Kids Learn and Play1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains how the Kids Learn and Play mobile application (the “App”) handles information. The App is an educational game designed for young children (ages 3–6). We are committed to protecting the privacy of children and their families. By using the App, you agree to the practices described in this policy.
2. Information We Collect
We do not collect any personal information. The App does not request, gather, or transmit any data such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, location, photos, contacts, or device identifiers. There are no user accounts and no sign-up, and the App sends nothing about your child to us or to any third party. The child's name and avatar you enter when setting up a profile stay on the device.
The App holds only the three permissions Google Play Billing needs to sell the optional one-time unlock (see Purchases) — and has no code of its own that uses them. All of the learning content — every topic, picture, sound and game — is bundled in the App and runs without a connection, so there is no channel through which anything could leave the device.
3. Data Stored on Your Device
To remember your child's progress, the App saves small settings locally on the device itself: each child profile's name, avatar, chosen language and age band, the stars and badges they have earned, which activities they have completed, and the sound settings. This information:
- Never leaves the device;
- Is not transmitted to us or any third party;
- Can be cleared at any time by clearing the App's data or uninstalling the App.
4. Internet Access & Network Use
We have written no code that uses the network. Nothing about your child is downloaded, uploaded or synced: the App contains no analytics of ours, no crash reporting, no advertising SDK, no downloads and no server of ours to talk to. Your child can use the whole App in airplane mode; voice narration uses your device's built-in text-to-speech engine, which also runs on the device.
The App does hold the INTERNET, com.android.vending.BILLING and
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE permissions. They exist for one reason only: so the
Google Play Store can process the optional one-time unlock if a grown-up chooses to
buy it. Whether or not you ever do, no information about you or your child is sent
or received.
In the interest of being exact rather than flattering: Google's Play Billing library, which the App must include in order to offer the unlock at all, contains a Google component that reports to Google how that library itself is performing. It is Google's, we cannot see it or switch it off independently of the unlock feature, and it carries nothing about your child, their name, their progress or what they play. We mention it because "produces no network traffic whatsoever" would be a stronger claim than we can actually stand behind.
5. Purchases
There is exactly one thing to buy, and no child can reach it. Every topic in the App opens, and every one of them gives about a third of its words and pictures away free — the first few cards of each topic, playable in every game that topic has. The remaining words open together for a single one-time payment: on an English install, 85 of the 242 words are free and 157 are behind the payment. A child playing in a language with a script of its own gets their alphabet on the same terms, at the same price. There is no subscription, no virtual currency and nothing further to buy afterwards — buy it once and it is yours permanently, on every device signed in to the same Google account.
The purchase lives in the grown-ups' area, behind the “ask a grown-up” question a young child cannot answer. When a child taps a locked word the App shows and speaks “ask a grown-up” and does nothing else — no price, no shop, no payment screen. Nothing is ever advertised to the child.
We never see your payment details. The payment is made through Google Play, which draws the payment sheet in its own app and processes it under Google's privacy policy. The App receives only a token confirming that the unlock was bought; it does not read it, does not send it anywhere, and stores nothing but a single yes/no flag on your own device. Buying creates no account with us and is not linked to a child's name or progress in any way.
Version 1.8 offered this same one-time unlock; versions 1.9 and 1.10 removed it and made everything free; version 1.11 brought it back, with four topics free in full and the rest shut; version 1.21 replaced that with the rule described above — every topic open, about a third of each one free. Anyone who had the App before version 1.11 keeps everything unlocked, free, permanently. For a family who installed at version 1.11 or later and did not buy, version 1.21 opens twelve topics that were shut and narrows the four that were whole. Nothing that was paid for has ever been taken away.
6. Advertising & Third-Party Services
The App contains no advertisements and does not integrate any third-party advertising networks, analytics tools, crash reporters, or social media plugins for its own purposes. It requests no Advertising ID. There are no in-app links that lead children outside the App.
The only Google components the App includes are Play Billing, which processes the optional unlock described above, and Play In-App Review, which lets a grown-up rate the App without leaving it. Both are operated by the Play Store app itself; neither reports anything back to us, and neither is ever shown to a child — see Rating the App below. Play Billing brings with it Google's own diagnostic reporting for that library, described in Internet Access; that reporting goes to Google, not to us, and concerns the billing library rather than your child.
7. Children's Privacy
The App is intended for use by children with parental guidance and complies with applicable children's privacy laws, including the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the EU GDPR (including its provisions for children), India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (including its provisions on children's data), and the Google Play Families policy. Because the App collects no personal information, no personal data of children is ever processed, shared, or sold. There is nothing a child can buy and nowhere the App can send them, so there is no transaction and no outside link for a parental gate to stand in front of.
8. Permissions
The App requests three permissions, and all three belong to Google Play Billing:
INTERNET and com.android.vending.BILLING, which we declare, and
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE, which Google's billing library adds for itself and which only
lets that library ask whether the device is currently online. They let the Play Store process
the optional one-time unlock; the App has no code of its own that uses the network. It uses the
device's text-to-speech service for voice narration, which is a system service
rather than a permission, and the speech is generated on the device. Android's own support libraries
add one internal, signature-level permission that the App defines for itself, used to deliver
in-process broadcasts; it grants no access to the device or the network and is not shown to users.
Nothing else is requested — no camera, microphone, location, contacts, photos or files — and the App's own data is excluded from Android's automatic backup, so it stays on the device.
9. Rating the App
Occasionally, after a grown-up has answered the “ask a grown-up” question and looked at their child's progress, Google Play's own rating card may appear. It is shown and handled entirely by the Google Play Store app on the device — the App still sends nothing anywhere itself. If you choose to leave a rating, it is the Play Store, not this App, that submits it, under Google's privacy policy.
We are told nothing. Google's design deliberately never reports back whether the card appeared, whether you rated, or what you chose, so we receive no data of any kind from it. The card is never shown to a child — it appears only in the grown-ups' area, behind the question a young child cannot answer. The only thing stored is three numbers on your own device (when the App was installed, when it last asked, and how many times), so that it does not ask again for months, and at most three times ever.
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date. We encourage you to review this page periodically.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: