Privacy, by design —
not by promise.

What MyCam does with your video

MyCam turns your phone into a webcam for your Windows PC. The video (and, for the iPhone page, motion sensor data used to steady and orient the feed) is captured on your phone and sent directly to the MyCam companion app running on your own PC — over a USB cable, or over your local Wi-Fi network. MyCam doesn't run any server of its own, doesn't relay your stream through the internet, and doesn't send it to the developer or any other third party. When your PC and phone talk over Wi-Fi, they have to be on the same local network; MyCam cannot see or stream your camera from outside it.

What MyCam does not collect

• No account, email address, or sign-up of any kind.
• No analytics, telemetry, or crash-reporting services.
• No advertising, and no ad or tracking identifiers.
• No video, audio, or images are ever uploaded, stored on a server, or shared with anyone — they stay on your phone and your PC.

Permissions the Android app asks for

Each permission exists to make the webcam work, and for nothing else:

• Camera — to capture the video you're streaming.
• Notifications — for the persistent "streaming" notification, which also lets you pause the camera from the lock screen.
• Run in the foreground / wake lock — so streaming keeps working while the app isn't on screen, and the phone doesn't fall asleep mid-call.
• Network state and Wi-Fi state — to find your PC and open a connection to it on your local network, and to discover it with "Find phones on Wi-Fi."
• Internet — Android has no separate permission for local-network sockets, so this one is required to open a connection to your PC at all. MyCam never uses it to reach the public internet.

Pairing and device trust

A PC has to be explicitly allowed by the phone before it receives real video, even after it's been paired once — scanning a QR code or entering a pairing code gives a PC permission to pair, not to watch. While a PC is paused or hasn't been allowed yet, it only ever sees a static "camera paused" picture, never a live or frozen frame.

Local logs

The Windows companion writes a log file to your own PC, at %LOCALAPPDATA%\MyCam\mycam.log, to help diagnose connection problems. It stays on your machine — MyCam never uploads it anywhere — and it never contains pairing codes, QR addresses, or tokens.

Open-source components

MyCam's PC companion is built on a small number of open-source libraries — libusb, qrcodegen, and the UsbDk driver — each bundled or installed locally to talk to your phone over USB and generate pairing QR codes. None of them phone home or collect data on MyCam's behalf.

Children's privacy

MyCam doesn't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children, because it doesn't collect personal information at all.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the update will be committed to the same open-source repository as everything else, with the date above kept current. Since MyCam doesn't collect contact details, there's no mailing list to notify — check this page, or the repository's history, for the latest version.

Contact

Questions or concerns about privacy? Open an issue on MyCam's GitHub repository.