Privacy policy app 'Turtle and his friends'

Summary

• • The app 'Turtle and his friends' does not collect, process, store or distribute any personal information, location information or machine identification.

  • The app 'Turtle and his friends' does not access or store any information on the internet

Introduction

The app 'Turtle and his friends' is a drawing program helping children (age 4 - 10) to learn programming principles. The tagline for the app is:

Why wait 'til you can read? Start to learn programming now!

The app is developed by Jos van Hulzen.

Jos van Hulzen can be reached via de email address: schildpadenzijnvriendjes@gmail.com

Data processing by the app

With the app, you can have the Turtle make drawings. To help making drawings, the buttons Monkey, Elephant, Owl, Hamster and Mouse can store sequences of buttons. This enables easy (re-)drawing of (complex) pictures.

The user can choose to save a drawing that is made. At the same time, the sequences of buttons stored in the 'friends' (Monkey, Elephant, Owl, Hamster and Mouse) will be stored. This data is stored in a local database.

The user has the option to delete the drawings/button sequences stored locally.

The app does not access or store any information on the internet. There is not any problem to use the app without active internet connect.

Users on different machines cannot interact with this app. There is no option to login or enter any personal information.

The app does not show any advertising or content not suitable for children.

Development

The app is developed using the App Inventor, developed by Google and now maintained by MIT.

Sensitive permissions requested by the app

• Access to USB-storage

The app accesses the information storage to store the drawings and button sequences on request of the user.

This information is stored with the 'TinyDB' component of the App Inventor

• Access to the internet

Regretfully, the app requests access to the internet. The reason is that the drawings are made using the 'canvas' component of the App Inventor. In the 'canvas' component, a background picture can be set. The component allows to retrieve/change the background picture from an internet source. Therefore, this component requires access to the internet.

The app 'Turtle and his friends' does not set a background picture (let alone a picture from the internet), so does not use this option of the 'canvas' component.

App Inventor does not have an alternative drawing component or an option to disable the internet access request.