Privacy policy

Effective October 25, 2026. Kinmap is made by SomeDude, an independent studio run by Miguel Morales. Questions: kinmap@somedude.app.

Kinmap holds something precious: your family's names, stories and photos. This page says plainly what we collect, why, who helps us run the service, and what you can ask us to do with it.

What we collect

• Your account: your email address (to send sign-in codes) and the name you choose to show relatives.
• Your family tree: what you and your relatives add: names, dates, places, relationships, stories, fun facts, photos, videos, links, boards, slideshows and calendars.
• What you say to Kinmap: when you talk to the tree, your phone turns speech into text. We keep that text with the suggested changes, so whoever approves them can see what was said.
• Spellings you teach it (for example "Thomas" → "Tomás"), shared with everyone on that tree.
• Usage records needed to run the service: for example how many AI requests a tree used this month, so we can keep costs fair, and basic server logs to fix problems.

We don't collect your contacts, your location, or advertising identifiers, and the app has no ad or tracking libraries.

Who can see it

• Only members of a tree can see it. The tree's owner decides who is invited and what each person can do.
• Photos and videos are stored privately and open through links that expire after an hour.
• Slideshows, PDFs and printouts show living relatives by first name and photo unless the person making them chooses to show more. Email addresses, phone numbers and street addresses are never printed.

Who helps us run Kinmap

We use a few service providers. They process data only to provide their service to us:

• Supabase: our database, sign-in and private photo storage.
• Vercel: hosts Kinmap's server (in the United States).
• Anthropic: when you talk to the tree or answer one of its questions, the text, together with the relevant part of the tree, goes to Anthropic's Claude to suggest changes. Anthropic's commercial terms say it doesn't use this data to train its models.
• Resend: sends your sign-in codes by email.
• Your phone's speech recognition (Google on Android, Apple on iPhone) turns your voice into text, under their own terms. Kinmap never receives your voice recording.
• Links you add: when you save a link (for example a YouTube video), our server asks that site once for its title and picture. When a relative views the link card, the picture loads from that site, which can see their internet address. Videos and songs never play inside Kinmap.

What we never do

• Sell your data or your family's data.
• Show targeted ads, or share data with advertisers or data brokers.
• Make your tree public.

How long we keep it

• Your tree stays until you or the tree's owner delete it. What you added to someone else's family tree stays with that family, shown as "Former member", unless they remove it.
• PDFs you make are kept for one day so you can download them, then deleted.
• Backups of the database are kept for up to eight weeks, so deleted data leaves them within that time.

Your choices

• Get a copy: a tree's owner or admin can save a keepsake in the app (Account & keepsakes): one file with the whole tree, every photo and video, and a page that opens in any browser. It isn't encrypted, so it's yours to keep or share as you choose.
• Delete: in the app, go to Account & keepsakes → Delete my account. Trees you own are first given to another member or deleted, photos and videos included; then your sign-in, name and memberships are deleted right away. If you can't use the app, see how to delete your account.
• Correct: anyone with edit rights can fix details in the app, and relatives can ask the tree's owner to change or remove something about them.

Children

Kinmap accounts are for adults. Family trees often include children's names and photos, added by their relatives; a parent or guardian can ask the tree's owner, or us, to remove them.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll say so in the app before it takes effect.