Our Story

As parent to two girls rapidly approaching puberty, I started to look for health apps to help them track and understand their cycle and which could provide them with safe, reliable and age-appropriate information to questions they may have. I was both surprised and a little shocked by what I found.

The apps I found were targeted at tracking fertility for pregnancy, contained unmoderated chat channels, sent them to YouTube for advice, required a monthly or yearly subscription, contained unsuitable advertising, or potentially gave away the user’s personal health data to who knows where and whom.

So, with over twenty years in the Information Technology field and having recently sold my consulting business, I found that I now had the time and expertise on my hands to do something both to help my children and set out to address these flaws, and so the idea of TEMPUS was born.

An application which would be first and foremost a privacy driven app, with no ongoing subscriptions, where the data remained in the user’s control and would contain no advertising or social media integration and would not require the child or parent to provide personally identifiable information to use.

And while I possessed the necessary software experience, I knew I would need help when it came to providing safe and quality content. So as part of the research and design process, I reached out to Cath Hakanson, an experienced author, nurse and mother of two who provides accessible and down-to-earth information for parents on how to talk children about love, sex and relationships.

And so, I have teamed up with Cath, to provide safe, age appropriate, and reliable packs within the app which answers 100’s of questions teens may ask about periods, pads, tampons and more. This information is all offline, available 24/7 and is completely private.

This is my story and the story of how Tempus came to be, and I hope that Tempus can prove to be as beneficial to you as it is to me and my family.

Darren - Founder

Our Team

Darren Lattin

Founder - Tempus

Jane Lattin

Co-Founder - Tempus

Cath Hakanson

Cath Hakanson is an experienced author, nurse and mother of two who provides accessible and down-to-earth information for parents on how to talk children about love, sex and relationships. You can find her at Sex Ed Rescue.

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