Last updated 11 October 2026
Kestrel is an advertising-funded app. That means data about your use of it is what makes the money we share with you, and you deserve a plain account of exactly what that involves.
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Device and advertising identifiers | Serving ads, measuring whether a view qualified, and detecting fraud |
| Usage data — clips viewed, watch time, taps | Paying you correctly and reporting performance to advertisers |
| Email address (at cash out) | Payout notices and support. Accounts are anonymous until you cash out; we do not ask for an email to sign up |
| Payout details | Paying you. Collected at cash out, never at sign up |
| Survey answers (optional) | Sold as aggregate panel data, never attached to your name |
| Purchase receipts (optional) | Unlocking conversion offers. Read-only, retailers you choose |
We do not collect precise location, your contacts, health data, or your browsing outside this app.
If you join the waitlist on kestrel.ad we keep your email address, which sign-up form you used, and the date — nothing else. Your IP address is used only to stop automated sign-ups and is discarded within about an hour. The address is used once, to tell you when Kestrel is ready to install, and the whole list is deleted after that email has gone out. It is never linked to an app account, shared or sold. To come off it sooner, write to privacy@kestreltv.com.
If you ask about advertising through the form on kestrel.ad/partner, we keep what you send — your name, work email, brand, website, and anything you tell us — to reply to you and, if you go ahead, to run your campaign. A copy is emailed to us, and the service that delivers it does so only for us. It is not otherwise shared, and never sold. Ask at privacy@kestreltv.com and we will delete it.
Advertising identifiers and view events are shared with the ad networks and measurement partners that fill the feed. Under some privacy laws this counts as a sale or sharing of personal information, and you can opt out at any time in Settings without losing access to the app — though your earnings will be lower, because untargeted inventory pays less. We will always tell you that plainly rather than hide it.
Survey responses leave as aggregate data. Receipt data is used only to confirm a conversion you chose to act on.
We do not sell your email address, and we never pass your name to an advertiser.
Deleting your account closes it at once and signs you out everywhere. Nothing more is collected about you from that moment.
Two things survive it, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. Your earnings ledger and the record of what was watched on the account are kept as financial and anti-fraud records — an advertising or survey partner can reverse a payment weeks after the event, and we have to be able to show what was paid, for what, and why. Neither is held under your name: an app account is identified only by a random id. Records of completed payouts are kept for as long as tax law requires.
If you want those records deleted or stripped of anything that links them to you, write to privacy@kestreltv.com and we will do it, except where the law requires us to keep them. Any balance below the payout threshold is forfeited on deletion, so cash out first if you can.
View events are kept while they can still be disputed by an advertiser or needed to investigate fraud, and are used to report performance back to the advertiser whose video was watched — as counts and curves, never as anything that identifies you. We do not yet delete them on a fixed schedule; when we set one, this page will say what it is. You can ask us to remove or anonymise yours at any time. Payout records are kept as long as financial law requires.
Kestrel is for adults. You must be 18 or older to hold an account, because we pay real money and that carries identity, tax and contract requirements. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18, and accounts found to belong to minors are closed and deleted.
Data is processed in California by John Gillespie, and may be handled by ad partners in other countries under standard contractual clauses.
If we change what we collect or who it goes to, we will say so in the app before it takes effect — not quietly in a version note.
Questions, requests or complaints: privacy@kestreltv.com. See also our Terms of Service.