How we handle your data

Built like we'd want our own data handled.

Your data is walled off at the database layer.

Every record you store in Oikome is row-level secured to your account. That isolation is enforced by the database itself, not just by the application — the database will not return another household’s rows, whatever the application asks for. This isolation has been explicitly audited.

Your documents are never kept.

Statements, bills, letters, valuations — each one is read in memory and then discarded. The file itself is never written to storage. What stays is the suggestions you accept. To read a document, it’s sent to an AI service for that one request; nothing enters your register until you accept.

No bank credentials.

Oikome never asks for your banking logins. You start from the documents you already have, so there are no bank credentials for us to hold.

Encrypted in transit and at rest.

Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and hosted in the EU (Ireland).

We don’t give advice.

Oikome shows your own figures and projections. It does not recommend investments, products or tax moves. Projections and what-ifs are arithmetic on your own figures, not recommendations.

Honest about the rest.

We’re a small company, and we treat that as a security feature: a written access policy means your data is never viewed except for a support request you initiate or a security incident — and we’ll always tell you exactly what we can and can’t see, rather than hiding behind compliance badges.

Where we’re headed

Today our protections are governance and database-level isolation, and we publish our access policy rather than hiding it. We’re building toward application-layer encryption of the most sensitive fields, and — as the team grows — formal separation of duties. We’d rather tell you what’s true now than what sounds good.

Our access policy

Our written access policy permits production user data to be accessed in exactly two situations: a support request you initiate — limited to the minimum data needed to resolve it — or the investigation of a suspected security incident or data-integrity fault. No other browsing, sampling, analysis, or export of identifiable user data is permitted, including for testing or product research; product testing uses demo-seeded accounts only. Every access under either condition is logged: the date, the condition, the user affected, what was accessed, and why. An empty log is the expected state. You can ask for the log entries that name your account, for a copy of your data, or for your account and data to be deleted, and we act within 30 days.