Pingo 品果 — Privacy Policy

Effective date: 28 October 2026 (replaces the version of 16 October 2026)

Pingo 品果 (“the app”) is an offline Chinese-learning app for children, built by a parent in Singapore. This policy explains, in plain language, what data the app handles.

What we collect

Nothing. The app has no internet permission and cannot connect to any server. We do not collect, receive, sell or share any personal information. There is no account, no sign-up, no analytics, no advertising, no in-app purchase and no third-party SDK that collects data.

What stays on your phone

Stored only in the app’s private storage on your own phone:

• each child’s nickname and age (entered by the parent);

• an optional photo for a child’s profile, if the parent chooses one from the phone’s gallery;

• learning progress (stars, coins, stories read, quiz results, the garden);

• the parent PIN, kept only in a scrambled (hashed) form.

We cannot see any of this. Uninstalling the app deletes it. If your phone’s Android backup to your own Google account is switched on, Android may include this data in your backup, so progress can move to a new phone; that backup belongs to you and is governed by your Google account settings.

Microphone

The microphone is used only while your child taps a button to practise speaking.

• Speaking practice uses your phone’s own speech-recognition service (on most phones, Google’s) to turn your child’s voice into text. Pingo asks that service to work offline. If the phone has no offline Chinese speech pack, the service may use the internet under its own provider’s privacy terms. Pingo itself only receives the recognised words.

• The “hear yourself” button keeps your child’s short recording in the phone’s memory just long enough to play it back. It is never saved to a file and never leaves the phone.

Text-to-speech

Story narration uses the text-to-speech voice installed on your phone (for example, Speech Services by Google). The app only passes story text to that voice on the phone.

Children’s privacy

The app is designed for children aged 6 to 12. It has no ads, no purchases and no chat. Anything that leaves the app sits behind the parent PIN: the phone's voice settings, the Play Store page for a voice, and the two share buttons in 家长园地: "Share Pingo", which sends only the app's Play Store link, and "Share the weekly report", which sends your child's nickname and that week's learning summary. Sharing uses Android's own share sheet: you choose the app it goes to, and Pingo itself sends nothing. Every parent setting is behind the parent PIN too.

Changes

If a future version changes any of the above, this page will be updated before that version is released.

Contact

Questions:

sgdaddycoder@gmail.com