Kip Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 15, 2026

Kip is a private assistant for your household. This policy explains what Kip stores, where it lives, who processes it, and what Kip never does with it.

Your family gets its own instance

Each household runs on its own isolated instance with its own database. Your family's data is never mixed with another family's, and no family can see another family's information. Joining Kip requires an invite code issued for your household.

What Kip stores

• Conversations. Your chats with Kip, so it can keep context and follow through.
• Family memory. Facts you share, like preferences, routines, and important dates. Facts marked private stay visible only to the person who shared them.
• Reminders and calendar events. Items you create or connect so briefings and lists reflect your real schedule. Kip can add, edit, and delete events, but only on calendars whose owner has granted edit access; view-only calendars are never written to.
• Health data. If you connect Apple Health, Kip reads sleep, workouts, steps, and heart rate to count workouts toward your pursuits and reflect your week back to you privately. Health data is never visible to other family members, never used for advertising or marketing, and never sold. Private summaries of it are processed by OpenAI only to answer you, as described below.
• Location. Only if you enable it, to power arrival/departure awareness for your family. Only visits and significant moves are recorded, never a continuous trail.
• Photos and files you share with Kip. Stored in your instance so Kip can act on them.

AI processing

Kip is powered by AI from OpenAI, the only AI provider Kip uses. To answer you, and to write your briefings and weekly recap, the parts of your conversations and context that Kip needs are sent to OpenAI for processing. That can include your messages, photos you share with Kip, and the calendar, location, or private Apple Health details you choose to connect. OpenAI doesn't use this data to train its models.

Talking with Kip, Siri, and dictation

• Talk to Kip. When you talk with Kip out loud, your voice streams through Kip's server to OpenAI so Kip can answer out loud. Kip doesn't record or keep the audio. Under OpenAI's API terms, OpenAI may keep it for up to 30 days to watch for abuse, and doesn't use it to train its models. When Kip looks something up during a talk, the question and its answer appear in your private Kip chat.
• Dictation and Siri. When you dictate in Kip or use Kip with Siri, Apple's speech recognition turns what you say into text, under Apple's privacy policy. Kip receives only the text.
• Lock Screen and widgets. To show what you can log, your iPhone keeps a short list of your item names on the device. Names stay hidden while your iPhone is locked, and the list is cleared when you sign out.

What Kip never does

• No advertising, no trackers, no third-party analytics.
• Your data is never sold or shared with data brokers.
• Health data is never used for marketing or advertising, and is never shown to anyone else, including your own family.

Storage and security

Your instance runs on servers we operate (currently hosted with DigitalOcean). All traffic between the app and your instance is encrypted with HTTPS. Access requires a per-person login token; invite codes are single-use or capped and expire.

For troubleshooting, the operator of the service can access a read-only support view of an instance to diagnose reported problems. Support access can't change your data, and we only use it when you ask us for help.

Deleting your data

Ask us to delete your household's instance and we will remove it, including databases and backups, within 30 days. Individual items (memories, reminders, conversations) can be deleted in the app or by asking Kip.

Children

Kip accounts are for adults in a household. Facts about children may be stored by their parents, under the parents' control, and are removed with the household's data on request.

Contact

Questions or deletion requests: [email protected]

Kip is in private beta. This policy will be updated as the product evolves; material changes will be announced in the app.