Hippo

How Hippo keeps your stuff safe

No jargon, just what we actually do

last updated: July 7, 2026
  • Encrypted at rest in Supabase storage
  • Only YOU can access them
  • Row-level security in Postgres means no one else can read your data even with a database query
  • Passwords are hashed with industry-standard algorithms (never stored plain)
  • OAuth via Google available for extra safety
  • Session tokens rotate regularly
  • When Hippo uses Anthropic's Claude to generate outputs, your data goes to Anthropic just long enough to generate a response
  • Anthropic doesn't train on your data
  • Results come back to Hippo — nothing is stored on Anthropic's servers
  • Google Calendar: we can only see events Hippo created (no reading your other calendars)
  • Google auth: we only get your email, not your Gmail contents
  • Our background jobs (email sending, streak calculation) require a signed secret
  • No anonymous access to internal endpoints
  • Automated vulnerability scans on every deploy
  • Google OAuth tokens locked down with proper access controls
  • Payment info (when live) is handled by Stripe — Hippo never sees or stores card numbers
  • Email kenna@hippo.study
  • We take security reports seriously, respond within 24 hours, and credit you if it's a real issue

If we ever have a security incident affecting your data, we notify you within 72 hours.

We're transparent about what happened and what we're doing to fix it.