Security and privacy

Private by design.

An institute holds phone numbers, fees, marks and careers. SideKick treats that as the most important thing it stores.

One platform, every institute separate

  • Each institute gets its own workspace: its own people, settings, pipelines, roles, files and AI budget.
  • Every table carries the workspace it belongs to, and database rules check it on every read and write. Automated tests prove one institute cannot read another’s data.
  • Each institute connects its own WhatsApp numbers; their access keys are encrypted for that workspace alone.

Sign-in and roles

  • Team members sign in with a one-time email code or Google.
  • Each person’s role decides which pages and records they see. Removing someone ends their access immediately.

AI that never sees names

  • Names, phones, emails and ID numbers are replaced with tokens before any text reaches an AI model.
  • Each workspace sets its own AI budget, and an admin can switch AI off entirely.

A complete audit trail

  • Every change records who made it, what changed, and the values before and after.
  • The audit log and timeline are append-only.

DPDP rights, built in

  • Consent is recorded per channel: WhatsApp, calls, recordings and email.
  • Admins can export everything held about a person, or erase it in two confirmed steps. Files are deleted; payment records and consents are kept as legal records.

Retention and backups

  • Call audio is deleted six months after the call. Deleted records are purged after a period each workspace sets (180 days by default).
  • Database backups are encrypted with AES-256-GCM and checked by restoring them.

Files behind signed links

  • Documents, résumés and recordings are never public. They open only through short-lived signed links.
  • Stored keys for connected accounts are encrypted.

Safe integrations

  • Incoming webhooks from Meta and WhatsApp are checked by signature, stored once and processed exactly once.
  • Lead intake and payments use idempotency keys, so a retry never creates a duplicate.

Respectful messaging

  • Automated sequences respect consent and quiet hours.
  • Exports are recorded in the audit log.

This website

  • Visits to this site are counted with PostHog (hosted in the EU) and Cloudflare Web Analytics. Neither sets cookies, and PostHog skips browsers that ask not to be tracked.
  • Some visits are recorded to improve the site. Every field is hidden, the sandbox is never recorded, and nothing you type is sent.

Copies outside SideKick, such as WhatsApp chats, Google Calendar events and spreadsheets you exported, are not erased by SideKick. The docs explain how to handle them when a person asks to be forgotten.