Privacy Policy

iKippa for Android · Effective 1 November 2026 · Version 1.0

Who is responsible

The data controller for anything described here is:

We are established in Romania, so this policy is written to meet the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Romanian data protection law. We are not required to appoint a Data Protection Officer, and we have not appointed one; write to the address above and you will reach the people who made the app.

What the app collects: nothing

iKippa has no user accounts, no login, no registration and no profile. It contains no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no attribution or measurement tools, no social media SDKs and no third-party trackers of any kind. It does not read the Android advertising ID. It has no back end: there is no iKippa server anywhere for your data to be sent to.

In Google Play's Data safety section, our answer is No data collected and No data shared.

What stays on your phone

The app stores a small amount of information in its own private storage on your device:

• Your saved kippa designs — the style, colours, panel count, emblem and its position, whether a hair clip is on, and any rim text you typed.
• Your settings — whether Amen plays on tap, whether wear mode raises brightness, the dark or light wear background, and which kippa is currently selected.
• Your purchase state — whether Plus is active and how many single-kippa credits remain.

None of this is sent to us. It is deleted when you uninstall the app.

One honest note: rim text is whatever you type. If you write "ADAM · BAR MITZVAH · 14.03.2027", that is a name and a date — personal data, by any sensible definition. It stays on your device, and in your own device backup if you use one; we never see it, and it travels only if you deliberately share that design as a file. Bear it in mind when you choose what to write, and who to send it to.

Android backup

iKippa does not sync your designs between devices. If you have Android's backup turned on, the app's private storage may be included in your own device backup, which Google keeps in your Google Account, encrypted, under Google's Privacy Policy. That backup is between you and Google: we have no access to it and no way to read it. You can turn backup off in your phone's settings.

Purchases

iKippa Plus and single-kippa purchases are processed entirely by Google Play. We never see your name, address, card details or Google Account. The app uses Google Play's billing library, which talks to the Google Play app on your phone, to ask whether a purchase is active and to start a purchase when you tap Buy. That library is the reason the app holds the internet permission; iKippa itself makes no network requests of its own.

Google gives us order and financial reports for purchases of our app, as it does for every developer on Google Play. We use them only for accounting, tax and, if you ask us, to deal with a problem with your purchase. We never use them to profile or contact you. If you want a refund, see the Terms.

If you email us

The "Contact us / Report a bug" option in Settings opens an email addressed to us. If you send it, we receive what everyone receives in an email: your email address, your name if your mail app includes it, and whatever you write.

The app adds a short technical footer to help us diagnose problems. It contains exactly this and nothing more: the app version and build number, the Android version, and the make and model of your phone (for example "iKippa 1.0.1 (1) · Android 16 · Google Pixel 8"). It contains no device identifier, no serial number, no advertising ID, no location and nothing that identifies you or your particular phone. You can delete the footer before you press send.

We use that correspondence only to answer you and to fix the problem. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in supporting our own product and, where your message is about a purchase, performance of our agreement with you. We keep support emails for as long as needed to deal with the matter and to have a record of it, normally no more than two years, and we do not use your address for marketing or add you to any list.

Sharing a design

Plus members can send a design to another member as a file, using Android's share sheet. That file goes directly from you to them, by whatever means you choose — Quick Share, a messaging app, email. It does not pass through any system of ours, and we never receive a copy. What is in it, and who you send it to, is entirely up to you.

The Amen voice

When you tap the kippa in wear mode, the word "Amen" is spoken by the text-to-speech engine already installed on your phone. iKippa passes it that one word and nothing else. The engine is part of your phone, not of iKippa, and is governed by its own provider's terms.

Permissions the app does not ask for

iKippa requests no runtime permissions at all. It does not use the camera, microphone, photos, location, contacts, calendar, phone, SMS, health data, motion data, Bluetooth, nearby devices or notifications. In wear mode it keeps the screen awake and may raise brightness, and it restores both when you leave; those are display settings, not data about you.

Children

iKippa is not directed at children under 13 and is not designed for them. Because the app collects no personal data from anyone, it collects none from children either. Purchases should be made only by the Google Account holder or with their permission — Google Play's purchase authentication and Family Link settings are the place to control that.

International transfers

We do not transfer your personal data anywhere, because we do not hold any, other than support emails you choose to send us, which are stored with our email provider, and Google's purchase reports described above. Google's own handling of purchase and backup data is described in Google's privacy policy and is a matter between you and Google.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access your personal data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to its processing, to data portability, and to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. You can exercise any of these by writing to office@ranintelligence.com, and we will reply within one month.

In practice there is usually nothing for us to give you or delete, because we hold nothing about you — the exceptions are an email you have sent us, which we will delete on request, and purchase records we must keep by law. Data held on your own device is yours already: you can see it in the app and delete all of it by uninstalling the app or clearing its storage.

If you think we have handled your data badly, please tell us first. You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority — in Romania that is the Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal (ANSPDCP), and elsewhere in the EU the authority where you live, work, or where the issue arose.

Security

The strongest privacy measure in iKippa is architectural: there is no server, no account and no collection, so there is no store of user data to breach. What lives on your phone is protected by Android's app sandbox and by your device encryption and screen lock. Keeping your device updated and locked is the most useful thing you can do.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of iKippa ever changes what it does with data, we will update this page before that version ships, and the version and effective date at the top will change. If a change is significant, we will say so in the app.

Contact

Anything about privacy: office@ranintelligence.com.