Privacy

The short version

• ◆No accounts, no sign-up, no login — for a parent or a child.
• ◆We never ask for an email address, birthday, school, photo or voice. In the app, a grown-up can give each child a first name or nickname, and it never leaves the device.
• ◆Nothing your child does is sent to us. We have no server that could receive it.
• ◆No ads, no tracking, no selling or sharing data. Ever.

On the website: what stays in your browser

The grade your child picks

So the grade picker remembers it next time. Nothing else.

It lives in your browser’s local storage on this device, and we can’t see it. Answers, scores and stars are shown at the end of a set and then forgotten. Clearing this site’s data in your browser settings removes the grade too.

In the app: what stays on the iPhone or iPad

Each child’s name and grade

Up to four children. A first name or nickname, which is optional and typed by a grown-up behind the parental gate, so each child finds their own climb. The grade, so puzzles are drawn at the right level.

Each child’s progress

For each kind of puzzle, how many were answered and how many answers and rules were right, which puzzles were missed (so the app can bring those back for another try), and the level each skill is working at.

Where they got to

So a set picks up at the same puzzle next time.

Puzzle friends and summit flags

How far each skill’s friend has grown and which summits have a flag, so neither is ever taken back.

What a grown-up plans

A test date, a daily goal and practice reminders, if you set them. Only you see the test date. A reminder is a notification iOS schedules on the device.

How many free puzzles are used

So the app knows when the 20 free ones are done.

Sound on or off

So the setting sticks.

Whether Face ID or Touch ID opens the grown-ups’ area

Only whether you turned this on. iOS does the checking; the app never sees a face or a fingerprint, and it is off unless you switch it on.

Whether the app is unlocked

A copy of what the App Store says, so the app opens unlocked straight away. The App Store stays the record.

All of it stays in the app’s own storage on that device, and none of it is sent to us. Removing a child in the grown-ups’ area deletes their name and everything kept about them; deleting the app deletes it all. A purchase is never lost that way: the App Store remembers it, and the app unlocks again on any device signed in to the same Apple Account.

Who else handles it

Google (Firebase Hosting)

Delivers the website’s pages. It sets no cookies and counts nothing for us.

Apple (the App Store)

Delivers the app and handles every purchase in it. We never see your card, your Apple Account or your name. Apple tells the app only whether it is unlocked.

Like any host, Google sees the requests your browser makes, including its IP address, to deliver the pages. Apple’s own privacy policy covers what the App Store does. Either company’s servers may be outside Canada.

Children

A child can play the website’s free puzzles, and the app’s, without giving anyone any information. There is nowhere for a child to type a name, an address or a message. In the app, only a grown-up, behind the parental gate, can add a child’s first name or nickname, and it stays on the device. Buying is behind a check meant for grown-ups, and Family Sharing’s Ask to Buy can put every purchase in front of a parent first.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes.

Contact

Questions or complaints about privacy: support@cubclimb.ca. For anything else, see Help.