Last updated: August 27, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains what information Kin Wire (operated by Onyx Custom Motorcycles Inc., doing business as Kin Wire) collects, how we use it, and the choices you have. We built Kin Wire to have no ads and no fluff — that includes how we handle your data. We collect and use your personal information only with your knowledge and consent, or as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law.
If you enter a city or cities for people you care about, we only collect the place name(s) you provide — we don't collect those people's names, contact details, or any other personal information about them, and they are never contacted or made aware through Kin Wire.
If you give us custom coverage instructions (e.g. "more municipal politics, less sports"), we use that text only to steer what our AI searches for and writes about in your brief. We never sell it or disclose it to anyone for their own purposes — the only place it goes is to the service providers listed below (see "Who we share it with"), and only as needed to generate your brief.
We don't sell your personal information, and we don't use it for advertising — Kin Wire has no ads.
The only email we send unprompted is the weekly brief. If you subscribe to a paid plan, it starts on — the brief is the thing you're paying for, and Canadian anti-spam law treats a purchase as an existing business relationship. It's listed on the plan you buy, and you can turn it off before the first one ever arrives.
For free accounts it stays off unless you switch it on. Signing up is not a purchase and we don't treat it as consent to be mailed. The personal Monday brief — your cities, your topics — only ever arrives because you asked for it.
If you ask for the free Monday email on its own — the form on the home page and on kinwire.ca/national — we send one message asking you to confirm it was you, and nothing else until you tap it. That tap is your express consent to that one email: the national section, the same copy everyone gets. It never switches on the personal brief, and it stops the moment you unsubscribe.
If you asked for a sign-in link and never used it, we treat the request the way Canadian anti-spam law does: as an inquiry, which lets us write to you for six months from the day you typed your address. What we send in that time is the free weekly — the national section only, the same copy everyone gets, built once — and the first one says at the top exactly why it arrived. It stops on its own at six months, the moment you unsubscribe, or the moment you sign in, at which point you are an ordinary free account and the paragraph above applies. Nothing in it is about you personally.
There is one exception, and we'd rather name it than leave it vague: a small number of early testers were recruited personally by the owner, given credit on their accounts, and switched on directly. They are people he knows and corresponds with, not strangers who happened to sign up. If that describes you, the unsubscribe link works exactly the same way and we won't take it personally.
Turning it off is always one step: an unsubscribe link in every brief that works without signing in, your mail app's own unsubscribe button, or the toggle in your account settings. Unsubscribing does not cancel anything or affect your account. Aside from the Monday email, we email you only to sign you in, to tell you what happened to something you were using, or to answer something you asked us.
We use a small number of service providers to operate Kin Wire, each processing only what they need to do their job:
Some of these providers may process data on servers located outside Canada. We select providers with strong security and privacy practices, but information processed outside Canada may be subject to lawful access requests under the laws of the country where it's processed.
We use a small number of essential cookies to keep you signed in. We don't use tracking or advertising cookies. We use Vercel Web Analytics to see aggregate visit and page-view counts — it's cookieless, identifies visitors only by a hash that's discarded after 24 hours, and doesn't collect any information that could identify you individually or track you across other sites. We don't don't use advertising or cross-site tracking services on this site — with one narrow exception, below.
We also use PostHog for product analytics, error tracking, and session recordings — this helps us see how Kin Wire is actually used and reproduce bugs precisely instead of guessing. PostHog identifies your browser with a stored identifier that persists across your visits to Kin Wire, but it doesn't track you across other websites and isn't used for advertising. Every text field you type into (your cities, custom coverage instructions, and so on) is masked before it's recorded, so session recordings never capture what you actually typed — this masking happens in your browser, not as an after-the-fact filter.
The exception: advertising conversion tracking. Kin Wire advertises on Google and on Meta (Facebook and Instagram). If you arrive by clicking one of those ads, your link carries a click identifier, and that network's conversion tag loads so they can tell the click led somewhere. Those tags set their own cookies and are operated by Google and Meta under their terms, not ours.
Each loads only for visitors who arrived from that network's ad. If you came from a search result, a link, or by typing the address, neither loads and nothing about your visit reaches either company. We keep the click identifier in your browser's session storage rather than a cookie, so it lasts only as long as that visit and is discarded when you close the tab.
We don't send Google or Meta your email address, your cities, or anything you type into Kin Wire. Meta's tracking tool offers a feature that reads form fields and sends a scrambled copy of what you typed — including your email address. It is switched on by default and we have deliberately switched it off.
We keep your account information for as long as your account is active. You can delete your account and all associated data at any time from the Delete account button in the app — it takes effect immediately, no need to email us. Some records (like billing history) may be retained longer where required for tax, accounting, or legal purposes.
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, or request deletion of your personal information, or to ask how it's being used. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at hello@kinwire.ca.
Kin Wire is not directed at children, and you must be at least 18 years old to create an account.
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information, including encryption in transit (HTTPS), authenticated access controls, and industry-standard cloud security practices. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we can't guarantee absolute security.
If a breach of your personal information occurs that creates a real risk of significant harm to you, we will notify you and report the breach as required under applicable privacy law — which may include PIPEDA (the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act) and, since Kin Wire operates out of British Columbia, BC's own Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), depending on the circumstances.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we'll update the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, notify you directly.
Questions about this policy or your data? Reach us at hello@kinwire.ca.