Spelling Bee privacy policy

Information we collect

We do not collect any personal information. Spelling Bee has no account or sign-up, and nothing you do in it is sent to us or to anyone else. It does not ask for your email address, location, contacts, photos or camera, and it does not use the advertising ID.

Information kept on your device

To remember your choices, Spelling Bee saves the following in its own storage on your device:

• Learner profiles: name or nickname and picture.
• Word lists you create, and each learner’s progress.
• Settings: sound effects, slow speech and vibration.
• Voice recordings a grown-up makes in “Parent’s voice” (never included in backups).

This information is never sent to us. You can delete it at any time by clearing the app’s storage in Android Settings or by uninstalling the app.

If Android backup is on, Android may include this app data in your device backup to your Google account. That backup is handled by Google under your account settings and Google’s privacy policy; we have no access to it.

Learner profiles

You can add learners with a first name or nickname and a picture chosen from the app. Spelling Bee keeps them on the device only, to keep each learner’s progress apart. We never receive them. Using a nickname is fine.

Microphone and voice recordings

In the grown-ups area, “Parent’s voice” lets a parent or teacher record words in their own voice, so the child hears a familiar voice. The microphone is used only from tapping Record until you tap Stop or the recording stops by itself after 4 seconds, and only after you allow microphone access when Android asks.

Recordings are stored only inside the app on your device and are left out of Android backups. Recordings are never uploaded or sent to us or anyone else. You can redo or delete each one, or delete all of them, in “Parent’s voice”; uninstalling the app deletes them too.

Speech (text-to-speech)

Spelling Bee reads words aloud with the text-to-speech engine installed on your device. Spelling Bee does not send that text anywhere. How the speech engine itself works is up to its provider (on most phones, Google) and its own terms.

Printing

Worksheets and certificates are printed through Android’s print service only when you choose to print them.

Android permissions

• android.permission.INTERNET: Required by the web view the app is built on. The app loads only files bundled inside it and sends nothing off your device; links you tap open in your browser or Google Play.
• android.permission.VIBRATE: Short vibrations as feedback when you tap.
• android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO: Recording words for “Parent’s voice”, only when a grown-up taps Record.
• android.permission.MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS: Needed by Android’s web view to record from the microphone for “Parent’s voice”.

Android also adds com.icode24.spelling.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION. It lets parts of the app talk only to each other, and gives no access to your data.

Internet and links

Spelling Bee sends nothing off your device: its words, sounds and pictures are bundled inside the app. It contains links that open outside it only when you tap them:

• Google Play pages of our other apps.
• “Buy me a coffee” (buymeacoffee.com), for voluntary support.
• Our website, icode24.com.
• An email link, which opens your own email app.

Those websites and apps have their own privacy policies, which apply once you open them.

Advertising and analytics

Spelling Bee shows no ads and contains no advertising, analytics, crash-reporting or tracking code. No data about you or your device is shared with third parties.

Children’s privacy

Spelling Bee is made for children. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children, shows no ads and has no chat or social features.

Because nothing is collected, the app does not collect personal information from children under 13 as defined by the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), or from children under the age of digital consent set by the GDPR in your country. Parents can contact us at any time with questions.

Security and data retention

We hold no data about you, so there is nothing on our side to lose, keep or delete. What the app saves is protected by Android’s app sandbox and is removed when you clear the app’s storage or uninstall it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR or the CCPA), you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data. As we hold none, you control all of it on your device. You can still contact us with any privacy question.

Changes to this policy

If the app’s data practices change, we will update this page and its effective date before the change takes effect.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@icode24.com

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