Privacy

Last updated 9 October 2026

Kippup is a shared calendar for friends and family, made by Somi Technologies Ltd. This page says what Kippup stores, why, who can see it and how to delete it. We don't show ads, we don't use analytics or tracking, and we don't sell or share your data for marketing.

Who we are

Kippup is run by Somi Technologies Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, with its registered office at 182-184 High Street North, East Ham, London, E6 2JA. We are the data controller for the personal data Kippup handles. Contact us at[email protected].

What Kippup stores

• Your account: your email address, name, colour, profile photo if you add one, birthday (day and month only) if you add it, and your phone's time zone, so reminders arrive at a sensible hour.
• What you make and share: the groups you're in, plans and your answers to them, tasks, group chat messages and photos, reactions, @mentions, polls and votes, ideas, "Free to hang out?" posts, and photos added to plans.
• Your calendar: personal events you add in Kippup, and entries from calendars you choose to connect (see below).
• Chat details: which messages you've seen, so others see "Seen" and unread counts are right; whether you're typing, which is passed on live and never stored; chats you've muted and messages you've pinned.
• Safety: people you've blocked, and reports you make about a message, with a copy of that message and your note.
• Notifications: your notification choices, and a push address for each phone you're signed in on.
• Feedback you send from Help, with your app version and phone type, so we can act on it.
• Sign-in details: the phones you're signed in on, and for a day, how many sign-in codes your email was sent, so codes can't be sent without limit.

Why we use it

• To run Kippup for you (the contract between us): your account, groups, plans, chat, tasks, polls, photos, birthdays and notifications.
• With your permission, which you can take back at any time in the app or your phone's settings: reading your phone's calendars, connecting Google Calendar, using your camera and photos, and sending notifications.
• To keep Kippup safe (our legitimate interest in a secure, friendly service): limiting sign-in attempts, handling reports and blocks, and reading your feedback.
• When the law requires it, for example a valid request from the police.

We never use your data for advertising or to build a profile of you.

Signing in with Apple or Google

If you sign in with Apple or Google, they tell Kippup your email address, an account number that stays the same, and, the first time, your name. Kippup never sees your Apple or Google password. For Apple, Kippup also keeps a token that lets it end its access to your Apple ID when you delete your Kippup account. If you use Apple's Hide My Email, we only see the address Apple makes for Kippup.

Who can see what

• Only people in a group see its chat, polls, ideas, tasks and "Free to hang out?" posts.
• Only people in a plan see that plan and its photos.
• People in your groups see your name, colour, profile photo and, if you add it, your birthday. A week before it, they may be reminded and offered to plan something; you aren't told.
• Invitations you share are sent by the app you choose, such as Messages or WhatsApp; Kippup doesn't send them for you.
• Notifications can show part of a message or plan on your lock screen. You can turn each kind off in Kippup, or hide previews in your phone's settings.
• Someone you block can't reach you through Kippup and isn't told. You both stay in any groups you share.

Your calendar and photos

Adding Kippup to your phone's calendar copies plans you're going or might go to and your Kippup personal events into a separate Kippup calendar. A one-off calendar export makes a copy you can change separately. Connecting your own phone calendars is a separate, optional choice. With Busy only, their times are sent to Kippup; titles, locations and notes stay on that phone. Share details also sends those details to Kippup.

A direct Google Calendar connection is separate from Google sign-in. With your permission, Kippup stores your Google account identifier, email, calendar list and an encrypted access credential. This lets the server read your selected calendars while the app is closed. Their event titles, times, locations and notes are stored on Kippup's server for you. Kippup does not create, change or delete events in Google through this connection.

Everyone who shares a group with you, including people who join later, sees your personal events and connected calendars as Busy by default. Share details reveals titles, times, locations and notes to your groups, except for events marked private in Google, which still show as Busy. Only me hides an event completely. Blocking prevents access in either direction. Disconnecting Google in You → Settings → Calendar connections removes its imported entries and connection credential from Kippup. Separately connected phone calendars can continue to import.

Kippup only sees the photos you pick to add, never the rest of your library.

Who helps us run Kippup

• Hetzner runs the server that holds Kippup's data, in Finland.
• Cloudflare carries all traffic to the website and app, which means it handles your IP address, and stores photos in the EU.
• Resend sends sign-in emails.
• Expo passes notifications on to Apple's and Google's notification services, so it handles your phone's push address and the notification text.
• Apple and Google, if you choose to sign in with them, and Google if you connect Google Calendar.

They only handle your data to provide their service to Kippup, under agreements that require them to protect it.

Data outside the UK

Kippup's server and photos are in the EU, which the UK recognises as protecting data to its standard. Resend and Expo are based in the United States. When your data goes there, it's protected by safeguards UK law approves, such as the UK International Data Transfer Addendum or the UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.

How long we keep it

• Most of it, for as long as you have an account. See below for what happens when you delete it.
• Sign-in codes for 10 minutes; how many codes were sent, for a day.
• Sign-ins until you log out, or for 90 days.
• Reports, for as long as we need them to deal with the report and spot repeated abuse. If you delete your account, reports you made no longer show who made them.
• Your IP address is only held briefly in memory to stop too many sign-in attempts, and isn't stored by Kippup.

Children

Kippup is for people aged 13 and over. Everyone gets the same protective settings: no ads, no tracking or profiling, and what you share is only seen by the people in your groups and plans. If you're a parent and think a child under 13 has an account, email[email protected] and we'll delete it.

Deleting your data

In the app, go to You → Settings → Account → Delete account. That removes your email address, name, profile photo, birthday, time zone, the photos you added to plans and chats, your private tasks, personal events, imported calendar entries, calendar connection credentials, blocks, notification choices, push addresses, "Free to hang out?" posts and your feedback; cancels upcoming plans you host; and ends Kippup's access to your Apple ID if you signed in with Apple. Messages, polls, votes, ideas and tasks you shared in groups stay for the other people in them, shown as "Deleted account" with nothing that identifies you. Groups you made pass to their longest-standing member. It can't be undone. Kippup keeps no backups of its database, so deleted data is gone straight away.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of your data, to correct it, to delete it, to send it to you in a format another service can use, or to stop or limit how we use it. Where we rely on your permission, you can take it back at any time. Email[email protected] and we'll reply within a month. If you're unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Changes

If we change this page in a way that matters, we'll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. The date at the top shows when it last changed.