Talking Cards: Learn to Talk — Privacy Policy

Who we are

Talking Cards is a communication app (a “talking picture board”) that helps children who find words hard — including children with speech delays, autism, or who are nonspeaking — by speaking words aloud when a picture card is tapped. It is published by Plapl Games.

Questions about this policy? Email support@plapl.app.

Information we collect

None. Talking Cards does not collect, store off your device, or share any personal information from anyone, including children. Specifically, the app does not collect:

• names, email addresses, phone numbers, or any contact details;
• location data;
• usage analytics, advertising identifiers, or device identifiers;
• any account or login information (there are no accounts).

Talking Cards can record audio on your device (see below), but those recordings are never sent to us or to anyone else.

Microphone and recordings

Three features can use the microphone, and each one only while you are actively using it:

• Family Voices — a parent records a family member saying a word, so a card can speak in a familiar voice;
• Say it back and Sing & Play — a child records themselves and hears it played straight back.

All of these recordings:

• are written only to the app's private storage on your device;
• are never uploaded, shared, or transmitted anywhere — there is no server to send them to;
• are excluded from cloud backups and device-to-device transfer;
• are deleted when you delete the voice, the card, or the app.

The microphone is used only while a recording control is active. The app asks for microphone permission the first time you use one of these features, and it works normally if you decline — you simply cannot record.

The app works offline

Talking Cards runs on your device. Building and speaking sentences, and everything your child does, works fully offline and is never sent anywhere. The app goes online for two things only, both started by a grown-up:

• App-store billing — used if a parent chooses the optional one-time purchase to unlock the full app. The app store you installed it from — Apple’s App Store, Google Play or the Amazon Appstore — handles the payment through its own purchase system; we receive no card details and no data about you.
• Counting a redeemed unlock code — on Android and Fire tablets only (the iPhone and iPad version has no unlock codes), if a parent enters a free unlock code (the kind we send to families and therapists on request), the app sends one anonymous message so we know that code was used. It contains the code's own identity and nothing else: no name, no email, no device identifier, no advertising identifier, no account, and nothing about your child or how the app is used. It is sent once, it is not retried beyond the next app start, and everything works normally if it fails.

There is no server of ours, no cloud storage, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind.

Photos on custom cards

A parent can optionally add a photo from the device to create a personal picture card. If you do:

• the photo is stored only in the app’s private storage on your device;
• it is never uploaded, shared, or transmitted anywhere;
• it is excluded from cloud backups and device-to-device transfer;
• it is permanently deleted from the device when you delete that card.

The app requests access to your photos only at the moment you choose to add one, using the system photo picker, and only for the photo you select.

Children’s privacy

Talking Cards is designed to be used by children and their families. Because the app collects no personal information from anyone, it complies with children’s privacy laws by design, including the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including its provisions for children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children because we do not collect personal information at all.

No third parties

Talking Cards contains no advertising and no analytics or tracking tools. The only outside code in the app is the purchase system of the store you installed it from — Apple’s, Google’s, or on Amazon Fire tablets the Amazon Appstore SDK — and the app uses it only to buy and restore the full version. We receive nothing from it about you or your child. Those purchase systems belong to the store companies and are covered by their own privacy policies; we cannot see or control what they report to their own company. We share nothing with, and sell nothing to, any third party — because we collect nothing.

Data security

Your child’s data never leaves your device. The only network use is the optional store purchase, which the app store you installed from secures and processes and from which we receive no personal data, and the anonymous unlock-code count described above. Any content you create (such as custom cards) is kept in the app’s private on-device storage.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, we will update this page and revise the “Last updated” date above. Because the app’s privacy-respecting design is core to what Talking Cards is, we expect any changes to be minor.

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Contact us

If you have any questions or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or the app, please contact us at support@plapl.app.