Kindred Contact Privacy Policy

Effective October 17, 2026

The short version

• Kindred has no accounts and no servers. We cannot see your data.
• Everything Kindred creates is stored in the private iCloud database tied to your Apple Account, on your devices and in Apple's iCloud.
• Kindred reads your contacts and calendar only with your permission, and never writes to your address book on its own.
• On a Mac, Kindred reads email only when you press Check Mail: it saves who, when, and the subject of emails with your people, never the message itself, and can never send, delete, or change your mail.
• Kindred reads your text messages only if you install the free Kindred for Messages app on your Mac. Your messages are summarized on your Mac; only the summaries are saved, in your iCloud.
• If you allow it, Kindred notes where you were when you start notes about a conversation, and keeps that on the note in your iCloud. It never follows where you go.
• Kindred contains no analytics, advertising, or tracking code.

Who we are

Kindred Contact (“Kindred”) is made by Pointe Ventures LLC. If you have questions about this policy, email support@kindredcontact.com.

What Kindred stores, and where

Kindred keeps the following data in the private CloudKit database of your iCloud account: the people you track and their groups, the cadence you choose for each person, your interaction log and notes, your feedback types and ratings, context notes, trend history, and placeholder people you add before they have a contact card. This data is stored on your devices and synced through iCloud. It is protected by your Apple Account and subject to Apple's privacy policy. Pointe Ventures LLC does not operate any server that receives, stores, or processes this data, and we have no means of accessing it.

If you disable iCloud for Kindred, the data stays on your device only and will not sync to your other devices. The same is true while your iCloud storage is full: Kindred’s data counts toward your own iCloud storage, and changes stay on the device that made them until there is room again. Our support page explains what to do.

Contacts

With your permission, Kindred reads contact cards from Apple Contacts to show names, photos, phone numbers, email addresses, postal addresses, birthdays and other dates, related people, and social profile links. Kindred also uses email addresses and phone numbers to match people to calendar events and to merge duplicate cards.

The people you choose are kept in your iCloud. For each person you choose to keep up with, Kindred saves a copy of the details on their card (name, photo, phone numbers, email addresses, postal addresses, birthday and other dates) together with your notes about them, in the private CloudKit database of your iCloud account. That is how the same people appear on your iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. The rest of your address book is never copied. None of it is sent to Pointe Ventures LLC or to anyone else: we operate no server and cannot see your iCloud data.

Kindred never writes to your address book automatically. It changes Contacts only when you ask it to: an edit you make inside Kindred, such as correcting a phone number, is saved to the person’s iCloud contact card, and adding someone from a work or other account saves an iCloud copy of their card (below). Contact cards that belong to other accounts, such as Google or Exchange, are treated as read-only.

Work and other contact accounts. Kindred has no sign-in of its own for Google, Microsoft, or any other contacts service. It reads the contact accounts set up on your device, such as Exchange or Google (Settings › Apps › Contacts on iPhone and iPad, System Settings › Internet Accounts on a Mac), through Apple’s Contacts, the same way it reads iCloud, and it never writes to them. When you add someone whose card is only in one of those accounts, Kindred saves a copy of the card in your iCloud contacts, so the same person is on all your devices; the original card is not changed.

Calendar and Reminders

With your permission, Kindred reads calendar events to find meetings with the people you track, by matching attendee email addresses and phone numbers. Kindred stores only a link to the event and any log you choose to create. When you schedule a meeting from Kindred, it creates a normal calendar event on your device. When you start a new log, Kindred may suggest the people on a meeting that is happening now or just ended. Reminders access, if granted, is used only to create reminders you ask for.

Location

If you allow location access, Kindred notes where your device is at the moment you start notes about a conversation: a new log or a meeting’s notes. It saves that position and the nearest street name with the note, in your iCloud like the rest of your Kindred data. Kindred shows it on the note (“Written near …”) and, when you start a new log somewhere you have written notes before, suggests the people you were with there.

Kindred asks for location only while you are using it, once per new note. It never runs in the background, never keeps a history of where you go, and never shares your location with the people in Kindred, with Pointe Ventures LLC, or with anyone else. To find the street name, the position is sent to Apple Maps, under Apple’s privacy policy. Notes filed later from a voice recording get no location.

You can remove the place from any note, turn the feature off in Kindred’s settings (Privacy › Remember where notes are written), or turn off location access for Kindred in your device’s Settings. Places already saved stay on their notes until you remove them or delete the notes.

Notifications

Kindred schedules reminders locally on your device. Notification content, such as a person's name or an upcoming birthday, is generated on the device and is not sent to any server.

Siri and Apple Intelligence

When you type a context note, Kindred can use on-device Apple Intelligence to highlight names, relationships, and dates and suggest adding them. This processing happens on your device. Kindred does not send your notes to any external service. Siri Shortcuts and App Intents run through Apple's frameworks under Apple's privacy terms.

Catch-up briefs, note summaries, and drafted follow-up texts and emails are written the same way: by Apple Intelligence on your device, from your own notes. Nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing is sent to the person until you send it yourself from the Messages or Mail app.

Email (Mac)

On a Mac, Kindred can add emails with the people in Kindred to their history. When you press Check Mail, Kindred asks the Mail app on your Mac for the sender, recipients, subject, and date of the last 30 days of messages, never their text. You review what it found before anything is saved. For each email with someone in Kindred it saves who it was from and to, the date, and the subject, in your iCloud like the rest of your Kindred data. Emails with anyone else are looked at on your Mac to find matches and then discarded. Kindred never opens the Mail app on its own and never checks in the background. macOS asks your permission the first time, and you can turn it off in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Automation.

Kindred cannot send, reply to, delete, move, or mark email as read. It does not read attachments, does not use your email to train any AI model, does not use it for advertising, and does not sell or share it. Emails already added to a person’s history stay there until you delete them. On iPhone and iPad, Kindred does not read email.

Phone, Messages, and other apps

Kindred cannot see your call history. On iPhone and iPad it cannot see your text messages either; on a Mac it reads them only through Kindred for Messages, if you install it (below). When you start a call, message, or email from inside Kindred, the app records that you did so, along with the time, and offers to let you add notes. Content you explicitly share into Kindred from another app, using the share sheet, is stored as part of your log.

Kindred for Messages (optional, Mac)

Kindred for Messages is a separate, free Mac app that you can choose to install from this website. With the Full Disk Access permission you give it in System Settings, it reads the Messages history on your Mac and uses Apple Intelligence on your Mac to write short summaries. Your messages are never sent to Pointe Ventures LLC or to anyone else, and the conversations themselves are not copied into Kindred.

It looks only at one-to-one conversations from the last 30 days with people already in Kindred, matched by phone number or email address. Group chats and conversations with anyone not in Kindred are skipped, and nothing about them is saved. So that it doesn’t read the same days twice, it keeps a sentence and message counts for each day you texted each person, for up to 30 days, on your Mac only, encrypted with a key in your Mac’s keychain.

For each person, Kindred saves in your iCloud, like the rest of your Kindred data: a summary of up to two sentences of the last 30 days, the dates it covers, message counts, the day you last wrote to them, the phone number or email address of the conversation, and things it found for you to add, such as news or a birthday, until you add or set them aside. These reach your other devices through iCloud. You review the first summaries before anything is added, and you can leave anyone out; Kindred then stops keeping a summary for them. News about health or a loss in the family is never given as a reason to reach out or put in a drafted message, and you can turn it off in Kindred’s settings.

To stop, quit Kindred for Messages, or remove it and turn it off in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Full Disk Access.

Face ID and app lock

If you turn on app lock, Kindred asks the system to verify you with Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode. Kindred never receives biometric data; it only learns whether the check succeeded.

Analytics and tracking

Kindred contains no analytics, advertising, or third-party tracking SDKs. We do not collect device identifiers, usage statistics, or crash reports beyond what Apple may share with developers according to your own iOS and macOS analytics settings.

This website

This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics scripts. It is hosted by Cloudflare, whose servers may keep standard, short-lived request logs (such as IP address and pages requested) to operate and protect the service, as described in Cloudflare's privacy policy. No third party tracks you across other sites through this site. Because we don’t track you, there is nothing for us to change when your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal. If you email us, we keep your message so we can reply.

Your data and your choices

• Export. You can export your Kindred data from the app’s settings at any time.
• Delete. You can delete all Kindred data from the app’s settings. This removes it from your device and from your iCloud database. Deleting the app alone does not remove the iCloud copy.
• Permissions. Every permission is optional and can be changed later in the Settings app on your device.

Children

Kindred is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. Because Kindred has no servers, it collects no personal information from anyone.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the effective date at the top of this page and, for significant changes, note it in the app's release notes.

Contact

Email support@kindredcontact.com.