Last updated 6 October 2026. Applies to the Kickoff app and Safari extension for Mac, iPhone and iPad, and to this website.
Kickoff collects no personal data. It has no server, no user accounts and no analytics. Nothing you see or type is sent to the developer, and there is no system anywhere that could receive it.
Kickoff asks Safari for access to kick.com only. On kick.com pages it reads the page, mainly the chat, so it can add its features: showing deleted messages, highlighting mentions, previewing links, adding emotes and so on. All of this happens in Safari on your device. Kickoff cannot see any other website you visit.
The Kickoff app itself only explains how to turn the extension on. It makes no network connections and stores nothing.
Everything Kickoff keeps is stored in Safari on your device:
If you are signed in to iCloud, your settings (except text size) and your saved phrases are also kept in your own iCloud account, using Apple's iCloud key-value storage, so your Mac, iPhone and iPad share them. That storage belongs to your Apple Account: the developer has no access to it and cannot read it. The mentions inbox, the caches and everything in memory stay on the device. Nothing else is uploaded anywhere by Kickoff.
To do its job, Kickoff makes requests from your browser to these services. They receive what any website you open receives, such as your IP address. Kickoff tells them only what it is looking up (a channel, an emote set, a link) and nothing about you.
Kickoff
kick.com, web.kick.com,
files.kick.com): stream details, chat history after the page
slept, and the video and audio stream for the native player.
7tv.io): emotes, name paints and badges.
api.fxtwitter.com): titles and
thumbnails for link previews, only for links someone posts in chat.
Each of these services has its own privacy policy.
With Block ads & trackers on (the default), Kickoff tells Safari to block requests that kick.com makes to advertising and analytics services, such as Google's ad and analytics domains, Amazon ads, Datadog, Datazoom and Mux. This uses Safari's built-in blocking rules: Kickoff does not see or keep the blocked requests. You can turn it off in the settings panel.
Only what Apple reports to any developer with an app on the App Store: the number of downloads, crashes and ratings, in aggregate. This comes from Apple, not from Kickoff, and does not identify you. If you have turned off Share With App Developers in your device's analytics settings, Apple does not include your device at all.
Kickoff contains no advertising, no analytics SDK, no crash reporter and no tracking pixel. The extension is plain JavaScript and CSS, and the entire source is published at github.com/lakafior/Kickoff under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, so you can check all of this.
This site is static HTML hosted on Cloudflare Pages. It sets no cookies and loads no trackers, ads or third-party fonts. A small script from smigi.net draws the window frame. Cloudflare processes requests to serve the page and may keep short-lived operational logs, as any web host does.
Delete the Kickoff app and Safari removes the extension and its storage. To clear what Kickoff kept in kick.com's site storage, remove kick.com's website data in Safari: on Mac, Safari › Settings › Privacy › Manage Website Data; on iPhone and iPad, Settings › Apps › Safari › Advanced › Website Data. Because the developer holds nothing, there is no request to send and nobody to ask.
Kickoff is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, including children.
Kickoff is an independent project. It is not made, endorsed or supported by Kick. What Kick does with your data is covered by Kick's own privacy policy.
If this policy changes, the revised version will be published here with a new date.
Questions, or something here that doesn't match what you observe? Email kickoff@smigi.net, or open an issue at github.com/lakafior/Kickoff/issues.