Privacy Policy for Kivuno

Kivuno ("we," "us," or "our") operates the Kivuno mobile application (the "App"). This page explains what information the App does and does not collect, and how it's used.

The short version

The App does not collect, store, or transmit any personal information to us or to anyone else. Everything the App does happens entirely on your own phone. There is no account to create, no data leaves your device, and we have no way to see or access anything about how you or your children use the App.

Information the App does not collect

The App does not collect, and has no way to collect, any of the following:

• Your name, email address, or any contact information
• Your child's name, photo, or any information beyond what you type into the App yourself, which stays on your device (see below)
• Location data
• Contacts, photos, files, or messages on your phone
• Browsing history or information about other apps on your phone
• Advertising identifiers or data used for advertising
• Analytics or crash reports

The App does not request permission to access the internet, and cannot connect to the internet at all — this isn't a policy choice, it's a technical fact: the App never asks Android for network access, so it has no way to send information anywhere even if it wanted to.

Information stored on your device

To do its job, the App stores some information, but only on the phone it's installed on:

• The Parent PIN you set (stored as a one-way scrambled/"hashed" value, not as readable text — the App itself can't look up or display your PIN, only check whether an entered PIN matches)
• Each child profile you create: the name and avatar color you choose for them, their grade level, their daily screen-time limit, and which subjects are turned on for them
• How much screen time each child has earned and has left to spend today
• The educational questions and answers built into the App

None of this ever leaves your device. It isn't backed up to us, sent to any server, or shared with any third party, because the App has no connection to the internet and no server to send it to. If your phone's own Android backup feature (a general Android feature controlled by your Google account settings, not something this App does on its own) is turned on, this data may be included in your phone's regular backup the same way any other app's data would be — that's a normal part of how Android works, not something specific to this App.

Third parties

The App does not use any third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking software of any kind. It does not share information with any third party, because it doesn't collect any information to share in the first place.

Children's privacy

The App is designed for parents to set up and manage for their children's use, and does not collect personal information from anyone — parents or children. Because nothing personal is collected, stored anywhere but the device, or shared, the App does not create the kind of data-collection concerns that laws like COPPA (the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) are designed to address.

Permissions the App requests

The App asks for a small number of Android permissions. Every one of them is used only to make a specific parental-control feature work on your own device — none of them are used to collect or share information, and none of them give the App internet access (it has none):

• Display over other apps: lets the App show the screen lock on top of whatever the child is doing, so the lock can't be worked around by switching apps.
• Run in the background / ignore battery optimization: keeps the screen-time countdown and the lock running reliably while the App isn't the one on screen, without your phone's battery-saving features shutting it down mid-turn.
• Usage access: lets the App see which app is currently in front, so it can tell whether the app your child just opened is one you've marked completely off limits. It's used only for that one comparison, in the moment — the App does not keep a history of what apps were opened or when.
• Device administrator: an optional setting you can turn on that stops the App from being uninstalled without first turning this off in your phone's Settings.
• Run at startup: lets the App notice when your phone restarts and immediately resume a child's screen-time countdown if their turn was still active, instead of waiting for the App to be opened by hand.

Changes to this policy

If anything about how the App handles data changes in the future — for example, if a future update adds an online feature — this policy will be updated to describe that change, and the "Last updated" date above will change accordingly.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to info@kivuno.com.