Terms of service

Effective September 18, 2026. Lantern is run by Blue Camel Consulting LLC, a New York limited liability company, at 265 Sunrise Hwy. Ste. 1-452, Rockville Centre, NY 11570. Questions to support@lantern.family.

What Lantern is

Lantern screens public YouTube videos against limits you set and gives each of your children a wall of approved videos. You set the rules; Lantern applies them. The videos themselves are YouTube's, play in YouTube's player, and remain governed by YouTube's own terms. Lantern is not affiliated with YouTube or Google.

Because videos play through YouTube's own player, using Lantern also means you agree to be bound by YouTube's Terms of Service.

Your account

Accounts are for adults. You must be the parent or legal guardian of the children you add, and you are responsible for what happens under your account. Lantern is in beta; one account per family, and please don't share your sign-in link.

Your children's links

Each child's wall works from a private link. Treat it like a house key: share it only with devices and people you trust, and rotate it from settings if it leaks. A wall link grants viewing only; it cannot change any setting.

Screening has limits

Lantern's agents are careful but not perfect, and YouTube's catalog changes constantly. A video that slipped past the rules can be removed from every wall with one tap, and we tell you why it was there. Lantern is a tool that helps you supervise; it is not a substitute for supervision, and we do not promise that every video will match every family's judgment.

Fair use of the service

Don't use Lantern to break YouTube's terms, to rehost or scrape video content, to probe other families' data, or to do anything unlawful. Don't resell access. We can suspend an account that abuses the service or endangers other families, and we will say why.

Beta, plainly stated

Lantern is a private beta run by a small family company. It comes as-is, without warranties, and without a promise of uptime or of continued service. Nothing in these terms removes rights you have under the consumer law where you live; where that law gives you a guarantee or a remedy we cannot exclude, that law applies and the as-is wording above does not. We may change or discontinue features while the beta runs. If we ever wind the service down, we will give you notice and time to download your family's record. The beta is a paid subscription at the founding price, which stays yours for as long as the subscription runs without a break; the families who were already in before the beta keep free access. Paid plans, their prices, and the refund promise are on the pricing and refunds pages and apply only once you subscribe.

Renewing and cancelling

A subscription renews on its own until you cancel it. The first day is free and needs no card: your child's wall is built straight away, and after the free day it pauses until you add a card. Your card is taken when you add it and charged a day later. Cancel inside that day and no charge is taken at all. The yearly plan is charged a day after you add your card and again a year after that. The monthly plan is charged a day after you add your card and then on that same day each month; if that first charge falls on the 29th, 30th or 31st, a shorter month is billed on its last day. Your founding price stays yours at every renewal for as long as the subscription runs without a break; if you cancel and come back later, you pay whatever the price is then. You can cancel at any time from the billing portal linked on the refunds page, and the time you already paid for runs to its end.

Your data

What we collect, who helps us run the service, and how deletion works are all in the privacy policy, which is part of these terms. You can download your family's whole record or delete the whole family, both from settings, at any time.

Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Blue Camel Consulting LLC is not liable for indirect or consequential damages arising from the use of a beta service. Our total liability to you for any claim arising from the service is limited to the amount you paid Lantern in the twelve months before the claim arose. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

Governing law and changes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York. If we change these terms in a way that matters, we email the parents; the date at the top is the date the words took effect.