Norton Family Assistant is a personal AI assistant for parents. You can connect it to the everyday services your family uses (calendar, email, school portals, daycare apps) to help you manage family logistics.
To provide, secure, maintain and improve the service, Norton Family Assistant accesses and processes information from the apps and services you connect — such as your calendar, email, and school or daycare portals. This information may include sensitive data — for example, health information (like a doctor’s appointment or an allergy), information about your children, or the contents of your communications. Norton Family Assistant may use this information to identify relevant events, reminders, tasks, and family relationships, generate inferences, and carry out actions you request.
Some requests may require interaction with third-party services, including sharing your Inputs, Outputs, and instructions to complete tasks on your behalf, such as sending messages, creating calendar entries, making reservations, or retrieving information. If you ask Norton Family Assistant to facilitate a transaction, we may process and disclose the information necessary to complete it, including payment, delivery, and order details, to the third parties involved.
You are responsible for ensuring you have the necessary rights, permissions, or authority when instructing Norton Family Assistant to take action, retrieve information or respond to your request.
Where possible, Norton Family Assistant requests technical permissions based on the feature and connected service (such as read/create events, read messages, access portals you directed it to) — for connections that use a service’s API (such as Gmail or Google Calendar) you’ll review them before connecting to an account; for certain actions, such as sending messages, Norton Family Assistant will ask you to confirm before it proceeds. In accordance with your settings, connected services will continue to refresh periodically at intervals selected in your settings until you disconnect them so that Norton can identify new communications, events, reminders, schedule changes, and other updates relevant to providing Norton Family Assistant. If you disconnect a connected service, Norton Family Assistant will stop refreshing that service; previously generated briefings, outputs, logs, and other retained Norton Family Assistant records may remain. If you use Norton Family Assistant to connect to other third-party services, please note that those connected services may process your data (including data generated by the Family Assistant’s interactions with that service) in accordance with their own privacy policies, not ours.
Norton Family Assistant data is stored on encrypted infrastructure. More specifically, Norton Family Assistant runs a per-user instance architecture: your family graph, connected-account tokens, agent context, and chat history all live inside your own dedicated instance in the cloud operated by us and our vetted cloud providers, isolated from other users. Your data is kept for the appropriate period to provide and maintain the service and to ensure it is safe, secure, and up to date.
Your account and billing data are managed by Norton on separate, dedicated systems and are not co-mingled with your Norton Family Assistant instance.
Norton Family Assistant’s features described above are supported by artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies (including through the help of automated technology vendors), in particular large language models under enterprise contracts with zero data retention for training. We may use a small, sampled portion of interaction data—i.e., logging of errors, performance and issues to improve your experience—to evaluate the quality of the Norton Family Assistant features (for example, to measure whether the agent answered correctly). You can opt out at any time from this in the Norton Family Assistant Settings.
| | Categories of Data and Personal Data Processed (How Long It is Stored) | Purpose of Processing Your Personal Data |
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| Data You Provide: | Account Data:
- Service requires login to Norton account
- Phone number, if you choose to provide it, so that Norton Family Assistant can communicate with you by iMessage or SMS, as well as any other phone numbers you choose to add to a text chain
- You can also add information about your location and family, caretakers, and pets (including their health or other personal information) whether you add them through text or voice-based inputs (in which case, Norton Family Assistant collects audio recordings/transcripts)
Service Data:
- Inputs and Outputs: Content you input directly within Norton Family Assistant, including content associated with connected services (e.g. events you add to the calendar), agentic sessions, and your communications with the AI-powered Norton Family Assistant (including your prompts and other content you upload, such as files, images, audio, and video). Inputs generate responses and actions (“Outputs”) that may include communications, files or interactions with third-party services on your behalf including your or your family’s personal information.
- Feedback you provide to us including feature requests, bug reports or other suggestions and ideas as well as feedback using thumbs up/thumbs down icon in the chat.
- Connected Account Credentials and Tokens - for some connected services, we may collect log-in credentials, authentication tokens, account identifiers, and other access information you provide or authorize Norton Family Assistant to use to connect the product to connected services.
| Account Data: This data is processed to provide the service and to administer the account including establishing and authenticating your account as well as to communicate with you. If you provide a phone number, we use it to communicate with you, and with any other phone numbers you add to a text chain, via iMessage or SMS.
Service Data: This data is used to provide and maintain the Service, to personalize and customize your experience (e.g., by providing relevant briefings and responses), to communicate with you, to understand product usage, to further develop and improve product performance and new Norton Family Assistant features, and to detect, prevent, and respond to fraud, abuse, security incidents, and unsafe or unauthorized uses of Norton Family Assistant.
We may access, analyze, organize, summarize, and process the Service Data to help identify family-related information, reminders, schedules, events, tasks, updates, and other information, including inferences about you and others relevant to providing Norton Family Assistant.
Connected Account Credentials and Tokens: This data is used to authenticate and maintain the connections you enable, refresh connected services in accordance with your settings, access information from those services to provide the Norton Family Assistant, and perform actions you authorize. We may store this data in encrypted form to maintain the connection, and you can disconnect connected services through the settings.
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| Data We Collect/Access: | Service Data:
- Content from connected services (such as emails, messages, chats, events, calendar entries, contacts, invitations, attachments, photos, videos, audio, and other media, and education record assignments, and related communications), which are stored in an encrypted per-user instance for as long as necessary to provide Norton Family Assistant
- Content from other services accessed or websites visited by the agent at your direction or otherwise retrieved in response to your prompts and instructions
- Service-usage events, product telemetry, and other related usage data (including log data, usage data, device information, and generalized location information from your IP address)
- Location (auto-detected from your network — used to personalize briefings with local weather and events)
| Service Data: This data is used to provide and maintain Norton Family Assistant, to personalize and customize your experience (e.g., by providing relevant briefings and responses), to communicate with you, to understand product usage, to further develop and improve product performance and new Norton Family Assistant features, and to detect, prevent, and respond to fraud, abuse, security incidents, and unsafe or unauthorized uses of Norton Family Assistant.
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| Data We Collect/Access from Third Parties: | Data about you Provided by Others
| A user may provide us with information about you (e.g., information about you as a caretaker of their child) or provide access to connected accounts that have information about you (e.g., Service Data that includes emails to and from you). This data is processed to provide Norton Family Assistant to that user. If you submit someone else’s personal data to us, you represent that you are authorized to provide this information to us, and you are responsible for notifying any individuals about your use of Norton Family Assistant, including the potential that Norton Family Assistant may access communications involving them. Before connecting shared accounts, group chats, or communications involving others, you should ensure you have the right to permit Norton Family Assistant to access and process those communications |
Categories of Data and Personal Data Processed (How Long It is Stored)
Account Data:
- Service requires login to Norton account
- Phone number, if you choose to provide it, so that Norton Family Assistant can communicate with you by iMessage or SMS, as well as any other phone numbers you choose to add to a text chain
- You can also add information about your location and family, caretakers, and pets (including their health or other personal information) whether you add them through text or voice-based inputs (in which case, Norton Family Assistant collects audio recordings/transcripts)
Service Data:
- Inputs and Outputs: Content you input directly within Norton Family Assistant, including content associated with connected services (e.g. events you add to the calendar), agentic sessions, and your communications with the AI-powered Norton Family Assistant (including your prompts and other content you upload, such as files, images, audio, and video). Inputs generate responses and actions (“Outputs”) that may include communications, files or interactions with third-party services on your behalf including your or your family’s personal information.
- Feedback you provide to us including feature requests, bug reports or other suggestions and ideas as well as feedback using thumbs up/thumbs down icon in the chat.
- Connected Account Credentials and Tokens - for some connected services, we may collect log-in credentials, authentication tokens, account identifiers, and other access information you provide or authorize Norton Family Assistant to use to connect the product to connected services.
Service Data:
- Content from connected services (such as emails, messages, chats, events, calendar entries, contacts, invitations, attachments, photos, videos, audio, and other media, and education record assignments, and related communications), which are stored in an encrypted per-user instance for as long as necessary to provide Norton Family Assistant
- Content from other services accessed or websites visited by the agent at your direction or otherwise retrieved in response to your prompts and instructions
- Service-usage events, product telemetry, and other related usage data (including log data, usage data, device information, and generalized location information from your IP address)
- Location (auto-detected from your network — used to personalize briefings with local weather and events)
Data about you Provided by Others
Purpose of Processing Your Personal Data
Account Data: This data is processed to provide the service and to administer the account including establishing and authenticating your account as well as to communicate with you. If you provide a phone number, we use it to communicate with you, and with any other phone numbers you add to a text chain, via iMessage or SMS.
Service Data: This data is used to provide and maintain the Service, to personalize and customize your experience (e.g., by providing relevant briefings and responses), to communicate with you, to understand product usage, to further develop and improve product performance and new Norton Family Assistant features, and to detect, prevent, and respond to fraud, abuse, security incidents, and unsafe or unauthorized uses of Norton Family Assistant.
We may access, analyze, organize, summarize, and process the Service Data to help identify family-related information, reminders, schedules, events, tasks, updates, and other information, including inferences about you and others relevant to providing Norton Family Assistant.
Connected Account Credentials and Tokens: This data is used to authenticate and maintain the connections you enable, refresh connected services in accordance with your settings, access information from those services to provide the Norton Family Assistant, and perform actions you authorize. We may store this data in encrypted form to maintain the connection, and you can disconnect connected services through the settings.
Service Data: This data is used to provide and maintain Norton Family Assistant, to personalize and customize your experience (e.g., by providing relevant briefings and responses), to communicate with you, to understand product usage, to further develop and improve product performance and new Norton Family Assistant features, and to detect, prevent, and respond to fraud, abuse, security incidents, and unsafe or unauthorized uses of Norton Family Assistant.
- A user may provide us with information about you (e.g., information about you as a caretaker of their child) or provide access to connected accounts that have information about you (e.g., Service Data that includes emails to and from you). This data is processed to provide Norton Family Assistant to that user. If you submit someone else’s personal data to us, you represent that you are authorized to provide this information to us, and you are responsible for notifying any individuals about your use of Norton Family Assistant, including the potential that Norton Family Assistant may access communications involving them. Before connecting shared accounts, group chats, or communications involving others, you should ensure you have the right to permit Norton Family Assistant to access and process those communications