Safety & Household Responsibility

1. A tool, not a supervisor

HomeWeek is software from Vantaryn Labs LLC (“Vantaryn Labs,” “we,” “us”). It helps a household keep a shared calendar, chores, routines, lists, meals and notes, shown on a shared screen and managed from adults’ phones.

It does not watch anyone, and it can’t keep anyone safe on its own. It is not a babysitter, a monitoring service or an emergency service, and it doesn’t give medical, nutritional or other professional advice. We do not take on, share or replace any part of your duty, or any other adult’s duty, to supervise and protect a child. Please don’t rely on HomeWeek as your only way to remember something important.

2. Not an emergency service

• If anyone is in immediate danger in the U.S., call 911. Outside the U.S., call your local emergency number.
• For a mental-health or suicide crisis in the U.S., call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
• HomeWeek, its reminders and our support email are not monitored around the clock and are not a way to get help in an emergency.

3. Reminders and alerts can be late or missed

A reminder depends on your device, its settings, its battery and its connection. It can be late or missed if notifications are turned off, Focus or Do Not Disturb is on, the device is off or offline, iOS delays it, or the item changed on another device that hasn’t synced yet. For medicine, school pickups, appointments and anything else that matters, use more than one way to remember, and check the calendar.

4. Shared screens are seen by everyone nearby

• What it shows. A shared screen, such as a kitchen iPad, shows your household’s items to anyone who can see it, including children, guests and visitors.
• Keep personal things private. Mark an item Private, or an event Busy only, if it shouldn’t be seen on the shared screen. Private and Busy-only events are never sent to shared screens.
• Choose what it can do. In Settings > Devices & Shared iPad you choose whether the screen can tick chores, run routines, edit lists and make notes (all four are on unless you turn them off), and you can remove it at any time. If a shared screen is lost or stolen, remove it there. It loses access at once, and its copy of your calendar is erased when it next connects.
• Place it with care. Think about who can see the screen from a window or a doorway.

5. Children and the shared screen

• Accounts are only for adults; children don’t need one. Children may use the shared screen as you allow, for example to tick off their chores and, if you allow it, add notes.
• Anything added on the shared screen is part of your household’s calendar. Check it now and then, and delete anything that shouldn’t be there.
• Talk with your children about not writing private things, such as passwords or addresses, on the shared screen.

6. Chores and rewards

• You choose every chore. Make sure each chore is safe, legal, suitable for the person’s age and abilities, and supervised.
• Avoid risky tasks. Don’t assign children tasks involving sharp or power tools, unsafe chemicals or cleaning products, cooking or other heat, electricity, ladders or heights, water, vehicles or lawn equipment, unfamiliar animals, or going places alone, unless an adult is directly supervising and the task truly suits the child.
• Real-world rewards are yours. Points in HomeWeek have no cash value. Any treat, outing or money you promise is between you and your child.

7. Smart Add suggestions

• Smart Add suggestions are automated guesses. They can misread handwriting, get dates, times or names wrong, miss events, or include things that aren’t there.
• Check every suggestion against the original before you save it, especially dates, times and places.

8. What we ask households to do

1. Check what matters. Confirm important dates, times and places, especially ones that came from Smart Add.
2. Keep important reminders in more than one place.
3. Use Private and Busy only for anything that shouldn’t show on a shared screen.
4. Invite only adults you trust, and remove anyone who should no longer have access.
5. Choose what each shared screen can do, and remove screens you no longer use.
6. Keep your password and pairing codes private.
7. Keep devices updated, with notifications allowed for HomeWeek.
8. Supervise chores and real-world activities.

9. These limits are part of our Terms

This page is part of our Terms of Use and is incorporated into them by reference. The limits described here are part of the agreement between you and Vantaryn Labs, including the household responsibility, disclaimer, limitation of liability, indemnification and release sections of the Terms. Those sections apply to a claim that belongs to a child only as far as the law of the state where the child lives allows. If this page and the Terms conflict, the Terms control. The steps and tips on this page are suggestions for your household; by offering them, we don’t take on any duty to supervise anyone or to make sure they are followed. Nothing on this page limits any right you have under law that cannot be waived.

Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your household’s information.

10. Questions

If something doesn’t work as you expect, or you have a safety concern about HomeWeek, please contact us. Our Support page has tips on what to include. Email is not an emergency channel.