, this can be a private relay address Apple makes for you). With Google it also gets the name and photo on your Google account. With Apple it gets your name if you choose to share it. Saga doesn’t use your name or photo for anything. Saga never sees or stores your password: Firebase checks it. Once you’re signed in, the backup also holds your notes and the rest of your settings, so your other devices can open them.

Sharing a nest

Inviting your partner, family or friends makes a nest in Firebase that you share. An invite carries your first name and avatar so the person knows who invited them. Anyone with the invite code can open it, so share it only with people you mean to invite. Who sees what:

• Your partner sees the names you love and super-love (never your maybes or passes), your matches, your Final Round picks, names you slip into their deck (with no hint they came from you), what Saga has learned about your taste (for your blended deck and Taste Match), and the family’s and children’s details.
• Grandparents and friends see each child’s nickname and whether they’re a girl or a boy, your matches, and everyone’s hearts on the shortlist.
• Everyone in the nest sees each member’s first name, avatar and role.

Your notes, maybes and passes stay yours, even in a nest.

Usage statistics

Saga doesn’t currently record how you use it. If we turn on usage statistics (the “Help improve Saga” setting) in the future, we’ll update this policy to say exactly what is recorded and how long it’s kept before it starts, and you’ll be able to switch it off.

Saga doesn’t send crash or error reports.

Ads in the apps

The iPhone and Android apps are free because now and then an ad card turns up in the deck. Google AdMob chooses and shows it. To do that, Google receives what an ad needs: the phone’s model and system, its IP address and approximate location, whether you tapped or skipped the ad, and the advertising ID if you allow it. Google never receives your names, lists, notes or anything you type. Google’s privacy policy covers what Google does with that data, and this page explains how Google uses data from apps that use its services.

• On iPhone, Saga asks before letting Google use your advertising identifier. If you say no, ads still appear but aren’t based on your activity in other apps. You can change this in Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
• On Android, you can reset or delete your advertising ID from Ads on this phone on the You tab.
• In the UK, the EEA and Switzerland, and other places where it’s required, Google’s consent form asks first. You can change your choice at any time from Privacy choices on the You tab.

The website has no ads and no trackers from other companies.

Other services

• Google Firebase serves Saga’s web pages and keeps your backup, account and nests. Like any website, it sees your IP address and browser.
• Sign in with Apple and Sign in with Google happen on Apple’s and Google’s own screens, under their privacy policies.
• Reels on the web are drawn in your browser by Remotion, which records each one with a short message to its server: the site’s address and whether the render worked.

What we don’t do

We don’t sell your data. We don’t share your names, notes, taste or lists with advertisers or anyone else. We may publish totals across many families, such as how often a name was loved this month, and only where at least 20 families are counted.

Children

Saga is made for parents and parents-to-be and isn’t directed at children. Using it means entering some details about your children (a nickname, sex, due date, middle name, siblings’ names). Those details are used only to suggest names and show them to the people in your nest, and they’re deleted when you clear them as described below. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you think a child has given us personal information, email us and we’ll delete it.

Clearing it all

• Start over (on the You tab, or in Settings on the web) clears the device and deletes your backup and anonymous sign-in.
• Delete account (on the You tab in the apps, or in Your nest on the web) deletes your account and everything saved to it, everywhere, straight away. It can’t be undone. Step-by-step instructions are on the Saga support page.
• Leaving a nest removes your likes, Final Round picks and taste from it. When the last parent leaves, the family’s and children’s details are cleared. A small record that the nest existed (who created it and when) remains.
• Removing the app deletes everything it kept on that phone.

If you’d rather we do it, email us and we’ll delete your data.

Your rights

You can ask us what personal information Saga holds about you, or ask us to correct or delete it, by emailing hello@hollingsworks.com. Depending on where you live (for example California, other U.S. states with privacy laws, the EEA or the UK), you may have additional rights, including the right to object to processing or to complain to your local data protection authority. We won’t treat you differently for using them. We’ll answer within 30 days.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. Significant changes will also be noted in the app’s release notes.

Contact

HOLLINGSWORKS LLC, a Michigan limited liability company
Email: hello@hollingsworks.com