Privacy Policy for Phonics: Learning to Read

Data Collection

This app collects personal data.

We collect the following types of information:

• Email address — a parent’s, and only if you create the optional free account
• The custom word lists you choose to sync

Use of Data

We use the collected data for the following purposes:

• To sign you in and sync your custom word lists between your own devices — nothing else

Legal basis (GDPR art. 6)

We process your email address and your synced word lists because they are necessary to provide the optional account you asked for (art. 6(1)(b), performance of a contract).

We process anonymous crash reports on the basis of our legitimate interest in keeping the app working (art. 6(1)(f)); they contain no name, email or child data.

We do not rely on consent for any processing, and we do not use your data for advertising or profiling.

How long we keep your data

Your email address and synced word lists are kept for as long as your account exists. When you delete the account from the app’s main menu, or ask us by email, they are erased from our servers within 30 days.

Crash reports are kept by Firebase Crashlytics for 90 days, then deleted automatically.

Nothing about your children is ever stored on our servers.

Third-Party Services

We use two third-party services to run the optional account and to receive crash reports:

• Firebase: Optional account sign-in and word-list sync. Privacy Policy
• Firebase Crashlytics: Anonymous crash reports. Privacy Policy

Where your data is stored. Firebase is operated by Google LLC and stores data on servers in the United States. Transfers from the EU are covered by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, under which Google is certified, and by the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses in Google’s data-processing terms.

Additional Information

• Apperetif is made by Alexandre Sivera; reach us any time at as@apperetif.com
• No account is required to play, and we collect nothing from children: each child’s progress and stars stay on the device and never leave it
• The microphone is used only for the Repeat After Me game, so a child can listen back to their own voice — nothing is kept or sent anywhere. The recording is a temporary file on the device and is deleted when the child leaves the game.
• You can delete the account at any time from the account section of the app’s main menu, which erases the email address and word lists from our servers — or email us and we will delete it for you
• The optional Phonics Plus subscription is purchased through Apple, which handles all payment: we never see or store payment details, and you manage or cancel it in your App Store subscription settings
• This app contains no ads and no third-party tracking
• The voice that reads words and instructions in the app is AI-generated, not a recording of a person.
• We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask us to access, correct, delete or export the personal data we hold about you, to restrict or object to its processing, and to withdraw any consent you gave. Write to as@apperetif.com and we will answer within one month.

You can also lodge a complaint with your national data-protection authority; in France this is the CNIL (www.cnil.fr).

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• By email: as@apperetif.com
• By visiting this page on our website