Rideau Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 11, 2026

Who we are

Rideau is a home robot made by Kenras. This policy covers the Rideau software and its access to Google user data. Contact: kenras218@gmail.com.

What Google data Rideau accesses

When a person connects their Google account, Rideau asks for access to their Google Calendar: to read events, and, only if the person allows it, to add events. Rideau does not access Gmail, Drive, contacts or any other Google data.

How it is used

Calendar events are used only to:

answer that person's questions about their schedule
speak the calendar's own reminders in the home
create an event the person asked Rideau to add (only if they allowed adding events)

Where it is kept

Rideau runs on a device in the household's home. Sign-in tokens and a short window of events (yesterday to 7 days ahead) are stored only on that device, in files readable only by Rideau. Kenras does not receive or store users' calendar data on its own servers. Events are refreshed about every 10 minutes, and older events are dropped.

AI providers

To word a spoken answer about someone's schedule, Rideau sends the AI service the household has configured (Anthropic's Claude or Google's Gemini) only the titles and times of the relevant events, marking the rest as "busy". Event descriptions, notes and the other people invited are never sent. These requests are made only to answer the person's question.

Sharing

Google user data is never sold, never used for advertising, never used by Kenras to train AI models, and never shared with anyone except as described above. Who in the household may hear an event is chosen by the person who connected the calendar.

Removing access

A person can disconnect their calendar on Rideau's tablet page at any time. This deletes the stored token and events from the device and revokes Rideau's access at Google. Access can also be removed at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Limited Use

Rideau's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date above is updated.