Kenning Local Translation Privacy Policy

Summary

The short version

Kenning processes the content you choose to translate so the app can provide translation, OCR, speech-to-text, conversation, history, and settings. That information is kept on your device unless you choose to share it outside the app.

Kenning does not

Require a Kenning account or profile.
Collect app content to a developer-operated server.
Use advertising, third-party tracking SDKs, or developer-run analytics in the app.
Sell personal data or share it with third parties for their own marketing.
Request location, contacts, health, fitness, or payment information.

Kenning may keep locally

Completed translation history.
Source and target language choices.
App display language, theme, voice, and readiness preferences.
Speech asset availability or verification status.
Temporary media processing files while preparing speech or OCR input.

Personal Data

What personal data means here

Personal data is information that identifies, relates to, or could reasonably be linked to a person. Kenning does not ask for your name, email address, account credentials, or payment details. Translation content can still contain personal data if you type it, speak it, import it from media, or capture it in a photo.

Text translation

Typed or pasted text, source language, target language, and translated text are used to provide translation and, if completed, to create a local history record.

Photos and camera

When you take or import a photo, Kenning uses the image to extract text with OCR. The extracted text enters the same translation flow as typed text.

Speech and media

Microphone audio, selected audio files, selected videos, and conversation turns are used to create transcripts, translate those transcripts, and optionally play the result aloud.

History

Completed translation records can include source text, translated text, source language, target language, source type, and creation time.

Preferences

Kenning stores app settings such as display language, translation languages, voice preference, theme preference, readiness checks, and debug logging preference.

Shortcuts and extensions

App Intents, Shortcuts, controls, and the Translation UI Provider extension may use App Group storage to pass a one-time request or read the minimum language preferences needed to open Kenning.

Use And Sharing

How Kenning uses information

Kenning uses information only to make the feature you chose work, preserve your settings, keep completed history available, and diagnose problems when you explicitly enable debug logging or contact support.

Does Kenning upload translation content?

No. Kenning does not upload your translation text, photos, audio, video, transcripts, or history to a Kenning-operated server. Core translation, OCR, and speech flows are designed to use Apple system frameworks and on-device resources when the required resources are available.

What role do Apple system services play?

Kenning uses Apple Translation, Vision, Speech, AVFoundation, and iOS permission systems. Installing translation languages or speech recognition assets may require a network connection to Apple. App Store downloads, purchases, iOS diagnostics, device backups, and Apple system services are handled under Apple policies and your device settings.

Does Kenning use the content to train AI models?

No. Kenning does not collect your app content for model training and does not operate a model-training pipeline using user translation content.

What happens if I contact support?

If you contact support, we may receive the contact information, messages, screenshots, logs, or examples you choose to provide. That information is used to answer your request and troubleshoot the issue you raised.

Does the website use cookies?

Kenning's product, support, and privacy pages are static pages and do not include app-specific analytics scripts. Standard web hosting infrastructure may process technical request information, such as IP address, browser type, requested URL, and request time, to deliver the site and keep it reliable.

Does Kenning share or sell data?

No. Kenning does not sell personal data and does not share app content with third parties for advertising or marketing. Information is only shared when you choose to export, copy, paste, send, back up, or otherwise share it through iOS or another app.

Permissions

Permissions are requested only for the feature you use

Camera

Used only when you choose to capture an image for OCR and translation.

Photos

Used only when you choose an image or video from your photo library for OCR or speech transcription.

Microphone

Used only when you record live speech for voice input or conversation translation.

Speech recognition

Used to turn live audio, audio files, or speech from video into text before translation.

Notifications and location

Kenning does not require location access for its current translation features and does not use location to build a profile about you.

Changing permissions

You can change app permissions in iOS Settings. If you deny a permission, the related feature may not work, but the rest of the app can still be used where possible.

Storage And Deletion

You control the local records Kenning keeps

Local retention

Translation history stays on your device until you delete individual records, clear history, or remove the app.
Preferences stay on your device so Kenning can restore your selected languages and app settings.
One-time App Intent or Shortcut requests are kept only long enough for the main app to consume them.
Temporary media files may be created in app storage while preparing speech or OCR input.

Deleting or changing data

Use History to delete one translation record or clear all history.
Use Settings to change language, voice, theme, and debug logging preferences.
Use iOS Settings to revoke camera, photo, microphone, or speech recognition permissions.
Delete Kenning from your device to remove app-local data according to iOS app removal behavior.

Protection

How local information is protected

Kenning relies on iOS app sandboxing, Apple system permission prompts, SwiftData local storage, and limited App Group storage for its extensions. App Group storage is used only for necessary preferences and one-time handoff requests between Kenning targets. Kenning does not provide its own cloud sync service for translation history.

What about debug logging?

Debug logging is off unless you enable it. When enabled, Kenning may print diagnostic information such as processing stages, memory information, image summaries, OCR status, and speech pipeline status to the device console. Kenning does not upload these logs to its own server.

What about backups?

Device backups, iCloud behavior, system diagnostics, and crash reporting are controlled by iOS, Apple services, and your device settings. Kenning does not operate a separate backup service for your translation history.

Children

Kenning is not designed to collect children's personal data and does not create user accounts. If a child uses Kenning, the app handles translation content the same way described in this policy: local-first, feature-based processing controlled by the device user and iOS permissions.

International transfer

Because Kenning does not collect app content to a developer-operated server, Kenning does not perform its own international transfer of your translation content. Apple system services and App Store services may process information under Apple's policies.

Your Choices

How to exercise control

Because Kenning does not collect your app content to its own server, the most direct way to access, correct, or delete your app data is through the app and iOS settings. If you sent information to support and want it deleted or corrected, contact us through the support channel listed for Kenning in the App Store.

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Changes

Policy updates

If Kenning's data handling changes in a meaningful way, this page will be updated. The updated date at the top of the page shows when this policy last changed.

Kenning keeps translation private by default.