Privacy policy: home-cameras

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This policy covers home-cameras, a private app that I, Arsenie Coseac, wrote for my own home. It is not offered to the public, and the only Google account that signs in to it is my own.

What it accesses

With my permission as the owner of the Google account, home-cameras uses the Google Smart Device Management API and Google Cloud Pub/Sub to access:

  • the list of Nest cameras in the home and their status;
  • camera event notifications (person, motion or animal, with the time);
  • live video from those cameras.

It accesses nothing else from the Google account: no email, contacts, files or location.

What it does with it

It shows the cameras on a dashboard inside the house, keeps a log of events, and runs a person and animal detector on a computer in the house.

Where it is stored

Everything home-cameras keeps is stored only on a computer in the home. The event log keeps the time, the camera and the type of each event. One still image per event is kept for 30 days and then deleted automatically. No video recordings are saved.

Sharing

None of this information is sold, used for advertising or tracked with analytics. Nothing is shared outside the household, with one exception: when someone in the family asks the voice assistant in the home a question, a short text summary of recent events (for example “Tuesday 18:05, front door: 1 person”) may be sent to the Claude API from Anthropic to answer it. No images or video are ever sent.

home-cameras' use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy (https://developers.google.com/terms/api-services-user-data-policy), including the Limited Use requirements.

Revoking access and deleting data

Access can be removed at any time at https://myaccount.google.com/connections or in Nest partner connections (https://nestservices.google.com/partnerconnections). Stored images delete themselves after 30 days. To have anything deleted sooner, write to the address below.

Contact

Questions about this policy, and requests to delete data, go to privacy@coseac.swiss.