Privacy policy

Who we are

PeskyBird Cloud, including this website, the dashboard, the push API and the PeskyBird iPhone app when it is paired with PeskyBird Cloud, is run by Reaching Random LLC (“we”, “us”). Reaching Random LLC is also the seller of the PeskyBird app on the App Store.

If you pair the app with a server someone else runs, that server receives your messages and device details instead of us, and its operator's policy applies.

Questions about this policy or your data go to support@peskybird.app.

What we collect

• From Google when you sign in: your name and email address. We do not ask Google for anything else.
• Your account: the account name, and the names you give your topics and app tokens.
• Your paired phones: each device's name, its push token (the address Apple uses to reach it) and the app version it runs.
• Your messages: everything you send, including titles, text, links, buttons and data, and a delivery record of when each message went to which device and whether it arrived.
• Server logs: the IP address of each request to our servers, with the time and what was requested.

How we use it

We use this information only to run PeskyBird: to sign you in, deliver messages to your phones and keep their history in sync, show you what was delivered, apply your account's limits, keep the service secure and fix problems.

How your messages are protected

• Messages are encrypted at rest with a key per account. Titles, text, links, buttons and data are stored encrypted with a key that belongs to your account alone.
• This is not end-to-end encryption. Our servers decrypt your messages to deliver them to your phones and to sync your history. Access to our systems is limited to the people who operate PeskyBird, and we only look at message contents when it is needed to fix a problem you report or when the law requires it.
• Notifications reach your iPhone through Apple's push service, which carries the title and text shown on your lock screen.
• Some details are stored without that encryption because the service needs them to route messages: the names of your account, devices, topics and app tokens, push tokens, and delivery records.
• All traffic to and from our servers uses HTTPS.

Images

Where images are enabled for an account, a message carries a link to an image, not the image itself. Your phone downloads the image directly from the server that hosts it, so that server sees your phone's IP address. We store the link and never fetch the image.

How long we keep things

• Messages and their delivery records: removed from our servers after 30 days, unless a different period has been set for your account. Your phone keeps its own copy until you delete it in the app.
• Server logs: 30 days.
• Backups: kept for 7 days, then deleted.
• Your account, devices, topics and app tokens: until you delete them or your account.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time from the Account page of your dashboard. Deletion takes effect at once:

• Your account and its encryption key are removed, so your stored messages can no longer be read. Your devices, topics, app tokens, messages, delivery records and sign-in records are deleted.
• Your paired phones stop receiving notifications. The next time the app contacts our servers it shows the server as removed. Messages already on a phone stay there until you remove them in the app.
• Backups expire within 7 days, after which your account cannot be recovered from anywhere.
• We keep a record that your email address is approved for the beta, so signing in again starts a new, empty account. Write to us if you want that record removed as well.

What we never do

We do not sell your data or share it with anyone for their own purposes, and we do not show ads. Today the only cookies we set are the ones that keep you signed in. If we add analytics to the website or the app, we will update this policy to say what it collects.

Your choices

You can manage your devices, topics and app tokens, and delete your account, from the dashboard. To ask for a copy of the data we hold about you, or for help with anything in this policy, write to support@peskybird.app.

Changes to this policy

When we change this policy we update the date at the top. If a change materially affects how your data is used, we post a notice on this site before it takes effect.