Skolar Kids — Privacy Policy

The short version

Skolar Kids collects nothing about your children and sends nothing anywhere. The app has no accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no third-party components that phone home. It does not ask for the internet permission, and it cannot reach the network even if it tried.

A teacher's name and a record of which letters a class has practised are saved on the tablet itself, so a teacher can pick up where they left off. No child is ever named, identified or counted individually. Uninstalling the app erases all of it.

Who we are

Skolar Kids (in.skolarbot.app) is published by Xenocipher. This policy covers the Android app and the web version of the same product.

Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does, go to info@xenocipher.com.

What is stored on the device

Everything below is written to the tablet's own local storage. None of it is transmitted, backed up to us, or readable by anyone but that device.

What	Why	Stored as
Teacher's name, and optionally a school name, class and section	So the console can say whose class is in front of it, and file lesson records against the right class	`skolarBot.session.v1`
Which letters and numbers each class has been taught, how often, and on which dates	The coverage report a teacher uses to see what is left to cover	`skolarBot.syllabus.v1`
Lesson progress on the device — stars earned, current letter, chosen pen, ink colour, sound settings	So a lesson resumes where it stopped instead of restarting	`traceGame.progress.v1`
Best score in the timed practice run	To show a personal best	`traceGame.runBest.v1`
Whether the on-screen hints have been seen	So the tour does not replay every morning	`skolarBot.onboarding.v1`

Lesson records name a class, never a child

This is worth stating plainly, because it is the question a school should ask first. Coverage records are filed against a class — "Class 2-B has practised क nine times" — and there is no field anywhere in the app for a child's name, roll number, photograph or score. The app has no concept of an individual pupil, so it cannot hold information about one.

If a PIN is set

Some versions let a teacher set a numeric PIN to keep a curious six-year-old out of the report and reset screens. Where one is set it is stored as a hash rather than in the clear — not because it is protecting anything valuable, but because people reuse PINs on systems where it would matter. It is not a password and is never sent anywhere.

What we never collect

No accounts, sign-ups, email addresses or passwords
No advertising of any kind, and no ad networks
No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or usage tracking
No third-party SDKs that collect data
No location, GPS or nearby-network data
No camera, microphone, photos, files or contacts
No device identifiers, advertising ID or fingerprinting
No children's names, ages, voices, images or individual results

We do not sell, share, rent or transfer personal information, because we do not receive any in the first place.

The app makes no network requests

Skolar Kids is built to work in a government primary school where the signal is intermittent or absent, so everything it needs — the lessons, the artwork, the fonts and roughly twenty megabytes of recorded narration in ten languages — is bundled into the app itself.

Earlier builds fetched a few openly-licensed photographs from Wikimedia Commons. That was removed before release: it was the only outbound request the app made, and one third-party connection is not worth making from an app used by children. The Android app does not request the INTERNET permission, which means the operating system itself prevents it from connecting to anything.

If you use the web version instead of the installed app, your browser necessarily contacts the server hosting the page in order to load it, in the ordinary way that visiting any website does. The app itself still sends nothing back.

Permissions

The Android app requests no permissions. It does not ask for internet, storage, location, camera or microphone access.

It does use your device's built-in text-to-speech engine as a fallback when a recorded narration clip is unavailable. That is an on-device Android service; the text spoken is a fixed lesson phrase from the app, and it is handled by your device, not by us.

Children's privacy

Skolar Kids is made for children in primary classrooms, and is listed on Google Play as an app that appeals to children. That places it under Google Play's Families policy, and we design to it deliberately rather than incidentally.

Because the app collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children. Specifically, and in the terms these rules use:

No personal information is collected from children, so no verifiable parental consent mechanism is required — there is nothing to consent to. This is our position under the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and equivalent rules elsewhere.
No tracking or behavioural monitoring of children, and no targeted advertising directed at children — the app carries no advertising at all. These are the specific prohibitions in section 9 of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, which governs children's data where this app is used.
No social features. There is no chat, no user-generated content, no way for a child to contact anyone, and no external links inside the child-facing screens.
No purchases. The app is free and contains no in-app purchases or payment mechanisms.

Schools and teachers

Where a school deploys Skolar Kids on its tablets, the school decides what a teacher types into it. The teacher's name and school name are entered by the teacher, stay on that device, and are visible to whoever holds the device — treat a shared classroom tablet accordingly.

Because nothing leaves the device, we hold no records to produce, correct or delete on request. Deletion is entirely in the school's hands, using the steps below.

How to erase everything

All of it: uninstall the app. Android deletes its storage with it, and nothing survives anywhere else.
Without uninstalling: Settings → Apps → Skolar Kids → Storage → Clear data.
Just the teacher's session: use Sign in as someone else on the sign-in screen.
Just one class's records: the teacher console has a reset for the class it is showing.
Web version: clear the site's data in your browser.

There is no retention period to describe: data stays until the device is cleared, and we never hold a copy that could outlive it.

Changes to this policy

If the app ever starts doing something this page does not describe, this page changes first, and the effective date at the top changes with it. Any change that would alter what is collected or transmitted will also be reflected in the app's Data Safety declaration on Google Play.

Contact

Xenocipher · info@xenocipher.com