Last updated: November 5, 2026
Chiku: Food Game keeps the game on your phone. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking.
We do not have a server that holds the game, the real fridge, your photos, or your notes.
what stays on your phone
Everything you make in Chiku lives in the app on your phone and is never sent to us: your game, your stickers, the names you type, and what you put in the real fridge.
In the real fridge that means the items you add and the dates you choose for them, your notes, photos you attach to an item, your history, and your settings, including reminder times.
Because it is on your phone, deleting the app deletes this information. We cannot recover it for you, because we never had it.
no account, ever
Chiku has no sign up. We do not ask for your name, your email address, or a password, so we do not have them.
The game never asks who is playing.
no analytics, no advertising, no tracking
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 information about you, and we do not show ads.
The artwork, the sounds and the typefaces are built into the app itself, so apart from the store checks described below, nothing else in Chiku contacts any server.
Under laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act, we do not sell or share personal information for cross context behavioural advertising.
children
Chiku’s food game is made for children and grown ups, and treats every player as a child: no account, no ads, and a grown up door before any purchase, link out or the fridge.
On Google Play it is for ages 6 and over.
We do not collect names, email addresses, contacts, location, or anything a child types or makes. The only things that leave the phone on their own are the random identifier and, if you buy, the purchase record, both described below.
the grown up door
A small question, a times table in words, stands before every purchase, every link out of the game, the grown up corner and the real fridge.
It is asked again before a purchase, a link out and the real fridge.
The links out of the game are the privacy page, writing to us and suggesting a food.
the one exception: the store
Chiku has one optional purchase, the kitchen pass (also called the detective’s kit), and the purchase itself is handled by Apple or Google.
To show the pass and to know whether it is already yours, Chiku talks to the store through a service called RevenueCat.
What RevenueCat receives is a randomly generated identifier that means nothing outside this app and, if you buy, the record of that purchase.
It does not receive your name, your email address, or anything about your game, because the app does not have those things to send.
The app sends no device identifier with it and sets nothing about the player.
RevenueCat’s integrations with advertising services are switched off.
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.
Google Play’s data safety form and Apple’s privacy label list the same thing: purchase history, used for the app to work, not linked to you, not used for tracking.
the store’s age check
When a grown up opens the kitchen pass, past the grown up door, and the sheet is about to offer the pass, the app asks the store for an age signal, using Apple’s Declared Age Range on iPhone, and Google’s Play Age Signals on Android from version 2.1.1, at most once each time the game starts.
It is asked only to decide whether to offer the pass.
It is never asked when the game opens, and never on a screen a child plays.
The answer stays on the phone, in memory, and is never stored or sent.
The pass is not offered when the store says the account belongs to a minor, or when Apple says the age range was not shared.
household sharing
If you share a household list from the real fridge, 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.
photos
With the kitchen pass, a grown up can take a photo of a food. The game turns it into a small pixel sticker on the phone, and the photo itself is not kept.
Photos you attach to an item in the real fridge stay on the phone. They are never uploaded.
notifications
The game sends no notifications and counts no days played.
The real fridge’s reminders are created and scheduled on your own device. They are not sent from a server, so no reminder ever leaves your phone.
writing to us
Writing to us, and suggesting a food, open an email to support@reweave.org in your own mail app. The game itself sends nothing.
your rights
Since your information stays on your phone, you already have complete control of it. You can edit or delete anything 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.
this website
chikudetective.org is a set of static pages. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and contains no trackers.
This site loads everything it needs from itself: no fonts, scripts or pictures come from other companies’ servers.
The site is hosted on Netlify, which, like any web host, keeps standard server logs.
changes
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.
contact
Questions about privacy: support@reweave.org
Chiku is made by Reweave, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.