What we don't track
The fields we deliberately don't measure, and why each was left out. Counterpart to the per-daycare 'what we don't know' block.
Data current as of April 2026.
Every quality measurement system makes choices about what to count. Below is what Childery deliberately doesn't count, and why.
Parent reviews
We don't collect or display parent reviews. The trust value of a parent review is high; the fairness cost of an ungated review system is also high — review-bombing, fake-positive astroturfing, and unmoderated language all damage trust faster than they help. Until we can run a rigorously moderated review system (which is out of scope for v1), we don't pretend to.
Browsing data — what we do track, and the deal
Childery is free. The exchange is straightforward: you let us see how you use the site, and we use what we learn to make it better. Concretely, that means we collect pageviews, clicks, scroll depth, and session recordings of your interactions with the page (no audio, no webcam). We use PostHog for this. Full detail is on the Privacy page.
What we don't do with that data: sell it, share it with daycares, use it to advertise to you elsewhere on the internet, or build a profile to follow you around. If that deal isn't the one you want, the Privacy page has a one-click opt-out at the bottom, and we honor the Global Privacy Control browser signal automatically.
If you log in (Phase 4+), we'll know which daycares you save, but we don't sell that data and we don't use it to retarget you with ads.
Demographic data of parents
We do not collect race, ethnicity, household income, or any other demographic data of users. Parents in stressed circumstances should not have to worry that researching daycare trains a profile of them.
Daycare-paid placement
We accept no money from rated daycares. There is no "claim this listing" upsell, no premium placement, no advertorial. (See About for the full trust contract.)
Specific things we know matter but can't measure
- Teacher turnover. State licensing data rarely tracks individual teacher changes, and even where it does, the timing is messy.
- Specific curriculum or pedagogy. Inspection records tell us a daycare is licensed; they don't tell us whether it uses Reggio Emilia or Montessori or a state-specific framework.
- Day-to-day classroom feel. A site visit is the only way to know this. We can't substitute a number for it.
- Your specific child's experience. Quality-on-average doesn't tell you whether your 2-year-old will thrive in that classroom.
We surface these gaps in the "What we don't know" block on every individual daycare page, so the absence is visible at the moment of decision rather than buried in a methodology link.