Everything you put into Chiku lives in the app on your phone and is never sent to us:
Because it is on your device, deleting the app deletes this information. We cannot recover it for you, because we never had it.
Chiku has no sign up. We do not ask for your name, your email address, or a password, so we do not have them.
Chiku contains no analytics tools and no advertising tools. There are no third party trackers in the app. We do not build a profile of you, we do not sell or share personal information, and we do not show ads.
Apart from the optional purchase check described below, the app makes no network connections at all. The artwork, the sounds and the typefaces are built into the app itself, so opening Chiku does not contact any server.
Under laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act, we do not sell or share personal information for cross context behavioural advertising.
If you buy the optional detective’s kit, that purchase is handled by Apple or Google. To know whether you have paid, Chiku uses a service called RevenueCat, which receives a randomly generated identifier and the record of the purchase. It does not receive your name, your email address, or anything about your food.
We use this only to unlock what you paid for. It is not used for advertising or tracking. RevenueCat’s own privacy policy is at revenuecat.com/privacy.
If you share a household list, Chiku creates a file and hands it to whatever you choose, such as Messages or AirDrop. The file goes directly from your phone to theirs. It does not pass through us.
Chiku’s reminders are created and scheduled on your own device. They are not sent from a server, so no reminder ever leaves your phone.
Chiku is made for adults running a kitchen and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children, because we do not collect personal information at all.
Since your information stays on your device, you already have complete control of it. You can edit or delete any item at any time, and deleting the app removes everything. There is no data of yours for us to hand over or delete on request, because we do not hold any.
chikudetective.org is a set of static pages. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and contains no trackers. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser requests the font files from Google’s servers when the page loads; Google’s privacy policy applies to that request. The site is hosted on Netlify, which, like any web host, keeps standard server logs.
If this ever changes, we will update this page and the date at the top on the same day the change ships. We would rather be plain than flattering.
Questions about privacy: hi@reweave.org
Chiku is made by Reweave, inc, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in New York.