Kept Privacy Policy

Short version. Kept has no account, no server and no analytics. Your items, receipt photos, reminders and settings are stored on your device. They never come to us: we, the makers of Kept, cannot see your data. They leave your device only when you export or share something, through your phone’s own backup (iCloud or Google), which you can switch off for Kept in More › Privacy, or, if you switch it on, as an encrypted backup in your own iCloud Drive or Google Drive that only your passphrase opens.

What Kept stores, and where

Data	Where it lives
Items, dates, prices, stores, cards (issuer and last four digits only), notes	On your device, in the app’s local database
Receipt, serial-plate and warranty-card photos, and the text read from them	On your device
Reminders	Scheduled with your device’s own notification system
Widget data	A file shared only between Kept and its own widgets on the same device
Automatic backup (only if you switch it on)	One encrypted file in your own iCloud Drive (iPhone) or Google Drive (Android). The passphrase that opens it stays on your device, apart from your data, and is never put in any backup or export.

Kept never asks for full card numbers, bank logins or email passwords.

Reading receipts

Text recognition runs on your device. The recognition models ship with the app. Photos and PDF receipts are not uploaded for processing, and the app shows a running count of any requests it has made to other servers (it should read 0). Spreadsheet (CSV) imports are also read on your device.

When Kept uses the network

• Recall checks, only when you tap “Check recall feeds”: Kept downloads the public recall list from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and matches it against your items on your device. Nothing about your items is sent; like any website, the feed’s server sees your device’s IP address when it answers the request.
• Links you open (a store’s policy page, a repair guide, a brand’s registration page) open in your browser under that site’s own privacy policy.
• Find the manual, only when you tap it, opens a DuckDuckGo search for the item’s brand and model (nothing else about you or your items) in your browser.
• Feedback: Help › Write an email opens your own email app, addressed to us. Nothing is sent until you press send. If “Include app details” is on, the draft lists the app version, platform, language, country, number of items, whether Pro is on and whether reminders are on; never item names, stores, prices or photos. You can switch it off or edit the draft.
• Automatic backup, only if you switch it on in More › Automatic backup: Kept encrypts your wall and its photos on your device (AES-256, with a passphrase you choose) and saves the file to your own iCloud Drive on iPhone or your own Google Drive on Android, when your wall changes. On Android, Google asks you once to let Kept use your Drive; that permission lets Kept see and change only the files it creates there, never your other files. The file is stored by Apple or Google under your account and their policies, never sent to us, and cannot be read by us, Apple or Google without your passphrase. You can switch it off, and delete the copy, in the same place.
• Buying Pro goes through the App Store or Google Play. They process the payment under their own policies; Kept only learns that Pro is unlocked, and checks with the store when it starts so a refunded purchase is handled correctly.

Kept contains no advertising, analytics, crash-reporting or tracking code, and it does not track you across other apps or websites.

Your phone’s own backup

iPhone and Android back up apps to the account you use for your phone (iCloud, a computer, or Google). By default that backup includes Kept, so a new phone gets your wall back. These backups go to Apple or Google under their policies and your account, never to us. To keep Kept’s data on this phone only, turn off More › Privacy › Include Kept in phone backups. In a web browser, Kept’s data stays in that browser’s storage.

Sharing, exports and encrypted backups

Share cards, claim packs, calendar files, household exports and inventory files are created on your device and go only where you send them. Household exports, inventory files and calendar files are not encrypted, so anyone who opens them can read them. Encrypted backups are protected with a passphrase you choose (AES-256); we cannot recover a lost passphrase. Backups, JSON exports and household exports include your photos, so a restore on a new device brings the proof back too.

Lock screen and widgets

Reminders and widgets can show item names, stores and amounts. On iPhone, lock-screen widgets hide those details while the phone is locked. To keep reminders generic (“A deadline is coming up”), turn on More › Privacy › Hide item names in reminders; your phone’s notification preview settings also apply.

Permissions

• Camera and photos: to photograph receipts, serial plates and warranty cards. Kept only sees a photo you take or pick.
• Notifications: to remind you before a return window or warranty closes.

Children

Kept is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country) and collects no personal data from anyone.

Your rights

Because we do not collect or hold your data, there is nothing for us to access, correct, export or delete on our side; you control all of it in the app. Under laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA you may still contact us with any privacy question or request, and we will answer it.

Deleting your data

Delete any item in the app (it stays in More › Your data › Recently deleted for 30 days, where you can restore it or delete it for good), use More › Delete everything on this device, or remove the app. Deleting everything also cancels Kept’s scheduled reminders and clears its widgets. Copies you exported or shared, earlier phone backups and the automatic backup in your iCloud Drive or Google Drive stay where they are until you delete them there.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.