Safety and privacy
The whole list fits on one screen.
StoryBreak is used by children, so the honest position is the short one: without an account nothing about your child leaves the device, and the things that could have been collected were never built at all.
- No ads. Not now, not on a free tier, not ever — there is no ad SDK in the app.
- No chat. No channel, no comments, no shared feed. Nobody can message your child.
- No surname, no school, no birthday, no email for the child. Age is a single number, not a date.
- No tracking. No analytics SDK, no advertising identifier, nothing across apps.
It stays on the device unless you sign in. Stories, the Cast, the reading log and the sound set live on your phone, and the app has never needed an account. Sign in — to read on a computer, or to move to a new phone — and those travel to a database in Sydney so they reach your other devices. A surname, a birthday, a school or a photo is refused either way.
The App Store label reflects the account. Use the app without one and nothing is collected. Sign in and the label declares contact details, the books and reading log, an account identifier and which plan you are on — all linked to you, none of it used for tracking. The reading log is declared twice, as content and as product interaction, because that is the reading a reasonable person would give the question. We would rather the label be right than flattering. The app was designed against the Children’s Online Privacy Code before it was required to be.
What does leave the device
A purchase receipt, and it goes to Apple rather than to us — that is how we know a subscription is active without knowing anything else about you. If you print, the PDF is generated on your device and goes wherever you send it. If you email a book to a teacher, that email is yours; it does not pass through us.
If your school has given you a code, three more things do: the code itself, a random device identifier the app makes up, and — only if you sign in by email rather than by code — the grown-up’s email address. That is how access keeps working on a new phone. It is all listed, in full, in the privacy policy. None of it is about your child.
Deleting it
One tap, in the app, under You. It removes everything immediately and permanently, because everything is local — there is no server-side copy to request the deletion of.
Questions about any of this go to a person: hello@theschoolofplay.co.