Privacy Policy - Kivun (כיוון)
Last updated: 28 July 2026
In short
Kivun keeps all of your information on your own device. There is no account, no password, and no server that your information is sent to. We do not see your planning, your tasks or your location. The two cases in which information does leave the device, the calendar you chose and Android's automatic backup, are described below.
What this policy covers: the Kivun app. The subscription is bought inside the app, from Apple or from Google, so payment details never pass through us at all. The detail is in the "Subscription, purchase and support" section below.
What is stored, and where
Everything you enter in the app, including your name, your location, the planning pages, the tasks, the events and the settings, is stored in a local database on the device. We do not receive a copy of it and do not see it.
Information leaves the device only in the cases listed below. Most of them happen only when you explicitly choose them, and one of them, Android's automatic backup, is run by the operating system and is described next.
Android automatic backup
On Android devices, the operating system backs up apps automatically as part of the standard device backup. This means the information Kivun keeps on the device may be copied into your own ordinary Google Drive backup, and restored from there onto a new device you set up.
That is your backup, in your own Google account. We have no access to it, we do not receive a copy of it, and we do not know what is in it. You can turn it off in your phone's backup settings, usually under "System" and then "Backup", or remove Kivun from there.
A full device backup, on Android or on iPhone, may likewise include the app's information. That too is your backup, in your own account, and we have no access to it.
Use of the internet
The only external service the app itself contacts is city search. When you search for a city, the search term is sent to the public Open-Meteo location service in order to get coordinates. This happens at the location step during setup, and also later if you change the location in the settings screen. A single search sends several requests, because it searches in Hebrew and in English in parallel and updates as you type.
No name, device identifier or any other personal information is sent with the search. As with any request to the internet, the service sees the device's IP address and its browser identification. Everywhere else in the app, including the calendar, the halachic times and the reminders, there is no use of the internet. Everything is calculated on the device.
A second connection, made through the store and not through us: when a subscription is bought, and when the app checks whether there is an active subscription, the operating system contacts Apple or Google. That request is made by the store mechanism inside the phone, against your own store account, and not through any server of ours. We have no server, and we receive nothing from it. The answer, meaning whether a subscription is active and until when, is stored on the device. The detail is in the "Subscription, purchase and support" section below.
The app also has an "Add to Google Calendar" button that appears next to an event. Pressing it, and only pressing it, opens Google Calendar in the browser with that event's details (the title, the date, and the time or the note if there is one) already filled in. This always happens on your explicit initiative, and only for the event you pressed.
Permissions the app asks for, and why
Location - to correctly calculate the entry and exit times (candle lighting, end of Shabbat and end of a fast). The location is stored on the device and is not sent anywhere. You can also choose a city manually and not grant the permission at all.
Notifications - to show reminders. The reminders are created and stored on the device. They do not go through a push server.
Calendar - only if you press the button that adds the year to the device's calendar, or the button that switches calendars. The app reads the list of calendars so that you can choose one, and writes events into it.
What gets written to the calendar: the Hebrew calendar's events (holidays, new months, fasts, Chabad dates and the times), and also events you scheduled yourself from your planning pages. That is, content you wrote is written into the calendar you chose, and if that calendar belongs to a Google account, that content reaches Google's servers through the calendar's own sync. This is the most significant route by which your information leaves the device, and it happens only when you press, and only into the calendar you chose.
So as not to create duplicates, the app identifies events it wrote itself: it scans the events in the device's calendars and looks in their description for a marker it added. The scan range covers the coming twelve months and the range synced the previous time, together, so if a long time has passed between one sync and the next it can reach close to two years. The other events in that range are not stored, not displayed and not sent anywhere. The app deletes only events that carry its marker.
Files and sharing - only when you export a backup or a calendar file. The file is created on the device and you choose where to send it.
What we do not do
No analytics. No tracking. No advertising. No third-party data collection libraries. No selling or sharing of information. No user account.
Backup and restore
A manual backup is a file created on the device and saved wherever you choose. We do not receive a copy and do not store it.
Deleting your information
Deleting the app from the device deletes the information the app stores. There is no copy of that information on our side that you would need to ask us to delete.
On Android, if the system's automatic backup is on, a copy of the information may remain in your own Google Drive backup even after the app is deleted. You can delete it from your account's backup settings.
Events you added to the device's calendar stay there even after the app is deleted, because they are stored in your calendar and not in the app. You can delete them from the calendar.
Subscription, purchase and support
The subscription is bought inside the app, from Apple on the App Store or from Google on Google Play. They handle the payment, and so:
- We do not receive your name, your email address, your postal address or the details of what you paid with. Apple and Google do not pass those to developers.
- What we do receive from them is a sales and payments report: how many subscriptions were sold, in which country, and how much money is due. Those are numbers, not people, and no buyer can be identified from them.
- The purchase itself is subject to Apple's or Google's own privacy policy, depending on the store it was made in.
What the app stores on the device: the store's answer to the question of whether there is an active subscription, and on iPhone also the next renewal date. Google Play provides no such date to the device, so on Android there is none. These fields are kept in the local database like every other setting, are not sent anywhere, and are not linked to anything on our side.
Cancellation and refunds go through the store, in your own account settings, not through us. We have no access to your store account and no ability to cancel or refund on your behalf.
Support: if you contact us by email, what reaches us is what you sent, meaning your email address and the content of your message, and we use it to reply. If you choose to send us a backup file so that we can help with a problem, we use it only for that and delete it afterwards. We neither ask for nor need access to the content in the app in order to provide support.
In any case, we have no way to link a purchase to the planning, the tasks, the events or the location on your device, because that information never reaches us.
Children
The app is intended for adults and does not knowingly collect information from children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the date at the top will be updated.
Terms of use
Kivun's terms of use are a separate document, and they set out the subscription, the renewal, the cancellation, and what the app does and does not say on halachic matters. Both documents are reachable from the subscription screen and from the settings screen in the app.
Contact
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