Privacy notice

Last updated: October 13, 2026.

Hudson Heavy Industries Ltd operates Kickstart Signal and is responsible for its developer account data. Contact hello@kickstart.tools about privacy or your data.

Kickstart Signal stores feedback and a randomly generated installation identifier to support voting and prevent abuse. It does not use this information for advertising tracking or hold contact details for people using participating apps.

Information from developers

Kickstart Signal uses the shared Kickstart developer account. It keeps the email address you used to sign in, your registered apps and their public App Store listing details, each board’s settings, and a record of the actions you take on a board: approvals, edits, rejections, merges, status changes, replies, and deletions. It uses this information to provide and protect the service. Public App Store listing materials and app participation information may also be used for public promotion as described below.

Information from people using your app

The SDK creates a random installation identifier the first time someone votes or submits a request or comment. Signal uses it to count each installation’s vote once and avoid duplicate submissions when retrying. Browsing the board does not create or send this identifier, and it is not used to track people across apps.

Signal stores feature requests, comments, and votes. Developers may also indicate whether you’ve unlocked paid features. Requests and comments stay private until approved by the app’s developer, who can edit or delete them.

Signal checks the app using verification data from Apple, then discards that data. For connection diagnostics, it keeps each app’s latest successful connection time, verification type, and SDK version. This is one record per app, not a history of individual users or devices.

Signal temporarily uses IP address information to prevent abuse.

Kickstart Signal sends no email to the people using your app and has no notification system. It does not sell any of this information or create profiles of app users.

Public promotion

While your app participates, Hudson Heavy Industries Ltd may use its name, icon, and public App Store listing materials to promote your app and the Kickstart services it uses on our websites, social media, and marketing materials. We may publicly identify your app as using those services and publish aggregate counts of participating apps, as explained in the terms of service. This public promotion does not include your account email address, board settings, or the content of your board.

Service providers

Kickstart Signal is delivered through Cloudflare, which provides its network, security, and content delivery. Every request to Kickstart’s hostnames – signal.kickstart.tools, dashboard.kickstart.tools, and api.kickstart.tools – passes through Cloudflare, including the requests that apps using the SDK make, so Cloudflare processes the connecting IP address as an ordinary part of delivering that traffic. Kickstart Signal does not store those addresses or use them to identify anyone.

Sign-in codes and account emails are sent through Resend, which receives the developer’s email address. App Store listing details are read from Apple’s public App Store pages, using ScraperAPI to fetch them; that involves no information about the people using participating apps.

Retention and choices

Kickstart Signal keeps account information while you participate, and keeps a board’s requests, comments, votes, status history, and moderation records for as long as the board exists. Developers can delete individual requests and comments from their dashboard. Clearing all Signal boards from the account page removes requests, comments, votes, and request history. Boards and their settings remain, along with your Kickstart account, registered apps, and Kickstart Exchange data. Deleting an app removes its board with it, and deleting the account removes everything.

Connection diagnostics remain until the app is deleted or its API key is reissued. Clearing feedback does not erase them.

Developers can download their Signal data from the account page as one compressed file.

Developers can delete their account from the account page, or contact hello@kickstart.tools to ask for access, correction, deletion, or another applicable data-protection right. Because Kickstart Signal cannot identify the people using an app, someone who wants a submission changed or removed should contact the app’s developer, who can edit or delete it. Anyone may complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.