KiddockPrivacy Policy
1. Scope
This Privacy Policy covers the Kiddock app for Android (the "App") and the kiddock.byersoy.com website. The App is designed to let parents safely share their device with their children and offers content for children aged 2–7. The App is installed and managed by a parent.
2. Data we collect
Kiddock does not collect, store or share any personal data. It does not ask for or read names, email addresses, phone numbers, location, photos, contacts, device identifiers or advertising IDs. The App contains no accounts, sign-up, ads, in-app purchases, analytics, crash reporting or tracking tools. A child's activity in the App (drawings, game results, etc.) is never sent anywhere or recorded.
3. Information stored only on your device
To work, the App keeps the following information only on your device, in the App's private storage. It is never sent to us or to third parties:
| Information | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Parent PIN (as a salted SHA-256 hash; the PIN itself is not stored) | Protecting exit from kids mode |
| Recovery code (as a salted hash) | Setting a new PIN if it is forgotten |
| Kids mode state, selected language, wrong-PIN wait time | App settings |
| YouTube video links and titles added by the parent | Showing the Video Time list |
All of this information is deleted from the device when the App is uninstalled or when "Clear data" is chosen in the phone settings.
4. Video Time and YouTube
Video Time only shows videos added by a parent. When a parent adds a video and when a video is watched, the App connects directly to YouTube (Google) servers to fetch the video's title, thumbnail and the video itself. Videos are played with YouTube's official embedded player via the privacy-enhanced youtube-nocookie.com domain. During these connections YouTube may process technical information such as your IP address under its own policies: Google Privacy Policy and YouTube Terms of Service.
Kiddock does not send any data to its own servers (Kiddock has no servers). Links leading out of the player (YouTube logo, suggested videos, etc.) are blocked by the App. Parents who don't add videos don't need to use this section at all; in that case the App does not connect to the internet.
5. Read-aloud
Letters, numbers and animal names are spoken by your device's own Text-to-Speech service. Kiddock only passes the short word to be spoken (e.g. "Well done!"); it does not record audio and does not use the microphone.
6. Permissions
| Permission / feature | Why it is used |
|---|---|
| Internet | Only for YouTube videos, titles and thumbnails added by the parent. |
| Reorder tasks (REORDER_TASKS) | To bring Kiddock back to the front when a child tries to leave. |
| Screen pinning | To pin the device to Kiddock in kids mode. Android asks the parent for confirmation the first time. |
| Device admin (optional) | Used only if a parent deliberately enables "full lock" mode from a computer. It does not access any data. |
| Seeing home screen apps | To open the phone's normal home screen when exiting kids mode. |
Kiddock does not request camera, microphone, location, contacts, storage, SMS or phone call permissions.
7. Children's privacy
Kiddock is an app for children and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children. The App is designed not to collect data in line with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Turkey's Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK). There are no ads, social sharing, chat or any area where a child could send information out of the App. Parent settings are protected by a PIN.
8. Website and cookies
This section applies only to the kiddock.byersoy.com website; the Kiddock app does not use these tools.
To understand how the website is used, we use Google Tag Manager and, through it, Google analytics tools such as Google Analytics. Using cookies and similar technologies, these tools may collect information such as pages visited, time on site, referring site, approximate location (country/city), and device and browser type. This information is processed by Google and is not used to identify you personally. Details: How Google uses information from sites that use its services.
You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings. To opt out of Google Analytics on all websites, you can use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The hosting provider may also keep standard server logs such as IP address and browser information for a short time to operate the site securely.
9. Data security and retention
The PIN and recovery code are stored on the device only as irreversible salted hashes. Since the App sends no data to us, no app data is stored on any server. To delete your data, see the Data Deletion page.
10. Your rights
As Kiddock does not process personal data, we hold no data that could be subject to access, correction or deletion requests. You can still contact us with any questions about your rights under GDPR or KVKK.
11. Changes
If we need to update this policy, we will publish the new version on this page and change the "Last updated" date. If a feature that collects data is ever added to the App, this policy will be updated before that feature is used.
12. Contact
For privacy questions: [email protected]