Cookies and Tracking
Version 1.0.0-draftEffective 16 August 2026Updated 15 August 2026
What the Kibu website stores on your device, and what the Kibu app stores on your phone. There is no advertising tracking anywhere in Kibu, and nothing at all is tracked on a child's device without a parent's verified consent.
1. Our position
- We do not use advertising cookies, tracking pixels, or social media trackers, anywhere.
- We do not request the advertising identifier on iOS or Android.
- We do not track anyone across other websites or apps.
- On a child's device, nothing is used for analytics unless a parent has given verified consent.
- We ask before setting anything that is not strictly necessary, and you can change your mind at any time.
2. On getkibu.com
| What | Why | How long | Needs your consent? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session cookie | Keeps the site working while you browse | Until you close the browser | No — strictly necessary |
| Security cookie | Protects forms from abuse | Session | No — strictly necessary |
| Language preference | Remembers whether you chose English or Arabic | 365 days | No — strictly necessary |
| Your cookie choice | Remembers what you decided, so we stop asking | 180 days | No — records your choice |
| Website analytics | Counts visits so we know which pages help | 365 days | Yes — off unless you agree |
If you decline analytics the site works exactly the same. The banner is not a dark pattern: Reject is as prominent as Accept, and declining does not make it reappear on every page.
The children's pages at getkibu.com/privacy-for-kids carry no analytics and no banner at all.
3. In the Kibu app
Mobile apps do not use cookies, but they do store things on the device. Here is what Kibu stores.
| What | Why | Consent? |
|---|---|---|
| Sign-in tokens | So you are not signed out constantly | No — necessary |
| Your settings and language | So the app behaves as you set it | No — necessary |
| Cached images | So the app is fast and uses less data | No — necessary |
| Whether you use fingerprint or face unlock | A yes/no flag only — never your fingerprint or face, which stay on your device | No — necessary |
| Notification token | So notifications reach the right device | Device permission |
| Analytics identifier — parent | To understand how parents use the app | You can object at any time |
| Analytics identifier — child | To understand how children use the app | Yes — nothing is collected without your verified consent |
4. Children's devices, specifically
If you have not given verified consent for analytics, the app collects nothing about your child for that purpose. Not a reduced set, not an anonymised event — the stream is closed, not narrowed.
No location is collected from a child's device at any time. No advertising identifier is requested. Analytics is never used to build a profile of a child or to contact them.
5. Changing your mind
Website: use the Cookie settings link in the footer of any page.
App: Settings → Privacy. Turning off analytics also instructs our provider to delete what they already hold.
You can also clear your browser cookies or reset your advertising identifier in your device settings. We honour browser Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals where they are sent.
The full policy set
This policy is one of 13. The rest cover children’s privacy, consent, retention, security, AI and the terms you agree to.
For parents
Privacy Policy
Kibu is a family app used by parents and by children. This policy explains what we collect, why, who we share it with, how long we keep it, and how you control it. Because most of our users are children, we hold ourselves to children's privacy rules everywhere we operate — not only where the law compels it.
/privacy-policy
For parents
Children's Privacy Policy
This is the notice required by the United States Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and it also serves as our children's privacy statement for the United Kingdom, the European Union, Saudi Arabia and the US states with children's design codes. It sits alongside our main Privacy Policy and, where the two differ, this one governs anything to do with a child.
/childrens-privacy
For parents
Parental Consent Notices
Kibu asks for your consent separately for each thing we want to do with your child's information, so that agreeing to one never silently agrees to another. This page holds the full text of every consent we ask for. Each is the notice referenced by the corresponding checkbox in the app.
/parental-consent
For parents
Data Retention Policy
How long Kibu keeps each kind of information, why we need to keep it that long, and what happens when the time is up. COPPA requires us to publish this, and we treat it as a specification our systems must actually implement — not a statement of intent.
/data-retention
For parents
Terms of Service
The agreement between you and Kibu. It covers who may hold an account, what you are responsible for, subscriptions and refunds, and how either of us can end the agreement.
/terms
Parents and kids
Community Guidelines and Content Moderation Policy
What is allowed on Kibu, how we check, what happens when something breaks the rules, and how to report it. This is a safety document as much as a legal one — it exists because children can see what other children post.
/community-guidelines
For parents
Your Rights and How to Use Them
What you can ask us to do with your family's data, how to ask, what we need from you, and how long we take. Everything here is free, and most of it you can do yourself in the app without contacting us at all.
/your-rights
For parents
Service Providers and Sub-processors
Every company that handles your family's data on our behalf, what each one receives, where it is processed, and what we require of them in writing. We publish this because you cannot judge whether your child's data is safe without knowing who holds it.
/subprocessors
For parents
How Kibu Uses AI
Kibu uses AI in four places. This page says exactly where, what is sent, who receives it, what we forbid them to do with it, and what your child can and cannot do with AI. Children never talk to an AI in Kibu.
/ai
For schools
Kibu and Schools — FERPA and Student Privacy
Kibu is a consumer family product. We contract with parents, not with schools, and we hold no education records. This page explains our position on FERPA and US state student-privacy laws, and states plainly what we will not do.
/schools
For parents
Security at Kibu
A public summary of how we protect your family's data. The full written programme is an internal document; this page tells you what it covers and how to reach us if you find a problem.
/security
Written for kids
Your Privacy, Explained
A version of our privacy policy written for the children who use Kibu. Required by the ICO Children's Code, which says information must be presented in a way children can actually understand — and by the EU's rules on protecting minors online.
/privacy-for-kids