Privacy

Last updated 17 October 2026

Draft. This page describes what the app and the Alaskan server do today, in plain words. It needs a lawyer's review before Alaskan launches.

The short version

There are no accounts. Your phone makes a random Alaskan ID, and no name, email or phone number is attached to it.
Your chats are kept on your phone.
When a bot saves your answers, they're kept on the Alaskan server, and the person who made that bot can see them.
In bots that use AI, the replies are written by Claude, made by Anthropic, and what you send in those steps goes to Anthropic.
Connected bots send your messages to the company that runs them.

What stays on your phone

Your chats, the bots you've installed, the name and age group you set in Settings, and the bots you've blocked. When a bot runs on a server, each message you send it goes there so it can reply, but the Alaskan server doesn't keep a copy of your chats.

What the Alaskan server stores

Your Alaskan ID. A random string your phone made when you installed the app. It's sent with your messages so bots can tell people apart. You can see it in Settings, under Alaskan server.
Answers bots save. Some bots save what you tell them, such as hours logged or a habit ticked off. Each answer is stored with your Alaskan ID and the time.
Where you're up to in a bot's questions, until you finish them.
Bots you build: what each one does, and the maker name you choose to show.
Reports you send: the reason, your note and the message you reported.
A count of AI replies per person, per bot, per day, so each bot stays within its daily limit.
If you link your own Hermes agent: the link, the messages and pictures it sends you (so the app can fetch them), and the messages you send it while it's offline, which are deleted once it receives them.

What a bot's maker can see

Anyone can build a bot. If a bot saves answers, the person who made it can see every answer it saved, from everyone who uses it, and when. They see you as "Person" and the first four characters of your Alaskan ID, not your name. So don't tell a bot anything you wouldn't tell the person who made it. A bot can't see your other chats or anything else on your phone.

AI replies: Claude, by Anthropic

Before you install a bot, Alaskan shows whether it uses AI. In those bots, AI replies are written by Claude, made by Anthropic. For each AI reply, the Alaskan server sends Anthropic the bot's name, description and instructions, and what you typed or answered in that step. Your Alaskan ID isn't sent. When you build a bot, Set Up asks first, and if you agree your description of it is sent to Claude too; if you don't, Set Up builds it without AI and sends nothing. AI can be wrong.

Connected bots

Some bots are a company's own service, connected to Alaskan. Before you install one, Alaskan shows where its messages go. When you use it, what you type and the answers you give it are sent to that company, with an ID made just for that bot so it can tell its users apart. It never gets your Alaskan ID. That company's own privacy policy covers what it does with them. The Alaskan server passes your messages on and doesn't keep them.

If you link your own agent, such as Hermes, your messages go to that agent, wherever you run it. If you change the server in Settings, your messages go to that server instead.

Reports and moderation

You can report a bot from a message (press and hold it) or from the bot's page. A report sends the reason, your note if you add one, the message you reported, and your Alaskan ID. Moderators read reports. When three different people report a bot, it's suspended until a moderator looks at it.

Moderators also check bots that use AI, are rated 18+ or connect another service before anyone else can use them. They see what a bot does, where its messages go, its age rating and its reports. They don't see your chats. Blocking a bot is kept on your phone only.

Deleting your data

In Settings, tap Reset Alaskan. It deletes your chats, installed bots, name, age group and blocked bots from your phone. Deleting the app does the same.
Reset doesn't reach the server. Answers bots saved, bots you built and reports you sent stay there under your Alaskan ID. To have them deleted, email your Alaskan ID (in Settings) to support@alaskan.ai. Do it before you delete the app, because the ID goes with it.

Questions

Email support@alaskan.ai.

For review: who the data controller is and their address; how long each kind of data is kept; children's privacy (Alaskan has age ratings and an age setting, but no verification); legal bases and international transfers; the terms Anthropic's API applies to what it receives; and deleting server data from inside the app instead of by email.