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This page explains how MeinHelfer handles your letters and data – as concretely as we can, and without promises we can't keep.

Last updated: September 2026

Where your data is kept

Your letters, files and account data are stored in data centres in Frankfurt, Germany.

The web app runs on a server in Germany.

Encryption

Connections between the app and our servers are encrypted (HTTPS/TLS).

Stored data is encrypted (AES-256). Especially sensitive details such as your IBAN or tax ID are encrypted a second time, and every time one is shown it is logged.

Who can see your letters

Only you and the people you invite to your household can see your letters.

Items in your vault are visible only to you, not even to your household.

Our admin tools show only counts and technical status – no letter contents, senders or bank transactions. Every admin access is logged.

How a letter is read

To read and explain a letter, we send its photo or PDF and its text to an external AI service. Questions you ask the assistant are processed there too.

Every deadline and amount shows the sentence from your letter it comes from. If a deadline isn't in the letter, the app won't invent one.

If a letter looks like a scam, the app warns you – and doesn't suggest a reply.

Health data

Letters containing health data are only saved and shown once you have given explicit consent (Art. 9 GDPR). If you withdraw consent, those letters are deleted.

Nothing without your approval

MeinHelfer never sends or pays anything without your approval. You send reply drafts yourself.

Export and delete

You can download your data as a file at any time and delete your account yourself. After a 14-day grace period, everything is erased.

Delete a letter and its file is removed from our storage too.

Ads, tracking and cookies

No ads and no ad trackers. We don't sell your data.

This website sets no cookies and uses no tracking. The app uses only technically necessary cookies (sign-in, language).

Good to know

  • MeinHelfer is not end-to-end encrypted: to explain a letter, our servers and the AI service have to be able to read it.
  • Email reminders are delivered as ordinary email.
  • MeinHelfer is not legal or tax advice.

Found a security problem?

Write to us at [contact address for security reports – to be added]. We will reply as soon as we can.