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Privacy policy

The short version

• No sign-up and no account. We never ask for your name, email, phone number or passport.
• Your chats stay on your phone. To answer you, the app sends your message and a few recent messages to our server (api.gimchi.app), which passes them to the AI model (DeepSeek) and returns the answer. Our server does not store or log chat contents or call recordings.
• Our server only counts usage: number of requests, AI token counts, cost, and your token balance.
• Each install gets a random device ID (not linked to you). Paid top-ups are processed by Google Play; we receive only the purchase token to confirm it.
• Kimchi never sends a text, calls, books or pays without you tapping the button yourself.

What is on your phone

Chat history, memories you ask Kimchi to keep, preferences and your saved places stay in the app's private storage on your phone. Uninstalling the app deletes them.

What our server keeps

Random device ID, token balance, daily usage counts (requests, AI tokens, cost), purchase records (hashed purchase token, product, amount), and a hashed network block for 7 days to prevent repeated free-token claims. No chat text, photos, locations or contacts.

Public data lookups

For weather, exchange rates, tourism, transport and airport information, the app queries our public-data server (data.gimchi.app) with the place or keyword only.

Permissions

Location (approximate, for "near me"), camera and photos (only the photo you choose, e.g. a menu), microphone (voice input on your phone), contacts and calendar (only when you ask), notifications. Each is asked the first time you use that feature.

Third parties

DeepSeek (AI model, receives the message content for the answer only), Google Play (payments), Cloudflare (server hosting). Websites you open inside Kimchi follow their own policies.

Contact

johunsang@tenmiles.ai · TENMILES Co., Ltd., Republic of Korea