What we keep, and why.

Draft. This page describes what the app and this website do today. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer yet, and the sections on payments and contact will be completed before Kibo Player goes on sale.

In the app

There is no sign-up form. The first time the app opens, it creates an account for your device on our server, so your playlists come back after a reinstall and can be managed from this website. The server keeps:

• the playlist links and Xtream Codes logins you add (a playlist link often contains your provider username and password);
• your favorites, your settings, and what you watched, how long, and where you stopped, so you can pick up where you left off;
• for each device: its type, model, system version and app version, a scrambled form of the device’s own ID (so a reinstall finds your account again), the device ID and key the app shows you (the key scrambled), and which days the app was used.

We use the device and day records to count how many people use Kibo Player and keep using it. The channel lists downloaded from your playlists stay on your device only.

Who the app talks to

Besides our server, the app connects only to the addresses in your playlists: your provider’s servers for the lists and streams, and the addresses of channel logos. Those servers see your IP address, as with any streaming app. When you use AirPlay on iPhone or iPad, the picture goes to your TV through Apple’s AirPlay.

Kibo Player contains no advertising and no third-party analytics or tracking libraries.

On this website

This website sets no cookies. It remembers three choices in your browser’s local storage: light or dark, whether motion is paused, and the sample channel you last played. They never leave your browser.

We count visits to this website with our own counter, not an analytics service. For each page you open we keep the page, the site that linked to it, your country and whether you are on a phone, tablet or computer. We don't keep your IP address. Each visitor is counted with a code made from the address and browser plus a value that changes every day, so a visit today can't be matched to one tomorrow, or to you.

Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts and one photograph from Wikimedia Commons, so those services receive your IP address when the page loads.

Contact form

The contact form asks for your name, email, a subject and your message, and optionally a phone number. It is not connected yet, so nothing typed in it is sent. When it is, this section will say where messages go and how long they are kept. Never send your playlist password: Kibo Player will never ask for it.

Payments

Payments will be handled by a payment provider. This section will name it and link to its privacy policy.

Contact

Write to us from the contact page.