Privacy policy
Last updated: 6 August 2026
Wenk Mi is a messenger running on a server belonging to the owner of wenkmi.com. There is no advertising company in between, and nothing here is sold or shared for advertising.
What is stored
- Your phone number or e-mail address — whichever you sign up with. It is what identifies you and where your sign-in code is sent.
- Your display name, status text and profile photo, if you set them. A profile photo is re-encoded on upload, which removes camera metadata such as the location where the picture was taken.
- Your contacts — the numbers or addresses you add yourself, so the app can show which of them use Wenk Mi.
- Your messages, whether each one was delivered and read, and any attachments.
- Your devices — the kind of device, the name of the app, when a device last connected, and the notification token the app needs to reach it once notifications are switched on, so you can see where you are signed in and switch a device off remotely.
- Server logs. They never contain message content, phone numbers or e-mail addresses. They do contain the network address a request came from, which is what makes it possible to slow down someone trying passwords or codes in bulk.
About the content of your messages
In this version messages are stored on the server in a form the server operator can read. End-to-end encryption, where the server itself can no longer read them, is being built and arrives in a later delivery. Messages sent before that point remain readable on the server.
What does not happen
- No advertising and no advertising trackers.
- No sale or transfer of your data to third parties for advertising.
- No analytics of our own, in the app or on this website. The browser is told to refuse scripts from any source at all, which also stops the measurement script the hosting provider inserts into the page. Everything the page does load — the font included — comes from this server.
Where it is kept
Everything sits on a single server inside the European Union, together with attachment storage and the database. Two companies sit in the path and see something on the way: Cloudflare, which carries every connection to the app and to this website and therefore sees the network address and the address being requested, and the provider that delivers sign-in codes by e-mail and by SMS, which receives only the address or number the code is going to and the code itself. Neither is given your messages. Mail you send to the address below reaches us through the same kind of path — a forwarding service and a mailbox provider — which is worth knowing before you put anything in it that you would not otherwise write in an e-mail.
For how long
Your data is kept for as long as your account exists. Sign-in codes stop working after five minutes; the address they were sent to is kept until the request is cleaned up, which also covers someone who asked for a code and never finished signing up. Uploads that stall halfway are removed automatically within a couple of hours.
There is no delete button in the app yet. Until there is, write to the address below and your account and its contents are removed for you. Nightly backups are kept for fourteen days, so a copy can survive that long before it ages out.
Your rights
You may ask what is stored about you, have it corrected or deleted, and object to the processing. Write to the address below; you will have an answer within a month. If you are unhappy with how that is handled, you may complain to your national data protection authority — in the Netherlands, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.
Contact
Questions about your data go to privacy@wenkmi.com.
Changes
If what is stored changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves.