Privacy Policy — KindaStart

Last updated: 4 September 2026

The short version

KindaStart works without knowing who you are. There are no accounts. What you type is sent, once, to organize it into your plan — then it's gone from our systems. Your history lives on your phone and nowhere else.

What leaves your device

The text you type into the dump box is sent over an encrypted connection to our server, which passes it to Anthropic (the AI provider) to generate your plan and steps. If you tap "Make it smaller", the text of that one step is sent the same way to generate a smaller version. The thing you name on the Start tab is sent the same way, once, to write its opening move. We do not store any of it. Our server logs record only technical details — timing, token counts, response sizes — never the content of what you wrote.

If you answered the one setup question ("What's hardest for you?"), your answer travels with each of these requests to shape your plan — it is processed to generate the result and never stored, same as the text itself.

The first time the app is about to send anything, it tells you so on the screen and asks before it does, naming Anthropic. Nothing is sent until you agree. If you tap "Not now", nothing leaves the phone and what you wrote stays exactly where it was.

Taking that permission back. Open Settings (the line at the foot of Your records) and tap "Sending to Anthropic" under Your data. The permission is cleared immediately; nothing else changes, and the app asks again the next time it would need to send something. You can also simply delete the app, which removes everything it holds.

About Anthropic, in specifics. Anthropic processes the text to produce the result, subject to its own privacy practices (https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy). We use Anthropic's commercial API, whose terms state that "Anthropic may not train models on Customer Content" — so nothing you write trains a model. Anthropic deletes API inputs and outputs within 30 days of receipt; the exception it publishes is content its automated safety systems flag as violating its usage policy, which it may keep for up to two years. Those protections are equivalent to the ones described in this policy, and Anthropic is the only third party your text is shared with.

The server that passes it along runs on Railway, our hosting provider, which handles the request in transit on our behalf and is not given the content for any purpose of its own.

A random device identifier is sent with those requests. It is generated on your device the first time the app talks to our server, identifies your installation (not you), and exists solely to enforce usage limits — the per-minute and daily ceilings. It is not linked to any personal information, and reinstalling the app resets it.

The app also fetches a small remote configuration from our server (for example, the free daily allowance). That request carries no identifier and no content — nothing you wrote, and nothing about your device beyond what any web request includes.

What never leaves your device

• Your plans, their steps, and your progress
• The things you sat with on the Start tab
• Your record of handled things and the lifetime counter
• Your preferences (such as onboarding state)

All of this is stored locally on your phone. Deleting the app deletes it. We could not hand it over, sell it, or lose it in a breach, because we never have it.

What we don't do

• No accounts, no sign-up, no email collection in the app
• No analytics or behavioral tracking in the app
• No advertising, no data sales, no third-party marketing SDKs
• No contact lists, location, photos, or any other device data

The waitlist

If you join the waitlist on our website, we keep the email address you give us — nothing else — and use it for exactly one thing: sending you the launch announcement. It is never connected to anything you do in the app. We delete the whole list after launch. Want off it sooner? Email support@kindastart.app and we'll remove you.

If you're in the EU or UK

We designed KindaStart to process as little as possible: the text you send is used only to generate your result and is not retained, and nothing we hold can identify you. Because we keep no personal data (the one exception being a waitlist email you volunteer on the website — removed on request, deleted after launch), requests to access, correct, or delete server-side data have nothing else to act on — your data is on your phone, in your hands. If you have any privacy question or concern, contact us at the address below. Data controller: Csenge Forstner (individual developer), Hungary — contact: support@kindastart.app.

Children

KindaStart is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly process their data.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the app will say so before the new policy applies. The current version always lives at https://kindastart.app/privacy.

Contact

support@kindastart.app