Kinlore

Privacy policy

Kinlore is a private place for a family's stories, told in their own voices. The stories and the recordings stay on the device they were made on: the app collects nothing about you and there is no account, no synchronisation, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. That is not a policy we are choosing to follow, it is what the software does. The app speaks eight languages; this document is in English, which is the version that governs it.

What we collect

Nothing about you. Kinlore has no server of its own, and nothing you record is ever sent anywhere: nothing is uploaded, nothing is sent to us, and there is nothing for us to receive. The only network requests the app ever makes are for its own files — the page, its stylesheet, its scripts — and not one of them carries a story, a recording or a name. The Android app cannot reach a network at all: see Permissions below.

That is enforced rather than promised. The Android app is built without the internet permission, so it has no way to send a recording anywhere even if a later version wanted to. Read the Permissions section below for the one permission it does hold, and why.

What is kept, and where

Everything you put into Kinlore is stored on your own device, in the app's or the browser's own storage. In a browser that is a database called kinlore-docs; on Android it is the same database inside the app's private data. It holds one document, and this is all of it:

• the storytellers: the name you give them, a colour the app assigned so their stories are told apart, the year they were born if you chose to add it, and the note you may have written
• the stories: which question was asked and its exact words, the day, the language it was told in, whatever you typed, and the length and size of the recording
• the posters you have made, and which storyteller each one was for — or none, for a poster of the whole family
• which questions you have already been shown, so the app does not ask the same one twice
• the language you chose for the interface

The recordings themselves are kept beside that document rather than inside it: on Android as files in the app's own private folder, which no other app can read, and in a browser in a second database called kinlore-audio. They never leave the device except when you export them, and there is no export that includes them — see below.

We cannot see any of it. Not as a matter of policy: there is no server for it to arrive at, and no account for it to be attached to.

What leaves your device, and when

Only two things ever leave, both of them because you pressed a button and neither of them sent to us:

• A poster, as an image file, saved into your own Downloads folder or your browser's downloads. Where it goes after that is up to you: nothing is shared anywhere unless you then share it yourself.
• A backup, as a text file, saved the same way. You asked for it, so it is yours to keep or move.

The backup holds every word of every story and the details of your storytellers, but no recordings. That is deliberate and it is worth knowing before you rely on one: a file carrying a year of a family's voices is too big to send to anybody and too large to keep casually, so the backup you can actually pass around is the written record. The voices stay on the device that recorded them.

Two things follow from all this, and both are worth knowing:

• Uninstalling the app, or clearing the site's data, deletes everything permanently. We cannot restore it, because we never had it.
• Nothing moves between devices by itself, because there is no account and no server. A backup file is the only way to carry a book to a new phone, and it carries the words rather than the voices.

Permissions

The Android app asks for one permission: the microphone (RECORD_AUDIO). It is there to record a storyteller answering a question. Your device asks you the first time you press record, and the app records only while a recording is actually running — there is no listening in the background, and no audio is captured at any other moment.

There is no internet permission, and no camera, contacts, location, calendar, phone or files permission either. The app cannot read your photos, your messages or your documents, and it cannot make a network request even if it were rewritten to try. In a browser, the microphone is asked for through the browser's own permission prompt and nothing else is requested at all.

Nothing is written to your clipboard and nothing is read from it.

The people whose voices these are

Kinlore records people. The recordings in it are of a grandmother, a parent, a friend — someone who agreed to answer a question out loud, or someone who did not. The app cannot know the difference and cannot check, so this is stated here plainly: ask before you record, and stop if they would rather you did not. That is your responsibility and not the app's, and it is the one part of using Kinlore that no software can do for you.

Because a recording stays on the device it was made on, the answer to "who can hear this" is: whoever can pick up that phone. There is no copy anywhere else for anyone to find.

Children

Kinlore is general-audience family content and there is nothing in it a child should not see, but it is not designed for or directed at children — the person who sets it up and keeps it is an adult. Because the app collects no personal data at all, it collects none from children either. A child's story recorded by a parent stays on that parent's device like any other.

Money

This version of Kinlore takes no payment of any kind. The free book holds one storyteller and as many of their stories as you care to record, and every story stays playable and exportable for good.

The app mentions a paid tier, Kinlore Pro, which is not on sale in this version. If it is ever sold, this page will say what it costs and what it does before the version that sells it ships, and the free part will not change retroactively: nothing already recorded will be held back, and a subscription lapsing will never take away a voice you have already kept.

Your rights

Laws such as the United Kingdom and European General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act give you rights over personal data held about you: to see it, to correct it, to delete it, or to receive a copy of it. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to show, change, hand over or erase. The book on your device is the only copy, and it is yours to keep, export or delete at any time — from More, where the export lives and where the whole book can be cleared.

If you believe we hold something of yours, write to the address below and we will answer within a month.

Changes

If a future version ever collects anything, this page will say so plainly before that version ships, and the app will not be updated to collect data it does not disclose here.

Who we are

Kinlore is published by Loadcircle Ltd, registered in England and Wales. Questions about this policy: privacy@loadcircle.co.uk.

Last updated: 20 September 2026.