Privacy policy

Kitefolio is run by [your name]. We decide how the personal data described here is used. Questions about privacy go to ahmedbinas@gmail.com.

Your account. Your email address and name, and your profile picture if you sign in with Google. If you sign up with a password we store a scrambled version of it (never the password itself), a username, and your date of birth, which we use only to check you’re at least 16. We need these to give you an account.

What you make. The content and images you put in your portfolios and blog posts. When you publish, that content is shown publicly at the address you choose. Drafts are private to you.

Payments. If you pay, Stripe handles your card; we never see or store card numbers. We keep a record of what you bought and when, and Stripe’s customer and payment-method references so a plan can renew if you’ve chosen that.

Domains. When you buy a domain, domain registries require the owner’s name, address, email and phone number. We pass these to the registrar to register the domain in your name and don’t keep them afterwards.

AI features. When you use the AI assistant, import a CV or LinkedIn export, or run the Investigator, the text involved is sent to Anthropic (who make Claude) to process the request, or to OpenAI if you’ve connected your own OpenAI key. If you save your own Claude or OpenAI API key, we check it with that company, store it encrypted, use it only for your requests, and delete it when you remove it. We ask OpenAI not to store requests made with your key.

The Investigator. If you switch it on, it reads the public profiles you give it and searches the web for your professional news, on the schedule you choose. It only looks at you, only at public pages, and only with your consent; it never logs in anywhere. What it finds is stored with your account so you can review or undo it.

Visits. We record which pages are opened, without cookies and without storing IP addresses. Each visit gets a code that changes every day, so a visitor can’t be followed from one day to the next. We also note the device type, the site that sent you and your browser’s time zone (for a rough location). If you’re signed in, your visits are linked to your account so we can see how customers use Kitefolio and fix what gets in their way. Visit records are deleted after about 13 months.

Your voice (only if you use the voice tool). Your browser turns your recording or video into sound only; the video never leaves your device. We receive that sound, keep a 12-second sample to speak from, and delete the rest straight away. The work is done on our own computer with an open-source model; your voice isn’t sent to any AI company. Clips you make are deleted after 7 days (90 on Pro), and you can delete your voice and clips at any time on the tool’s page. We never use your voice for anything you didn’t ask for, and never to train AI models.

Messages. Support requests, community posts and template submissions you send us, and booking details if you book a call (through Cal.com).

We use only the cookies needed to keep you signed in and to protect sign-in forms. There are no advertising or tracking cookies, so there’s no cookie banner.

We don’t sell your data. We share it only with the services that help us run Kitefolio, and only what each one needs:

Some of these are in other countries, including the United States. We may also disclose information if the law requires it.

We keep your account and content until you delete them. Payment records are kept as long as tax and accounting rules require, even after an account is deleted. Visitor counts are kept for about 13 months.

You can see and change your details and content in your account, switch off reminder emails there, and switch the Investigator off at any time.

You can delete your account from your account page. That deletes your portfolios, images, posts and settings straight away and takes your published sites offline.

You can also ask us for a copy of your data, or to correct or delete it, by writing to ahmedbinas@gmail.com. Depending on where you live you may have further rights, including complaining to your data-protection authority.

Kitefolio isn’t meant for anyone under 16, and we don’t knowingly collect their data.

If we change this policy we’ll update the date at the top, and tell you by email if the change matters to how your data is used.