What Peekaboo keeps, and why.

Your account. Your email address. You sign in with a link we email you; there is no password. Once the Ring integration is live: if you connect Ring before you have a Peekaboo account, your account uses the email address on your Ring account, which Ring gives us for that connection, and we email that address once to say the cameras were connected. If you add people who should get alerts, we keep the first name you give each one and, if you add it, their email address.

Your cameras. Each camera’s name, type and the location words you give it (“front door”, “garage”), whether it’s online, and whether its video is encrypted. Once the Ring integration is live, for Ring cameras we also keep your Ring account’s ID and the access tokens Ring gives us when you connect, stored encrypted, and use the state Ring reports for each camera’s location only to set your place’s time zone. We never ask for your Ring password.

Camera events and frames. The event notices your cameras send (for example “motion at the front door at 2:14 PM”, with the camera’s own label such as person, vehicle or package), and still frames: we fetch them when a camera reports a person, a vehicle, a package or a doorbell press, whether or not a routine needs it, and when a routine, Watch or a check needs to look. With push URLs and the API, every picture you send is read unless it’s sent as a snapshot. Frames are stored encrypted. We don’t download or keep video.

What was seen. Short text notes about each frame we read (“a courier leaving a box”, counts of people and vehicles, whether the garage door was open), the alerts we sent, and whether each routine was met, missed or couldn’t be confirmed.

Your routines. The sentences you write (“at 10 PM check the garage is closed”) and the settings that go with them, such as who to tell.

Phone alerts. When you turn on alerts in a browser, we keep that browser’s push subscription (an address at your browser’s notification service and the keys used to encrypt alerts to it) and a device name such as “iPhone”.

Booking calendars (hosts only). The calendar link you paste, stored encrypted, and the check-in and checkout dates in it, with each booking’s calendar ID so changes can be matched. Guest names, phone numbers and notes are dropped as the calendar is read and never stored.

Other things you add. Team chat and webhook addresses (stored encrypted), proof pages you make, and a log of each email and message we send (to whom, the subject, when, and whether it went out), so you and we can see what was sent. The log doesn’t keep the text of what was sent.

Technical. To stop abuse, we count requests per network address. We keep only a keyed one-way hash of the address (it can’t be turned back into the address without a secret key we hold), and the counters are deleted soon after they expire. If you join the early list, we keep your email, what you said you’d use Peekaboo for, which cameras you have, the page you joined from and that hash.

We never identify people. There is no face recognition, no face matching, no license plate reading, no watchlists and no lookups in any outside database. Descriptions use roles and clothing only (“a person in a dark jacket”). A wording check removes plate numbers, house numbers and names on badges or mail in the forms it knows, if a description includes them, and it can miss one. We never follow a person from one account to another.

We never collect audio, even where a camera offers it.

We never sell your data, share it for advertising, or use it to build profiles of you. The site and app have no ads and no analytics trackers.

We never use your frames, events or routines to train any model.

Only to run Peekaboo for you: to check your routines, run Watch if you turn it on, send the alerts and morning brief you asked for to the people and places you chose, show your history in the app, answer your questions about it, and tell you honestly when a camera couldn’t see.

An image-reading model service. Frames that need reading are sent, with the camera’s name and the yes/no questions your routines ask, to a third-party model provider that reads them and returns a short description. When the built-in reader can’t handle a routine sentence, that sentence goes to the same kind of service, with the names, types and location words of the cameras at that place and any saved first names the sentence mentions. Questions you ask about your history go there too, with the text notes they need. Before any real camera frames go to this service, we’ll have its no-training and retention terms in writing. We won’t turn this on without them.

Hosting. Peekaboo runs on Cloudflare, which stores its database.

Email. An email delivery service sends sign-in links, alerts and briefs.

Phone notifications. Alerts to a phone or browser pass through that browser maker’s notification service (Apple, Google, Mozilla or Microsoft). They are encrypted so that service can’t read them.

Ring. A Ring integration is in development and isn’t live yet. When you connect it, we use Ring’s API for app developers with the permissions you grant in the Ring app. You can change which devices Peekaboo sees, or remove it, in the Ring app at any time.

Places you choose. If you add people, a team chat or a webhook, alerts go there. A proof page you share can be opened by anyone with its link until it expires or you withdraw it.

Fonts. Our pages load their fonts from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts Google when it opens them.

We may also disclose data when the law requires it.

How long Peekaboo keeps each kind of data

What	Free	Paid plans
Camera frames we fetched or you sent	7 days	30 days
Text notes about what was seen, alerts and morning briefs	7 days	90 days
Watch alerts, the one exception to the row above	14 days, the length of the Watch trial, so its receipt can say when Watch spoke up	90 days
Daily counts (camera events and pictures read, minutes a camera couldn’t see) when you paused Watch or tapped That’s us, and your “Not useful?” answers (the reason, the camera and the light, never a picture)	90 days
Watch trial receipts	30 days
At a parent’s home with the family check-in: the time of each morning’s first sign (a door used, the garage going up), so the usual time can be learned	35 days
A read-only link to the page a parent reads	Stops working after 90 days, or when you end it
Whether each routine was met, missed or couldn’t be confirmed, and whether anything looked different at each night’s Goodnight	90 days
Frames a proof page cites	Until that page expires, at most 90 days. If you withdraw the page, they go back to the limit above.
Proof pages you make	Until they expire, at most 90 days, or until you withdraw them
Links to a frame inside an alert	Stop working after 48 hours
Event messages Ring sends us	7 days
Our log of emails and messages sent	30 days
Sign-in links	Work once and expire after 15 minutes
Your account, people, cameras, routines and settings	While your account is open
Frames from the “what did your camera see?” upload tool, which isn’t open yet	Not kept: each is read and discarded

After these times, the data is deleted automatically. You can delete your account and everything in it sooner; see below.

You can delete your account yourself in Settings, under Your data. Or email admin1@sovnode.ai from the address you sign in with and ask us to delete it. We’ll delete your account and everything tied to it (cameras, frames, history, routines, people, phone subscriptions and connected calendars) and confirm by email.

In Settings you can also remove a person, a phone, a team chat or webhook, a booking calendar, or a camera you added yourself (with its stored frames), and withdraw a proof page at any time. Once the Ring integration is live: which Ring cameras Peekaboo can see is up to you in the Ring app. Removing Peekaboo there stops Peekaboo from using your Ring connection and deletes what Peekaboo got from Ring, with the alerts and proof pages made from it.

Frames, Ring tokens, calendar links and chat addresses are encrypted in our database. Sign-in links expire after 15 minutes and work once. Every message from Ring is checked against Ring’s signature before we use it. No system is perfect; if we learn that your data was exposed, we’ll tell you.

Peekaboo is for adults responsible for a place. It isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their personal information.

Write to admin1@sovnode.ai with any question about your data, or to report misuse of Peekaboo. If we change this page in a way that affects your data, we’ll update the date at the top and tell account holders by email before the change applies.

See also what Peekaboo will and won’t do.