Privacy policy
How we handle your information
Last updated November 7, 2026
Information used to make your paper
We process the account details, your mailing list (each profile’s name line, postal address and, if you add one, email address), photos, captions, family labels, publication settings, and payment records needed to create, print, and deliver your newspapers. We record the IP address an account signs up from to prevent abuse of the free first edition.
Writing and drawing the paper
Photos, captions, names and notes are sent to AI model providers working for us (OpenAI and Anthropic) to choose photos, write stories, draw cartoons, and shape puzzles. They process this content only to provide that service to us.
How we use information
We use this information to operate accounts, generate and render newspaper editions, provide requested service notifications, process payments, fulfill print orders, prevent abuse, support customers, and comply with legal obligations. We do not use SMS consent to authorize marketing.
Photo date and place context
Phone photos can contain their capture date, time, and GPS location. We may use that metadata to establish accurate town, venue, and source-backed event context for the newspaper, including through mapping and source-research providers working for us. Embedded metadata is stripped from the publication image, coordinates and street addresses are never printed, and unsupported place or event claims are withheld from the writer.
We also send the city and state of your paper’s home address (or of the nearest larger town, when your town lists too few events) to a research provider to find local events for the paper’s calendar, with the kinds of events the households there enjoy if you chose any. Street lines, ZIP codes and names are never sent.
Photo and newspaper retention
Photos remain private while they are on the photo desk and while an edition can still be edited. After an edition is finalized, we preserve its verified newspaper PDF and keep source photos for a 30-day recovery period before deleting them. Unused photo-desk images may be deleted after 90 days. Temporary proof images and processing files may be removed sooner because they can be recreated from the final newspaper.
Final newspapers remain in your account archive even if a plan ends. Face references are managed separately and remain until you remove them or delete your account. Private media may be stored by infrastructure providers working for us, is protected in transit and at rest, and is never made public as customer photo storage.
Optional face suggestions and segmentation
When enabled, The Kin Press finds the faces in the photos on your photo desk and compares them, on our own servers, with the faces of the people you have tagged, then suggests who is in each photo. Face measurements are kept with your photos and references so the same image is not analyzed twice, and are deleted with the photo they were read from. A suggestion stays marked until you confirm or remove it, and a removed suggestion is not offered again. We do not compare faces against a public or third-party identity database.
Separately, when reference segmentation is enabled and you manually choose an individual tagged face as suitable reference material, the tagged photo and click point may be sent to our segmentation provider to isolate that person into a reusable private reference cutout. Every tagged person still remains available as narrative context for the newspaper, whether or not their face is selected as a reference. Each person’s library is capped at six references, and samples that fail automated clarity or identity-consistency checks are not used for matching. Face suggestions and reference segmentation have independent controls under Settings → Photo intelligence. Turning either feature off stops new processing by that feature; existing tags and references remain until you edit or delete them.
Reading online
When you send an edition to read online, we email each person on your mailing list who has an email address a link of their own. We record when each link is opened and show that to you. Every such email has a link to stop them.
Photos and replies from your family
Family members you share a contribution link with can add photos and notes to your photo desk. Readers who scan a code in the paper can enter a name with their answers or game times, which you see in your newsroom. You can remove a name from your boards, and you can choose to be emailed when a record is set.
Completion notifications
We use your account email to send service messages about your edition. If you separately opt into a one-time SMS completion alert, we store the mobile number, the time, method and IP address of consent, the associated edition, and delivery status.
All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information won’t be shared with any third parties.
Your choices
SMS enrollment is optional and is not a condition of purchase. Reply STOP to opt out and HELP for help. You may ask us to correct account information, and you can delete your account yourself under Settings → Delete account.
Deleting your account
Deleting your account deletes your papers, editions, photos, face references and measurements, mailing list, and sign-in, and ends any plan at once; a payment that completes while it is being deleted is refunded. A few records stay: our printer’s record of the copies already mailed and the addresses they went to (for fulfillment), the payment provider’s records of past payments (for tax), and a one-way fingerprint of your email address noting whether its free first edition was used (so it stays one per person). Copies left in our backups and working caches are deleted as those expire, within 35 days. Your account closes at once; its records and files are deleted within minutes, once any work already under way for it has finished. An account cannot be deleted while a paper is being written or a copy is with the printer; you can delete it once that has finished.
Security and retention
We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards, verify final newspaper artifacts before source deletion, and retain information only as long as needed for the purposes above. No internet service can guarantee absolute security.
Contact
The Kin Press is operated by Korbin San Miguel, a sole proprietor. Contact admin@thekinpress.com, or visit thekinpress.com to access your account and service information.