Privacy & safety
What we collect, what we don't, and what happens with it. The short version, then the full version. Read whichever you need.
Four promises
This is what we believe matters most for a kids' app, and what we've actually built our site around. The detail is below if you need it.
What happens when your child uses our site
When your child opens our website, our hosting provider sees their IP address and what page was loaded — the same way every website on the internet works. We don't add extra tracking on top of that.
As they play games, read stories, or watch videos, their progress (stars, streaks, completion counts) is saved on their device, in their browser. Nothing leaves the device. If you clear the browser's storage, that progress is gone — we can't recover it because we never had it.
Our character intro videos and Watch section are embedded from YouTube. When your child plays one, YouTube sees their IP and what was watched, the same as if they'd opened YouTube directly. We use unlisted videos, so they don't appear in YouTube search or the channel feed.
Our fonts come from Google Fonts, so Google sees a request for the font each time your child loads a page. They don't see what your child does on the page, just that a font was requested.
If you write to us through the contact form, your message goes through a third-party form service (Formspree) and lands in our inbox. We read it and reply. We don't share your email with anyone.
That's it. There's no algorithm, no recommendation engine, no behavioral targeting, no data partner sharing.
The third parties we work with
We can't (and don't want to) reinvent every piece of internet infrastructure. Here's everyone who touches a request when your child uses the site, and what they see.
The full policy
1. Information we don't collect
We don't ask your child for, and don't store on our servers, any of the following:
- Names, ages, or birthdates
- Email addresses or phone numbers
- Photos, audio recordings, or video
- Location data beyond rough geography inferred from IP address
- Contact lists or social profiles
- Any account or login information (because we have no accounts)
2. Information we automatically receive
Like nearly every website, our hosting provider (Vercel) automatically receives certain technical information when a page is loaded:
- IP address (which roughly indicates city/region)
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- The page or asset being requested
- Timestamp of the request
- The previous page that linked here, if any
This information is used for security, debugging, and basic operations (like making sure the site loads when traffic spikes). Vercel retains these logs for around 30 days. We do not combine this information with anything else.
3. Local storage on your child's device
Our site uses your child's browser storage (called "localStorage") to remember their progress between visits — stars earned, daily streaks, books finished, games completed, which sections they've explored, and a few preferences (like whether sound is muted). This information lives only on their device, in their browser. It is never sent to us or to any third party.
If you clear the browser's site data, this information is permanently lost — even we can't recover it, because we never had a copy.
4. Embedded content from third parties
Some of our pages embed content from third-party services. These embeds may set their own cookies or receive your child's IP address as part of the embed loading.
The third parties we currently embed from:
- YouTube — for character intro videos and song content. Their privacy policy applies to anything YouTube sees: policies.google.com/privacy.
- Google Fonts — for type styling. Same policy link as above.
- Formspree — only when you submit our contact form. Their policy: formspree.io/legal/privacy-policy.
We do not embed advertising networks, behavioral tracking, social media widgets, or any other third-party content beyond what's listed above.
5. Children's privacy
This site is designed for children. Because of that, we hold ourselves to a stricter standard than a typical website would.
We comply with the United States Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Specifically:
- We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
- We do not require children to provide any information to use the site.
- We do not show advertising to children.
- We do not engage in behavioral advertising, profiling, or remarketing.
- We do not sell or share children's information with anyone.
If you believe we have somehow received personal information from a child, please contact us at [email protected] and we will delete it.
6. How we use information
The technical information our hosting provider receives (described in section 2) is used only for:
- Operating the site and keeping it secure
- Debugging problems
- Understanding rough usage patterns (e.g., how many people visited a page on a given day) at an aggregate, non-identifying level
Information you submit through the contact form (your email address and message) is used only to reply to you. We don't add it to a marketing list. We don't share it.
7. Sharing with third parties
We do not sell, rent, or share information with advertisers, data brokers, or marketing partners. The only third parties involved are the infrastructure providers listed in section 4, and only because they are necessary for the site to function.
We may disclose information if legally required to do so (for example, in response to a valid court order), but in our entire operation we've never been asked to.
8. Your rights
Because we hold so little, the practical implications are short:
- To delete progress data: clear your browser's site data for our site. The progress is gone immediately.
- To delete contact form submissions: email us at [email protected] and we'll delete your message and email from our records.
- To ask what we have: email us with the same address. We'll tell you everything within a few days.
- To opt out of anything: there's nothing to opt out of, because there's no marketing, no profiling, and no behavioral tracking. But if you don't want our site to know you've ever been here at all, you can use a private/incognito browser window.
9. Changes to this policy
If we change how we handle privacy — for example, if we add a new infrastructure provider — we'll update this page and bump the "Last updated" date at the top. We'll never quietly start collecting more than what's listed here without saying so.
10. How to contact us
For any privacy question, concern, or request: [email protected]. We read every email and try to reply within a few days.