🛡️ Privacy Policy
App Name: StorySpark
Developer: Vexora Labs
Last Updated: December 17, 2024
Effective Date: December 17, 2024
📱 Introduction
Welcome to StorySpark!
StorySpark is a personalized storytelling application designed for parents and guardians of children aged 4-12 years. Our app helps parents create magical, AI-generated stories tailored to their children’s interests and needs.
Important: This app is operated by parents/guardians (18+) on behalf of their children. Children do not directly interact with the app. Parents maintain full control over all content and data.
👨‍👩‍👧 Target Audience
- Primary Users: Parents and Guardians (18 years and older)
- Content Suitable For: Children aged 4-12 years
- App Operation: Parents operate all features and controls
- Supervision: Parental supervision required at all times
- Content Creation: Parents create and manage all story content
Local Storage Only (Device-Based)
All personal information is stored exclusively on your device. We do NOT collect, transmit, or store any of this data on our servers:
- Child Profile Information:
- Child’s first name
- Child’s age (4-12 years)
- Child’s gender (for pronoun usage in stories)
- Story Data:
- Story preferences (interests, types, lessons)
- Generated AI stories
- Saved favorite stories
- Story ratings
- App Settings:
- Theme preferences (light/dark mode)
- App usage preferences
Privacy Guarantee: All this data remains on your device. We have NO access to it. We do NOT upload it to any servers. Only you control this information.
Data We Do NOT Collect
We explicitly do NOT collect, store, or transmit:
❌ Parent or guardian email addresses
❌ Phone numbers
❌ Physical addresses
❌ Location data (GPS)
❌ Photos or media files
❌ Device contacts
❌ Social media information
❌ Payment or credit card information
❌ User accounts or passwords
❌ Persistent device identifiers (except as noted in Third-Party Services)
❌ Behavioral tracking data
❌ Personal identification documents
🤖 Third-Party Services
We use the following third-party services to provide app functionality:
1. AI Story Generation (Replicate)
Purpose: To generate personalized, creative stories using artificial intelligence.
What We Send:
- Child’s age (number only: 4-12)
- Child’s gender (for correct pronoun usage: he/him or she/her)
- Story preferences (interest, story type, lesson/value)
- Example: “Generate an adventure story about dinosaurs teaching courage for a 6-year-old boy”
What We Do NOT Send:
- Child’s name
- Child’s profile picture
- Location information
- Any personally identifiable information
How It Works:
- Each story request is completely anonymous
- No data is stored or retained by Replicate
- No connection between requests
- No user profiles created
- Stories are generated in real-time and delivered immediately
Privacy Policy: https://replicate.com/privacy
2. Advertising (Unity Ads)
Purpose: To display rewarded video advertisements that unlock story generation features.
How It Works:
- Parents choose when to watch advertisements
- Advertisements are shown only with explicit parent consent
- One free story per day; additional stories require watching a short video ad
- All ads are COPPA-compliant and family-friendly
What Unity Ads May Collect:
- Device type and model
- Operating system version
- IP address (for ad delivery)
- Ad interaction data (views, clicks)
- Anonymous device identifiers (for ad attribution)
What Unity Ads Does NOT Collect:
- Child’s name, age, or personal information
- Location beyond country-level (for ad serving)
- Camera or microphone access
- Contact information
COPPA Compliance: Unity Ads is fully compliant with COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) and serves only child-safe, family-appropriate advertisements.
Privacy Policy: https://unity.com/legal/privacy-policy
We use the collected information solely for the following purposes:
- Story Generation:
- Create personalized, age-appropriate stories
- Ensure correct pronoun usage (he/him or she/her)
- Match content to selected interests and lessons
- Local Storage:
- Save child profiles on your device
- Store generated stories for later reading
- Remember your app preferences and settings
- App Functionality:
- Track daily story generation limits (20 stories per day)
- Provide one free story per day
- Display rewarded advertisements for additional stories
- User Experience:
- Maintain dark/light theme preferences
- Remember saved stories and favorites
We Do NOT:
- Sell or rent your data to anyone
- Share data with third parties (except AI generation and ads as described)
- Use data for marketing or promotional purposes
- Track your behavior across other apps or websites
- Create advertising profiles
- Send promotional emails or notifications
đź”’ Data Security
We take data security seriously:
Device-Level Security:
- All personal data stored locally using industry-standard encryption
- Data protected by your device’s security features
- No cloud storage or remote servers
Network Security:
- AI API requests use HTTPS encryption (SSL/TLS)
- No personal identifiers transmitted
- Anonymous, one-time requests only
Access Control:
- Only you have access to your device’s data
- We cannot access, view, or retrieve your local data
- No remote access or backdoors
🗑️ Data Deletion
You have complete control over all data. To delete your information:
Option 1: Delete Within App
- Go to Profile → My Children
- Delete individual child profiles
- Deleted data is immediately removed from device storage
Option 2: Clear App Data
- Android: Settings → Apps → StorySpark → Storage → Clear Data
- iOS: Settings → General → iPhone Storage → StorySpark → Delete App
Option 3: Uninstall App
- Uninstalling the app permanently deletes all stored data from your device
What Happens When You Delete:
- All child profiles removed
- All generated stories deleted
- All saved stories removed
- All preferences reset
- Data is permanently and irrecoverably deleted
- No data remains on any servers (because none was uploaded)
👶 Children’s Privacy (COPPA Compliance)
We are committed to protecting children’s privacy and comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Key Points:
- App Operation:
- Operated by parents/guardians (18+)
- Children do NOT directly use the app
- Parents create all profiles and content
- Data Collection:
- We do NOT knowingly collect personal information from children under 13
- All data entry is performed by parents
- All data stored locally on parent’s device
- No Child Accounts:
- No user accounts or registrations
- No login credentials
- No child-accessible features
- Parental Control:
- Parents control ALL app features
- Parents create and manage child profiles
- Parents choose when to generate stories
- Parents decide when to watch advertisements
- Advertising:
- All advertisements are COPPA-compliant
- Family-friendly content only
- Parents control when ads are displayed
- No targeted advertising to children
Parental Rights:
- Review all data (stored locally on device)
- Delete child profiles at any time
- Control all app usage and features
- Contact us with privacy questions
đź‘Ş Parental Control & Responsibility
Parents and guardians have complete control over:
âś… Creating and editing child profiles
âś… Generating and reading stories
âś… Saving and deleting stories
âś… Choosing story preferences
âś… Deciding when to watch advertisements
âś… Managing daily story limits
âś… Deleting all app data
âś… Supervising all app usage
Important: Parents are responsible for:
- Supervising children while using content from this app
- Ensuring age-appropriate story selection
- Monitoring screen time
- Reviewing generated story content
🌍 International Users & Compliance
This Privacy Policy applies to users worldwide. We comply with major international privacy regulations including:
United States:
- COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act)
- FTC regulations for apps directed to children
- CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act)
European Union:
- GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
- Right to access, rectify, and delete data
- Data minimization and purpose limitation
- Privacy by design principles
United Kingdom:
- UK GDPR
- Data Protection Act 2018
- ICO guidelines for children’s apps
Other Regions:
- PIPEDA (Canada)
- Privacy Act (Australia)
- LGPD (Brazil)
- POPIA (South Africa)
- Local privacy laws in your jurisdiction
Your Rights Under International Law:
- Right to access your data (stored on your device)
- Right to delete your data (at any time)
- Right to data portability (export your data)
- Right to object to data processing
- Right to withdraw consent
- Right to be informed about data practices
đź“ť App Features & Limits
Daily Story Generation:
- First story each day: Free (no advertisement required)
- Stories 2-20: Require watching a short rewarded video ad
- Maximum 20 AI-generated stories per day
- Limit resets at midnight (local time)
Template Stories:
- 15 pre-made stories available
- Free to read anytime
- No advertisements required
- No daily limits
Child Profiles:
- Maximum 2 child profiles per device
- Profiles stored locally only
Saved Stories:
- Maximum 50 stories can be saved
- Stored locally on device
🔄 Updates to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect:
- Changes in app features
- Changes in legal requirements
- Improvements to our privacy practices
When We Update:
- Updated “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy
- Policy posted at the same URL
- Material changes will be highlighted
Your Responsibility:
- Review this policy periodically
- Check the “Last Updated” date
- Contact us with questions
Continued Use:
- Continued use of the app after changes constitutes acceptance of updated policy
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us:
Email: vexoralabs@gmail.com
Developer: Vexora Labs
App Name: StorySpark
We Will Respond To:
- Privacy questions and concerns
- Data deletion requests
- COPPA-related inquiries
- GDPR data subject requests
- General feedback
- Bug reports related to privacy
Response Time: We aim to respond within 48-72 hours.
⚖️ Legal
Governing Law: This Privacy Policy is governed by and construed in accordance with international data protection standards and the laws applicable in your jurisdiction.
Dispute Resolution: Any disputes arising from this Privacy Policy will be resolved through good faith negotiation. If resolution cannot be reached, disputes will be subject to the laws of your local jurisdiction.
Severability: If any provision of this policy is found to be unenforceable or invalid, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
No Waiver: Our failure to enforce any right or provision in this policy shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
Language: This Privacy Policy is provided in English. In case of any discrepancy between translated versions, the English version shall prevail.
âś… Summary
In Simple Terms:
- âś… StorySpark is for parents (18+) to create stories for their children (4-12)
- âś… All personal data stays on your device - we never upload it
- âś… We use AI (Replicate) to generate stories anonymously
- âś… We show family-friendly ads (Unity Ads) to unlock features
- âś… You control everything - create, save, and delete anytime
- âś… We comply with COPPA, GDPR, and all international privacy laws
- âś… No tracking, no selling data, no marketing
- ✅ Your privacy and your children’s safety are our top priorities
🛡️ Our Commitment
We are committed to:
- Transparency: Being clear about what data we collect and how we use it
- Privacy: Keeping your data on your device, never on our servers
- Safety: Ensuring all content is age-appropriate and family-friendly
- Compliance: Following all applicable privacy laws and regulations worldwide
- Control: Giving you complete control over your data
- Respect: Treating your privacy with the utmost respect
Thank you for trusting StorySpark with your family’s storytelling experience!
This Privacy Policy was last updated on December 17, 2024.
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