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: