Effective 21 October 2026
Privacy Policy
Kadak is a daily outfit game. You post one Look a day with your face covered, strangers pick between two Looks, and the clothes take the credit. This page says what we collect, why, who can see it, and how to make it go away.
Who we are
Kadak is made by Kuzushi LLP, Bengaluru, India (“we”, “us”). We are the data fiduciary for the Kadak app and kadak.app. Write to us at [email protected].
What we collect
| What | Where it comes from | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your Google account email and Google account ID | Google Sign-In, when you sign in | To create and find your account. We never see your Google password. |
| Your @handle, city, campus (optional), style tribes, and your “I am 18 or older” answer | You, at setup | Friends find you by handle. City and campus decide which Lineups you are on. |
| The photos you post (your Looks), the caption and style tag | You, when you post | They are the game. We run face detection on each photo to place the Cover over your face; we do not use face recognition and do not build a face template. |
| What you do in the app: Picks, reactions, Notes, follows, blocks, reports, shares | Your taps | To run Battles, Lineups, XP and streaks, to show friends’ Looks first, and to keep people safe. |
| A push token, app version, device type | Your phone, if you allow notifications | To send the daily call time and results. Turn notifications off and the token goes. |
| IP address and request logs | Our servers and Cloudflare | Security, rate limits and fixing bugs. Kept 30 days. |
We do not collect your contacts, precise location, or anything from other apps. There are no ads and no ad tracking.
Who sees what
- Battles are anonymous. Voters see your Look with the Cover over your face, your style tag, and nothing else — no handle, no caption.
- The Feed and Lineups show your handle and the version of the photo you chose (with or without a Cover) to signed-in members.
- Share links (kadak.app/f/… and kadak.app/u/…) are public pages: anyone with the link can see that Look or your handle.
- Your email is never shown to other members.
Who we share data with
Only the companies that run the service for us, under contract, and only what they need:
- Google — sign-in (Google Sign-In) and push notifications (Firebase Cloud Messaging).
- Cloudflare — the network in front of our servers (sees IP addresses and requests).
- Contabo GmbH — the servers and disks where the app and your photos live.
We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with advertisers. We hand data to authorities only when the law requires it.
How long we keep it
- Your Looks stay until you delete them, or your account, in the app. Deleted photos are removed from our disks within 24 hours.
- Your account data stays until you delete your account. Deletion is immediate; copies in our backups are gone within 30 days.
- Request logs are kept 30 days.
- When you delete your account, the Picks you made have already counted for other members’ Looks and cannot be unpicked; they no longer carry your identity.
Your choices and rights
- Delete your account in the app: You → Delete account. Or see how to delete your account without the app.
- Delete one Look: open it on the Feed, then its menu.
- Notifications: turn them off in your phone’s settings at any time.
- Ask us for a copy of your data, a correction, or a question about this policy: [email protected]. We answer within 7 days.
- If you are in India, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 gives you these rights by law, and you may escalate to the Data Protection Board of India. Our grievance officer is named on the Support page.
Age
Kadak is for people 18 and over. We ask you to confirm this at setup. If we learn that someone under 18 has an account, we delete it.
Security
Traffic is encrypted in transit (HTTPS). Sign-in tokens are stored in your phone’s secure storage. Our servers accept SSH keys only, and access is limited to the people who run the service.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we tell you in the app before it takes effect. The date at the top is the version you are reading.