Privacy policy
In short. My Little Story needs no account and no e-mail address. Children’s names and ages, their tastes, the stories read and kept, and the settings stay on your phone: we have no access to them. Only a few technical services receive information, described below: our content server (the stories), Google AdMob (the free version’s ads, configured for children), on Android Tals Ads (a banner for our other apps, on grown-ups’ screens only) and RevenueCat with the App Store or Google Play (purchases).
Who is responsible
Shadowlink Digital, publisher of the My Little Story app. Contact: shadowlinkdigital@gmail.com.
What stays on your phone
- children’s profiles: first name (or nickname), age, avatar;
- their tastes (story ratings, favourite themes) and the history of stories read;
- stories kept in the treasure box (text, pictures, narration), copied onto the phone;
- settings: reading mode, voice, music and volumes, bedtime reminder time;
- stories prepared in advance to be read offline.
This data is stored in the app’s storage. It is sent to no one. Uninstalling the app erases all of it; no copy exists anywhere else.
Stories: our content server
Stories, their pictures, their narration and the catalogue are downloaded from our content server (Cloudflare). These downloads carry no personal data: no name, age, tastes or identifier. Like any web server, it only receives the IP address and the technical details of the request, which it links to no one.
The phone’s voice
When a story has no recorded narration, the phone’s text-to-speech voice can read it. It is provided by the system (Apple or Google), according to your device settings.
Ads (free version)
The free version shows a banner on menu screens, a short announced video before a story and a video after the last page. Never while reading. They are provided by Google AdMob (Google Ireland Limited, for Europe).
Because the app is meant for children, every ad request is tagged “child-directed” (COPPA) and “under the age of consent” (GDPR), limited to content rated for general audiences (G), and asks only for non-personalised ads, chosen from context and never from a profile. The advertising ID is removed from the Android app, and the app does not ask for tracking permission on iPhone (App Tracking Transparency): Apple’s advertising identifier is never shared.
To show and count ads and to fight fraud, Google’s SDK receives technical information: IP address, device model and system, language, ad interactions (views, taps) and diagnostics. No data from the children’s profiles is shared with it. This processing is governed by Google’s policies.
There are no ads with the My Little Story + subscription or after the “No ads” purchase: the ad component is not even loaded.
Our other apps: Tals Ads (Android)
On Android, in the free version, the grown-ups’ screens (Settings and My Little Story +, opened only after the grown-ups’ question) may also show a Tals Ads banner, our in-house ad network, presenting our other apps. It never appears on a screen the child uses, never during a story, and never on iPhone.
It is loaded from Tals Ads’ servers (hosted by Netlify and Supabase), which receive the IP address, the device model and system, the language and the app’s name, and anonymously count the views and taps of each ad. No data about the children (name, age, tastes, stories) is shared with them; no cookies, no advertising ID. A tap on the ad goes through the grown-ups’ question again before the app’s Google Play page opens. Like AdMob ads, the banner disappears with the subscription or the “No ads” purchase.
Purchases
The My Little Story + subscription, the “No ads” purchase and the treasure box slots are paid through the App Store or Google Play: we never see your payment details. Purchases are verified by RevenueCat, which receives the store account’s purchase history, an anonymous identifier assigned by the app and technical information about the device, so it knows what was bought and can restore it. No data from the children’s profiles is shared with it.
Bedtime reminder
The reminder is a notification scheduled by the phone itself: no server sends it and no push token is created. Permission is only requested if a parent turns the reminder on.
What we don’t do
- No account, no sign-up, no e-mail address.
- No audience measurement or analytics tools of our own (only Tals Ads views and taps are counted, anonymously).
- No personalised ads, no cross-app tracking.
- No access to the microphone, camera, contacts or location. Nothing is ever recorded.
- No selling or renting of data.
Children
The app is designed to be used by children with their parents. Settings, purchases and outside links are protected by a grown-ups-only question. We do not knowingly collect any personal data from children: what concerns the child stays on the phone.
Your rights
As we hold no data about you, there is nothing to access, correct or delete on our side: uninstalling the app erases everything. For any question, or to exercise your rights with us (access, rectification, erasure, objection), write to shadowlinkdigital@gmail.com. You may also contact your data protection authority (in France, the CNIL: cnil.fr).
Changes
If the app changes the way it handles data, this page will be updated, with its date, before the new version.