TinyFingers ABC and TinyFingers 123: privacy policy
Effective:
This policy explains what information the apps TinyFingers ABC and TinyFingers 123 (“the apps”) handle and why. TinyFingers ABC is a letter and number tracing app, and TinyFingers 123 a number and first sums tracing app, for young children, used together with an adult at home and in early childhood education. They are published by Kim Asplund – TinyFingers, Vasaesplanaden 1 B 7, 65100 Vaasa, Finland (“we”, “us”), who is responsible for this policy.
In short: the apps collect no personal data, from children or from adults. They have no ads, no analytics, no accounts and no sign-in, and they make no network connections. The adults’ settings stay on your device. The optional one-time purchase of the Full Version is handled entirely by the store you buy it from.
1. Data stored on your device
Each app remembers the adults’ settings (the language and where it is spoken, the voice, which letters, numbers and sums are in the books, sound and similar choices, and a PIN, if an adult sets one), the place in each book, and, where the app was installed from a store, whether the Full Version is owned. This stays on your device, is never sent to us, and is deleted when you uninstall the app.
Apart from the place in each book, nothing about what a child did is stored: no results, no counts, no times, nothing a child traced.
2. No ads, analytics or tracking
The apps contain no advertising, no analytics or crash-reporting service and no social features, and they make no network connections. An app installed from a store contains that store’s own purchase interface and no other software from anyone else.
In an app installed from a store, the adults’ menu also lists the other TinyFingers apps. When an adult taps one, the device’s browser opens its page on tinyfingers.fi, outside the app, and the website’s own privacy notice applies there. The app tells us nothing about the tap, and those pages count no visits.
3. Voices
The voices that name letters, words and numbers are recordings kept inside the app: recordings of people who agreed to it, and synthetic voices, marked “AI”, that were made beforehand. The apps do not use the microphone or the camera, listen to nothing, and send nothing anywhere when they speak.
4. Device lock
An adult can lock the device so that the child stays inside the app. On Android this uses the system’s App pinning; on iPhone and iPad it uses Apple’s Guided Access, which an adult switches on in the device’s Settings; on Windows the app fills the screen and ignores keys such as the Windows key and Alt+Tab while locked. The app does not record or send which keys are pressed or anything traced.
5. Purchases
An app installed from a store is free with a smaller book. The Full Version, which opens the whole book, is an optional one-time purchase through that store (the Microsoft Store, Google Play or Apple’s App Store), which handles the payment and the receipt under its own privacy policy. The offer is in the adults’ menu, behind the adults’ check. The app only asks the store whether the Full Version is owned and keeps a note of the answer on the device; we receive no payment details.
The Early Years edition, which organisations get from us, has nothing to buy and no purchase interface.
6. Children
The apps are designed for young children. We do not collect personal information from anyone, including children, and the apps have no way to contact a child or to let a child share anything. After the first start, which an adult goes through before a child plays, the settings, the purchase and the device lock are reachable only through a check that an adult must solve.
7. Your rights
We get no personal data about you or about any child from the apps, so there is nothing of that kind for us to access, correct or delete, and uninstalling an app removes everything it stored. If you write to us (privacy@tinyfingers.fi, or support@tinyfingers.fi to report a voice that says something wrong), we use your address and message only to answer you and to fix the app, and delete them when they are no longer needed for that. You have the right to complain to a data protection authority: in Finland, where we are, the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman (tietosuoja.fi), or the authority in the country where you live.
8. Changes
If we change this policy we will update this page and the date above.
9. Contact
Kim Asplund – TinyFingers, Vasaesplanaden 1 B 7, 65100 Vaasa, Finland · privacy@tinyfingers.fi