Privacy Policy — Kids Explore

Application: Kids Explore (com.kidsexplore.app)
Last updated: 26 August 2026

The short version. Kids Explore collects nothing. It has no internet access, shows no advertisements, contains no analytics, and asks for no personal information from anyone — child or adult. There is no account to create and nothing to log in to.

What the app collects

Nothing.

Kids Explore does not collect, transmit, sell or share any personal information. It cannot: the app declares no INTERNET permission and contains no networking code of any kind, so there is nowhere for information to be sent, and no server of ours for it to be sent to. Every photograph the app shows is packaged inside the app itself and is displayed from the device.

The only permission in the installed app is com.kidsexplore.app.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION. It is a signature-level Android permission contributed automatically by a standard Android support library, it grants no access to anything on the device, and it involves no data at all. The app requests no camera, microphone, location, contacts, storage, or advertising identifier.

What the app stores on your device

Two things, in the app's own private storage, readable only by the app:

Which picture categories are switched on. Up to fourteen short category identifiers, chosen by an adult in Parent Settings.
The parental gate's state. A count of recent wrong answers and the time the resulting short lockout ends. These exist only so that repeatedly guessing at the gate is slowed down.

The chosen language is stored the same way, by the standard Android component that handles per-app language settings.

None of this is personal information, and none of it leaves the device except as described in the next section. Uninstalling the app deletes all of it.

Backup

Android's built-in Auto Backup may copy the app's settings file — the category identifiers and the two parental-gate numbers listed above — to the backup associated with your own Google account, if you have device backup enabled. This is a feature of the Android operating system, not of this app. That backup belongs to you, is governed by Google's privacy policy, and the developer of Kids Explore has no access to it and cannot read it. Turning device backup off in your Android settings stops it.

Advertising, analytics and third parties

No advertisements. The app shows none, of any kind.
No analytics or crash reporting. No usage data, no events, no identifiers, no crash reports are gathered or sent.
No third-party SDKs that collect data. The app is built only on Google's standard Android and Jetpack libraries, none of which are used here to gather or transmit anything.
No data sharing or sale. There is no data to share or sell.
No in-app purchases.

Children's privacy

Kids Explore is designed for children and is part of Google Play's Families programme. Because the app collects no data whatsoever, it collects no data from children either.

COPPA (United States). No personal information is collected from anyone, including children under 13, so there is nothing for which verifiable parental consent would be required and nothing held that a parent could ask to review or delete. There is no way for a child to communicate with anyone through this app, and nothing in it is transmitted anywhere.
GDPR and GDPR-K (EU/EEA and UK). No personal data as defined by the GDPR is collected or processed, so there is no processing to hold a lawful basis for, no profiling, and no data subject rights request that could be answered with anything other than "we hold nothing about you". The app does not track users across apps or websites.
Outbound links. The single link out of the app — the one that opened this document — is placed inside Parent Settings, behind a parental gate that a child is not expected to pass.

Data deletion

There is no account to delete and no server-side data to erase, because none is ever created. Uninstalling Kids Explore removes everything it stored on the device. To remove the operating system's backup copy described above, turn off or clear device backup in your Android settings.

Changes to this policy

If the app ever changes in a way that affects this policy, this document will be updated and the "Last updated" date at the top changed. The version that applies to the copy of the app you have is the one shown in Parent Settings, inside the app itself; the same document is also published on the web for Google Play.

Contact

Questions about this policy: open an issue at github.com/ivancesar/kid-android-image-app/issues.