Parental Consent Notices
Version 1.0.0-draftEffective 16 August 2026Updated 15 August 2026
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.
Creating your child's profile
To create a profile your child can sign in to, to give them missions suited to their age, and to show you what they have been doing.
Required · Can be withdrawn · Notice version NOTICE_VERSION_CHILD_PROFILE
- Your child's full name, date of birth and gender, which you give us.
- A username and a PIN, which your child chooses.
- What your child does in the app: missions completed, points, level, streak, coins, badges, and answers to the daily question.
- Messages your child sends in your family chat.
- Photographs your child attaches to completed missions.
The child's profile is deleted, along with everything collected through it. The family account remains.
Making a cartoon avatar from your child's photo
To generate a cartoon version of your child to use as their picture in the app.
Optional · Can be withdrawn · Notice version NOTICE_VERSION_AVATAR
- One photograph of your child's face, taken with the camera in the app. The camera roll is not used for this.
- A short description your child types of the clothing they want the avatar to wear.
The generated avatar is deleted and replaced with a ready-made character. No new photographs are taken.
AI suggestions and your weekly report
To suggest missions that suit your child, and to write the short commentary in your weekly report.
Optional · Can be withdrawn · Notice version NOTICE_VERSION_AI_PERSONALISATION
- A summary of what your child has done: which categories of mission they complete or miss, their completion rates, and what rewards interest them.
Mission suggestions and weekly report commentary stop being personalised. Standard missions and a plain weekly report continue.
Understanding how your child uses Kibu
To see which parts of Kibu work for children and which do not, so we can improve it.
Optional · Can be withdrawn · Notice version NOTICE_VERSION_ANALYTICS
- A persistent identifier for your child's profile, and a fixed list of events describing what they did in the app and when.
The stream closes immediately, and we ask our analytics provider to delete everything already held about your child. We keep the confirmation.
What every notice includes
We have your email address because you created a Kibu account. We use it to ask for your consent and to confirm what you decided.
We want to collect personal information from your child. We cannot do that without your consent, and we will not do it until you give it.
You can agree to us collecting your child's information without agreeing to us sharing it with any outside company. Each of those is a separate choice below.
Our full Children's Privacy Policy is at getkibu.com/childrens-privacy. It lists everything we collect, everyone we share it with, and how long we keep it.
You give consent inside the Kibu app, on the account that holds the subscription. We confirm it is you by reference to the payment on the account, and we email you a receipt of every consent decision.
If you do not respond to a consent request, we delete the request and collect nothing. We will not ask repeatedly.
You can withdraw any consent at any time from Settings → Privacy, without closing your account and without contacting us.
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
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
For parents
Cookies and Tracking
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.
/cookies
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
Kibu Club — connecting with children in other families
To let your child share what they have been doing with friends in other Kibu families.
Optional · Can be withdrawn · Notice version NOTICE_VERSION_SOCIAL
Your child stops being visible to other families, existing friendships end, and their posts stop being shown to anyone outside your family.