Kvinta/ Privacy Policy
Kvinta Privacy Policy
Effective 13 November 2026.
In short
- We don’t sell your data, and we don’t use it for ads.
- No ads, no analytics and no tracking in the app.*
- We don’t train AI on your chats or files.
- Files leave our servers within 24 hours of their last use. Chats stay until you delete them.
- You can delete your account at any time, in the app or on the web.
Who we are
Kvinta is made by Vivienne Fosh, doing business as LanternApps, in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. We are responsible for your data in Kvinta.
- Address: 2105 Bond St, Apt 705, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA
- Email: support@kvinta.ai
We are appointing representatives in the EU and the UK. Until they are named here, write to the address above.
What we collect
- Your account: your email address, how you sign in, and a key for each of your devices that secures actions such as deleting the account.
- Your chats and files: what you write, attach or dictate, what Kvinta makes for you, the reports you send us, and what Kvinta remembers from your chats to help you later.
- Request settings: your country, time zone and language, so answers fit where you are. This is not GPS.
- Your profile: what you fill in under Profile & Customize (your name, city, occupation and the two notes about you and how to reply) is stored encrypted and given to the AI with each of your requests, until you change it or delete your account.
- Purchases: your plan, how much of it you have used, and the receipts from the store or checkout. We never see your card number.
- Technical data: our servers log requests and errors with your account ID. Our providers see your IP address when you connect.
Why we use it
- To do what you ask: run your account, write answers, documents and pictures, and turn your voice into text. This is our contract with you. Sending your content to AI also needs your permission (below).
- To sell plans and keep records: our contract with you, and the tax and accounting rules we must follow.
- To keep Kvinta safe and working: stop abuse, fix errors and look into reports. This is our legitimate interest in a safe service.
- To answer you when you write to us.
Without the data a feature needs, that feature can’t work.
Your permission for AI
Before Kvinta first sends anything to an AI model, it asks you. You can withdraw that permission for future requests in Settings. When this policy changes, the app asks again.
Who receives your data
| Who | What they get, and why |
|---|---|
| DeepInfra (USA), our AI provider | Runs the AI models. Gets your messages, the relevant chat history, files and images. It doesn’t store them or train on them.** |
| A third-party provider through DeepInfra, under its own terms | Only for Research speed (parts of your request) and Enhanced pictures, when you turn them on (your picture request and any photos you add). |
| Microsoft Azure Speech | Turns your voice into text and doesn’t keep the audio. If it can’t, DeepInfra does. |
| Brave Search | Web searches. Our server sends Brave a short search query written from your request, never your chats or files. The query comes from our server, so Brave can’t tell who sent it. Brave keeps queries for up to 90 days, for billing and to stop abuse. The small website icons next to sources load straight from Brave, so Brave sees your IP address when they load. |
| Scholarly databases | Search queries for research, nothing else. |
| Our hosting, sign-in and database providers (USA) | Store and run everything above for us. |
| Our payment processors, and the app store you paid through | Handle payments, renewals and refunds. If you ask Apple or Google to refund a purchase, we may tell that store how much of the purchase you used, so it can decide your request. |
| Our email provider | Sends our emails (sign-in codes, receipts, beta mails) and holds our support inbox. |
Our AI, voice, hosting, payment and email providers work for us under data processing agreements. Brave, the scholarly databases and the app stores follow their own terms.
* The Kvinta app from the App Store and Google Play sends us no crash reports. A separate test app, Kvinta QA, which testers install, does; its reports are not linked to an account.
** Except pictures it makes, which it keeps for a short time.
Founding members
If your first subscription payment gives you a place in the founding members programme, we store your place number, the dates your place was given and ended, and a scrambled form of your store purchase identity. We use them to give you the extra usage and to keep the count of places true. We keep them until you delete your account; after that a record of the place without your email or any content remains, so that a place cannot be taken twice.
Where your data is
Kvinta runs in the USA, so using it from another country sends your data there. Our providers protect it with the EU Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework, where they offer them. Write to us for details.
Everything travels over encrypted connections. Your chats and files are encrypted on our servers; more on the security page.
How long we keep it
| What | How long |
|---|---|
| Chats | Until you delete the chat or your account |
| Files you attach, and files Kvinta makes | Within 24 hours of their last use, unless a request still needs them. The app keeps your copy. |
| Voice recordings | Not stored |
| Account, purchases, reports, and what Kvinta remembers | Until you delete your account |
| Temporary working data | Up to 30 days |
| Server logs | 30 days |
| Backups | 7 days |
Deleting your data
Delete a chat from the chat list. To delete everything, go to Settings → Delete account. Without the app, use kvinta.ai/delete-account: we confirm by email and delete the account within 30 days. The form keeps your email address until then, and a scrambled copy of your IP address to stop abuse.
Afterwards we keep only a small record that the account was deleted, and of plan allowances already used so they can’t be claimed twice. It holds no email address and no content. Deleting your account doesn’t cancel a subscription, so cancel it first (see the Terms).
Open beta
The sign-up at kvinta.ai/beta keeps your email address, the platforms you chose, whether we may write to you, and your personal download links. The survey after it is optional: we use the answers to learn who Kvinta is for and what to build next, and we never sell them. Our emails carry no tracking. The Android test runs on Google Play, under Google’s terms.
Every beta email has a link that deletes all of it. Otherwise we delete it 90 days after Kvinta launches.
This website
kvinta.ai sets no cookies and runs no analytics. Our website host sees standard request data, such as your IP address, to deliver and protect the site. A robot check loads only on pages with a form.
Your rights
Write to support@kvinta.ai to see, correct, delete or get a copy of your data, to object to how we use it, or to withdraw your consent. You may also complain to your data protection authority. We answer within a month (45 days in California), and we never treat you worse for asking. We don’t sell or share your data for advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of.
Children
Kvinta is not for children under 13, or under 16 in the EU. If a child has sent us data, write to us and we will delete it.
Changes
We post changes here with a new date, and tell you in the app about big ones.