Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Kina Digital Studio, operated by Alin Moldovan, is responsible for the personal information described in this policy. For questions or requests, email kinadigitalstudio@gmail.com.

2. Information you provide

If you submit the contact form, we receive your name, email address, project details, and any optional business name, phone number, service choice, or timeline you provide. We use these details to respond to your enquiry, prepare a quote, and discuss or deliver requested work.

If you use the AI chat, the messages you submit and up to 12 recent conversation turns are sent to Google Gemini to generate a response. The assistant is automated, not a human. Please do not enter passwords, payment details, or sensitive or confidential information.

3. How we use information

• To respond to enquiries, provide requested quotes, and deliver services you request.
• To generate replies when you choose to use the AI chat.
• To protect the website and limit abusive chat requests. The chat endpoint uses your request IP address for temporary, in-memory rate limiting.
• To meet legal, accounting, and record-keeping obligations where they apply.

We do not sell your contact or chat information, and we do not currently use advertising or analytics tracking on this website.

4. Lawful basis

We process enquiries to take steps you request before entering a contract and, if you become a client, to provide the agreed service. We rely on our legitimate interests to operate and protect this website and manage business enquiries, and on legal obligations where they apply. Where processing relies on consent, you can withdraw it at any time; this does not affect processing that took place before withdrawal.

5. Service providers

We use service providers to operate the website and respond to you:

• Vercel hosts the website and may process technical request and connection information.
• Resend delivers contact-form enquiries to our designated email inbox.
• Google processes chat messages through the Gemini API to generate responses.

These providers may process information in countries outside the UK. Their own privacy notices describe their processing and applicable transfer safeguards. Facebook and X are ordinary external links; those platforms process information under their own policies when you visit them.

6. Storage and retention

Chat messages remain in the open page's browser memory and are not saved to a chat database by this website. The messages are still sent to Google Gemini to generate replies. Contact-form enquiries are delivered by email rather than saved in a website database. We keep enquiry emails only as long as needed to respond, manage any resulting work, and meet applicable legal or record-keeping obligations. Email providers may retain delivery and service records under their own policies.

This website stores your color-theme choice in your browser's local storage under kina_theme. This browser storage is used only to remember your display preference, not for advertising or analytics. You can remove it through your browser's site-data settings.

7. Your data protection rights

Depending on your circumstances, UK data protection law may give you the right to request access to, correction or deletion of your personal information, to restrict or object to some processing, or to request a portable copy. To make a request, email kinadigitalstudio@gmail.com. You can also raise a concern with the Information Commissioner's Office.

8. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when the website or our data handling changes. The date at the top shows when it was last reviewed. Please check this page for the current version.