Privacy Policy

    Last Updated: September 2026 (supersedes the version dated April 2026)

    1. Definitions

    • Application: The aKind application, available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
    • Account: The Member's dedicated personal area within the Application.
    • Activity Map: The main screen of the Application that divides the city into Hexagonal Zones, showing the density of compatible people, events, and hotspots in real-time.
    • Hexagonal Zone: A ~340-meter geographical area used to match Members who are physically in the same vicinity. Exact GPS coordinates are never shared with other Members; only co-presence in a specific zone is visible.
    • AI-Interview: An optional conversational interface where Members answer questions about their values, lifestyle, and relationship views to build their profile. Your answers power the compatibility scoring described in Section 4.3; they are not shown to other Members.
    • AI-Autopilot: A feature that assists in initiating and temporarily maintaining conversations with other Members until the user personally takes over the chat.
    • Match / Mutual Like: An event created between two profiles, triggered by a mutual Like, allowing Members to start a direct conversation and arrange a real-world meeting.
    • Member: A person registered with the Application.
    • Member Characteristics: Information provided by the Member (either directly or via the AI-Interview) describing their lifestyle, values, and personal interests.

    2. Data Controller

    The data described in this Privacy Policy is processed by Wellnuts, Inc., registered at 801 Brickell Avenue, Miami, Florida, 33131, USA ("aKind", "we", "us"). aKind bridges the gap between the digital and physical worlds, and we are committed to protecting your personal data and your privacy in both realms.

    3. Information We Collect

    3.1 Data You Share Directly

    • Registration data (Mandatory): First name (public), age (public), gender, at least one Profile Photo (public), and your phone number or email address depending on your chosen login method.
    • AI-Interview Data (Optional): If you choose to engage with our AI-Interview, we collect your conversational responses regarding your lifestyle, relationship views, and personal values, which we use, together with your other profile information, to calculate your compatibility with other Members (see Section 4.3). aKind does not ask you to disclose special categories of personal data (such as racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, or health data). However, your answers may incidentally reveal information of this kind, for example your beliefs or who you are attracted to, even where you do not name it directly. Because of this, before you begin the AI-Interview we ask for your separate, explicit consent to this specific use of your answers. You can withdraw this consent at any time in Settings - Privacy, which deletes your AI-Interview data and resets your compatibility profile.
    • Optional Profile Data (Public): Interest tags, short bio, and lifestyle preferences.
    • Promotional Content (Optional): If you separately consent, you may allow aKind to feature your public Profile Photos or videos in our own marketing and promotional materials, including on our social media channels (for example, Instagram Stories). This is never required to use the Services. You can grant or withdraw this consent at any time in Settings - Privacy (see Section 4.6).
    • Customer Support Data (Private): Information sent when reporting issues, blocked users, or contacting support.

    3.2 Data We Collect Automatically

    • Geographical Position and Zone Data (Mandatory for core features): aKind's core value is connecting people in the "here and now." With your explicit consent, we collect your location data to place you within our Hexagonal Zones (~340m) on the Activity Map. Your exact GPS location is never visible to other Members. Members only see your profile card if you are both currently situated in the same Hexagonal Zone.
    • Activity and Location History: We analyze the zones you frequent and the events you attend to power our Recommendations algorithm, suggesting Members who share similar offline habits and hangouts (see Section 7 for how long this is kept).
    • Messages and AI-Autopilot Logs: Messages sent between Members, including those generated by the AI-Autopilot feature on your behalf, are processed securely to facilitate your conversations and improve the feature's contextual awareness.
    • Technical Data: Device ID, IP address, operating system version, and Application crash logs necessary for technical functioning.

    4. How We Use Your Data

    4.1 Supplying Core Services

    We use your data to create and manage your Account, display your profile to compatible Members in the same Hexagonal Zone, manage mutual likes, and store messages exchanged between Members.

    Legal basis: Performance of our contract with you (our Terms of Use).

    4.2 Powering the Activity Map & Recommendations

    We use your location data to update the Activity Map, which shows Hexagonal Zones with a higher density of people compatible with you. We also use your historical zone data to recommend Members who visit similar places or attend similar events, even if you did not cross paths at the exact same time.

    Legal basis: Consent. You give this consent when you enable geolocation. You can withdraw it at any time by turning location off in the Application or your device settings; this will not affect processing carried out before withdrawal, but will limit your ability to use location-based features.

    4.3 Calculating Compatibility (AI-Interview)

    Data gathered via the AI-Interview is processed by our compatibility scoring system, a rules-based algorithm that weighs your answers against those of other Members to calculate a compatibility percentage shown on your profile card. This scoring is a decision-support feature only: it ranks and suggests profiles, and does not by itself make any decision producing legal or similarly significant effects on you (for example, it cannot reject, ban, or restrict your Account). You always decide whether to act on the profiles it suggests.

    Legal basis: Explicit consent (Article 9(2)(a) GDPR), because your answers may reveal sensitive information about you. We request this consent separately, before you begin the AI-Interview. You can withdraw it at any time in Settings - Privacy, which deletes your AI-Interview data and resets your compatibility profile; withdrawal does not affect matches already calculated.

    4.4 Operating AI-Autopilot

    Data processed via AI-Autopilot is used strictly to help start and maintain conversations on your behalf until you are ready to take over personally. Messages sent by AI-Autopilot are always labeled to the recipient as sent by an AI, so other Members always know when they are talking with AI-Autopilot rather than with you directly.

    Legal basis: Performance of our contract with you (facilitating your conversations is part of the Services).

    4.5 Security and Trust

    We analyze platform activity and Profile Photos to detect fraudulent behavior, prevent fake profiles, manage user reports, and protect the safety of the aKind community.

    Legal basis: Legitimate interest in keeping the aKind community safe from fraud and fake profiles. You can object to this processing at any time by contacting us (Section 12); we will consider your objection unless we have compelling legitimate grounds to continue.

    4.6 Marketing Use of Your Content

    Where you have given the separate consent described in Section 3.1, we may feature your public Profile Photos or videos in aKind's own marketing and promotional materials, including on our social media channels.

    Legal basis: Consent. This is entirely separate from, and never required for, your use of the core Services. You can withdraw this consent at any time in Settings - Privacy; this stops future use of your content but does not retroactively remove content already published. For example, an Instagram Story you consented to appear in will in any event expire from Instagram's platform within 24 hours under Instagram's own format.

    4.7 Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

    Your compatibility score (Section 4.3) is generated by an automated, rules-based scoring system that compares your AI-Interview answers, profile information, and in-app activity against those of other Members. No decision producing legal or similarly significant effects on you is made solely by automated means: the score only influences the order in which profiles are suggested, and you decide who to like, message, or meet.

    5. How Data Is Shared

    We do not sell your personal data. Your personal communications and exact location are kept strictly confidential. We only share data with vetted service providers who help operate our Services, such as cloud hosting and infrastructure providers, AI-processing partners (for the AI-Interview and AI-Autopilot), customer support tooling providers, and analytics providers. If we use third-party AI service providers to facilitate the AI-Interview or AI-Autopilot, your inputs are processed under written data processing agreements and are not used by those providers to train their own general-purpose models.

    6. International Data Transfers

    aKind's data controller, Wellnuts, Inc., is based in the United States. Using the Application therefore necessarily involves transferring your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) to the United States. We are working to put in place appropriate safeguards for this transfer, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. You can contact us (Section 12) for the current status of these safeguards.

    7. Data Retention

    We keep your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Policy. Where data is kept longer for statistical purposes, it is anonymized so that you can no longer be identified.

    DataRetention periodWhat happens after
    Account and profile data (registration data, photos, bio, interests)While your Account is activeDeleted when you delete your Account; residual copies removed from backups within 30 days
    AI-Interview answers and compatibility profileWhile your Account is activeDeleted when you delete your Account, or immediately if you reset your AI-Interview data in Settings - Privacy
    Current Geographical PositionContinuously updatedNot retained as history; each new position overwrites the last
    Location / Hexagonal Zone history (used for Recommendations)90 days from collectionAnonymized or deleted
    Messages and AI-Autopilot conversation logsWhile your Account is activeDeleted when you or the other Member delete the Account or the conversation
    Promotional content consent (Marketing Use)Until you withdraw consentRemoved from future use; already-published content is not retroactively removed
    Customer support and report dataUp to 3 years after the matter is resolvedDeleted or anonymized
    Technical data (device ID, IP address, crash logs)Up to 12 monthsDeleted or anonymized
    Inactive Accounts24 months of inactivityAccount and associated data are automatically deleted

    8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

    Our website uses cookies for technical and analytics purposes; you can manage your preferences through the cookie banner shown when you first visit akind.app. Our Application may use similar tracking technologies (such as mobile analytics SDKs) for the same purposes. For details, see our Cookie Policy.

    9. Exercising Your Rights

    In compliance with applicable data protection law, including the GDPR, you have the right to:

    • Access the personal data we hold about you;
    • Rectify inaccurate or incomplete data;
    • Erase your data ("right to be forgotten") - you can do this yourself at any time by deleting your Account in the Application, which triggers full deletion of your personal data, including your location history and AI-Interview data;
    • Restrict the processing of your data in certain circumstances;
    • Object to processing based on our legitimate interest;
    • Port your data, receiving it in a structured, machine-readable format;
    • Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal, for any processing based on consent (geolocation, the AI-Interview, and Marketing Use of your content);
    • Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Because aKind does not have an establishment in the EU, you can lodge a complaint with the data protection authority of the country where you live or use our Services, including the Polish Personal Data Protection Office (UODO, uodo.gov.pl) or the Lithuanian State Data Protection Inspectorate (VDAI, vdai.lrv.lt).

    For any other request, contact us using the details in Section 12. We may ask you to verify your identity before processing your request.

    10. Children and Minimum Age

    aKind is intended for adults only. You must be at least 18 years old to create an Account. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 18. If we learn that we have collected personal data from someone under 18, we will delete it as soon as possible. If you believe a minor is using aKind, please contact us using the details in Section 12.

    11. Changes to This Policy

    We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you through the Application or by email before the changes take effect. The date at the top of this Policy shows when it was last updated.

    12. Contact Us

    If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal data, you can contact our Privacy Team at: info@akind.app or by mail at 801 Brickell Avenue, Miami, Florida, 33131, USA.