Last updated: 23 July 2026 · Status: Draft · Applies to: the Sight early-access pilot (United States)

Privacy at Sight

Sight is built on one promise: we keep your home's story, not its footage. This page explains exactly what that means — what we collect, what we deliberately throw away, and how you stay in control.

Jump to: What we collect · What we don't keep · Where it lives · How long · Your rights · Deleting & unlinking · Who else touches it · Selling · This website · Children · Changes · Contact

What Sight collects

To turn your camera events into a plain-language story, Sight collects a small, specific set of things:

• Ring event signals. When Ring detects something at one of your cameras, it sends Sight a short signal — that motion was detected, that a doorbell was pressed, which device it was, and when. Sight also receives administrative signals from Ring, like a device going online or offline, and whether your Ring subscription is active. These are the events Sight turns into notes.
• Moments and the things built from them. The short text notes Sight writes about what happened, and the daily briefs, activity rhythms, answers, and alert rules built from those notes. Each note is a sentence or two of plain text.
• Your account. The email address you sign up with, and basic account records: your home, the people you invite into your family circle, your cameras' names and places, your notification settings, and your login sessions.
• Optional thumbnails — off by default. If you choose to turn thumbnails on, Sight can save a single small still image alongside a moment so you can recognize it at a glance. Thumbnails are encrypted with a key unique to your home, and you can delete them at any time. If you never turn them on, Sight keeps no images at all.

What Sight deliberately does not keep

This is the part most camera services get wrong. Sight is built so the sensitive thing — your video — is gone almost as soon as it arrives.

Video is read, then discarded. When one of your cameras fires an event, Sight pulls the clip or snapshot, analyzes it in memory, and throws it away — in under a minute, as soon as the reading is done. The video and every frame are held in working memory only; they are not written to a hard drive in our systems, and nothing about that video outlives the brief moment we process it.

The video stays yours, at Ring. The video Sight reads comes from Ring and carries Ring's own visible watermark. We analyze it and throw it away — we do not store it, re-host it, or copy it anywhere else. When you want to see the actual footage, Sight links you into your own Ring app, where your video lives under your Ring plan's retention and your control.

No faces, no names. Sight recognizes patterns, never people. It does not run face recognition, build face prints, or keep any biometric template or identity vector. It writes “someone was at the door,” not who.

No one watches your cameras. There is no screen, support tool, or debug page at Sight that shows an employee your video — the video is already gone. In the rare case an engineer must investigate a problem, they see the text notes and technical metadata, never media. Any emergency “break-glass” access is limited, requires two-person approval, and is something we commit to telling you about.

Where your data lives

Your data is stored and processed in the United States, on Microsoft Azure (Central US region). It is protected by access controls and encryption, and — because there is no video in it — a breach cannot spill your recordings. The text notes are the whole archive.

How long we keep it

We keep your home's story for as long as you want it — that's the entire point of Sight. Your moments, briefs, and rhythms stay until you delete them or close your account; nothing expires on its own.

When you delete, we remove your data from our live systems immediately, in a single operation that takes everything your home owns with it. Encrypted backups still hold a copy for a short while — up to 14 days — until they roll out of our backup window. Those backups are encrypted, access-controlled, and not readable by the app; after the window passes, the data is gone from backups too. Your Ring sign-in credentials are deleted as soon as you unlink Sight from Ring (see below).

Your rights and choices

We give everyone the same rights, whether or not you live in California. Under California law (the CCPA/CPRA) you have the right to:

• Know and access what we hold about you, and get a copy of it in a portable format — just ask.
• Delete your data (see the next section — deletion is real and complete).
• Correct information that's wrong.
• Opt out of sale or sharing — there's nothing to opt out of, because we don't sell or share your data for advertising (see “We don't sell your data”).
• Not be treated differently for exercising any of these rights.

To exercise any of these, contact us (below). We verify that a request really comes from the account owner before we act on it — that check protects you, too.

Deleting your data & unlinking Ring

A complete “delete my data” has two halves, and Sight does both:

• Unlink Sight from Ring. You can unlink Sight at any time from Ring's Control Center in the Ring or Amazon app. The moment you do, Sight receives the unlink signal and deletes the Ring sign-in credentials we hold for you, so Sight can no longer reach your cameras.
• Delete your Sight data. On request, we purge your home and everything in it — moments, briefs, rhythms, feedback, notifications, alert rules and their history, evidence packs, devices, your circle members, and account records — in one operation, and confirm it's done. (If you share a home's data with a family member who also belongs to another home, their own separate home isn't touched.)

The live purge is immediate; encrypted backups clear within 14 days, as described above.

Who else touches your data

To run Sight we rely on a small number of vendors, under contract:

• Ring (Amazon) is the source of your camera events and the home of your video. Sight connects through Ring's official Partner API, with your permission, using a secure sign-in — Sight never sees your Ring password.
• Microsoft Azure hosts Sight's systems in the United States.
• An AI language-model provider turns your text notes into readable briefs and answers. It only ever receives text — never your video — and is contractually barred from training on your data or retaining it.

These providers act on our instructions and only for the purpose of running Sight.

We don't sell your data

We don't sell your data, and we don't share it with advertisers or data brokers. Sight has no advertising business and no incentive to spy on you — you pay for the product, so the product works for you. That's the whole model.

This website

This site loads no third-party trackers, no analytics scripts, no advertising pixels, and no external fonts or content. Nothing you do here is reported to another company. The only thing this site can send anywhere is the email address you type into the early-access form — and only when you choose to submit it, so we can send your invite. If you arrived from one of our ads, the form also notes which ad, so we can tell which message resonated — that's it.

Children

Sight is for adults setting up their own homes. It is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we'll delete it.

Changes to this policy

This is a living draft during our pilot. When we finalize it with counsel before launch, and whenever we make a meaningful change afterward, we'll update the date at the top and, for significant changes, tell you directly.

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