Privacy Policy

The short version

• No accounts and no sign-in.
• No ads, no analytics, no tracking and no third-party SDKs.
• No in-app purchases.
• We collect no personal information from children or parents. We never sell or share data, because we never receive it.
• Nothing leaves the iPad, except optional iCloud sync to your family's own Apple Account if a parent turns it on.

What stays on the iPad

Hatchling keeps everything in the app's own storage on your iPad:

• Child profiles: the first name or nickname a parent types, and the dino your child chose.
• Progress in games, letters, numbers and adventures.
• Drawings and paintings.
• Voice recordings a parent makes.
• Settings, timers and the parent code.

None of this is sent to us. A parent can erase a child's progress and recordings, or erase everything, in the parent corner. Deleting the app also deletes this data from the iPad. If you back up your iPad (for example with iCloud Backup), a copy may stay in your own backups until you remove them.

iCloud sync (optional)

A parent can choose to sync progress between the family's devices. When this is on, progress is saved to Apple's iCloud key-value storage under the parent's own Apple Account. Apple handles this under Apple's Privacy Policy. We cannot see it, and it never passes through any server of ours. Hatchling works fully without it.

Camera and microphone

Hatchling asks for these only when a feature needs them.

• Camera. Your child shows the dino something they found. The camera looks only while a find is being checked. The pictures are checked on the iPad and are never recorded, saved or sent.
• Microphone. A parent records the child's name and a few loving lines. Recordings stay on this iPad. Your child's name is only ever heard in your own recorded voice.

You can turn either permission off at any time in the iPad Settings app. The rest of Hatchling keeps working.

Photos

If a grown-up picks a photo to turn into a colouring page, the picture is used only on this iPad. Hatchling sees only the photo that was picked, not your library, and never sends it anywhere.

Links out and the grown-up hold

Children never see a link that leaves the app. All links out (our studio, our other apps, the parents' WhatsApp group, GitHub Sponsors and email) are only in the parent corner, behind a grown-up press-and-hold gate. Those websites and apps have their own privacy policies.

Children's privacy

Hatchling is built for young children, with the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the GDPR's rules for children and the UK Age Appropriate Design Code in mind.

• We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Hatchling sends nothing to us.
• Because we collect nothing, there is nothing on our side for a parent to review or delete. Parents can delete everything on the iPad from the parent corner, or by deleting the app.
• If you believe your child has sent us information, for example by email, contact us and we will delete it.

This website

This site is hosted by Cloudflare, which may keep standard server logs (such as IP address and browser type) for security. We don't use cookies, analytics or trackers here. The support form and email deliver to us only what you type.

If you contact us

The app sends us nothing. If you choose to write to us, through our Support page or by email, we receive only what you send: your message, and your name, email address and device details if you add them. We use it only to answer you, keep it no longer than we need to, and never sell or share it. To have a message deleted, just ask.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date above. Hatchling is published by One Energy Together. Questions: 1energytogether@gmail.com