KinLegacy
Privacy Policy
"At KinLegacy, we believe that the information entrusted to us is more than data. It may represent a family's memories, documents, financial information, relationships, wishes, and legacy."
This Privacy Policy explains how AG Fintech, operating the KinLegacy platform ("KinLegacy", "we", "us", or "our"), collects, uses, stores, protects, and shares information when you use our website, mobile application, services, and related products (collectively, the "Services").
By using KinLegacy, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
1. About KinLegacy
KinLegacy is a digital legacy and estate-preparedness platform designed to help individuals and families organize, protect, manage, and transition important information across generations.
Depending on the features you use, KinLegacy may allow you to:
2. Information We Collect
We collect information that you provide directly to us, information generated through your use of KinLegacy, and, where applicable, information received from third-party services that you choose to connect.
2.1 Account Information
When you create or maintain a KinLegacy account, we may collect:
- Full name
- Email address
- Mobile or telephone number
- Date of birth or age (where required)
- Password or authentication credentials
- Profile photograph
- Country, state, or general location
- Account preferences
- Login and authentication information
2.2 Family and Relationship Information
KinLegacy may allow you to create a private family structure or invite family members. This may include information such as:
- Names of family members
- Relationships between individuals
- Contact information
- Dates associated with family relationships
- Family photographs
- Biographical information
- Information associated with family members
2.3 Documents and Digital Heirlooms
KinLegacy may allow you to upload or create digital records such as:
The contents of files you upload are generally processed to provide the functionality you requested.
2.4 Financial and Asset Information
Depending on the features you use, KinLegacy may allow you to organize information concerning:
- Bank or financial accounts
- Investments
- Insurance policies
- Real estate
- Vehicles
- Digital assets
- Business interests
- Liabilities
- Subscriptions
- Other assets or obligations
Where you connect a third-party financial service, information may be obtained through that provider in accordance with your authorization and the provider's privacy practices.
2.5 Information About Beneficiaries and Trusted Individuals
You may provide information about people you designate as:
Such information may include names, email addresses, telephone numbers, relationships, and instructions concerning access or notification.
2.6 Communications
When you contact us, we may collect information contained in your communication, including:
- Email address and contact details
- Support requests and feedback
- Attachments and diagnostic information necessary to investigate or resolve your request
2.7 Automatically Collected Information
When you access KinLegacy, we may automatically collect technical information such as:
2.8 Cookies and Similar Technologies
Our website and applications may use cookies, software development kits (SDKs), local storage, pixels, and similar technologies.
These technologies may be used for purposes such as authentication, maintaining sessions, remembering preferences, security, analytics, performance monitoring, and understanding how our Services are used to improve our products.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following specific purposes:
- Create and manage your account.
- Store and organize your information.
- Enable document and digital heirloom management.
- Provide family and sharing functionality.
- Deliver notifications and reminders.
- Process requests initiated by you.
- Provide customer support.
- Authenticate users securely.
- Detect unauthorized access attempts.
- Monitor suspicious activity.
- Prevent fraud and abuse.
- Investigate security incidents.
- Maintain system integrity and resilience.
- Understand product usage patterns.
- Diagnose technical problems and bugs.
- Improve system performance and reliability.
- Develop new platform features.
- Conduct internal research and analytics.
- Account activity and security alerts.
- Service updates and transactional communications.
- Changes to our terms or platform policies.
- Support responses and important notices.
We may process information where necessary to comply with applicable laws, respond to lawful governmental requests, enforce our agreements, protect our rights, users, or property, detect, prevent, or investigate fraud or security incidents, and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
4. Your Private Vault
KinLegacy is designed around the concept of a private digital vault.
Information that you store privately is intended to remain accessible only to you and individuals you authorize, subject to the operation of the Services, applicable law, and the permissions you configure. You control many aspects of what information is shared and with whom.
5. Family Sharing
Some KinLegacy features allow you to share information with family members or other individuals. When you intentionally share information, the recipient may be able to access the information according to the permissions you provide.
- Selecting appropriate recipients.
- Maintaining accurate permissions.
- Reviewing your sharing settings regularly.
- Removing access when it is no longer appropriate.
- Ensuring that information you upload about others is shared lawfully.
KinLegacy cannot control how an authorized recipient uses information after receiving access to it.
6. Legacy and Succession Features
Certain KinLegacy features may allow you to establish instructions concerning the future availability or disclosure of information. For example, you may designate trusted individuals or configure rules relating to the transfer of selected information.
These features are intended to facilitate digital legacy management. They do not constitute:
You remain responsible for ensuring that your legal and estate-planning documents satisfy the laws applicable to you.
7. Legal Basis for Processing
Depending on the jurisdiction in which you use KinLegacy, we may process personal information based on one or more legally recognized grounds, including:
- Your consent;
- Performance of a contract with you;
- Compliance with legal obligations;
- Protection of vital rights and security;
- Legitimate interests, where legally permitted;
- Other grounds permitted under applicable law.
Where consent is the basis for processing, you may have the right to withdraw that consent, subject to applicable law and legitimate reasons for continued processing.
9. Third-Party Services
KinLegacy may integrate with third-party services that you choose to connect. Examples may include:
- Financial institutions or financial-data providers
- Cloud storage providers
- Authentication providers
- Payment providers
- Communication providers
- Analytics providers
When you use a third-party service, that service may collect and process information under its own privacy policy. KinLegacy is not responsible for the privacy practices of independent third parties that we do not control.
10. Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, destruction, or loss.
Depending on the feature and architecture, security measures may include:
We continually review our security practices and may update them as our technology and threat environment evolve.
11. Encryption and Confidential Information
KinLegacy may use encryption technologies to protect information.
Where KinLegacy offers enhanced or end-to-end encryption features, the precise security properties of those features will be described in the relevant product documentation.
You should understand that certain Services may require KinLegacy or designated service providers to process information in order to provide functionality such as search, previews, sharing, synchronization, notifications, or recovery.
12. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Provide the Services;
- Maintain your account;
- Fulfil the purposes for which collected;
- Meet legal, regulatory, or reporting needs;
- Resolve disputes;
- Enforce agreements;
- Prevent fraud and abuse;
- Maintain security and business records.
When information is no longer required, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it, subject to applicable legal and operational requirements.
13. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights concerning your personal information. These may include the right to:
14. How to Exercise Your Rights
To submit a privacy request, contact us at:
- Your name;
- The email address associated with your account;
- The nature of your request;
- Any additional information reasonably necessary to verify your identity.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests. We will handle requests in accordance with applicable law.
15. Children's Privacy
KinLegacy is intended for use by individuals who are legally permitted to use the Services in their jurisdiction. We do not knowingly collect children's personal information in violation of applicable law.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to KinLegacy without the required authorization, please contact us so that we can investigate and take appropriate action.
Where KinLegacy provides family functionality involving minors, additional safeguards or parental/guardian authorization may apply depending on the feature and applicable law.
16. International Data Transfers
KinLegacy may use infrastructure, service providers, or personnel located in countries other than the country where you live. As a result, your information may be processed or stored outside your jurisdiction.
Where required by applicable law, we will implement appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information.
17. Account Security
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your:
You should notify us immediately if you believe your account has been compromised.
18. Data Breach and Security Incidents
If KinLegacy determines that a security incident has affected personal information, we will take appropriate steps to investigate, contain, remediate, and notify affected individuals or authorities where required by applicable law.
19. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect:
- Changes to our Services;
- Changes in technology;
- Changes in our data practices;
- Changes in legal or regulatory requirements.
When we make material changes, we may provide notice through the Services, email, or another appropriate method. The updated policy will display a revised "Last Updated" date.
20. Third-Party Links
KinLegacy may contain links or integrations to websites and services operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or policies of those third parties.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party services before providing them with personal information.
21. Your Responsibilities
KinLegacy provides tools for organizing and protecting information, but you remain responsible for the information you choose to store. You should:
22. No Legal or Financial Advice
KinLegacy is a technology platform.
You should consult an appropriately qualified professional for decisions concerning your estate, finances, taxes, investments, insurance, or legal affairs.
23. Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, please contact us:
24. Governing Law
This Privacy Policy will be governed by the laws applicable to KinLegacy and the jurisdiction specified in our Terms of Service, subject to any mandatory privacy protections that apply to you under the laws of your jurisdiction.
A Note About Your Information
"KinLegacy exists to help people preserve what matters to them and make important information available to the right people at the right time.
We treat that responsibility seriously.
Our objective is to build KinLegacy so that privacy is not an afterthought, but a fundamental part of how the product is designed, engineered, and operated."