Privacy policy

Olympiad Owl is a free quiz and learning app for children, with Olyhoo as their learning buddy, run by Pankhuri Arora. This policy covers the website olympiadowl.in and the Olympiad Owl app on Google Play, which is the same app. A parent or guardian signs in, or lets the child sign in with an account the parent manages (such as a Google account set up with Family Link); the child then practises. Families anywhere can use it, and this policy covers everyone who does. We collect as little as we can.

What we keep

• The parent's email address, used to sign in, keep progress safe across devices, and reply to messages the parent sends us.
• The child's nickname and practice level (class), and, only if the parent types them, school, state and city (kept with the child's progress for the parents' corner; never shown to other children).
• Practice results: which questions were answered, scores, time taken, stars and days practised.
• Reports a parent sends us from the parents' corner: the message, the child's class, the type of phone and browser, and a screenshot if the parent adds one.
• Error reports: if the app breaks, it sends us what went wrong, which screen it was on, the app version and the type of phone and browser, so we can fix it. Nothing that says who you are. We delete them after 30 days.
• Interest in new features: if the child taps a coming-soon tile (such as "Ready for AI") or the parent answers Yes or No to it, we note that with the account and the child's class, so we know what families want.
• A teacher's name and email, only for teachers who make a class on the teacher page. A teacher who signs in with Google: we keep the name and email of the Google account, never the photo. The name parents see is the one the teacher chooses, and it can be changed.
• Visits: when someone opens olympiadowl.in from a link, we count which link it was (for example Instagram or a school email). Nothing about who it was or which device.

We do not ask for the child's real name, photo, date of birth, phone number or address. If a family chooses a photo as the child's picture in the app, it stays on that phone only: it is never sent to us or shown to anyone else. We do not collect the phone's location, advertising ID or any other device identifier. When a parent or child signs in with Google, we keep only the email address; we never store, use or show the Google name or profile picture.

Why we keep it

Only to run the app: to save progress, show the parents' corner, run friend challenges, and fix problems. We never use a child's data for advertising, and we never sell anyone's data.

Who sees it

• Your family. Each family can read only its own record.
• Other children, only the nickname. In friend challenges and in "Play someone new", another child sees your child's nickname, class and score for that challenge (friends also see the owl picture). Nothing else: no email, school, city or other results. There is no chat and no way to send messages.
• A teacher, only class totals. If a parent joins a teacher's class, the teacher sees the class's practice added up by subject and topic and the nicknames of the children who joined, never one child's score.
• Us, to run and improve the app. We look at counts (for example, how many tests were finished) inside our own database. We use no outside analytics or tracking.
• Services that run the app for us, which keep the data only to provide their service: Supabase (account database and sign-in), Resend (sign-in code emails), Vercel (hosting the app), Cloudflare (storing the app's pictures and recordings), jsDelivr (delivering the sign-in code library), and Google (only if the parent chooses "Continue with Google").

Ads

Today the app shows no ads, and the children's part uses no tracking or analytics. We may add ads or sponsored messages in future. If we do, they will never be chosen using a child's data, children will only see ads that the app stores allow in children's apps, and this policy will say so before they start.

Friend challenges

A challenge link that a child chooses to share contains their nickname, the questions and their score, so the friend can see what to beat. Nothing else is in the link.

How long we keep it, and deleting it

We keep a family's data while the account is open. A parent can delete the account at any time: in the app, open the Parents' Corner, then Settings, then Delete account. This removes the account, progress, friends and challenges straight away. You can also ask by email, without the app: see Delete your account. Copies in our nightly backup, and anything else left (such as report screenshots), are removed within 30 days. Deleting the account also takes back the parent's agreement.

To see a copy of everything we hold about your family, or to correct it, email dottingyourself@gmail.com from the signed-in address and we will reply as soon as we can.

Keeping it safe

Everything travels over an encrypted connection (HTTPS), and the database only lets a signed-in parent read their own family's record.

Children

Olympiad Owl is made for children in Classes 1 to 8. A parent or guardian must agree before a child uses it: whoever signs in confirms that a parent or guardian agrees. A parent can sign in with their own email or Google account, or let the child use a Google account the parent manages. We follow the data-protection laws of India and of each family's own country. If we learn that a child is using the app without a parent's agreement, we delete the account. The parent chooses the nickname that other children may see.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too. Questions or complaints: Pankhuri Arora, dottingyourself@gmail.com.