penguin-academy

Privacy Policy — Penguin Academy

Effective date: August 17, 2026 Developer: Daniel Briggs Contact: briggs3d@gmail.com

Penguin Academy is an educational app for children ages 2–6. We built it the way we would want an app built for our own kids: no ads, no third-party trackers, no accounts, and no personal data collected by us. This policy explains exactly what the app does and does not do with information.

The short version

• We do not collect, store, or receive any personal information. We do not operate any servers that hold user data.
• Everything your child creates in the app — drawings, paintings, writing practice, name-writing history, star charts, game progress — is stored on your device.
• If you are signed in to iCloud, that same content also syncs through your own private iCloud account, so it is available on your other devices. It is stored in your iCloud, not on any server of ours, and we cannot see it. You can turn this off, and you can delete it.
• There are no ads and no third-party analytics or tracking of any kind.
• We never sell, share, or transmit personal information, because we never have it.

Information the app stores on your device

Penguin Academy saves the following locally on your device:

• Child profile information you choose to enter, such as a first name used for name-writing practice
• Artwork, coloring pages, and paintings your child creates
• Writing practice history and progress (letters, numbers, name writing)
• Star charts, rewards, and game progress

We (the developer) have no access to any of this. Deleting the app deletes this data from your device.

iCloud sync

Penguin Academy uses Apple’s CloudKit to sync your child’s content between your own devices, so a painting made on an iPad is waiting on the iPhone. This is what syncs:

• Child profiles, including any first name entered for writing practice
• Paintings, coloring pages, and artwork
• Name-writing and letter-writing history, and the alphabet posters generated from it
• Star charts and their rewards
• Game progress and unlocked items

Where it goes. Into the private database of your own iCloud account. Apple stores it under your Apple Account, subject to Apple’s Privacy Policy. It does not pass through, and is never stored on, any server operated by us.

What we can see. Nothing. The private database is not accessible to the developer of an app. We cannot read, export, or recover your child’s content, and we receive no reports about it.

What is not synced. Cached files, and settings that are meant to be specific to one device.

Your controls. In the app, behind the parental gate, under For Parents → Manage Profile Data, you can:

• Turn sync off. The app then keeps everything on the device and stops using iCloud.
• Delete all iCloud data. This removes the app’s data from your iCloud account. The setting that turns sync off is remembered, so another device will not simply re-upload it.

You can also sign out of iCloud, or disable iCloud for Penguin Academy in Settings → [your name] → iCloud, at any time.

Requirement. Sync only happens if you are signed in to iCloud. The app works fully without it.

Microphone

Penguin Academy does not use the microphone.

Photos

With your permission, the app can save images (such as your child’s writing posters and artwork) to your device’s photo library so you can keep and share them. The app uses Apple’s “add-only” photo access: it can add the images it creates, and it manages its own album, but it does not browse or collect your existing photos.

Internet access

The app may download app content (such as video files) from a content delivery network. Like any internet connection, this involves standard technical information (such as an IP address) being processed by the network provider to deliver the content. This is not used by us to identify or track anyone.

The app also connects to Apple’s iCloud and App Store services, as described above and below.

Notifications

The app registers for silent background notifications from Apple. These are used only to tell the app that new content is waiting in your iCloud, so sync stays current. No notification is ever shown to you or your child, and no notification content is sent by us.

Purchases

Penguin Academy offers optional subscriptions, handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Payment is processed by Apple; we never see your payment details. All purchase screens are protected by a parental gate so children cannot make purchases on their own.

Children’s privacy (COPPA)

Penguin Academy is designed for children, and we take that seriously:

• We do not collect personal information from children (or anyone else). Nothing your child creates is transmitted to us.
• Content synced through iCloud goes to the parent’s own iCloud account, under the parent’s control, and is not accessible to us.
• There are no ads, no behavioral tracking, and no third-party analytics.
• There are no social features, no chat, and no external links accessible to children without a parental gate.

Because we collect no personal information, there is no personal information for us to disclose, sell, or delete. To remove synced content, use Delete all iCloud data in For Parents, as described above.

Changes to this policy

If the app’s data practices ever change, we will update this policy and change the effective date above before those changes take effect.

Contact

Questions? Email briggs3d@gmail.com.