Letterling

Effective 18 October 2026

Privacy Policy

The rest of this page explains that in more detail, because Letterling is made for children and a parent deserves specifics rather than reassurance.

What Letterling stores, and where

Letterling keeps the following on the device, in the app's own storage, and nowhere else:

• A child's first name, as typed in by whoever set the app up. It is used to greet the child and to give them their own name as a first word to write.
• Their progress — stickers earned, words finished, letters written and the scores on them.
• Their settings — which handwriting style they use, letter shapes they prefer, the size of the writing area, any daily time limit, and the parent lock.

This information is written to the device's local app storage by the app itself. It is not uploaded, synchronised, backed up to us, or transmitted anywhere, because there is nowhere for it to go: Letterling contains no code that makes a network request.

What Letterling does not do

• No accounts, sign-ins, email addresses or passwords.
• No analytics, crash reporting, usage measurement or telemetry.
• No advertising of any kind, and no advertising identifiers.
• No third-party SDKs, trackers, social media components or embedded web content.
• No location, contacts, microphone, camera or health data.
• No links out of the app to other websites or stores.
• No purchases, in-app or otherwise.

Children

Letterling is designed for children, including children under 13. It complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the simplest possible way: it collects no personal information from children, so there is none to use, share, sell or disclose, and no parental consent mechanism is required for data collection that does not occur.

A child's first name is entered on the device by a parent or carer during setup. It stays in the app on that device. It is not personal information collected by us, because it is never sent to us or to anyone else.

Letterling places a parent gate in front of its settings, so that a child cannot change their own limits, erase their progress or alter another child's.

Permissions the app may ask for

Letterling asks for one device permission, and only when a parent chooses to use the feature it belongs to:

• Saving a picture to Photos. At the end of a session a parent can save an image of what their child wrote. Doing so asks iOS for permission to add to the photo library. Letterling can add pictures; it cannot read the photo library, and does not try to.

Spoken instructions use the voice already installed on the device. No recording takes place and no audio leaves the device.

Transfer codes

Letterling can produce a short code that carries one child's progress to another device, so a family moving from an iPad to an iPhone does not start again. That code is generated on the device, shown on the screen, and typed in by hand on the other device by the parent. It is not sent through us and it does not travel over a network unless a parent chooses to send it somewhere themselves.

Deleting everything

Two ways, both complete and both immediate:

• Inside the app — Settings (behind the parent lock) → Start over, which erases a child's progress and settings.
• Delete the app from the device. iOS removes the app's storage with it, and everything described above goes.

There is no copy anywhere else, so there is nothing left for us to delete and no request to make of us.

Changes to this policy

If Letterling ever changes in a way that affects this policy, the policy will be updated here and the effective date at the top will change. Any change that introduced data collection would be announced plainly on this page and in the app's release notes, not buried.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything else, go to hello@letterling.app and reach a person.