Privacy

The short version

• Right now, the only thing we collect is the email address you give us for the early-access list.
• The assistant has not shipped. Nothing is running on anyone’s computer yet.
• We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for anyone else’s advertising. The subscription is what pays for this, which is the whole reason it costs money.
• When the assistant does ship, Mika looks at the screen only at the moment your parent presses the button — not before, not between questions.

Who we are

PocketMika is built and operated by [TO CONFIRM: legal entity name, or “Enock Lubega, operating as PocketMika” if not incorporated] in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. You can reach a human at hello@pocketmika.com.

What we collect today

Today this site does one thing: it takes an email address for the early-access list.

• Your email address, because you typed it into the form. We use it to write to you when a pilot place opens, and for nothing else. There is no newsletter.
• Which button you signed up from — the top of the page or the bottom. It tells us which part of the page actually works.
• A rate-limiting record. To stop the form being abused, we keep a short list of recent submission times against either your email address or your IP address. It is used to count attempts and nothing else.
• Anonymous page analytics via Vercel Analytics: page views and general traffic patterns, without cookies and without building a profile of you.

We do not ask for your name, your parent’s name, a phone number, or a payment method to join the list. Nothing is charged while you are on it.

What Mika will collect when the assistant ships

This section describes how the product is designed to work. It is written here in advance deliberately — you should be able to read it before you decide, not after. We will update this page, and write to everyone on the list, before any of it is switched on.

Pictures of the screen

When your parent presses the button, Mika captures an image of what is on screen at that moment, so it can be described back to them. Specifically:

• The capture happens on a press. Mika is not watching in between.
• An on-screen indicator shows whenever Mika is looking.
• Screens containing password fields are not captured at all.
• Mika cannot click, type, install, delete, send, buy, or accept anything. This is not a policy we are promising to follow — the ability is absent from the software.
• Mika will never ask your parent for a password.

[TO CONFIRM: whether screen images are sent to a third-party AI provider for interpretation, which provider, whether they are retained by that provider, and whether they are excluded from model training. This is the single most important disclosure on this page and it must be answered precisely before launch.]

[TO CONFIRM: how long screen images are kept, and where.]

Summaries sent to you

After a session, you receive a short plain-English summary. The person using the computer comes first in this arrangement, always:

• Your parent sees each summary before you do.
• Your parent knows you receive them.
• Your parent can keep any session private — “Mika, keep this one to yourself” — and you will not receive it.
• Summaries can be switched off entirely, by them.
• If your parent turns Mika off, you are told that it happened. You are not told what they were doing.

We will not build a version of this that reports on someone without their knowledge. If that is what you are looking for, this is the wrong product.

Callbacks

When Mika is unsure, it offers a real person instead of guessing. If your parent accepts, we keep a record that a call happened and a brief note of what it was about, so the next person to help has context.

Who else touches this data

We use a small number of services to run the product. They process data on our instructions and are not permitted to use it for their own purposes.

• Convex — stores the early-access list.
• Resend — sends the confirmation and summary emails.
• Vercel — hosts the site and provides the anonymous analytics.
• [TO CONFIRM: the AI model provider, once chosen, plus any payment processor before billing starts.]

[TO CONFIRM: these providers are US-based, so personal information is likely stored or processed outside Canada and may be accessible to foreign authorities under their laws. Confirm each provider’s hosting region and state it plainly here — Quebec’s Law 25 requires this disclosure before a transfer outside the province.]

We do not sell personal information, and we never will. There is no advertising here.

How long we keep things

• Early-access emails: until you ask us to remove you, or until the pilot programme ends and we no longer need the list.
• Rate-limiting records: discarded automatically after a short window.
• Screen images and summaries: [TO CONFIRM]

Your rights

Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA, and Quebec’s Law 25) gives you the right to see what personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, and to withdraw your consent at any time. Quebec law also gives you the right to be told when a decision about you is made by automated means.

Email hello@pocketmika.com and we will action it. There is no form and no ticket queue. If you are unhappy with how we have handled a request, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, or to the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit. Access is limited to the people who need it to operate the service, which today is a very short list.

We will tell you if something goes wrong. If personal information is exposed in a way that creates a real risk of harm to you, we will notify you and the relevant regulator, and we will tell you what actually happened rather than a sanitised version of it.

Children

This is not a product for children and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or who sees it, we will email everyone on the list before the change takes effect — not after, and not by quietly editing this page. The date at the top always reflects the current version.