Last updated: 10 October 2026
Skedaddle is a day-out planner for parents and their children, made by Danny Hearn and operated by Deeply Human Design Ltd. This policy explains what the app handles, why, and how you can remove it.
The short version: there are no accounts, no adverts, and we never see your card. Most of what the app knows stays on your phone. What reaches our server is the plans you choose to share, which delete themselves after 7 days, and, if you switch notifications on, an anonymous token for your phone.
When you choose to share a plan ("let nearby dads know you're going") or join someone else's plan, the name you type is saved so other people in the app can see who's heading out. This is the only personal detail stored on our server, and only when you actively share or join. Shared plans are automatically deleted after 7 days.
With your permission, the app uses your device's location while you're using it to suggest places near you and show local weather. Each time you open the app those coordinates go to our own servers, and to the mapping and weather providers listed below, to work out what's nearby and what the weather will do. Those precise coordinates aren't stored against you, your location is not attached to your name, and we don't keep a history of where you've been.
If you turn on a notification that depends on where you are (a good-weather window, or the weekend note about dads heading out near you), we also keep a rough version of that position, so we can send it while the app is closed. It's where your phone reported it was the last time you opened the app, rounded to about a kilometre, and it's kept alongside your notification token. We keep one value, replaced each time you open the app, so it's never a history. It's never a place you typed in or saved. We clear it when you turn those notifications off, when you turn off location access, or when you delete your data.
If you share a plan, the location of that day out is stored with it, so the app can tell other parents nearby that something is happening near them. That's the place, not you.
If you enter your children's ages to filter age-appropriate activities, those ages are stored only on your device and are never sent to us.
If you turn on notifications, your device is given an anonymous push token so we can send the alerts you've asked for. Switched on to start with: someone joining a plan you shared, a reminder before a plan you're going to, a good-weather window for a weekend day out, and a gentle nudge, either about a plan of yours that's gone quiet or a “what's the plan?” before the weekend. Switched off unless you ask for them: the weekend note about dads heading out near you, and news about what's new in the app. We send at most three a week, never between 20:30 and 07:00, and you can change any of them, or switch the lot off, in Profile.
Two of these need to know roughly where you are: the good-weather window and the weekend note. While either is on and you've allowed location access, we keep the rough position described under Location above. The token identifies a device, not a person, and isn't linked to your name. You can turn notifications off at any time in the app or in your phone's settings, and deleting your data removes the token.
If you add a place and choose to share it, its name and location are sent to us for review before it appears for others. Don't share a place you don't want to be public. If you report or flag something, we receive that report so we can act on it.
The app is free. Plus can be unlocked with a free 7 day trial, for £3.99 a year, or for £9.99 once. We never see your card. Apple takes the payment through your App Store account, and the only thing we are told is whether a purchase went through.
We use RevenueCat to ask Apple that question and to hold the answer, so the app still knows you have Plus after you reinstall it or move to a new phone. RevenueCat makes its own anonymous identifier for your device. We don't give it your name, your email address or your location. If you take the yearly one, that record also carries when it renews, when you cancel and when it ends, because the app has to know whether Plus is still running.
We use privacy-friendly analytics (PostHog, hosted in the EU) to understand how the app is used, for example which steps people complete, so we can improve it. We don't use it to build advertising profiles.
These events are tied to a random identifier created when you install the app, and never to your name. That same identifier is what lets someone block you if you're a nuisance, and it is not used to follow you across other apps or websites. On our own servers we store a one-way scrambled version of it rather than the identifier itself, so what we hold can't be turned back into your device's id. Deleting your data clears it, and a fresh one is created the next time you open the app.
PostHog also works out an approximate location from your internet address, the way most websites can. That means your country, your region, and your postcode district (the first half of a postcode, covering a town or part of a city), plus a latitude and longitude for the middle of that area. It is not your device's GPS position, and it does not say where in a town you are. It sits with the random identifier above, and we use it to see which parts of the country the app is being used in, so we can make sure those areas are well covered in it. If you would like what PostHog holds about your device removed, email us and we will delete it.
To provide the app's features, limited data is processed by:
We do not sell your data, and we do not use it for advertising.
Shared plans are deleted automatically after 7 days. Data stored on your device (your name, last location and children's ages) stays until you delete it or remove the app.
A record of a purchase is kept for as long as you have Plus, because it is what tells the app to unlock it.
Reports are the exception. If you report something, we keep a copy of the report and of what was reported for longer than 7 days, so that we can look into it, act on it, and cooperate with the police or another authority if we ever have to.
You can remove your data at any time from inside the app: open About and tap "Delete my data." That deletes the plans you've shared, removes your notification token, and clears everything saved on your device. You can also email us and we'll do it for you.
Deleting your data doesn't cancel a purchase or take Plus away. That sits with Apple against your Apple ID, and Restore purchase brings it back. To stop a yearly one renewing, cancel it in Settings, your name at the top, Subscriptions, Skedaddle.
This app is intended for parents, not for use by children. The only child-related information, your children's ages, never leaves your device.
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top.
Skedaddle is operated by Deeply Human Design Ltd, the data controller for the information described here, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 14615013, registered office: 10 Weston Lane, Totnes, TQ9 5UN).
Questions or requests: hello@skedaddle.uk.