Privacy Policy
Effective October 11, 2026
The short version
- Anyone can play without an account. Then the child's name and progress stay on the device and are never sent to us.
- Parents and guardians (18 and over) can make a free family account with Google, so progress follows the children to other devices. Children never get accounts.
- With an account, we keep each child's first name or nickname and their progress in the games, with personalized learning stats, under your family account. We ask for your consent first.
- We never record your children. No ads. Google stores the accounts and the database for us, and Google Analytics counts visits to the site.
- You can see, download or delete everything at any time in Grown-ups, or by asking us.
Who we are
Reading Adventure is a free reading and maths game for young children (about 4 to 8), for families in the United States. It is made by a parent in Massachusetts, USA, and is published at sophieandcora.com/learn. "We" and "us" in this policy mean the person who runs it:
Amy Sterling
Email: hello@sophieandcora.com
A postal address and phone number for privacy requests are being added. Until then, email reaches us fastest.
Contact us at those details with any question or request about privacy.
Playing without an account
Children can play every game without signing in. Their name or nickname, picture, stars and progress are saved only in the web browser on that device (its local storage), so they stay after the browser is closed. We never receive them.
- The game has no advertising and no social features. Children cannot chat, post or share anything.
- We use Google Analytics to count visits and see which parts of the site are used. It does not set cookies or keep any ID on your device, so it cannot tell one visit from the next or follow anyone around. It tells Google the page visited, the kind of device and browser, and the rough location (city or region). Google's advertising features are turned off.
- Recordings that a grown-up makes of letter sounds, or of the Math Mountain introductions, stay on the device too.
- Clearing the browser's data, or using another device, starts afresh.
Like any website, the site's host (GitHub Pages) receives the technical details every browser sends, such as the device's IP address, to deliver the pages and keep the service secure. On a device where a grown-up has signed in, Google's servers see it too, to run the sign-in and the family account. These are used only to make the service work and keep it secure, never to identify, profile or track anyone.
Family accounts
Family accounts are for parents and legal guardians who are 18 or older. Signing in starts in the grown-ups area, with a question children cannot easily answer and the year you were born. A grown-up then signs in with their Google account, reads a short notice, and confirms they are the parent or guardian and agree to this policy. Nothing about a child is stored with us before that. If you say no, we delete your sign-in straight away; if you leave without answering, we delete it within a few days.
After you agree, we send a welcome and confirmation email to your address, usually within the hour. It tells you how to change your mind and withdraw your consent.
You can share your family account with another parent or guardian, such as your partner. In Grown-ups, enter the email address of their Google account. When they sign in with it and agree to this policy, they can see, change and delete the family's records just as you can. The grown-ups in a family see each other's name and email address. Either of you can leave the family again.
What we keep about you, the grown-up
- Your name, email address and an account ID, from your Google sign-in. We never see your Google password.
- When you made the account and when you last used it.
- That you agreed to this policy, the date, and which version.
- Whether you want emails about big updates. The answer is no unless you tick the box.
- If you invite another grown-up to share your family: their email address, your name and when you invited them.
Feedback you send
Grown-ups can report a problem or suggest an idea from any screen (the grey bug button in the corner, which opens on a press and hold and then asks a grown-ups question), after signing in with a verified Google account. We keep your message, the email address you give if you would like a reply, and, unless you untick the boxes, where in the game it happened, the kind of device and browser, and a small picture of the screen, which you see before you send it. We use it only to fix problems, improve the game and reply to you. After a year we remove your email address, the device details, the picture of the screen and the link to your account; the message itself, with nothing to say who sent it, stays as our record of what we fixed. Please leave out children's full names and other personal details.
What we keep about your children, with your consent
- The first name or nickname and the emoji picture you choose for each child. We do not ask for last names, ages, photos, schools or contact details.
- Their progress in the games: stars, stickers, trophies, rounds and books finished, words practised and missed, speed records and time played.
We do not record your children's voices. (The game's reading-recording buttons are switched on only for the family that makes it.)
How we use it
- To save your children's progress and keep it the same on every device where you sign in.
- To show you their progress in Grown-ups.
- To keep the game working, secure and improving. For this we look at totals for each family (how many children, rounds, stars, books and minutes), never at a single child's details.
- To email you about big updates, only if you asked for them.
- To answer your questions and requests.
We do not use anyone's information for advertising, and we do not sell or rent your family's information. We do not ask children for more information than a game needs: they never type anything except, if they like, their own first name.
Who else handles it
- Google (Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore) provides the sign-in and stores the family accounts for us on its servers, under its security and data-processing terms. Google may not use this information for its own purposes.
- GitHub hosts the website's files (see above).
Nobody else receives it, unless the law requires us to share it, or it is needed to protect a child's safety.
If Reading Adventure itself is ever sold or handed on to another person or organization, the family accounts would go with it, and this policy's promises would still apply to them. We would tell you by email and in the game beforehand, so you could download or delete your family's information first.
Who can see it
Only the grown-ups in a family can see that family's children and progress. The people who run the site can see the list of grown-ups (name, email, sign-up and last-used dates, whether they want update emails) and each family's totals. We do not look at a child's individual progress, unless a parent asks us for help.
Your choices and rights
As a parent or guardian, you can at any time:
- See it: Grown-ups shows every child's progress. "Download our data" there gives you a file of everything the cloud keeps for your family.
- Change it: rename or remove a child in Grown-ups.
- Delete it: removing a child deletes their progress from the cloud. "Delete family account" deletes everything we keep about your family, for every grown-up in it, and your sign-in. A grown-up who shares a family can instead leave it.
- Stop collection: sign out, or delete the account. Private family profiles leave the active device state when you sign out. Guest profiles stay separate, and can be copied into a family only with your explicit choice.
- Stop emails: switch off update emails in Grown-ups, or reply to any update email.
- Ask us to do any of these for you, using the contact details above. We will check that the request comes from the account's own email address, and act within 30 days, usually much sooner.
How long we keep it
| What | Kept until |
|---|---|
| Everything in a family account | Deleted at once when you delete the account or ask us to. |
| A child's progress | You remove the child, or two years pass without it changing. |
| Your account record and sign-in | Two years after you last used the game. |
| A sign-in you did not finish (no consent given) | Within a few days. |
| An invitation to share your family | They join, you take it back, or 30 days pass. |
| Feedback you send | Your email address, device details, picture of the screen and account link: a year after you send it, or sooner if you ask. The message, with nothing to say who sent it, is kept. |
| Update-email choice | Stays with your account record. Opting out works at once. |
A weekly clean-up deletes whatever has reached its time. We keep information only as long as it is needed to provide the game to your family, and we do not keep separate backups.
Keeping it safe
- Database rules let only a family's own grown-ups read or change the family's records.
- Information travels encrypted (HTTPS), and Google encrypts it in storage.
- Only the people who run the site can see the list of grown-ups, through their own Google sign-in.
- We follow a written security plan, and review it every year.
If something ever went wrong with your family's information, we would tell you promptly.
Emails
We email grown-ups only: a confirmation when you make an account, replies to your messages, and occasional news about big updates if you asked for it. Every update email says who it is from, gives our postal address, and tells you how to stop. We never email children.
Children's privacy
We follow the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Children use the game without giving us any information. Information about a child reaches us only when their parent or guardian has made a family account and agreed. If we learn that we have information about a child without that consent, we delete it.
Families outside the United States
The game is made for families in the United States, and is run from there. Anyone may play, but we do not offer or market the game in other countries. If you live elsewhere and make a family account anyway, you have the rights described above, and any further rights your local law gives you, such as complaining to your data protection authority. We rely on your consent, and on our need to provide the game you asked for, to keep your family's information.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top. If a change affects what we collect about children or how we use it, we will ask every parent to agree again in the game before it applies.