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Privacy Policy

Effective 31 August 2026

Who this policy covers

PowerUp Kids ("the app," "we," "us") is a daily-routine and gamification app for families, built to support kids who benefit from extra structure, including many with ADHD and autism. This policy applies to the app and its companion website. It's written to comply with Apple's App Store Kids Category guidelines (1.2, 1.3, and 5.1.4(b)) and the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

PowerUp Kids is a parent-managed app. A parent (or guardian) creates the account and controls every child profile on it. A child never creates their own account, never enters an email address, and never has independent access to change settings, billing, or anything outside their own daily checklist.

What we collect

Data	From whom	Why
Email address	Parent, at sign-up	To create and secure the account, and for account-related communication (password resets, support).
Child's first name or nickname, and a chosen emoji avatar	Entered by the parent	To personalize that child's screen inside the app.
Daily routine (task names, times, descriptions)	Entered by the parent (Premium)	To display and track that child's daily missions.
Task completions, points, levels, streaks, mood/focus/energy check-ins, mini-game scores	Generated by the child's use of the app	To power the app's progress tracking, gamification, and the optional Progress Report a parent can generate.
A public nickname (e.g. "Swift Dragon 482") and best game scores	Auto-generated; only sent anywhere if a parent opts a child in	Powers the optional worldwide leaderboard. Off by default for every child.

We do not collect a child's full legal name, date of birth, physical address, phone number, photo, or precise location. We do not collect any payment information directly — if you purchase Premium through the App Store or Google Play, that transaction is handled entirely by Apple or Google under their own privacy policies; we only receive confirmation that a purchase was made.

How we use it

• To run the app: sync a family's routine and progress across the parent's device and any devices a child has been linked to.
• To generate the Progress Report a parent can export as a PDF — this is built entirely from that family's own data and is never seen by us or anyone else unless the parent shares it themselves.
• To power the family and (optional) worldwide leaderboards.
• To respond to support requests sent to the contact email below.

Where it's stored

Data is stored in Google Firebase (Firestore), a cloud database provider. Firebase applies its own security and encryption to data in transit and at rest. Access to a family's data is restricted by security rules enforced on Firebase's servers — a signed-in parent can only ever read or write their own family's data, and a linked child device can only ever check off tasks and update play data for that one child, never see another family's data, another child's data, or change settings, routines, or billing. These rules aren't just a policy — they're enforced by the database itself and were tested against exactly this scenario before launch.

The worldwide leaderboard, specifically

Because this is content one user (a child, via their parent) can create that becomes visible to other users, we built it with extra care:

• Off by default. A parent must explicitly opt each child in from that child's profile settings.
• No free text, ever. A parent can only choose from a set of auto-generated nickname combinations (an adjective, an animal, and a number) — there is no field where anyone can type arbitrary text that becomes publicly visible. This removes the need for content moderation because there is no user-generated text to moderate.
• No way to identify or contact a specific child. The public leaderboard shows only a nickname, a level, and best game scores — never a real name, age, location, or any way for one family to reach another.
• Turning the toggle off removes that child's public entry.

Children's privacy (COPPA)

We're aware this app is likely to be used by children under 13, and we've built it accordingly:

• Only a parent creates the account and provides the email address required to do so — a child never registers themselves or provides their own contact information.
• We collect the minimum information needed to run the app's core features, described above.
• We do not knowingly collect more information from a child than is described in this policy, and we do not condition a child's participation in an activity on disclosing more information than is reasonably necessary.
• A parent can review, correct, or request deletion of their child's information at any time (see below).

Your choices and rights

• Access or correct your data: everything the app stores about your family is visible and editable directly in the app itself — routines, profiles, and settings.
• Delete your data: email the address below to request deletion of your account and all associated data. We'll confirm once it's done.
• Opt out of the worldwide leaderboard: toggle it off per child, any time, from that child's profile settings — this immediately removes their public entry.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or how we use it, we'll update the "Effective" date above and, for a material change, make a reasonable effort to notify parents through the app.

Contact us

Questions about this policy, or a request to access or delete your data, can be sent to: privacy@powerupkids.app

(Set up this inbox — or swap in whichever email you actually want to use — before this page goes live. Any address that forwards to somewhere you check works.)