TinyFingers Paint: privacy policy
Effective:
This policy replaces the earlier version published at halfskypublishing.com.
This policy explains what information the TinyFingers Paint app (“the app”) handles and why. TinyFingers Paint is a finger-painting app for young children, made for adults and children to use together. It is published by Kim Asplund – TinyFingers, Vasaesplanaden 1 B 7, 65100 Vaasa, Finland (“we”, “us”), who is responsible for this policy, and is made for Android (Google Play), Windows (Microsoft Store), and iPhone, iPad and Mac (App Store).
In short: TinyFingers Paint collects no personal data, from children or from adults. It has no ads, no analytics, no accounts and no sign-in, and it works offline. Paintings and settings stay on your device. The optional one-time Full Version purchase is handled entirely by the store you buy it from: Google Play, the Microsoft Store or Apple’s App Store.
1. Data stored on your device
The app remembers the adults’ settings (ink fade time, brush size, background, sound, which side the crayons sit on, and whether the device lock starts automatically), how much of the 10 free minutes is left, and whether the Full Version is unlocked. This stays on your device, is never sent to us, and is deleted when you uninstall the app.
Paintings are not stored at all unless an adult saves one with “Save the picture” under “Fridge art” in the Parents menu. The picture is then saved to the device’s Pictures folder (Android), the Photos library (iPhone and iPad, where the app asks only for permission to add photos, not to see them), the TinyFingers folder in Pictures (Mac) or the Downloads folder (Windows), where only you can see it.
2. No ads, analytics or tracking
The app contains no advertising, no analytics or crash-reporting service, no social features, and no third-party software that collects data. It makes no network requests while your child paints.
3. Device lock
An adult can lock the device so 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 a Mac the app hides the Dock and the menu bar and turns off app switching and Force Quit while locked; 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 painted. Unlocking (and, on Android and Windows, closing the app) is in the Parents menu, behind the grown-up check.
4. Purchases
The app can be tried free for 10 minutes of painting. The Full Version is an optional one-time purchase through Google Play, the Microsoft Store or Apple’s App Store, which handle the payment and the receipt under their own privacy policies (Google, Microsoft, Apple). The purchase button is behind the grown-up 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.
5. Children
TinyFingers Paint is designed for young children. We do not collect personal information from anyone, including children, and the app has no way to contact the child or let the child share anything. Settings, purchases, the device lock, saving pictures and leaving the app are only reachable through a grown-up check that an adult must solve.
6. Your rights
We get no personal data about you or your child from the app, so there is nothing of that kind for us to access, correct or delete, and uninstalling the app removes everything it stored. If you write to us (privacy@tinyfingers.fi, or support@tinyfingers.fi for help with the app), 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.
7. Changes
If we change this policy we will update this page and the date above.
8. Contact
Kim Asplund – TinyFingers, Vasaesplanaden 1 B 7, 65100 Vaasa, Finland · privacy@tinyfingers.fi