Exactly what Kinuvo knows, and what it never will.
Kinuvo is built for guidance, not surveillance. That’s a promise we can only make with specifics, so here they are.
Only what a feature needs.
| What | Why | Kept for |
|---|---|---|
| Your accountName, email, password (stored only as a one-way hash), optional avatar and language preference | WhyTo sign you in | Kept forWhile your account exists |
| Your child’s profileName, avatar, age, and anything you add later, such as date of birth | WhyTo personalise their experience and your view | Kept forUntil you remove your child |
| App usageWhich apps your child uses, and for how long | WhyDaily Limit, App Limits and the App Usage report | Kept for30 days |
| Installed appsApp names, icons, versions and categories | WhyChoosing apps to block or limit, and New App Approval | Kept forShown while installed |
| Location and Trip HistoryTime-stamped location, with an address when available, grouped into trips | WhyChild Tracker, latest location, Trip History, place alerts and SOS | Kept forUp to the most recent 30 days |
| Blocked websitesThe site’s name, the reason and the time | WhyThe Web Blocked Attempts report | Kept for30 days |
| Phone detailsMake and model, Android version, battery, network type, the name of the Wi‑Fi network it’s on, language, time zone and which Kinuvo permissions are on | WhyShowing the phone’s status and keeping protection working | Kept forLatest only |
| Emergency SOSTime, and location when available | WhyEmergency SOS | Kept forKept as your family’s safety record |
| AlertsArrivals, requests, new apps and other alerts | WhyNotifying you | Kept for24 hours in your feed |
The Wi‑Fi network name is only readable when your child’s phone allows precise location. Kinuvo never reads Wi‑Fi hardware addresses, saved networks or nearby networks.
Some things are never ours to see.
- Messages, chats or emails
- Calls or contacts
- What your child types
- Screenshots or recordings of the screen
- The websites they visit (only blocked attempts are recorded)
- Page contents, full web addresses or searches
- Photos, files, camera or microphone content
- Your own location as a parent (it stays on your phone)
- Advertising identifiers
No ads, ever. Neither app shows ads or contains advertising software. The Kinuvo app for parents uses Google Firebase Analytics to help us improve the app; Kinuvo Kids, on your child’s phone, has no analytics. The camera is used only to scan the pairing code, on the phone. How we use analytics.
Your child is told, in plain words.
Before any sensitive permission is switched on, Kinuvo Kids explains what it’s for. These are the words your child sees.
“Kinuvo does not use Accessibility to read your messages, capture what you type, or record your screen. It only uses the on-screen information needed to apply your family’s rules and protect Kinuvo’s own settings.”
“Kinuvo does not keep your full browsing history. When a site is blocked, it records the blocked site, reason, and time, which are shared with your approved family.”
“Kinuvo Kids collects location data so your approved family can see your recent or last known location and location history, and receive arrival or leave updates for places your family sets up, even when the app is closed or not in use. Your location is only shared with your approved family.”
“This keeps Kinuvo safely set up on this device, so the things your family turned on keep working. A parent can always turn it off with their PIN.”
Kinuvo Kids is a visible app. Its Dashboard always shows that location is shared, and while their location is being updated, including when you have Child Tracker open, its notification says “Updating your recent location for your family.” What your child sees
What you see as a parent.
You see
Time used today, app usage for up to 30 days, installed apps, blocked-site attempts, where your child is now in Child Tracker, their latest location and Trip History (up to the last 30 days), arrive and leave alerts, requests, SOS, and your child’s phone status.
You don’t see
Messages, typing, the screen, browsing history, or anything from the microphone or camera.
Your child sees
Their own rules and the answers to their own requests. Never your app, your reports or other children.
Deleted on a schedule.
- 24 hours
- Alerts leave your feed.
- 30 days
- Trip History, app usage and blocked-site records cover up to the most recent 30 days; older records are removed through automatic retention.
- Right away
- When you remove a child, they leave your account and their phone is released. Everything Kinuvo holds about them is then deleted in the background, leaving only a minimal record that it happened.
Protected in ways we can be specific about.
Your family’s data
- Everything travels over encrypted connections.
- Sensitive details, like your child’s contact information and the codes that deliver notifications, are additionally encrypted.
- On Android, the Kinuvo app’s data is kept out of phone backups.
- Notifications never contain coordinates, street addresses or usage figures. A place alert names the saved place, for example “Arrived at School”.
Sign-in and the Parent PIN
- Passwords and PINs are stored only as one-way hashes, never in readable form.
- Sign-in sessions renew automatically, and reusing an old sign-in key signs out every related session.
- Your child’s phone keeps its sign-in key in Android’s secure storage and out of backups.
- A 6-digit Parent PIN protects sensitive actions, with a pause after repeated wrong attempts.
What Kinuvo can’t do.
Honest limits are part of trust.
- Web Protection uses curated lists of known sites; it can’t block everything, or single videos and searches.
- Child Tracker aims for an update about every 15 seconds, only while you have it open, and can be slower; elsewhere you see the latest reported location and how old it is.
- SOS reaches you, not emergency services.
- A full factory reset removes Kinuvo Kids, as with any app.
- Phone makers’ power saving can delay background activity.
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