privacy policy
Who receives your data.
The companies that process your data for us, and the models we run ourselves. This page is built from the same list the app uses to send data anywhere, so it changes the day that does. Last changed 2026-10-04.
Companies
| Company | What for | What it receives | Where | Transfer safeguard | Listed since |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google (Gemini API) | Writes the cat's replies, reads your sign-up answers, turns your voice notes into text, and voices some cats. | Your messages, recent conversation and profile; the audio of your voice notes. | United States | EU–US Data Privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses | 2026-07-22 |
| Hatchbox | Deploys and manages our server. | Access to the server, and so to what it stores. | United States | EU–US Data Privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses | 2026-07-22 |
| Meta Platforms (WhatsApp Business Platform) | Delivers messages between you and your cat on WhatsApp. | Your phone number, profile name, and the messages and voice notes you exchange. | Outside the EEA in part | EU–US Data Privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses | 2026-07-22 |
| Stripe | Takes payments (an independent controller for payment data). | Your payment details, and a reference linking a payment to your chat or account. | Outside the EEA in part | EU–US Data Privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses | 2026-07-22 |
| Telegram | Delivers messages between you and your cat on Telegram. | Your Telegram ID, profile name, and the messages and voice notes you exchange. | Outside the EEA | Telegram's own terms (independent controller) | 2026-07-22 |
| Anthropic | A language model we use to read conversations back and find where the cats went wrong. | The conversation being reviewed. | United States | EU–US Data Privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses | 2026-10-04 |
| DigitalOcean | Hosts our server, database and backups, and the speech models we run ourselves. | Everything we store. | Amsterdam, Netherlands (EU) | Data stays in the EU; DigitalOcean is a US company, so EU–US Data Privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses cover any access from outside it | 2026-10-04 |
| ElevenLabs | Turns the cat's replies into voice notes for most languages. | The text of the cat's reply, which can include your name or something you told it. | United States | EU–US Data Privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses | 2026-10-04 |
| OpenAI | Voices the cats for some languages, and stands in when another voice provider is down. | The text of the cat's reply. | United States | EU–US Data Privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses | 2026-10-04 |
Models we run ourselves
For languages the big providers don't handle well, we run open-source models on our own server. Your data doesn't go to any other company for these, and voice audio isn't stored once it's transcribed.
| Language | Task | Model |
|---|---|---|
| West Frisian (Netherlands) | speech to text | wietsedv/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-frisian |
Adding a model to this table changes nothing about where your data goes. Adding a company to the one above means we've signed a data processing agreement with it first, and it appears here before it receives anything.