★ The fine print
Privacy Policy.
Straight talk.
PointsPop is built for kids. So we keep data collection boring on purpose. Here's what's actually going on.
Last updated: November 2025
What we don't collect
- No accounts, no logins, no passwords.
- No child names, photos, or profile data ever leave your device.
- No tracking pixels, no advertising IDs, no third-party analytics SDKs.
- No location data, contacts, calendar access, or microphone recordings stored anywhere outside the app.
- No data sold or shared with marketers. Ever.
What stays on your device
Everything your kid creates and answers lives locally on the iPad or iPhone. Specifically:
- Player profiles — names you choose, grade levels, avatars (emoji or photos), and daily goals. Stored in the app's local storage.
- Profile photos — if you pick a photo from your library or take one with the camera for a player avatar, that photo is saved only inside the app on your device. We never upload it.
- Practice history — which questions were answered, when, right vs. wrong. Lives in the app for the parent dashboard.
- Dispenser pairing info — the Bluetooth identifier of any dispenser you've used and a per-device card count.
iOS asks before any of this. When the app first uses the microphone (for read-aloud), camera or photos (for avatars), or Bluetooth (for the dispenser), iOS shows a permission prompt. You can deny any of them and the rest of the app keeps working.
Bluetooth — only for the dispenser
The app uses Bluetooth Low Energy for one purpose: sending a "dispense" command to the PointsPop card dispenser when your kid earns a card. We don't scan for, log, or interact with any other Bluetooth devices on your network. The pairing data we store is a single anonymous device identifier and a count of how many cards that dispenser has popped out. That's it.
Microphone and speech recognition
For the read-aloud exercises, the app uses the iPad/iPhone's built-in speech recognition to check whether your kid pronounced a word correctly. Audio is processed by Apple's on-device speech engine and is not recorded, saved, or transmitted by PointsPop. Apple's own speech-recognition privacy terms apply at that layer.
Camera and photo library
The only reason the app touches the camera or photo library is to set a player profile avatar. The image you pick is cropped and saved locally inside the app's storage. It is never uploaded, copied off-device, or shared with anyone. Removing the avatar (or deleting the player profile) deletes the local file.
The one exception: feedback you choose to send
The Parents section has a "Send Feedback" form. Nothing is sent until you fill out the form and tap Submit. When you do tap Submit, the form contents are sent over HTTPS to a third-party form-relay service (Web3Forms), which forwards the message as an email to the developer. The form includes:
- Your star ratings and any free-text comments you wrote.
- Optional and on by default — you can switch this off in the form: anonymous usage statistics. Total time in the app, number of sessions, which question packs are used most, the grade levels you've set up, daily goals, how many cards the dispenser has popped, and the model of device you're using.
The feedback email contains no child names, no profile photos, no individual question answers, and no information that could identify your kid. It's aggregate counts only, even when you leave the usage-stats toggle on.
Web3Forms acts as the email transport. We do not retain your feedback on any server we run; the message lives only in the developer's email inbox after it's sent. Web3Forms' own privacy policy is available at web3forms.com/privacy.
Children's privacy (COPPA)
PointsPop is designed for use by children with a parent or guardian setting it up. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from any child. Profile names and avatars set up inside the app stay on your device and are not transmitted to us. Because the app collects nothing about your kid that ever leaves the device, there is no online behavioral tracking, advertising, or third-party data sharing that would fall under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) or similar regulations.
Your choices
- Don't want to send usage stats with your feedback? Switch off the "Include app usage stats" toggle before tapping Submit. The form will send only your ratings and text.
- Don't want to send feedback at all? Don't open the form. Nothing else in the app makes a network request.
- Want to delete everything? Delete the app. All on-device data — profiles, photos, practice history, dispenser pairings — goes with it.
Changes to this policy
If we ever change what data the app collects or where it sends it, we'll update this page and bump the "Last updated" date at the top. Material changes will also be flagged inside the app.
Questions?
If something here isn't clear, or you want to know exactly what's on your device, send a note to contact@sailvisionpro.com. We read every message.