Trust, in the open.

Nightkind is a calm, shame-free place for everyday parenting questions and support. It is a tool, not a person, and it is never given a name or a persona. It is honest about its limits and points you to a real person whenever something needs one.

Nightkind is not a therapist, a medical service, or a crisis service. It does not diagnose, assess, or advise on a crisis, a medical emergency, abuse, or a safeguarding concern. When something like that comes up, the only safe response is human help, and that is what we point to.

The human backstop is built and live. A "Talk to someone now" path sits on every screen, reachable in one tap, never gated, listing real help.

The parts that would notice risk inside a conversation, automated detection and escalation, are not built, and the AI chat is not open to anyone. They will not ship until a named clinical and safeguarding reviewer specifies and signs off the categories, the escalation behaviour, and the test results. The deadline bends; the gate does not.

Guidance content is designed to carry an honest source label and a review status, and to state its boundaries. Nothing is shown as advice until it is approved by a named content lead and clinical reviewer.

No content has been clinically reviewed yet, and no reviewers are appointed. Until then, any draft content is labelled as draft and is never presented as reviewed.

Privacy is built into the structure, not just promised in a policy:

• ·Your data is stored in the EU (Frankfurt).
• ·Row-Level Security means you can only ever read or write your own rows. The database itself refuses anything else.
• ·Parent and child data are kept separate. We never store a child's date of birth, only an age band, and a child's name is optional.
• ·Consent is granular and recorded. Research consent is never bundled with using the app.
• ·You can export everything we hold about you, and delete your data, from your account.
• ·No data is sold, and there are no ads against family data.

The formal legal documents, a privacy policy, terms, and a data protection impact assessment, are still being prepared. This page describes how the system is built. It is not a substitute for those documents.

Clinical reviewer: to be appointed. Safeguarding lead: to be appointed. When they are in place, they will be named here with their consent, alongside the test methodology and results they sign off. Until then, please treat this safety case as unverified.

Today Nightkind is UK-scoped. The help resources are UK services, and people outside the UK are pointed to their local emergency number. Region-specific resources, checked under safeguarding review, are a requirement before any wider launch.