Privacy policy
Effective 3 September 2026, updated 24 September 2026. Hector is made by Bananafest Destiny Apps (Walker Brown), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Hector is a reminder app. Somebody who knows you can set a reminder you cannot dismiss until you prove you did it. This page says what Hector reads, what it keeps, where it goes, and how to delete it. It is written to match what the app actually does.
What Hector keeps
Your account. Your email address and an account id, so your reminders follow you to a new phone. Sign-in is through Google or an email and password.
Your reminders. The task, when it fires, what kind it is, who asked for it, and — if one was set — the sentence describing the proof. These are stored on your phone and on our server so they survive a reinstall.
The people you named. The display names you picked from your contacts in People, and what you allowed each of them to do. Hector never asks for permission to read your contacts; the system picker hands it one name at a time.
Your subscription. If you pay, Google Play gives us a purchase token and we keep it with its status so the app knows what you have paid for. We never see your card.
On this phone only. Your conversation with Hector, the voice you chose, quiet hours, and a short summary of what each named person asked for today, kept for a day. The summary is sent along with each new message from that person so a follow-up like "never mind" makes sense, and our server does not keep it. None of the rest leaves the phone.
What Hector reads, and does not keep
Hector turns what people ask you for into reminders by reading your notifications — only the ones from people you named in People. Every other notification is ignored and never leaves your phone. It never reads your messaging app directly and never asks for SMS permission. Verification codes never leave your phone.
Each message from a named person is sent through our server to Anthropic's model to decide whether it is something you have to do and when. Hector does not store the message text: not on the phone, not on our server, not in a log. Hector keeps only what it concluded: a task, a time, and who asked. If the model decides it was not a task, Hector keeps nothing. Anthropic's handling of the message is described below.
When you photograph proof, the photo is sent to the model to judge. Hector does not store it and never shows it to anyone else.
Who else handles it
Anthropic runs the model that reads messages and judges photos. It receives the message or photo and answers. Under Anthropic's commercial API terms it does not use them to train its models, and it deletes them within 30 days, unless its usage policies or the law require keeping them longer. Supabase hosts the account and the stored reminders, in the United States. Google handles sign-in, and Google Play handles payment. Nobody else receives anything, and nothing is sold or shared for advertising. Hector has no ads and no analytics.
What the safe word is
When a reminder is held until proof, Hector shows a two-word safe word. A person you marked as an emergency contact can text it to you to let you off. Hector only ever compares the words; a text that is not the safe word is treated like any other message.
Deleting your data
Piece by piece, any time. You can delete any reminder from its own screen, and remove any person from People — which also releases anything they were holding you to. Neither requires deleting your account, and both take effect on our server immediately.
In the app: People → Delete my account. That removes your account and everything on our server at once, and wipes the phone. You can also request deletion at reminder.bananafest-destiny.com/delete-account. A subscription is cancelled through Google Play, not by deleting the account.
Children
Hector is not for children under 13, and we do not knowingly keep an account for one.
Changes and contact
If this page changes in a way that matters, the app will say so. Questions: [email protected]. The terms of use are separate and shorter.