Privacy Policy

WordQuest: Spelling Adventure ("WordQuest", "the app") is made for children. This policy explains, in plain words, what the app does with information. The short version: it collects no personal information.

What the app collects

Nothing. WordQuest does not ask for a name, an email address, a photo, a location, or any other personal information, from a child or from a parent. There is no account to create and no sign-in.

A few anonymous counts

From version 1.0.4, the first time WordQuest is opened on a new iPhone or iPad, the app sends a single message to wordquestland.com saying that a new player has started.

From version 1.0.7, a new install also sends a few one-off anonymous markers, each at most once: when a quest is first begun, when the first and second quests are passed, when the unlock screen is reached, and when the adventure is unlocked. If a grown-up chooses to answer the short welcome questions on first open (who is there, where the child will play, how they find spelling and, from version 1.0.8, how you heard about WordQuest), each answer is sent the same way.

Every one of these messages says only what happened, which version of the app it is and whether it is an iPhone or an iPad. None carries a name, an identifier for the device or the child, or anything else about your child. We keep them only as anonymous counts, to learn how far new players get and where the game needs to be easier to start. Players who already had WordQuest before version 1.0.7 send none of these.

What stays on the device

Your child's progress (which part of the story they have reached, quests completed, Spelling Ranks earned) and the settings you choose (narration, sound effects, music, ambient sound) are saved only on the iPhone or iPad, in the app's own storage. They never leave the device. Deleting the app deletes them.

What the app does not do

• No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
• No analytics or tracking software, and nothing that identifies your child or your device.
• No third-party software development kits.
• No chat, messaging, social features or user-generated content.
• No camera, microphone, contacts or location access.
• No links out of the app that a child can follow.

Purchases

The first quests of WordQuest are free. The whole adventure is unlocked with one purchase made through Apple's App Store. Apple handles the payment; WordQuest never sees your card details or your Apple ID. Apple's own privacy policy covers that transaction. Purchases are placed behind a parental gate so a child cannot make one alone.

Children's privacy

WordQuest is designed to comply with the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, the EU GDPR and the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by the simplest possible route: it collects no personal information from anyone. Because nothing is collected, there is nothing to access, correct or delete, and nothing is shared with anyone.

The website

wordquestland.com sets no cookies of its own and runs no analytics or advertising tags.

The free web demo at wordquestland.com/try lets a child play the first three quests in a browser. It saves progress only in that browser and sends the same anonymous markers described above, filed separately as web plays. It asks nothing of the child.

After the free quests, a grown-up (past a short grown-up check) can choose to leave an email address to hear when WordQuest works on computers. We use that address once, for that message, and then delete it. It is kept privately by our web host, is never shared or used for anything else, and you can ask us to delete it sooner using the contact details below.

Changes to this policy

If the app ever changes what it does with information, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change. Any change that involved collecting personal information would require a new version of the app and a fresh review by Apple.

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