What Kith holds
Plain language, written before there is anything to hold. The formal policy will be published before anyone can sign up.
Kith is not open yet, so there is no account and nothing in it. What follows is what Kith is being built to do, and what it will commit to in writing before the first person signs up.
The people in your life, and the facts you tell Kith about them. Where they work. Who their children are. What they were worried about last spring. Photographs. The dates you saw each other.
Every stored fact records where it came from and when, so a claim from 2019 can visibly age rather than sitting there being confidently wrong.
On infrastructure we operate, encrypted at rest. Photographs sit in object storage under keys that only your account can reach.
Recognizing a face means sending image data to a company that is not us.
Kith is being built on a third-party face recognition service, currently Amazon Rekognition. That means photographs of your friends and family would be processed by that service. We would rather say so in the second paragraph than in a footnote, and the written policy will name the provider and explain the choice.
Face recognition is also regulated differently depending on where you live. That review happens before launch, not after.
What you keep in Kith is never:
- Sold. To anyone, for anything.
- Used to train a model.
- Shown to another user. There is no social layer and no mutual connections.
- Kept after you delete it. Delete means the row is gone, not hidden.
Full export, in an open format, always available. You should be able to leave on a Tuesday afternoon without asking anyone for permission.
If something here is unclear or looks wrong, say so. It is easier to fix now than after launch.