What you put in your Family File is end-to-end encrypted. We can’t read it.
Effective date: October 15, 2026.
Privacy policy
The short version
This policy explains what Kinsake (“we”, “us”) collects when you use getkinsake.com, app.getkinsake.com and our emails, what we do with it, and the choices you have.
- What you put in your Family File is end-to-end encrypted. We can’t read it.
- We keep only what we need to run Kinsake: your account, a title and a date for each reminder, and the routing details listed below.
- We don’t sell your information, share it for advertising, or use it to train AI. No ads, no third-party trackers.
- You can export or delete your information at any time.
Car registration
Reminder · Nov 30
Renew online at the DMV, about $96. Plate 7KJM214, paid from joint checking.
Car registration · Nov 30
Everything else is sealed on your device. We can’t read it, and neither can anyone who breaks into our servers.
You can seal the title too. It then shows as “Sealed item”.
Car registration
Reminder · Nov 30
Renew online at the DMV, about $96. Plate 7KJM214, paid from joint checking.
Opened for Maya after the 7-day wait you set. Read-only, and logged.
What we can see
| For | What we can see | Why | For example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reminders | A title and a date for each reminder | So we can remind you on time | Car registration · Nov 30 |
| Reminder emails and notifications | They carry only that title and date | Car registration · Nov 30 | |
| Your household | Who is in your household and Circle, and each person’s role | So the right people are invited and told | Sam · co-owner |
| The email address of each person you invite | So your invitation reaches them | Maya · trusted contact | |
| Each item’s level, whose it is, when it changed, how large its files are | So a handover releases only what you chose | Incapacity · Alex · 2.4 MB | |
| Handovers | Requests, wait times, confirmations and check-ins | So we can hold the wait and tell you | Emergency · 24 hours |
| The log of who opened what | So you can read it | Maya opened Emergency | |
| Each helper task, with the name and contact you give for the helper | So a helper can open that one task from a link | Meals · Jordan | |
| Signing in | Your email address | It’s your account name, and how handover mail reaches you | Your email |
| That you sign in with Google, if you choose Google | So Google can confirm it’s you | ||
| The name you choose to show your Circle | So your Circle knows it’s you | Alex | |
| A name and platform for each signed-in device, and when it last synced | So you can see and remove devices | Alex’s laptop · web | |
| Security | Your IP address and browser details, handled by our hosting provider | To deliver the site, stop bots on our forms and limit sign-in attempts | Kept at most 30 days |
| Waitlist | Your email address, the answers you choose and your consent | So we can email you about the launch | Our household · one-time purchase |
| Counting | How many people visit, where they came from, how many households use each feature | To improve Kinsake, on our own servers, without cookies | Never your File, titles or email |
| Everything else | Item details, documents, photos, voice notes, passwords and device codes, For later messages, the call log | Sealed on your device before upload | Sealed |
No ads, no trackers. We never sell your data, and it’s never used to train AI. No analytics script. We don’t set cookies. The sign-up form loads Cloudflare Turnstile, a bot check, only when you start filling it in.
What we collect
What you give us
- Waitlist: your email address, the answers you choose on the form (including whether you’d prefer a one-time purchase), and your consent to hear from us.
- Your account: your email address and the name you choose to show your Circle. If you sign in with Google, Google shares your name and email address with us.
- Your Family File: items, documents, photos, voice notes, passwords and device codes, For later messages and call logs are encrypted on your device. We store only the sealed copy and can’t read it.
- If you use Kinsake only on your device: your File stays in your browser, encrypted, and nothing in it is sent to us. We see only the page loads any website sees. Your browser can delete stored data (Safari may do so after 7 days without a visit), so keep the backups the app reminds you to make.
- Reminder titles and dates: we can read these so we can remind you. Keep sensitive details out of a title, or seal the title; it then shows as “Sealed item”.
- People you invite: their email address and the role you give them.
What we receive when you use Kinsake
- Routing details we need to run the service: which household and Circle you belong to and your role; for each item, its handover level, whose it is or whether it’s shared, when it changed and how large its files are; handover requests, waits, confirmations and check-ins; and the log of who opened what.
- Helper tasks: each task you hand to a helper, with the name and contact you give for them, so the helper can open that one task from a link. Helper tasks never hold sealed details.
- Your devices: a name and platform for each signed-in device and when it last synced, so you can see and remove devices.
- Security and abuse prevention: our hosting provider processes your IP address and browser details to deliver the site, check that forms aren’t filled in by bots (Cloudflare Turnstile) and limit sign-in attempts. We keep these logs for at most 30 days.
- Simple counts: how many people visit, where they came from (the referring site and link tags), their country, and how many households use each feature. These counts never include what’s in your File, reminder titles, email addresses or names, and households are counted with a code that changes every week.
- Cookies and browser storage: one sign-in cookie on app.getkinsake.com, and the landing page remembers your light or dark choice in your browser. No advertising or tracking cookies.
We never ask for anyone’s Social Security number. If you keep one in your File, it is sealed and we can’t read it.
How we use it
- To run Kinsake: store your sealed File, send reminders, run handovers and check-ins, deliver For later links, and keep your account secure.
- To send the emails you need: reminders, your weekly digest, and handover and security alerts. If you joined the waitlist, we email you about the launch; you can unsubscribe at any time.
- To improve Kinsake, using only the simple counts above.
- To prevent abuse and to follow the law.
We don’t use your information for advertising, and we never use it to train AI models.
Your choices and rights
- Export: download everything at any time, in formats you can open without us. Exports are made on your device.
- Delete: delete your account from the Security center. It’s removed from our live systems right away and from our backups within 30 days.
- Correct: edit your File and your account at any time.
- Emails: unsubscribe from the waitlist and the weekly digest at any time. While you have an account, we still send handover and security emails, because they protect you.
- Your privacy rights: wherever you live in the US, you can ask us what we hold about you, ask for a copy, ask us to correct it or ask us to delete it. Write to hello@getkinsake.com; we’ll confirm the request comes from you. We won’t treat you differently for asking.
We don’t sell or share personal information for advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of. We also honor the Global Privacy Control signal.
How long we keep it
- Your account and File: until you delete them.
- Waitlist: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it, or 12 months after launch, whichever comes first.
- Simple counts: kept only as totals.
- After a death: a household stays so the family can use what was handed over. We keep it as long as at least one person with access signs in within 3 years. After 3 years with no sign-in, everyone with access gets three emails over 90 days, each with a link to export, and then we delete it. A living co-owner can delete it at any time; when no owner is alive, two people who hold After death must agree (one if there is only one).
Security
Your File is sealed on your device before it reaches us, and only you and the people you choose can open it. Our How protection works page explains exactly what we can and can’t see, and the one honest limit of our design.
One honest limit: the wait before a level opens is enforced by our server. If someone in control of our server worked together with one of your trusted contacts, they could open that person’s levels early. They could never open a level you didn’t give that person, and we still can’t read your sealed items. A later update will require two trusted contacts to open After death.
Children
Kinsake is for adults 18 and over. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you think a child has signed up, write to us and we’ll delete the account. Families can keep information about their children in their File, where it’s sealed.
Handover and the people you choose
When you set up a handover, you choose who may see which parts of your File, and after what wait. Kinsake doesn’t verify deaths or illness itself: a level opens when someone you chose asks for it and nobody stops the request in time, and After death also needs a second person you chose to confirm.
Changes to this policy
We’ll post changes on this page. For important changes, we’ll email you before they take effect.
Contact
Please also read our Terms of service.