PhonicQuest — Privacy Policy

Effective date: 16 September 2026

Last updated: 16 September 2026

PhonicQuest is an independent educational app for early readers, published by Michael Fackerell.

Contact: [email protected]

This is the address to use for any privacy question, data request, or complaint.

Summary

PhonicQuest does not collect, transmit, or share any personal information about you or your child. There is no account, no sign-up, and no server. The app does not request the Android internet permission at all, which means it is technically incapable of sending your data anywhere.

What we collect

Nothing.

We do not collect, store on a server, transmit, sell, rent, or share any personal information. Specifically, we do not collect:

• Names, email addresses, or any contact details
• Account credentials, because there are no accounts
• Location data of any kind
• Device identifiers — no advertising ID, IMEI, Android ID, or MAC address
• Usage analytics, crash reports, or telemetry
• Photos, audio recordings, or files
• Payment information, because there are no purchases

What is stored on your device

The app saves your child's learning progress on your device only:

• Child profile names and chosen avatars, as you enter them
• Word mastery progress, level stars, and session history
• In-game coins and unlocked cosmetic items
• App preferences, such as the selected quest length

This information is written to the app's private storage on your device. It is never uploaded. There is no server for it to be uploaded to, and the app holds no internet permission.

Internet access

PhonicQuest works entirely offline. All curriculum content, all 1,658 audio clips, and the 3D phonics world are bundled inside the app. The app declares no Android permissions at all — not even internet access. It therefore cannot transmit data, even in principle.

Third parties

There are none. The app contains:

• No advertising networks
• No analytics or attribution services
• No crash-reporting services
• No social media integrations
• No payment processors, because it has no in-app purchases

We do not sell or share data with anyone, because we never have any data to sell or share.

Children's privacy

PhonicQuest is designed for children aged roughly 4 to 8, and we treat children's privacy as the whole point of the design rather than a compliance afterthought.

We comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the United States, the GDPR provisions on children's data in the European Union and the United Kingdom, and Google Play's Families policy. Because we collect no personal information from anyone of any age, there is no children's data for us to hold, delete, or misuse.

If you believe we hold any information about your child, please contact us at the address above — we would want to know, because by design we should not.

Your rights

Data protection laws such as the GDPR and CCPA give you rights to access, correct, delete, and port your personal data, and to object to its processing. Because we hold no personal data about you, there is nothing for us to retrieve, amend, or erase. You retain full control locally:

• To erase all progress, clear the app's storage in Android settings, under Apps,

then PhonicQuest, then Storage, then Clear storage; or simply uninstall the app

• To remove an individual child profile, use the profile management controls inside

the app

• To export progress, use the profile export function inside the app

Security

Since no data leaves your device, the security of your child's information depends only on the security of your device. The app requests no permissions, opens no network connections, and stores progress in its own private storage area, which Android isolates from other apps.

Changes to this policy

If we ever add a feature that changes any of the above — for example, optional cloud sync of progress — we will update this policy, change the effective date above, and describe the change in the app's release notes before that version ships. We will not begin collecting data under a policy that says we do not.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about your child's privacy:

[email protected]

Open Source Licences

PhonicQuest is built with the third-party components listed below. We are grateful to their authors.

The complete licence texts also ship inside the app, in the vendor/licenses/ folder, alongside the files they cover.

three.js

MIT Licence — used for the PhonicsCraft 3D world.

Copyright (c) 2010-2021 three.js authors

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2010-2021 three.js authors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Fredoka

SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 — used for headings and buttons.

Copyright 2016 The Fredoka Project Authors (https://github.com/hafontia/Fredoka-One)

Quicksand

SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 — used for body text.

Copyright 2011 The Quicksand Project Authors (https://github.com/andrew-paglinawan/QuicksandFamily), with Reserved Font Name “Quicksand”.

SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1

Both fonts above are distributed under the following licence.

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SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007
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PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide
development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation
efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and
open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership
with others.

The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and
redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The
fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, 
redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved
names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives,
however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The
requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply
to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.

DEFINITIONS
"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright
Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may
include source files, build scripts and documentation.

"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the
copyright statement(s).

"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as
distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).

"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting,
or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the
Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a
new environment.

"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical
writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.

PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify,
redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font
Software, subject to the following conditions:

1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components,
in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.

2) Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled,
redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy
contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be
included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or
in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or
binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.

3) No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font
Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding
Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as
presented to the users.

4) The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font
Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any
Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the
Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written
permission.

5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be
distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to
remain under this license does not apply to any document created
using the Font Software.

TERMINATION
This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are
not met.

DISCLAIMER
THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT
OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

Android libraries

The app also bundles open-source Android libraries, principally AndroidX (Apache License 2.0) and Capacitor (MIT License). Their notices are carried in the application binary in the usual way.