Privacy Policy — Toy Phone

Toy Phone is a pretend-play phone app built for babies and toddlers. This policy explains, in plain language, what information the app does and doesn’t collect, how the permissions it asks for are used, and how it protects your child’s privacy. The short version: Toy Phone works entirely on your device, has no accounts, no internet connection required for play, no ads, and no behavioural advertising or cross-app tracking. Limited subscription and paywall analytics are described in Section 5.

1. Overview

Toy Phone is designed as a closed, offline sandbox for imaginative play. It simulates a phone — pretend calls, a pretend camera, a keypad, drawing, colors, and animal sounds — without connecting your child to the real internet, real people, or real accounts. Because the app doesn’t collect personal information, most of what a typical privacy policy covers (accounts, cookies, ad identifiers and data sales) simply doesn’t apply here. We still explain our practices in full below so you know exactly how the app behaves.

2. Information we collect

Other than the limited subscription-status data described in Section 5, we do not collect, transmit, or have access to any personal information. Specifically:

Toy Phone does not require or offer account creation, sign-in, or sign-up.
Nothing you or your child does in the app — pretend calls, photos, drawings, contact names — leaves the device. The only network communication the app performs is checking subscription status with our subscription provider, RevenueCat, described in Section 5; that communication never includes play content or personal information.
We do not use advertising SDKs, crash reporters, or third-party tracking libraries. RevenueCat records limited purchase history and paywall interactions for subscription analytics and to operate subscription access, as described in Section 5.
We do not receive your name, your child’s identity, contact details, or play content. RevenueCat uses a random app-install identifier only for the limited subscription purposes described in Section 5.

Any content created in the app — such as pretend-play photos, drawings, or the names/photos of pretend contacts a parent sets up — is generated locally by you and stored locally on your device, as described in Section 4.

3. Permissions we request

Toy Phone asks for a small number of device permissions, each used strictly for on-device pretend play:

Camera. Used only after a parent passes the Parent Gate so a child can take pretend-play photos inside the app’s camera screen. Photos are saved to a private, sandboxed folder inside the app — never uploaded, and never shared automatically.
Photo library (select). Used only in Parent Settings, so a parent can optionally choose a photo from their library to set as a pretend contact’s picture.

On iOS, the camera component the app is built on requires a standard microphone usage declaration as part of its technical requirements; on Android, the microphone permission is explicitly blocked and is never requested. In both cases, Toy Phone does not use, access, record, or store microphone audio — the app’s camera feature is photo-only.

You can review or revoke any of these permissions at any time in your device’s system settings.

4. Where your data lives

Everything Toy Phone creates or stores — pretend-play photos, pretend contacts and their photos, sound and display preferences, and app settings — is saved in a private, sandboxed folder on your device using the operating system’s local file storage. None of it is synced to a cloud service, backed up to our servers (we don’t have any), or made available to us or anyone else.

A parent can clear this data at any time from Parent Settings: use “Manage Camera Roll” to delete all pretend photos, or “Manage Contacts” to remove pretend contacts. Uninstalling the app removes all of its locally stored data from your device.

5. Third parties

Toy Phone does not integrate advertising networks or social features. The app contains no ads.

Toy Phone offers an optional subscription (see the Terms of Service for how the free trial, free weekly allowance, and subscription work). If you download the App through the Apple App Store or Google Play, that store operator processes limited technical and billing information — such as your download history and subscription purchase and renewal status — under its own privacy policy, which is outside of our control. We do not receive your full payment details (such as a card number) — only confirmation needed to unlock subscriber access, such as whether a subscription is currently active.

To manage subscriptions, the app uses RevenueCat, a subscription-management service. When the app checks or updates subscription status, RevenueCat receives a randomly generated app-install identifier, basic device information (such as device model, operating system, and app version), and purchase/entitlement status from the app store. RevenueCat also records limited paywall interaction events, such as which subscription option is viewed or selected, so we can understand and improve the subscription experience. RevenueCat does not receive names, email addresses, contact details, play content, or anything your child does in the app, and we do not use it for advertising or cross-app tracking. The app never requests or transmits the device advertising identifier (IDFA on iOS, AAID on Android). RevenueCat processes this information on our behalf under its own privacy policy, and subscription-status records are retained only as long as needed to operate your subscription and meet legal requirements.

6. Children’s privacy & COPPA

Toy Phone is designed for use by young children (roughly ages 6–36 months) under a parent or guardian’s supervision, and we built it from the ground up to comply with the spirit and letter of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and similar children’s privacy laws:

We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children, or from anyone.
The child-facing part of the app has no chat, messaging, social features, or way to contact real people.
There are no accounts or behavioral advertising. The only data in transit is the limited, anonymous subscription-status and paywall-analytics data described in Section 5.
Settings that could affect privacy, and all subscription purchasing, sit behind a Parent Gate — a child cannot reach a purchase screen — see Section 7.

If you believe your child has somehow provided us with personal information, please contact us at support@gettoyphone.app and we will investigate — though by design, the app has no mechanism for this to occur.

7. Parental controls

Toy Phone includes several controls so a parent stays in charge of the experience:

Parent Gate — reaching Parent Centre, purchases, permission prompts, and outside links requires answering two changing addition questions intended for an adult.
Child Lock on iPhone and iPad — Toy Phone checks whether Apple Guided Access is active and warns the adult before handoff when it is not. Apple requires the device owner to start and end Guided Access.
App Pinning on Android — Toy Phone provides a guided setup for Android’s built-in App Pinning feature. A grown-up must enable it and follow the device’s prompts.
Manage Contacts — add, rename, or remove the pretend contacts your child can “call.”
Manage Camera Roll — permanently clear pretend-play photos stored in the app.
Camera & sound toggles — turn the pretend camera or app sounds off entirely.

8. Your choices

Because no play content or personal details ever leave your device — the only data in transit is the subscription-status check described in Section 5 — there is no account to delete and no data-sharing to opt out of; you already have full control. You can:

Delete pretend photos or contacts at any time via Parent Settings.
Revoke camera or photo-library permissions in your device settings.
Uninstall the app to remove all of its locally stored data.

9. Security

All app data is stored in your device’s app-private storage sandbox, which is protected by your device operating system’s standard app isolation. Play content is never transmitted over a network; the only data in transit is the subscription-status communication with RevenueCat described in Section 5, which is sent over encrypted (HTTPS) connections.

10. International users

Apart from the limited subscription-status data described in Section 5, Toy Phone does not collect or transmit personal data, so no cross-border transfer of your or your child’s play content or personal details occurs when you use the app, regardless of where you are located. The limited, non-identifying subscription-status data described in Section 5 may be processed on servers in other countries (for example, the United States) by RevenueCat and your app store.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, for example to reflect a new feature or a change in applicable law. We’ll update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page when we do. If a change is significant, we’ll aim to make that clear within the app as well.

12. Contact us

Toy Phone and this website are operated by Walter Obadha, Mombasa, Kenya — the “operator” for the purposes of children’s privacy laws such as COPPA.

Questions about this Privacy Policy or how Toy Phone handles data? Reach us at support@gettoyphone.app.