Operator: HydroComplete LLC. Effective November 14, 2026
With your explicit consent through Ring's account linking, Night Check can see the cameras you share and their names. At linking you give us your email address and ZIP code. On your dashboard you choose what each camera watches (a garage door, a gate or your trash bins, or nothing), the time of your evening check, and your bin pickup days. We use these for one purpose: to remind you in the evening if something looks open, or if your bins are not out the night before pickup.
Night Check looks at your cameras only once each evening, at the check time you set (10 PM by default), and when you press Check now. It looks only at cameras you have pointed at one of those items; bin cameras are looked at only on the evening before a pickup day you chose. Ring also sends Night Check motion alerts for your cameras; they are ignored and nothing is fetched for them.
In short: at your check time, Night Check asks Ring for the newest still picture each chosen camera has already taken in the last 30 minutes, and sends it to Anthropic's Claude AI, which answers one question about the one item that camera watches. You get one message for the evening.
Step by step: for each camera, Night Check asks Ring for the newest existing picture from the last 5 minutes, then the last 15, then the last 30. It does not wake the camera or take a new picture; pictures come from Ring's Snapshot Capture or from recent motion events. If there is no picture from the last 30 minutes, the camera is reported as "couldn't check". Otherwise the picture is sent to an AI vision service (see below), which answers only: the state of the item (open, closed, partly open; bins at the curb or not; not visible; unsure), how confident it is, whether it is a night (infrared) picture, and whether a person is visible (used only to decide not to keep the picture).
Each camera has a daily allowance of 20 checks, and the service as a whole a daily allowance of 3,000. Past either allowance the camera is reported as "couldn't check", never guessed.
Pictures are read by Anthropic's Claude (model claude-haiku-5-5), a general-purpose AI model, through Anthropic's commercial API. It receives one picture and the name of the item, with an instruction to report only that item's state, never anything about people, plates or addresses; its answer can only take the values listed above. Anthropic processes the picture on our behalf and does not use data sent through its commercial API to train its models. Night Check does not train any model, and your data and pictures are never used to train any model, ours or anyone else's.
Readings are automated and will sometimes be wrong, especially at night, in rain or glare, or if the camera has moved. A dark or unclear picture is reported as "couldn't check", not as closed. You can mark any check right or wrong. Night Check is a reminder, not a security or safety system.
Your email identifies your account and is where your evening message is sent (you can turn email off, and turn off the "all closed" message). Your ZIP code is looked up on our own server to find your time zone, so your check time matches your clock; it is not sent to anyone.
We do not sell, share or disclose your data or pictures to any third party for their own purposes. Your dashboard is visible only to you, through your private link. Three sub-processors act on our behalf, all in the United States: Fly.io, Inc. (cloud hosting), which stores data and does not use it for anything else; Anthropic, PBC (AI vision), which receives only the picture described above; and Resend (email delivery), which receives your email address and the text of each message.
Deletion is self-service. Delete all my data on your dashboard removes everything above, including every picture, from the live service at once. Encrypted host snapshots age out within 5 days, and copies held by Anthropic or Resend follow their retention periods described under What we keep. Removing Night Check from your Ring app does the same automatically. You may also request deletion, or a copy of your data, by email (below); we respond within 30 days.
Analysis is fully automated. No person views your pictures: they are shown only to you, the developer's administration page cannot display them, and Night Check never downloads video.
No person, including the developer, views your account data in routine operation. If you ask for support or for a copy of your data, the developer may look at your text records only (camera names, settings, and the check and message lines described above), and only to answer that request.
Nothing is collected until you complete Ring's account-linking consent. You choose which cameras are looked at and what each watches, the check time and pickup days, can turn the "all closed" message and email off, switch any camera off, stop all collection by removing Night Check in the Ring app, and remove all stored data with the delete control. There is no advertising, data sale or AI training to opt out of: those uses do not happen.
Night Check is for adults aged 18 or over and is not directed at children. It does not collect information about anyone seen on camera.
If we ever change what is read from your pictures or which pictures are kept, we will update this page with a new date and show a notice on your dashboard before the change takes effect.
Access to your Ring account uses Ring's account-linking system; Night Check never sees your Ring password. Data travels over HTTPS and is stored on access-controlled, encrypted infrastructure.
Anyone, including people who are not Night Check customers, can report a suspected misuse of Night Check (for example, a camera pointed at property its owner is not entitled to monitor) as described on our support page.
Questions, data requests or deletion requests: michaelbflynn@gmail.com