Hermes Family · last updated 12 September 2026
Hermes Family is a private tool used by one household — Joseph and Jemimah Ogaga — to manage their own child’s school arrangements. It has no other users and collects nothing from anyone else.
| Information | Why |
|---|---|
| Photographs of letters sent home from school | To read the dates, events and reply deadlines printed on them |
| A child’s name, year group and school | To fill in reply slips and write the weekly email to the school office |
| The parents’ names, email addresses and phone numbers | To send email as the parent, and to complete reply slips the school asks for |
| Which days each parent is free at pick-up time | To work out which days after-school club is needed |
| Telegram account identifiers for the two parents | So the assistant can reach the right person |
Information is held on a private server rented by Joseph Ogaga and is not sold, shared or used for advertising. It is passed to these services only as needed to do the job above:
| Service | What it receives |
|---|---|
| Google Gmail | The weekly email to the school office, sent from Joseph Ogaga’s own address after he approves it |
| Google Gemini | The photograph of a school letter, to read the text on it |
| Apple iCloud | Calendar events, written into each parent’s own calendar |
| Telegram | Messages between the assistant and the two parents |
The assistant requests a single Google permission: send email on your
behalf (gmail.send). It deliberately does not request permission
to read, search or delete email, and it cannot do so. It does not request access to
Google Calendar, Drive, Contacts or any other Google service.
Information obtained through Google APIs is used only to send the emails described above. It is never transferred to anyone else, never used for advertising, and never used to train any model. This use follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
School letters and the events taken from them are kept for the school year they relate to, and then deleted. Messages between the parents and the assistant are kept only as long as they are useful for the arrangements in hand.
This tool records information about the household’s own child, entered by her own parents. No child uses it, and no information about any other child is collected. Where a school letter happens to mention other people, only the details needed for the family’s own arrangements are kept.
Either parent can ask for anything held about them to be deleted, and access can be withdrawn at any time by removing the assistant’s permission at myaccount.google.com/permissions, by revoking its app-specific password in Apple Account settings, or by blocking it on Telegram.
Joseph Ogaga — ogagajoe4real@gmail.com