Privacy policy

Which policy applies depends on where your parent lives (your family’s home region). Choose your region below.

Draft – not yet reviewed by legal counsel. This document is a pre-launch draft. It will be replaced by a final version after legal review and has no legal effect yet.

United States (US)

Effective date: TBD · Version: draft 0.1

1. Information we collect and why

  • Family members: name, email (Google account), device information, purchase information
  • Parents: alert text, phone status, and (optional) audio clips and automatic recordings
  • Parent phone number and address, if a family member enters them (optional)

2. Information that stays on the phone

Everyday sound, everyday speech text, and the voiceprint are processed only on your parent’s phone and never sent to our servers.

3. Biometric information policy (voiceprint)

[Under legal review] Written consent and a public retention and destruction schedule as required by state laws such as Illinois BIPA. Voiceprints are deleted at the latest 3 years after last use, and right away on disconnect, consent withdrawal, or uninstall.

4. Consumer health data

[Under legal review] Whether laws such as Washington’s My Health My Data Act apply; a separate notice will be posted if so.

5. Retention

See the retention table (alert records 90 days, audio clips 30 days, and so on).

6. Sharing

Alert information is shared with the connected family members. We don’t sell or share personal information for advertising. Service providers: Amazon Web Services (hosting, US region), Google Firebase (sign-in, push notifications).

7. Your state privacy rights

[Under legal review] Rights to know, correct, and delete under laws such as California’s CCPA/CPRA. See account deletion.

8. Cookies on this website

This website uses one cookie (kg_lang) to remember your language choice. No analytics or advertising cookies.

9. Children

kinguard is not directed to children under 13.

European Union (EU)

Effective date: TBD · Version: draft 0.1

1. Controller and contacts

[To be confirmed] Operating company, EU representative (GDPR Art. 27), and data protection officer contact details.

2. Legal bases

[Under legal review] Performance of a contract; explicit consent for the voiceprint (special category data); legitimate interests for security.

3. Storage location and transfers

Data is stored in an EU region. Transfers outside the EU happen only where needed (for example Firebase) with appropriate safeguards. Alert text is not included in push notification payloads.

4. Retention

See the retention table.

5. Your rights

Access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, withdrawal of consent, and the right to complain to a supervisory authority.

6. Cookies on this website

One strictly necessary cookie (kg_lang) for your language choice. No analytics or advertising cookies.

South Korea (KR)

Effective date: TBD · The Korean version governs; this English text is a summary for reference.

1. Summary

[Draft] Processed under the Personal Information Protection Act. Data is stored in the AWS Seoul region. Voiceprints require separate consent for sensitive information. See the Korean version.

Privacy questions: privacy@kinguard.app