Can I trust you with my parents' stories?
It's a question everyone should be asking. Not just of me, but of any service you sign up to — whether it's your own personal data or, in the case of Tell Me, your parents' data too.
We have the usual privacy policy, cookie policy and terms and conditions, of course. But every website has those.
In practice, can you trust me, David from Scotland, with your parents' data?
I could tell you I've been building websites since 1999 (remember GeoCities?).
Or that at one point I was the youngest sub postmaster in the UK (that's the person who runs a post office).
I could tell you that I now single-handedly run the technical side of three UK FM/DAB radio stations.
And I could talk to you for hours about encryption, backups, firewalls and load balancing.
But I won't bore you with that, because for most of you it won't mean much. (If it does, feel free to email me at david@tellme.bio — I'd happily go into the detail.)
I think the best thing I can tell you — the real reason you can trust me with your parents' stories and their safety — is that Tell Me was built for my parents' stories. Their words, their photos, their voices all live in the same system your parents' stories will live in.
So when I work on making sure they're safe, backed up and preserved forever, I'm working on your parents' stories too.
Tell Me isn't going anywhere. It's too precious to me.
For more information on keeping your parents stories safe, I wrote this guide titled "Looking After Your Parents' Stories" which has more detail and worth a read.
The stories you've never heard
Tell Me sends your loved one a couple of warm questions each week. They reply with a voice note. You keep their stories forever.
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