AikaniPrivacy Policy
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Draft for review. Highlighted items need a decision or a legal check before this page goes live.
The short version
- Aikani collects only what it needs to block your apps and connect you to your Kani.
- Aikani keeps no record of what you do in your apps or how long you use them. It knows only which apps a session or schedule covers.
- Your Kani sees your requests and your emergency unlocks. Sessions, time, other apps and history stay private.
- No ads, no selling data, no tracking across apps or sites, no push notifications.
- You can delete your account in the app at any time.
Who is responsible
Aikani is run by legal name, address. For anything about your data, write to privacy email.
What Aikani collects
| Your account | Your name and email address from Apple or Google when you sign in, and an account ID. With Apple you can choose to hide your email. Used to create your account and sign you in. |
|---|---|
| Your Kani | The name you type for your Kani, the invitation you create, and the link between your two accounts. Used to connect you to one Kani. |
| Sessions | When a session starts and ends, whether a schedule started it, and which apps it covers. Used to run sessions, keep your history and count Time Back. |
| Unlock requests | The app you asked for, when you asked, and whether your Kani approved or declined. Used to show the request to your Kani and apply the answer. Your Kani sees the app's name where your phone can provide it, and “an app” otherwise. |
| Emergency unlocks | When you used one. Used to keep your monthly count and to let your Kani know. |
| Your plan | Whether you are on Free or Premium, and your subscription status from the App Store or Google Play. Aikani never receives your card details. |
| Your phone | An ID for the phone your account is active on, and a check that the app is genuine. Used to keep one account on one phone and to protect the service. |
| Messages to us | Your email address and whatever you write, so we can reply. |
What stays on your phone
On iPhone, you choose apps through Apple's Screen Time picker. Apple gives Aikani private tokens for them, and those tokens stay on your device. Our servers receive an anonymous reference for each app in a session or schedule, and the app's name once your phone can provide it.
On Android, Aikani reads the list of apps on your phone only so you can choose from it, and that list stays on your phone. The name and identifier of each app in a session or schedule are sent to our servers so the session can run. Blocking uses an Android accessibility service that notices when one of those apps opens and covers it. What it notices is not stored or sent. Legal check of this description.
Aikani does not collect your app usage, screen time, browsing, messages, contacts, photos or location.
When you share an invitation or a request, you use your phone's own share sheet. Aikani doesn't see who you sent it to or which app you used.
What your Kani can see
A Kani sees requests and emergency unlocks from the person they support: your name, the app you asked for, and a note when you use an emergency unlock.
A Kani cannot see whether you are in a session, how much time is left, your other apps, your history or your Time Back. This is enforced on our servers as well as in the app.
What Aikani doesn't do
- It doesn't show ads or sell your data.
- It doesn't track you across other apps or websites.
- It doesn't send push notifications.
- It doesn't let anyone monitor you.
This website
This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics.
If you ask to be told at launch, we keep your email address for that one message and delete it afterwards. Email service: to be chosen.
The site is hosted on Firebase Hosting, a Google service. Google receives your IP address when a page loads and keeps standard server logs. Fonts, images and the film are served from this site, not from anyone else.
Who helps run Aikani
- Google Firebase for sign in, the database, server functions and the check that the app is genuine.
- Apple for Sign in with Apple, App Store payments and subscription status, and Screen Time.
- Google Play for payments and subscription status on Android.
These companies process data on our behalf and only for the purposes above. The Android app includes Firebase Crashlytics (crash reports) and the Firebase Analytics library, with analytics collection switched off. Decide whether to keep them, and describe them here if so.
The database and server functions run in the European Union. Sign-in is handled by Firebase Authentication, which can process account data in the United States. Safeguards for transfers outside the EU: to be confirmed.
Why we are allowed to use it
Under EU and UK data protection law, we use your data because it is needed to provide Aikani to you (contract), to keep the service secure and working (legitimate interests), and, for the launch email, because you asked (consent, which you can withdraw at any time).
How long we keep it
Retention periods: to be decided.
Deleting your account in the app deletes your account, your history and your Kani connections, and ends an active session. It does not cancel a subscription. You do that in your App Store or Google Play account.
Your rights
You can ask to see your data, correct it, delete it, receive a copy, or object to how it is used. Write to privacy email and we will answer within one month.
You can also complain to your data protection authority. Ours is supervisory authority.
Age
Aikani is for adults. Minimum age: to be confirmed.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so in the app before the change applies.