How does Kin handle my data?

Written By Simon Henriksen

Last updated 5 months ago

At Kin, we believe your data is yours only.

Data is only stored on your device

Y.our data is only stored on a local database on your device. We have no cloud database with user data. This guarantees that no employees of Kin, or anyone else, can access your data and it minimizes the risk of data being hacked or leaked to nearly zero.

Uses local ML models when possible

We leverage local models that run on your device when possible, like our embedding model, which gives excellent performance, but also ensures your data stay on your device.

We use trusted LLM service providers with zero data retention

Kin uses powerful LLMs (like Llama 3.1) that cannot yet run on-device. For LLM inference, we’ve teamed up with Fireworks.ai and Together.ai, two trusted service providers that only processes request data to fulfil the response, and does not train on or retain any data.

What happens if I enable “Help improve Kin?”

In order to improve Kin, it’s important for us to understand it’s behaviour. If you enable “Help improve Kin” (under “Your Kin”), we will log the requests and responses send to the LLM. The logs cannot be linked to identifiable account information such as email or phone number.

This data is analyzed by an AI and interesting behaviour is flagged, such as when Kin was not able to answer a question, an error happened or a user reported an issue with an answer. The flagged logs can be access by selected engineers on the Kin engineering team. The logs are automatically deleted after 30 days.