Draft summary. This page is the short version for kiekie.online. It is not the approved legal policy. The full draft, still marked draft, is served with the web app.
Privacy
Kiekie is a private place for your family to share one photo a day. Only your family sees your photos. Kiekie is run by Terence Hinrichsen (trading as Kiekie), South Africa, who is the responsible party under POPIA and the controller under the GDPR.
Privacy and support email: privacy@kiekie.online. The full draft policy still shows a placeholder address until that draft is updated to this one. Write here anyway; the mailbox is the contact we will use.
The short version
- Only your family sees your photos.
- Your photos are yours. You can export them any time, and deleting your account removes them.
- We never sell your data, Kiekie has no ads, and we never use your family’s photos to train AI.
- There is no feed and no algorithm.
- Photos and family data are stored in South Africa (Johannesburg).
Where your data is kept
Photos and family data are stored by Google Firebase in Johannesburg (region africa-south1). A few services that deliver sign-in email, push notifications, or sign-in identity work outside South Africa. The full draft names each of them. Where data leaves South Africa, Kiekie relies on POPIA section 72.
Your rights
You can see your data, ask us to correct it, delete it, or object. You can also complain to the Information Regulator in South Africa (inforeg.org.za), to your local authority in the EU, or to the ICO in the UK. We aim to reply within 30 days.
Delete your account
In the app, open Settings and choose “Delete my account”. That deletes the account and its photos. If you would rather we do it, email privacy@kiekie.online from the address you sign in with. Export first if you want a copy: Settings, “Export my photos and data”.
The full draft explains this in its “Your rights” section: kiekie-za.web.app/privacy.
Children
Kiekie is for people aged 13 and over. It is not for children under 13 on their own.
The full draft
The source text is docs/legal/privacy.md in the Kiekie project. Until it is approved, rely on it as a draft, not as a finished policy. Read the full draft privacy policy. The terms draft is on the same site.