Privacy Policy

The short version

Kinwoo stores what it needs to run a shared household: your account, the houses you belong to, and the lists and activity inside them. There are no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and nothing is sold. The people in your house can see more about you than anyone else can, and that is covered below.

What we collect

• Your email address, used to sign you in with a code or through Google.
• Your display name, and your avatar: one of our own preset images, or a photo you upload yourself. Your Google profile picture is not copied.
• Your preferences: language, theme and the notifications setting.
• Your houses: house name, optional address, your role, when you joined or left, and invite activity.
• What you add inside a house: lists, items with quantities, urgency and notes, assignments, and purchase records with quantity, price, store and date.
• The activity feed, which records who did what in a house.

We do not ask for your contacts, location, photos or payment details. We do not collect your phone number.

Who can see what

Inside a house, active members can see each other's display names, avatars and email addresses, plus shared lists, items, purchase records and the activity feed. Admins can also see the invite code and manage members. A list marked private is visible only to the person who created it.

People outside your house cannot read its data. Someone previewing an invite sees only the house name, address, the inviter and a few members' names and avatars.

How we use it

To sign you in, show you your house, keep members in sync, and send the codes needed to log in. We do not use it for advertising or profiling.

Cookies and on-device storage

• Web: sign-in cookies set by our authentication provider. They are strictly necessary, because without them the site cannot tell that a request is yours.
• Mobile: your sign-in session is kept in the app's storage on your device.
• Both: your theme, your last active house and an invite code you opened before signing in are kept on your device. They are not sent to us as tracking data.

Clearing this storage or signing out removes it. Blocking the sign-in cookies will sign you out.

Who processes your data

These providers run parts of the service on our behalf:

• Supabase: the database, sign-in, real-time updates and storage of preset avatar images.
• Cloudflare: hosting and delivery of the web app and its API.
• Google: sign-in, only if you choose to continue with Google.
• An email delivery service: sends the sign-in codes to your address.

Each handles data only to provide its part of the service. Our hosting provider may also keep ordinary technical logs, such as IP address and browser type, for security. We may disclose information where the law requires it.

How long we keep it

Your account and house data are kept while your account exists. Houses keep a record of who took part, so when someone leaves or is deleted, what they did earlier can remain in the house history shown to remaining members as a former member.

Your choices

• Ask for a copy of the information we hold about you, or for it to be corrected.
• Ask for your account to be deleted.
• Leave a house at any time from the house settings.
• Sign out at any time. Signing out does not delete anything.

Email hello@kinwoo.in from the address on your account and we will respond within a reasonable period. Account deletion is handled by email for now, not from inside the app.

Security

Traffic is encrypted with HTTPS, and database rules limit each house's data to its members. No system is perfectly secure, so please choose what you add with that in mind.

Children

Kinwoo is not for anyone under 18, and accounts are not knowingly created for them. If you think a child has an account, email us and it will be removed.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will be flagged in the app.

Contact and grievances

Sourav Shrestha handles questions and complaints about privacy at hello@kinwoo.in. Our Terms & Conditions are part of how you use Kinwoo.