Dance Kudos — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Who we are

Dance Kudos is provided by Andrey Karakotov — the service provider and the data controller for the personal data described in this policy. Contact: info@dancekudos.app.

What we collect

• Practice videos you upload — processed to generate dance compliments. They may show identifiable people; you confirm you have the right to upload them and are 16+ before uploading.
• A device identifier (random, stored on your device) to associate your analyses and apply usage limits. No name/email is required to use the app.
• Usage & diagnostics — product analytics and crash data tied to a random device identifier (pseudonymous), only after you consent.
• Names and labels you type for people and groups (e.g. a partner’s name, a group name) — stored with your device identifier so you can share practices with them. Give only names you have the right to share.

Sharing with people you invite

When you share a practice or invite someone, the app creates a short-lived invite link (it expires within 24 hours; you can revoke all of a group’s links at any time in the app). Whoever opens your link can see the invite context you chose to share — such as your first name, the group name, or the practice the invitation is about — and, after joining, the practices you explicitly share with them. Recipients can leave only compliments; every message passes a positivity check before delivery. You can report any received message and block a sender in-app.

If you opt in to the community, practices you mark community-visible may be shown to other opted-in members of your dance style so they can leave a compliment. Both sides choose to take part, and you can leave the community at any time.

Invite links on the web

If you open an invite link in a browser before installing the app, the landing page briefly remembers that visit so the app can restore your invitation after install: it stores the link token together with coarse, non-unique signals (browser languages, display preferences, screen size, timezone, an approximate device family and similar coarse device signals, and a salted one-way hash of your IP address — the address itself is never stored) for up to 30 minutes, then discards them. This is used only to hand your invitation to the app; it is not used for advertising, profiling, or cross-app tracking.

How it is used

• To analyze your video and return compliments (AI processing).
• To run the service: quotas, history, quality improvement.
• We do not sell your data or use videos for advertising or cross-app tracking.

Third parties

Video analysis uses Google’s Gemini models; infrastructure and analytics use Google Cloud / Firebase. Subscriptions and purchases are processed through RevenueCat (which receives your purchase status and an app-specific user identifier to manage your subscription) and the Apple App Store.

Retention & deletion

• Videos are stored until you delete them — per-video (which also removes the compliments and catches attached to it) or all at once via Settings → Delete account.
• Compliments and catches live in your journal until you delete them or the video they belong to.
• Invite links expire within 24 hours and can be revoked at any time in the app.
• Web invite signals (see above) are discarded within 30 minutes.
• Analytics tied to your device identifier is removed when you delete your account; this can take additional time.
• Operational logs auto-expire; on account deletion we also actively remove your related messages on a best-effort basis.

Children

The app is intended for users 16 or older. Do not upload videos of minors without the rights and consent to do so.

Contact

Questions: info@dancekudos.app