How Pike protects your privacy
Pike helps people who can't afford a lawyer. We try to do that without ever turning your situation into someone else's marketing.
What stays on this device
When you use Pike anonymously, your conversation, the documents you upload, and the drafts Pike helps you write are kept in this browser session. They are not visible to us. If you close the tab without signing in, that work is gone — that is the trade-off for not signing in.
What we store when you sign in
Signing in associates your chats with your account so you can come back to them. We store: your email, the messages in each chat, documents you uploaded for that chat, and drafts produced by Pike. We never sell this. We do not advertise against it.
What our AI sees
To answer your question, your message and any document text you uploaded are sent to a language model (Anthropic, Google, or OpenAI, depending on configuration) for that single response. We do not use your data to train models. We do not log your questions for product analytics.
Subprocessors — who else may see your content
Pike uses a small set of vendors to deliver the product. They each have access to specific kinds of data: • Anthropic (Claude) — receives your chat messages and any document text you reference, to generate the reply. Used for OCR when you upload a scanned PDF. • OpenRouter — routes some requests to Google Gemini or other models. Same scope of access as Anthropic. • Google (Gemini), via OpenRouter — same scope when configured as the active model. • Resend — receives the document body when you choose to email a draft from Pike. • Turso (libsql) — primary database. Stores your account, messages, drafts, and uploaded document text under your user id. We do not sell your data to anyone. We do not share document content with advertising or analytics tools.
Sensitive content — health, financial, court records
Pike is not a HIPAA-covered entity, not a healthcare provider, and not a law firm. If you upload medical records, financial statements, court filings, or anything similarly sensitive, you are sharing that content voluntarily under the upload authorization you gave at first upload. Pike does not sell consumer health data. You can revoke your upload authorization at any time in Account → Privacy controls; revoking deletes every document you've uploaded along with any text Pike extracted from it.
Pike is not a lawyer
Pike provides legal information, not legal advice. We tell you what the law says, what your documents say, and what the law's procedure looks like — and we let you draw your own conclusions. Pike does not predict outcomes, recommend a course of action, or represent you. For high-stakes matters — criminal charges, deportation, custody where children's safety is at issue — please talk to a real lawyer. Pike will surface free legal-aid options when it spots one of these situations.
Deleting your data
Sign in, open a chat, and archive or delete it. Account deletion removes everything tied to your account from our database immediately. Free-tier accounts also have an automatic 30-day chat retention: if a chat hasn't seen a message in 30 days, the chat and everything in it is auto-deleted. You can override this per-document for items in your library.
Questions
Email privacy@pike.app and we'll answer.