The short version: your camera, microphone, photos and files travel directly between your phone and your computer, encrypted. We never store them, and in a paired session we never even see them.
Effective 22 August 2026 · applies to usemyphone.com
Use My Phone connects your phone and your computer to each other. In a paired session — the cameras, microphone, photos, file transfer, signatures, scans, clipboard text and drawings — media moves over an encrypted peer-to-peer connection between your two devices. Our server helps the devices find each other and passes small control messages (pairing, tool switching, touchpad movement, speaker notes, audience questions); it does not receive that media, does not record anything, and has nowhere to store it. When both devices are on the same network, the data usually never leaves it.
On roughly one network in ten, a direct connection is impossible and the encrypted stream is passed through our relay server. The relay forwards encrypted bytes it cannot read, keeps nothing, and logs nothing about the content.
The photo booth is the one exception. Booth guests are not paired devices, so each guest photo travels to our server over an encrypted connection and is relayed straight to the host's screen from memory. It is never written to disk, and it is gone the moment it is delivered.
If you create an account: your email address, which sign-in method you used, your plan, a count of sessions per month, and — for the 30-day life of each sign-in — which browser that sign-in came from. That is the whole account record: no name, no photo, no address. Signing in with Google shares only your email address with us.
Saved devices: a short label for phones you pair while signed in (for one-tap reconnecting), removable from your account page.
Session history (Studio plan only): a short log per session — which tool, when, and how many photos or files moved. Never the content itself. It is kept while the account exists and is deleted with it.
Pairing sessions: a session exists in server memory while you use it and dissolves when you disconnect. Pairing codes expire after ten minutes.
Messages you send us: contact-form messages and bug reports, with the email address you chose to give, kept for up to a year. Bug reports include your browser version, screen size and the page it happened on — only if you leave that box ticked.
We count how the site is used so we can improve it, without identifying anyone:
Everything above is first-party: no analytics companies, no advertising networks, no tracking pixels, no third-party scripts of any kind. Our security policy blocks them outright, and our fonts are served from our own server for the same reason.
There is no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to: no cookie here tracks you, and none is shared with anyone.
You can use every tool without an account where sign-in is optional. To see, correct or delete anything we hold about you — including your account and its history — email info@usemyphone.com from the address on the account, or use the sign-out and device controls on your account page. Deletion is real deletion, not a flag.
Our server runs in the European Union (Stockholm). Media does not "live" anywhere — it streams between your devices and is gone when you close the tab.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. We will never quietly add tracking and call it an update.
Ask anything about this policy at info@usemyphone.com or through the contact page.