Privacy Policy
Last updated: April 17, 2026
What we collect
OfficeBestie collects data necessary to provide your personal work assistant. We collect:
- Identity: Email, display name, Slack user ID, timezone
- Work activity: Action items, check-ins, todos, focus sessions (all private to you)
- Help activity: Questions asked, answers given, expertise topics
- Escalations: Flags you explicitly raise to your manager
- Integration data: Jira issue references, GitHub PR references, Google Calendar events
- Preferences: Notification settings, quiet hours, routing opt-out
How we use it
Your data is used exclusively to provide the OfficeBestie service:
- Morning briefings (/action), end-of-day summaries (/packup)
- Focus session tracking, todo management, help routing
- Cross-app automation (Jira status transitions, PR review nudges)
- Team-level analytics for managers (aggregated, never individual)
- AI coaching (private to you, ephemeral, never stored permanently)
Privacy model
Engineer's data is private by default
- Your todos, coaching, and personal patterns are never visible to your manager
- Check-ins and focus topics are shared with your team in the daily pulse — so teammates know what you're working on
- Only items you explicitly /flag reach your manager
- Managers see team aggregates only — never individual performance data
- The "someone may need support" signal never reveals who
- Help request routing shows names only because you chose to answer
Data retention
- Completed action items and help requests: automatically deleted after workspace retention period (default 30 days)
- Resolved flags, completed work sessions, done todos: automatically deleted after retention period
- Open/active items: kept until completed or manually deleted
- User account data: kept until you request deletion
Your rights
- Right to access: Download all your data at /my/privacy (JSON export)
- Right to erasure: Request complete deletion at /my/privacy
- Right to object: Opt out of help routing via /settings routing off
- Right to restrict: Disable notifications via /settings
- Data portability: Export is in standard JSON format
These rights apply under GDPR (EU), CCPA (California), and India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023.
Third-party integrations
- Slack: We receive message events and reactions via Slack's API. We store Slack user IDs and message timestamps, not full message content.
- Jira: We sync issue metadata (key, summary, status, assignee email). We do not store Jira passwords.
- GitHub: We receive webhook events for PRs and deployments. We store PR metadata, not code content.
- Google Calendar: We access your calendar (read-only) to show today's meetings. OAuth tokens are stored securely. You can disconnect at any time.
- Anthropic (AI): AI coaching uses the Anthropic API. Your data is sent for processing and not stored by Anthropic.
Security
- All data transmitted over HTTPS/TLS
- Authentication tokens stored as SHA-256 hashes
- Integration credentials encrypted at application level
- Database access restricted to application only
- Webhook signatures verified for Slack and GitHub
Contact
For privacy questions or data requests, contact your workspace administrator or email us at privacy@officebestie.dev.
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