Our Terms of Service
We don’t play about privacy, consent, or safety at kinkofa. These Terms of Use outline what you can expect from us—and what we ask of you when using our platform.
By using kinkofa, you're agreeing to these Terms. If you have questions or concerns, we encourage you to reach out before continuing to use the Service.
Last Updated on August, 2, 2025
Our Platform
kinkofa is a digital space designed for Black folx to preserve, share, and celebrate family memories. You can:
Upload photos, videos, audio, and text-based memories
Create and contribute to shared family or community spaces
Leave comments and audio voice notes
Record stories and memories with others through video/audio sessions
Share content with people you trust
We provide tools to document and hold onto your people’s stories—with dignity, privacy, and control.
Who Can Use kinkofa
To use the Service, you must be:
At least 16 years old
Or have consent from a parent or guardian if you're under age 16.
Children under 16 are not permitted to use kinkofa. We do not knowingly collect personal data from kids under 16. If we find out we’ve done so, we’ll delete it immediately.
How Content Sharing Works
You decide what gets shared and with whom. Each Space and Collection has role-based permissions (Owner, Editor, Contributor, Viewer), and your content is only visible to the people you’ve approved access for.
You can delete your content or close your account at any time.
Your Content, Your Rights
You own the content you upload to kinkofa. Periodt. That includes your stories, media, memories, and anything else you share.
By uploading content, you give kinkofa permission to:
Store, display, and share your content within the platform
Enable sharing based on your space permissions (owners, editors, contributors, viewers)
We do not sell or license your content to third parties. You can delete your content at any time.
Platform Community Guidelines & Moderation
kinkofa is a space built on care and consent. To keep our platform and users safe, we:
Use moderation tools to flag and filter harmful content (e.g., explicit, hateful, disturbing)
Monitor public spaces for violations of our policies
You agree not to upload or share:
Content that’s hateful, violent, or exploitative
Anything that violates another person’s privacy or consent
Deepfakes, impersonations, or misinformation
We reserve the right to remove content, restrict access, or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.
Accounts, User Roles, and Permissions
You’ll need to create an account to use most features on kinkofa. You're responsible for safeguarding your login credentials and for anything that happens under your account. If you suspect unauthorized activity, let us know right away.
Every space on kinkofa has role-based permissions. These roles include:
Owner – full control over the space and its members
Editor – can manage and edit all content in the space
Contributor – can add content, but not manage others
Viewer – can only view what’s shared with them
These roles ensure you control who sees, adds, or edits memories, spaces, and other content created using kinkofa.
Comments, Replies, and Recordings
You can leave comments and audio replies on shared memories. Some features allow live video or audio recording of stories with others ("Rememory Recordings").
By using these features, you:
Consent to being recorded when participating in Rememory sessions or record voice notes
Agree not to record others without their knowledge or express consent.
Recordings are stored securely and shared only within the permissions you set.
Privacy & Data
We are committed to protecting your personal information. Please read our Privacy Policy to understand:
What data we collect
How we store and use it
Your rights around access, deletion, and data control
We do not sell your data. We do not hand it over to law enforcement or other agencies unless legally required and with notification when possible.
Subscriptions & Payments
Some features of kinkofa may require a paid subscription.
Kinkofa offers several subscription plans designed to meet your family’s needs:
Free Plan: Basic storage and collaboration to get started at no cost.
Premium Plan: Expanded storage, higher upload limits, and advanced features.
Family Plan: Increased storage, multiple user seats, and enhanced collaboration tools.
Founding Supporter Plan: One-time payment granting 500 GB storage, early access, exclusive community, and 6 user seats.
When you subscribe:
You will be clearly informed of the pricing, billing intervals (monthly or annual), and what features come with your chosen plan.
Subscription payments are processed securely.
You can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel your subscription at any time via your account dashboard.
If you cancel, your subscription benefits will remain active until the end of your current billing period; no further charges will occur.
The Founding Supporter plan is an annual payment and can only be renewed once.
We do not charge you without your consent.
Subscription fees are non-refundable except where required by law or at our discretion.
We reserve the right to update plans, pricing, or terms with advance notice communicated via email or in-app.
Supplemental Terms for Black Cemeteries
These Supplemental Terms for Black Cemeteries are part of kinkofa’s Terms of Service. If you use Black Cemeteries, submit information to Black Cemeteries, request to manage a page, review contributions, or access Black Cemeteries records, these Supplemental Terms apply in addition to kinkofa’s general Terms of Service.
If there is a conflict between these Supplemental Terms and kinkofa’s general Terms of Service, these Supplemental Terms control for Black Cemeteries.
Purpose of Black Cemeteries
Black Cemeteries is a public-history, community-archive, and preservation project created to help document historically Black cemeteries, burial grounds, burial records, people buried there, cemetery conditions, source evidence, and related community history.
Black Cemeteries is not a government records system, certified vital-records database, cemetery ownership registry, or legal determination of burial rights, property rights, family relationships, or cemetery control.
Public and private areas of Black Cemeteries
Black Cemeteries includes both public-facing records and internal/review-only materials.
Public-facing records may include cemetery pages, burial-place profiles, person profiles for deceased individuals, source citations, media, cemetery condition notes, contributor usernames, page status information, and approved community contributions.
Internal or review-only materials may include draft submissions, pending updates, rejected submissions, crawler-discovered candidate records, stewardship requests, moderation notes, review history, internal confidence scores, and administrative metadata.
By submitting content to Black Cemeteries, you understand that approved content may become publicly visible.
Contributor submissions
You may submit information, corrections, photos, documents, source links, transcriptions, obituary references, burial details, family connections, cemetery condition updates, and other materials to Black Cemeteries.
You are responsible for the content you submit. You represent that:
∙the information you submit is accurate to the best of your knowledge;
∙you have the right to submit any photos, documents, writings, or other materials you upload;
∙your submission does not violate another person’s privacy, publicity, copyright, trademark, contractual, or other rights;
∙your submission is not knowingly false, misleading, defamatory, exploitative, hateful, or abusive; and
∙your submission does not include sensitive information about living people unless you have a lawful and appropriate basis to provide it.
4. License to submitted content
You keep ownership of content you submit to Black Cemeteries.
By submitting content, you grant kinkofa a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, preserve, reproduce, display, publish, format, excerpt, moderate, review, tag, index, cite, and distribute your approved contribution as part of Black Cemeteries and related kinkofa preservation, archival, research, educational, and community-history services.
This license allows kinkofa to operate Black Cemeteries, preserve submitted materials, display approved contributions, create source citations, maintain historical records, and make Black Cemeteries useful to the public.
This license does not mean kinkofa owns your original content.
Review, moderation, and editorial judgment
Submissions may be reviewed before publication. kinkofa and/or its users may approve, reject, edit for formatting, merge, mark as duplicate, request more information, remove, suppress, or reclassify submissions.
kinkofa may decline to publish or may remove content that kinkofa believes is inaccurate, unsupported, duplicative, harmful, irrelevant, offensive, exploitative, unlawful, infringing, or inconsistent with the purpose of Black Cemeteries.
Approval of a contribution does not mean kinkofa guarantees that every fact is historically complete, final, or error-free.
Historical uncertainty
Black Cemeteries may include incomplete, conflicting, evolving, or uncertain historical information. Records may be based on cemetery surveys, oral history, obituaries, grave markers, public records, user submissions, archival sources, or other evidence.
Where possible, Black Cemeteries may identify source evidence, confidence level, documentation status, or areas needing further research.
Users should not rely on Black Cemeteries as the sole source for legal, genealogical, medical, property, inheritance, burial-rights, or government-record purposes.
Page stewardship
Black Cemeteries pages may have a page steward or page manager.
A page steward helps review contributions, improve page quality, monitor corrections, and support responsible documentation. Stewardship does not grant ownership of a cemetery, burial ground, family history, person profile, or page content.
kinkofa may approve, deny, revoke, transfer, or limit stewardship at its discretion. kinkofa may also require additional verification before approving a stewardship request.
Requesting to manage a page
If a page has no steward, you may request to manage it. Submitting a request does not automatically grant stewardship.
You may be asked to explain your connection to the cemetery, person, organization, community, family line, preservation effort, or research project. kinkofa may use this information to evaluate the request.
kinkofa may deny or delay a request where information is incomplete, disputed, inaccurate, harmful, or inconsistent with the preservation purpose of Black Cemeteries.
Source attribution and evidence
Black Cemeteries may include source links, source names, evidence excerpts, citations, archival references, survey details, and other attribution.
You agree not to remove, obscure, or misrepresent source attribution. You also agree not to submit full copyrighted articles, full copyrighted obituaries, full books, paywalled materials, or other third-party content unless you have the right to do so.
Short excerpts or factual references may be used to support source evidence where appropriate.
. Obituaries and recently deceased individuals
Black Cemeteries may use obituary information as source evidence for burial places, dates, family relationships, funeral homes, service details, and related facts.
Because obituaries may include information about living people, kinkofa may remove or limit obituary-derived information that raises privacy, safety, copyright, or dignity concerns.
. Public-source and crawler-discovered candidate records
Black Cemeteries may use public-source discovery tools, including crawlers, search workflows, and automated extraction tools, to identify possible Black cemeteries, burial grounds, person profiles, burial records, sources, and evidence.
Crawler-discovered information is treated as candidate information unless and until reviewed or approved. Candidate information may be incomplete, inaccurate, duplicative, or unverified.
kinkofa will not knowingly use crawlers to bypass paywalls, login walls, technical access controls, or private systems. kinkofa may use robots.txt, source policies, rate limits, and source review practices to guide automated discovery.
. Corrections, removals, and disputes
You may request a correction, removal, suppression, attribution change, or dispute review for Black Cemeteries content.
kinkofa may evaluate requests based on source evidence, privacy concerns, living-person impact, historical preservation value, community context, legal obligations, and product integrity.
kinkofa may deny requests that seek to remove historically significant, lawfully obtained, properly sourced public information, but kinkofa may still limit or suppress information where publication creates safety, privacy, dignity, or accuracy concerns.
. Prohibited conduct
You may not use Black Cemeteries to:
∙submit knowingly false or misleading information;
∙harass, threaten, shame, expose, or dox living people;
∙claim stewardship falsely;
∙impersonate another person, family, organization, cemetery, church, funeral home, or ∙preservation group;
∙upload content you do not have rights to use;
∙scrape, copy, or republish Black Cemeteries at scale without permission;
∙remove source attribution;
∙post hateful, racist, abusive, exploitative, or disrespectful content;
∙publish private living-person information without permission;
∙interfere with review, moderation, or stewardship workflows; or
∙use Black Cemeteries for discriminatory, exploitative, commercial, or unlawful purposes.
14. No sale of cemetery stewardship or records
Page stewardship, contributor status, and Black Cemeteries records are not transferable property rights. You may not sell, license, assign, or commercially exploit stewardship access or Black Cemeteries records without kinkofa’s written permission.
. Removal of access
kinkofa may suspend, limit, or remove your access to Black Cemeteries if you violate these terms, misuse the product, submit harmful content, interfere with preservation work, or create legal, privacy, safety, or community risk.
. Contact
For Black Cemeteries corrections, removal requests, stewardship disputes, or policy questions, contact:
Subscriptions & Payments
Some features of kinkofa may require a paid subscription.
Kinkofa offers several subscription plans designed to meet your family’s needs:
Free Plan: Basic storage and collaboration to get started at no cost.
Premium Plan: Expanded storage, higher upload limits, and advanced features.
Family Plan: Increased storage, multiple user seats, and enhanced collaboration tools.
Founding Supporter Plan: One-time payment granting 500 GB storage, early access, exclusive community, and 6 user seats.
When you subscribe:
You will be clearly informed of the pricing, billing intervals (monthly or annual), and what features come with your chosen plan.
Subscription payments are processed securely.
You can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel your subscription at any time via your account dashboard.
If you cancel, your subscription benefits will remain active until the end of your current billing period; no further charges will occur.
The Founding Supporter plan is an annual payment and can only be renewed once.
We do not charge you without your consent.
Subscription fees are non-refundable except where required by law or at our discretion.
We reserve the right to update plans, pricing, or terms with advance notice communicated via email or in-app.
Changes to this Terms of Use
We reserve the right to update or change this Terms of Use at any time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and the effective date will be updated accordingly. We encourage you to review this Terms of Use periodically for any updates.
Contact Us
Questions, concerns, or data requests? Email us at: privacy@kinkofa.com