WickAt a glance
- No camera looks inside the home. Ring is used at the front door only.
- Nobody reads her home until she allows them, on her own television.
- Health, money, relationships and location are never shared as a category with the family, under any setting. Free text is also checked against a written list, which catches what it names.
- Wick keeps no copy of a door picture. The card shows Ring's own picture through a short-lived link. Nothing is sold, and there is no advertising.
Who we are
Wick is operated by Roger Bavibidila, Zurich, Switzerland. Questions and requests: github.com/rogerjeasy/wick/issues.
What Wick collects
- Door events from a Ring doorbell the household has connected: that someone pressed the button or moved at the door, and a picture from that moment, used to describe who is there.
- Television activity: when the television is on and which programme is playing, used to learn the household's ordinary week.
- Her answers: which cards were shown and which buttons she pressed.
What Wick never does
- No camera inside the home. Ring is used for the front door and for the fact that someone arrived or left, never to watch her.
- No listening. Her television has no microphone. A family member can ask a question out loud in the family app; that one recording is sent to Amazon Transcribe, turned into words, and not kept.
- No mood or sentiment inference, and no wellness score.
- No location tracking.
- No sale of personal data, and no advertising.
What the family sees
Every sentence a family member reads is checked first by a rules engine in the Wick service. Health, money, relationships and location are never shared as a category, whatever the household's settings say. Words written by a person or by a model are read against a fixed list of words and shapes; it catches what the list names, and a sentence it does not recognise can still pass. The week is shared as a summary, never as raw logs.
She sees her own week on her television before any family member can read it. Anything unusual, such as a carer who did not come, is put to her first, and is told only if she presses Tell. She can choose, on her own television, what her family may see.
What Wick holds about a family member
A family member signs in with an email address and a password, or tries Wick as a guest with neither. Wick keeps:
- Your account: your name and email. Your password is held by Amazon Cognito; Wick never stores it.
- Your place in each circle: the name she sees, your role, and whether she has allowed you.
- What you sent: notes and their replies, pictures and whether she has seen them, invitations, visits you said you would make, and any television you connected as your own.
- Sign-ins: the tokens the family app holds and the browsers you asked to be notified on. Only a digest of each token is stored.
- What you said to the assistant: your conversation with the family app's assistant in each home, and what it remembers of your own words about how you like things done, in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory.
How long data is kept
| Data | Kept |
|---|---|
| Pictures from the door | Not kept by Wick: shown from Ring through a short-lived signed link |
| Live video from the door | Removed when the viewing ends; every copy deleted by storage rule within about two days, four at most |
| A card read aloud | About two days at most, by storage rule |
| Access tokens | One hour; refresh tokens and the sign-in cookie 30 days. Signing out ends them at once |
| Invitations to join a circle | Seven days |
| Family pictures | One she lets go of is deleted within about two days; one never answered after about 13 months; one she keeps, when she takes it down |
| Visits | About 13 months |
| Door and television events, and the weekly counts made from them | While the home is set up; deleted when it is closed |
| Your conversation with the assistant | 30 days; what it remembers of your own words, until you delete your account or the home is closed |
| Your account | Until you delete it |
| Backups | The database keeps point-in-time backups for 35 days, so anything deleted is gone from them 35 days later |
Your data and your rights
In the family app, open Account:
- Download my data gives you a JSON file of everything above that Wick holds about you, except what the assistant remembers. It contains no password, code or token.
- Delete my account asks for your password again (a guest has none), says what will go, and then deletes your account, your sign-ins on every device, your place in each circle, the visits you announced, any television you connected as your own, and everything the assistant kept of you.
A home is never left without the person who set it up. If you set up a home, deleting your account closes it, and the app asks you to confirm that first. Closing a home disconnects its Ring doorbell and televisions, removes everyone from its circle, and deletes everything Wick holds about it. If the doorbell cannot be disconnected, nothing is deleted and you are asked to try again.
A note or picture you sent to a home someone else set up belongs to that home. It is deleted when that home is closed, and listed in your download. You may ask for a correction through the contact address above.
Where data is processed
On Amazon Web Services, in the US East (N. Virginia) region. Descriptions of door pictures and the weekly summary are written by models on Amazon Bedrock. Ring's tokens are held in AWS Secrets Manager, one secret per home, and never reach a television or the family app.
Children
Wick is not designed for or directed at children and does not knowingly collect information about them.
Changes
Material changes will be published on this page, with a new date at the top.
Status. This policy describes Wick's implemented data practices and is published for a hackathon submission and developer preview. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer and must be before any commercial launch.