Privacy Policy
Kinnkolk (kinnkolk.com, also reachable at divinedavis.com/family) is a shared family-tree website run by Divine Davis, an individual in New York, USA. This policy explains what the site collects, who can see it, which outside services touch it, and how to get it deleted. Questions: divinejdavis@gmail.com.
The two things to know first
Any signed-in account can join and read any family tree. After you sign in, Kinnkolk lists every family tree by name and member count. Anyone with an account can join any listed family with one click, without an invitation or approval, and can then read and edit every person, reunion and RSVP in that tree. Signing in is the only barrier. Do not add information about a relative that you would not be comfortable with any Kinnkolk account holder seeing.
The leaderboard shows account email addresses. Every member of a family can see the email addresses of the people who added or edited relatives in that tree, along with their point totals. Your email is also stored on each person, reunion and RSVP you create or change.
What we collect
| Information | Where it comes from | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address and a password (stored only as a hash by our login provider), or your Google account email, name and profile ID if you use "Continue with Google" | You, when you create an account or sign in | To sign you in and to credit your edits |
| Which family tree you belong to and your role (admin or editor) | You, when you create or join a tree | To show you the right tree and decide who may delete people |
| Information about relatives: first, middle and last name, nickname, sex, birth year or full date of birth, death year, city of origin, current city, occupation, employer, high school and college with years, and links to parents and spouses | You and other members of your family tree | To draw the tree, show ages and birthdays, and power search and research links |
| Reunions (title, date, place) and per-person Going / Can't RSVPs | Family members | To plan reunions |
| An edit log: which account changed which field of which person, and when | Created automatically when you save | To score the leaderboard and show who changed what |
| A copy of your tree and a few display preferences in your browser's local storage | Your browser | So the page loads quickly and remembers open panels. It stays on your device. |
| Standard web server logs (IP address, browser, page requested, time) | Your browser, automatically | Security and troubleshooting |
Much of the information in a tree is about people other than the person entering it, including living relatives and children. Please add only what your family is comfortable sharing, and remove anything a relative asks you to remove.
Kinnkolk has no advertising, no analytics or tracking scripts, and no cookies beyond what signing in requires. We do not sell or rent personal information, and we do not "share" it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Who else handles it
- Supabase (United States) hosts the account system and the database that stores everything above.
- Google handles sign-in if you choose "Continue with Google". Google's own privacy policy applies to your Google account.
- DigitalOcean (United States) hosts the web server that serves the page and keeps its access logs.
- Photon by Komoot (photon.komoot.io, OpenStreetMap data) receives the letters you type into a city field so it can suggest place names. It does not receive names or any other details.
- FamilySearch, Find a Grave and Google Search: the research (🔎) buttons open those sites in a new tab with a search pre-filled from that person's name, years, places and known parents or spouse. Nothing is sent unless you click, and those sites' own policies then apply.
How long we keep it
Account details are kept until the account is deleted. People, reunions, RSVPs and the edit log stay in the family tree until a family member removes them or the family's tree is deleted; deleting your account does not automatically remove relatives you added, because the rest of your family still uses them. Web server logs are deleted automatically after 14 days.
Deleting information
- Your account: email divinejdavis@gmail.com from the address on the account and we will delete it, your family membership and your email from the edit log, within 30 days. You can say whether the relatives you added should also be removed.
- A person in a tree: any family member can edit or blank out a person's details. Removing a person entirely is limited to the family's admin, or email us and we will do it. If you are a person who appears in a tree (or the parent or guardian of a child who does) and want your entry corrected or removed, email us and we will act on it even if you have no account.
- Local copy: clear this site's data in your browser settings.
Children
Kinnkolk is not directed at children, and accounts are meant for adults and teenagers 13 and older (16 in the EU and UK). The site does not ask for age at sign-up, so if we learn a younger child has created an account we will delete it. Family trees naturally include children as relatives; that information is entered by adult family members. A parent or guardian can ask us to review, correct or delete anything about their child by emailing divinejdavis@gmail.com.
Your rights
Wherever you live, you can ask to see, correct, download or delete the personal information we hold about you, and we will answer within 30 days (45 days where California law allows). We verify requests by replying to the email address on the account, or by asking for enough detail to find a relative's entry.
- California (CCPA/CPRA): you have the right to know what we collect, to delete it, to correct it, and to opt out of sale or sharing. We do not sell or share personal information, and we do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics. We will not treat you differently for using these rights. An authorized agent may make a request for you with your written permission.
- EU/EEA and UK (GDPR / UK GDPR): we process account data to provide the service you asked for (contract), and relatives' details on the basis of our and your family's legitimate interest in keeping a shared family history, balanced by the right of anyone listed to object and have their entry removed. You may access, correct, erase, restrict or object to processing, and port your data. Your data is stored in the United States. You can complain to your local data protection authority (in the UK, the ICO).
Security
Connections use HTTPS. Database rules keep each family's records visible only to signed-in members of that family and let only a family admin delete people. As explained above, any signed-in account can become a member of any family, so these rules protect against the public, not against other account holders.
Changes
If this policy changes we will update the date at the top. Significant changes will also be noted on the sign-in screen.