KITH

What Kith knows about you

The short version

Nothing at all.

There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting. Kith makes no network requests of any kind. Everything it remembers — your streak, your times, your progress — is stored on your own device and never leaves it.

Who this is from

Kith is published by Nikhil Misal. Questions about this policy can go to support@thesmallapps.com.

What Kith stores on your device

Kith saves your game state locally, using the standard storage each platform provides — SharedPreferences on Android and UserDefaults on iOS. None of it is transmitted anywhere.

Stored as	What it holds
`kith.profile.v1`	Current streak, best streak, puzzles played and solved, counts by difficulty, streak repairs remaining
`kith.results.v1`	For each day you finished: the date, difficulty, solve time, hints used, and the order you closed the kin
`kith.progress.<date>`	Your part-finished grid for a given day, and the time elapsed on it
`kith.prefs.v1`	Your settings: haptics, pencil marks on tap, and whether you have seen the rules
`kith.practice.seen.v1`	Which practice puzzles you have already been given, so it can offer fresh ones

None of this identifies you. There is no name, email, account, device identifier or advertising ID anywhere in it.

What Kith does not do

No account and no sign-in.
No analytics, telemetry or crash reporting.
No advertising and no advertising identifiers.
No third-party SDKs. The app is built on Capacitor and uses only its first-party plugins for storage, haptics, sharing and the status bar.
No network requests. Puzzles and fonts are bundled inside the app, so Kith works fully offline and never contacts a server — including ours.
No access to your location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos or files.

Device backups

This is the one place your Kith data may leave your phone, and it is worth being plain about it.

Because Kith stores data using the normal platform mechanisms, that data can be included in the backup your own device makes:

Android — Auto Backup may include Kith's data in the backup associated with your Google account.
iOS — Kith's data is included in your iPhone backup, whether that goes to iCloud or to your computer.

These backups are made by your device, governed by your own settings and by Google's or Apple's terms. They exist so your streak survives a new phone. We never see them, cannot access them, and receive nothing from them. You can turn backups off in your device settings.

Sharing a result

When you tap Share the line, Kith draws your result card as an image, writes it to the app's own private cache folder, and hands it to your device's share sheet. You choose whether to send it and to whom.

The card shows the route you took through the grid, your time, hints used and your streak. It contains no puzzle answers and no personal information. Kith uploads nothing; the file only goes wherever you send it, and the cached copy is disposable.

Permissions

Kith requests no runtime permissions.

On Android the app declares the INTERNET permission, which is a default of the framework Kith is built on. The app makes no network requests and does not use it.

Children

Kith is suitable for all ages. Because it collects no data from anyone, it collects no data from children either.

Deleting your data

Everything Kith knows is on your device. Clearing the app's storage or uninstalling it removes all of it permanently. There is no copy on a server to request, export or erase, because no server was ever involved.

Changes to this policy

If Kith ever starts collecting anything — for example if analytics or crash reporting were added — this policy will be updated and its effective date changed before that version ships.