Privacy Policy

In short

Pip: Clocks, Coins & Rulers is a learning game for children ages 6 to 8 (grades 1–2), made by Kidz Tales OÜ. We receive no data from it. The app asks for no name or email. If you type your child’s first name for a certificate, it stays on this device and is never sent anywhere. You can remove the name at any time by clearing the field. It never asks to use the camera, microphone, location, contacts, or photos. There are no ads and no accounts of our own, and we added no analytics or tracking tools. The one outside part is the Amazon Appstore’s purchase software. The app does ask the Amazon Appstore about the Amazon account and the person using this tablet, as described below.

The only connection outside the app: the Amazon Appstore

The app asks the Amazon Appstore about purchases, about the Amazon account on this tablet, and about a parent’s consent. When the app starts, and each time it comes back on screen, it asks the Amazon Appstore on the device what this account has bought, so a purchase that finished while the app was closed, or that a parent approved later, isn’t lost. While a purchase is waiting for a parent’s approval, it also asks this about once a minute for as long as the app is on screen. When a purchase screen opens, it asks for the price. When someone taps Unlock (after the parent gate) or Restore purchase, it buys or restores the full game. The Amazon Appstore may go online for this.

When a purchase screen opens, and when someone taps Restore purchase, the app also asks the Amazon Appstore for the details of the Amazon account on this tablet. Amazon’s answer includes the account’s user ID, marketplace, and country. The app checks only that Amazon answered. It doesn’t read those details, keep them, or send them anywhere.

The app tells the Amazon Appstore which product is meant. When it finds a purchase, it also sends back the receipt number, once each time the app runs, to confirm the full game was delivered. It holds that number only while it runs. From Amazon’s answers about purchases it reads only the result, the product, the receipt number, whether a purchase was canceled, and the product’s price, title, and description. It tells Amazon nothing the app remembers about your child.

When the app starts, and each time it comes back on screen, it also asks the Amazon Appstore about the person using this tablet: whether a parent’s consent is in place, as some US state laws require. The app asks only for one status word and reads nothing else from the answer. It does not ask for your child’s age. It keeps only what that status word says about consent, in memory while it runs. It never stores it and sends it nowhere.

Amazon’s purchase software is built into the app, and Amazon adds its own software to the app when it publishes it. What this software sends to Amazon is decided by Amazon, under Amazon’s privacy notice. It goes straight to Amazon; we never receive it.

The app’s package also contains a Google purchase library, from the code this edition shares with the others. This edition never starts it.

Your child’s progress, answers, daily schedule, and settings stay on this device. The only copy that can leave it is your tablet’s own backup, if it makes one. We never see this data.

Payment details, such as your card and address, are handled by Amazon under Amazon’s privacy notice. We never see or keep them.

The game works without the internet. The purchase is remembered on the device, so the app works fully in airplane mode.

What is stored, and where

On the device itself, the app remembers your child’s progress: finished lessons, stars, right answers and mistakes by lesson, time spent in lessons, the stickers earned, what Pip wears, and the dates certificates were earned. It also keeps the settings a grown-up chooses, including when Pip naps, and how many lessons and minutes the current play session has had. If a grown-up sets them, it keeps the daily schedule (times for school, lunch, and bedtime) and your child’s first name for a certificate. It also notes small things that keep the game from repeating itself, such as whether a grown-up has seen the welcome page and which lesson was tried for free.

This data stays on the device until you erase it. The app sends it nowhere, and we never see it. It is deleted with the app, unless your tablet’s backup restores it. The parents’ area also has a button that erases the progress right away.

We keep no data, so there is nothing for us to store or delete on our side. How long Amazon keeps what its software sends is set by Amazon, not by us.

Children

The app is made for children ages 6 to 8 (grades 1–2). There is no way to leave the app for a website or another app, and no one can contact a child through it. We collect no personal information from children. The only information that leaves the device is what the Amazon Appstore and its software send, described above.

There are no ads of any kind. Purchases are behind a parent gate. There are no buttons that lead to other apps, to social networks, or to the web.

Sound and microphone

Pip speaks but doesn’t listen. The voice is sentences recorded in advance and stored inside the app. The microphone is not used, and the app doesn’t ask for it.

Third parties

We added no tracking, analytics, or advertising tools, and no ad networks. The only outside part is the Amazon Appstore’s purchase software, which Amazon requires for selling digital content inside apps. The app tells it only what is described above, and nothing the app remembers about your child. We sell no data, and we receive none to pass on.

Your rights

Because we receive no data from the app, we hold none to ask for, correct, or delete, so there is nothing to request from us. Everything the app remembers stays on the device, or in your tablet’s own backup if it makes one, under your control: the button in the parents’ area erases the progress, and uninstalling the app erases the rest from the device. Questions about what Amazon’s software sends go to Amazon, under Amazon’s privacy notice. You can write to us with any question (see Contact).

If you write to us

If you email us, we use your address and message only to answer you. We add no one to a mailing list, we keep an email only as long as we need it to help you, and we delete it whenever you ask. Our mailbox is protected by two-step verification.

Families in the EU and the UK

Kidz Tales OÜ is a company in Estonia. The app sends us no personal data. If you email us, we are responsible for that email under the GDPR and the UK GDPR, and we use it only to answer you, based on our legitimate interest in helping you. You can ask us to see, correct, or delete it, and you can complain to the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon) or to the data protection authority where you live.

What Amazon’s software sends is Amazon’s responsibility, under Amazon’s privacy notice.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the new version will appear here and on its web page, with a new date at the top. If we ever change what the app collects or sends, this policy will say so before the change reaches the app.

Contact

Kidz Tales OÜ, Estonia, registry code 17222377. Email: info@kidz-tales.com. Write to that address with any question about privacy.