Privacy policy
Last updated 1 October 2026
Beth is an AI assistant for running a household. To do that it reads
information you choose to give it, including the contents of email accounts
and calendars you connect. This policy explains what is collected, why,
where it goes, and how to get it removed.
Beth is in private testing with a small group of invited
households. It is not publicly available.
Who is responsible
Beth is operated by Casper Schouten. For any question about this policy, or
to request access to or deletion of your data, write to
casper_schouten@outlook.com.
What is collected
| Data | Why |
|---|
| Your name and email address |
To create and identify your account. Taken from Google sign-in. |
| Household details you enter, including the first names and ages of
your children |
So Beth can tell whose commitments are whose. |
| Contents of email accounts you connect |
To find dates, deadlines and requirements — permission slips, practice
schedules, appointment reminders. |
| Calendar events from calendars you connect |
To detect conflicts, calculate travel time, and add events you
approve. |
| Photos you send, such as flyers and schedules |
To extract the dates and details in them. |
| Your contacts, if you grant access |
To recognise senders who matter and filter out bulk mail. |
| Your conversations with Beth |
To maintain context, and to learn which suggestions you accept and
reject. |
| Usage and cost records |
To enforce the per-user budget for the trial. |
Google user data
Signing in to Beth and connecting a Google account are two separate steps,
on purpose. Signing in requests only your name, email address and basic
profile. Nothing else is requested unless you later choose to connect Gmail
or Google Calendar.
If you do connect them, Beth requests:
- Gmail (read, and send) — to find school, sports, medical
and other household commitments, and to send a reply you have written or
approved. An email is sent only when you tap Send on it, and goes from your
own address. Beth cannot delete, archive or modify your email, or mark it
read.
- Google Calendar (read and write) — to read existing
events and add ones you approve.
- Contacts (read only) — to distinguish real senders from
bulk mail.
Most email is discarded before it is ever read closely. Beth filters by
sender, subject and message headers in ordinary code first, and only a small
fraction of messages — those that look like genuine household logistics —
are analysed further.
Limited Use disclosure
Beth's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to
the
Google
API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.
Specifically, Google user data is:
- used only to provide and improve the features described here;
- never sold, and never transferred to others except as needed to provide
those features, or as required by law;
- never used for advertising, and never used to build advertising
profiles;
- never read by a human, except with your explicit consent, to resolve a
specific problem you have reported, for security purposes, or where the
law requires it.
Google user data is not used to train any generative AI or
machine-learning model.
Microsoft (Outlook) data
Connecting an Outlook, Hotmail or Microsoft 365 account is likewise separate
from signing in to Beth. If you connect one, Beth requests:
- Mail (read, and send) — to find school, sports, medical
and other household commitments, and to send a reply you have written or
approved. An email is sent only when you tap Send on it, and goes from your
own address. Beth cannot delete, move or archive your email.
- Calendars (read and write) — to read existing events
and add ones you approve.
- Your basic profile, and staying connected — your name
and address, and permission to keep reading without asking you to sign in
again every hour.
The same filtering applies as for Gmail: most messages are set aside by
ordinary code before any are read closely. Microsoft data is used only for
the features described here, is never sold or used for advertising, and is
not used to train any AI model.
Yahoo, AOL and iCloud mail
These providers do not offer the kind of connection above, so Beth connects
with an app-specific password: a separate password you
create in your account's security settings and give to Beth, without ever
sharing your main password. With it, Beth reads your mail over IMAP, the
standard mail protocol, and sends replies you have approved over SMTP, from
your own address, filing a copy in your Sent folder. The same filtering
applies, and the same limits: nothing is sent until you tap Send, and Beth
does not delete, move or archive your email.
The app-specific password is encrypted with AES-256 before it is stored and
is never shown again. Deleting it at your provider stops Beth's access
immediately, without changing your main password.
Who else processes your data
| Service | What it receives |
|---|
| Anthropic (Claude API) |
The specific message text and content Beth needs to interpret, in
order to extract dates and answer you. Anthropic does not train its
models on data submitted through its API. |
| Amazon Web Services |
Hosting for the application, database, uploaded photos, and this
website; and sending the welcome email when you are invited from the
waitlist. |
| Apple (TestFlight) |
Your email address and first name, when you are invited to the trial,
so Apple can send you the TestFlight invitation to install Beth. |
| Google Maps Platform |
Origin and destination addresses, to calculate travel time. No
identifying information about you is sent. |
Your data is not sold, rented, or shared with anyone else.
The waitlist
If you join the waitlist on this website, we keep what you give us: your
first name, email address and ZIP code, your biggest challenge as a mom,
which phone and email service you use, and how you heard about Beth. It is
used only to invite you to the trial and to decide who to invite when, and
is not used for marketing. When you are invited, your email address and
first name go to Apple so TestFlight can send you the install invitation,
and our welcome email is sent through Amazon Web Services; nothing else is
shared with anyone. To be taken off the list, write to the address below
and your entry is deleted.
How it is protected
- Credentials for connected accounts — access tokens and app-specific
passwords — are encrypted with AES-256 before being stored. They are never
held in plain text, and never leave the server.
- All traffic between the app and the server is encrypted in transit.
- The mobile app never holds any API key. Everything goes through the
server.
- Access to the production database is limited to the operator.
No system is perfectly secure, and Beth is trial software. Please weigh that
when deciding which account to connect.
How long it is kept
Data is kept while your account is active. When you ask for your account to
be deleted, it and the data associated with it are removed from the live
system within 30 days. Backups are overwritten on their own cycle, within 90
days.
Your choices
- Disconnect an account at any time in Beth, or revoke
access directly at
Google account
permissions, at
Microsoft account
permissions (for a work or school account,
My Apps), or by deleting the
app-specific password at Yahoo, AOL or Apple. Revoking access stops all
future reading immediately.
- Request a copy of your data by email.
- Request deletion of your account and data by email.
- Decline a permission. Beth works with fewer connected
sources; it simply sees less.
Children
Beth is for parents, not children. Accounts are held by adults. A parent may
enter a child's first name and age so that commitments can be attributed
correctly, and household email may mention children by name. This
information is provided by the parent; nothing is collected directly from a
child, and Beth is not directed to children.
Changes
If this policy changes materially, everyone with an active account will be
told by email or in the app before the change takes effect.
Contact
casper_schouten@outlook.com