Private by default

Nothing in Radosnica is public by default. Parents decide who can see the book and who can contribute — separately for each child.

A child's keepsake is not a social media post. It holds the first days at home, funny sayings, bath-time photos, letters meant to be read twenty years from now. Things like these do not belong to the public. That is why privacy in Radosnica is not a setting you have to switch on — it is the starting point everything else is built from.

The rule is simple: nothing is public by default. Parents — the guardians — decide who gets access to a child's book and what each invited person may do. Every decision applies to each child separately, because families are not identical and circumstances change — what is right for the first child may not be right for the second.

Parents decide, and keep deciding

Control is not a one-time choice at sign-up. It is an ongoing possibility. Parents decide whom to invite, what an invited person may see, and whether they may contribute. An invitation can be withdrawn. Access can change. Something once shared does not have to stay shared forever, if the family decides otherwise.

Invited relatives and friends receive exactly the access they were meant to have — no more, no less. One person may be a reader who sees the published book. Another may send a message or a photo without seeing the book at all. No contribution enters the keepsake on its own: a guardian reviews every submission and decides whether and where it belongs. That way a card from an uncle stays a gift rather than an obligation, and the book keeps the family's voice.

What this means in practice

Nothing is public on its own — the book is seen only by people the family has explicitly invited.
Roles are narrow and clear — each invited person may do only what they were trusted with: read, send a contribution, or edit as a guardian.
A contribution is not an edit — messages and photos from loved ones arrive as suggestions, and a guardian decides what becomes part of the book.
Everything is per child — access is granted and withdrawn for each child separately.
Explanations stay within reach — who sees what, how an invitation is withdrawn, and how content is deleted should all be easy to find and understand.

Trust is not built with promises but with boundaries that hold. A private keepsake has to behave like something private — every day, not only on sign-up day.

There is one more thing that belongs to this rule and is often forgotten: reminders and notifications must never reveal the book's contents. A message arriving by email carries no details about the child. What is written in the keepsake stays in the keepsake, until the family decides otherwise.

Privacy, in the end, is not a technical detail. It is the promise the whole book stands on: that your child's story is told by you, together with the people you choose yourself.