This Privacy Policy explains how Aminoka Studio ("we", "us"), based in Paris, France, collects, processes, and protects personal data on the Aminoka platform (the "Service"). We act as data controller under the GDPR (Regulation EU 2016/679). By using Aminoka you consent to the practices described here.
Account data: your email address and name, supplied directly or through Google Sign-In or Sign in with Apple. Optional profile details you choose to add: avatar, cover, bio, links, interests, age, gender and country. User content: posts, comments, wiki entries, characters, polls, private and group messages, photos, videos and voice messages. Community membership, follows, likes, blocks and check-ins. Purchase status of the Aminoka+ subscription (plan and expiry, payment itself is handled by Apple or Google; we never see card details).
Technical data needed to run and protect the Service: device type, OS and app version, the push-notification token of your device, your IP address and user agent (kept in our anti-abuse and rate-limiting records), and the country derived from your IP. Usage analytics: screens viewed and actions taken in the app (for example searches, messages sent, posts opened), recorded by PostHog; on some sessions a session recording with every text input masked. On the mobile apps, the device advertising identifier (Google Advertising ID on Android, IDFA on iOS when you allow tracking) is read by Google AdMob and Tenjin, see section V.
We do not sell personal data. We work with the following providers, each limited to what its role requires:
When legally compelled we disclose data to judicial or police authorities; we notify the affected users unless the law forbids it.
Under the GDPR you may exercise the following rights at any time from your account settings or by emailing privacy@aminoka.app:
Data is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest. Session tokens are JWE-sealed with HKDF-derived keys. Access to production systems is restricted, audited, and tied to individual SSO accounts. We follow the principle of least privilege.
You can delete your account from the app (tap your avatar, then Help & feedback, then Delete Account) or by following the steps at aminoka.com/remove-account. Deletion is immediate and signs you out on every device.
Posts, comments and messages you published stay where they were, so that conversations remain readable, but they are no longer linked to any identifiable profile: they appear under "Deleted User".
French law (Article 6 of the LCEN and decree n° 2021-1362) requires a hosting provider to keep, for one year, the data that identify the author of published content, so that it can be handed to judicial authorities on request. We therefore keep your original email address, name, sign-in identifiers and connection records (IP addresses) in a restricted store, never shown in the Service, for one year after deletion; they are then permanently erased.
Aminoka operates from the EU. Some processors run globally, when data leaves the EEA it does so under standard contractual clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission, with supplementary safeguards.
Aminoka is intended for users aged 13 and older. We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13. Accounts found to be underage are removed.
CSAM, grooming, sexual content involving minors, and any related material are zero-tolerance. Detection combines automated content classifiers with human review. Confirmed violations result in immediate account termination and referral to law enforcement.
Inside the Aminoka application we use a first-party HttpOnly session cookie for authentication and local storage for preferences and offline caching.
The iOS and Android apps show advertising served by Google AdMob: sponsored cards in feeds, banners in some lists and profiles, and an optional rewarded video you choose to watch for a bonus game. Aminoka+ subscribers see no ads. In the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland the apps request non-personalised ads only. Elsewhere ads may be personalised using your device advertising identifier; you can reset it or opt out in your device settings (Android: Settings → Google → Ads; iOS: Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking, where you can also refuse the tracking request the app shows).
Our public pages, the homepage, the blog, and these legal pages, display advertising served by Google. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info. Further detail on how Google uses data when you use our site is available at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland are asked for consent before any personalised advertising cookie is set, and may withdraw that consent at any time through the same controls.
We may update this policy as the Service evolves. Material changes will be highlighted in-app and on this page. Continued use of Aminoka after an update constitutes acceptance.
Questions, requests, or complaints? Reach our Data Protection contact at:
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority (CNIL).