Privacy

This policy covers the Multiplings mobile app for iOS and Android, and this website. The app is made by Daniel Han, an individual developer in Sweden, who is the data controller for anything this policy describes.

What the app collects

Nothing. The app does not ask for a name, an email address, an age, a photograph, a location, a contact list, or any other personal information. It has no sign-in and no account of any kind.

What is stored, and where it stays

The app saves a small amount of information so a child can stop playing and come back later:

• which level they have reached, and which facts they have met and mastered;
• which character they chose;
• their language choice and whether sound, music and the read-aloud voice are on.

All of it is written to the operating system's own storage for this app, on the device. None of it is transmitted anywhere. It never reaches the developer, because there is nowhere for it to go.

What the app does not do

• No analytics or usage measurement of any kind.
• No advertising, no advertising identifiers, and no advertising networks.
• No tracking across apps or websites, and no profiles.
• No crash reporting service.
• No social network sign-in, sharing, or embedded content.
• No purchases, and no payment details.

The app requests no device permissions. On Android it does not hold the internet permission, so it cannot reach the network even in principle. On iOS it never opens a network connection: it has no networking code of its own, and the sound library it is built with is only ever handed files bundled inside the app.

Reading prompts aloud

When the read-aloud voice is turned on, the app asks the device's own speech service to say the prompt. That service belongs to Apple or to Google, not to Multiplings, and its behaviour is governed by their privacy policies rather than this one. The app sends it only the words already shown on the screen, and it prefers a voice that works without a network connection. The voice is off unless somebody turns it on.

Children

Multiplings is made for children of around seven to nine years old. Because the app collects no personal information at all, there is nothing to ask a parent to consent to, nothing to share, and nothing to sell. This is how the app meets the United States Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the United Kingdom's Age Appropriate Design Code, and the parts of the European General Data Protection Regulation that concern children.

Deleting everything

Open Settings inside the app and choose Reset progress. That puts the progress back to an empty start, so nothing about what a child has played remains; the settings, such as the language and whether sound is on, are kept. Deleting the app from the device erases all of it. There is no server copy and no backup held by the developer, so no request to the developer is needed or possible.

The app stores

Downloading the app is a transaction between you and Apple or Google. They record their own information about downloads and give the developer anonymous counts of installs and crashes. That data never identifies anyone to the developer, and the developer cannot connect it to a child. What Apple and Google collect is governed by their own policies: Apple's privacy policy and Google's privacy policy.

This website

This site is plain HTML, CSS and one small script. It sets no cookies, loads nothing from another company, and measures no visits. Its fonts are served from this site rather than from a font service.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the change is described here. A change that affected what the app collects would be announced in the app before it took effect. There is no mailing list to notify, because there are no addresses to notify.

Getting in touch

Write to [email protected] with any question about this policy. If you are in the European Union and believe your rights have been infringed, you may also complain to your national data protection authority.