Effective date: August 14, 2026 · Developer: Gizmotron Software
Pip's Reading Rocket is a reading game for children. We built it the way we would want a game built for our own kids: no accounts, no tracking, nothing to sign up for — and this page explains, in plain words, the small number of things the app can do that involve the internet.
If a word pack is locked, the app may offer to unlock it for a short time after watching a video. Watching is always a choice, always announced ("the video is an ad"), and never interrupts play — the app shows no banner ads and no surprise ads.
The videos come from Kidoz, an advertising provider certified for children's apps (PRIVO COPPA Safe Harbor). Kidoz shows contextual ads only — ads picked for the app, not for the person watching:
The app offers a single optional purchase that unlocks all word packs permanently. The purchase itself is handled entirely by Google Play on the device — the app never sees or stores payment details, card numbers, or your Google account. All the app keeps is a small unlock record on the device saying the purchase was made, so the packs stay open. Refunds work the normal Google Play way; if Google Play reports the purchase was refunded, the packs simply re-lock.
Grown-ups only: the buying screen sits behind a parental gate — a quick task designed for adult readers — so a child cannot make a purchase by tapping around.
Game progress (high score, best streak, a saved run), settings (language, sound, art theme, word difficulty), and the unlock records above are stored only on the device, in the app's private storage. They are not readable by other apps and are deleted when the app is uninstalled. If Android's system backup is enabled by the device owner, this progress may be included in the device's own Google backup under the device owner's Google account, governed by Google's backup terms — the app itself uploads nothing.
The app is designed for children as part of a family audience. The app itself collects no personal information from anyone, children included. The only third parties involved are Kidoz (ads, as described above — certified under a COPPA Safe Harbor program) and Google Play (purchases). Because there are no accounts and we hold no data, there is nothing for a parent to request access to or deletion of from us; for questions about Kidoz's ad data, Kidoz's policy applies, and for purchase records, Google Play's.
If a future version changes any of the above (for example, adding crash reporting), this policy will be updated first and the change will be declared in the app's Google Play Data safety form before release.
Questions about this policy: tigertrussell@gmail.com
This Privacy Policy is effective as of August 14, 2026.