Kipple keeps your collection on your phone. Photographs are sent away only to be identified, and are not stored by us.
Last updated 20 September 2026
Who is responsible
Kipple is made and operated by Jonathan Moore, of Tannoch Brae, Top Road, Beccles NR348NN . For anything on this page, write to vvmoore213@gmail.com.
The short version
There are no accounts. You do not give us a name, an email address or a password to use Kipple.
Your cabinet, your stickers, your streak and everything else you collect are stored on your device, not on a server.
When you photograph something, the photograph is sent to be identified and is not kept afterwards.
Where you found something is recorded on your phone only, and is never sent to us or to anyone else.
There is no advertising, no tracking across apps or websites, and nothing is sold to anybody. Kipple sends a few anonymous usage counts, described below.
Photographs
Identifying what you photographed cannot happen on the phone alone, so the image is sent over an encrypted connection to our service, which passes it to Google’s Gemini API for identification and returns a description.
Our service does not write the image to any database, cache or file. It exists in memory for the seconds the request takes and is then gone. The image is handled in transit by our hosting provider, Cloudflare, and is processed by Google under the Gemini API terms.
The photograph you keep, and the sticker cut from it, are saved on your device.
Location
If you allow it, Kipple records roughly where you were when you found something, so your cabinet remembers the place as well as the day. Accuracy is deliberately coarse, to around a hundred metres.
This never leaves your phone. It is not part of the identification request and we have no way to see it. You can refuse location permission and everything else in Kipple works normally.
What is stored on your device
Your catches: the sticker, the date, the approximate place, and which prompt it answered.
Your progress: points, streak, themes unlocked and finished, and how the stickers are arranged on your pile.
The name you chose to be called, and a birth year if you entered one.
Deleting the app removes all of it. “Reset progress” inside the app does the same without deleting the app.
Payments
Purchases are handled entirely by Apple. We never see your card details, your billing address or your Apple Account. All Kipple learns is whether a purchase is active.
Photo library
Kipple asks for permission to add to your photo library only when you choose to save a sticker. It does not read your existing photos.
Analytics
Kipple counts a few things so we know whether it is working: that the app was opened, that a find was kept and whether it answered a prompt, that a theme was finished, that the upgrade screen was seen or a purchase made, and that a sticker pack was sent to WhatsApp.
These counts go to TelemetryDeck, a privacy-focused analytics service. They carry a random identifier made on your phone and scrambled before it is sent. It is not linked to your name, your Apple Account, your location or your photographs, and none of those are ever included. Nothing is used for advertising or shared with anyone else.
Children
Kipple is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them. Since the app has no accounts and collects no contact details, there is nothing for a child to hand over. If you believe a child has provided information, write to us and we will help.
Your rights
Under UK and EU data protection law you have the right to access, correct, export, restrict or erase personal data we hold about you. In practice we hold almost nothing: your collection is on your phone, so you exercise these rights directly by using or deleting the app.
If you signed up to the mailing list on this website, we hold your email address on the basis of your consent. Every email includes an unsubscribe link, and you can ask us to delete it at any time.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you think your data has been mishandled.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that affects what is collected or where it goes, the date at the top changes and the app will tell you.