Privacy Policy

Apps: Owl Buddy Worlds (learning app for children, Android package app.owlvento.kids) and Playvento (games app, app.playvento.games) · Publisher: 9454-7916 Québec inc., Québec, Canada · Effective date: 15 November 2026 · Last updated: 8 November 2026

1. Who we are and who is responsible

Owl Buddy Worlds and Playvento are published by 9454-7916 Québec inc., a company incorporated in Québec, Canada (“we”, “us”). Address: 847, rue Denise-Asselin, Beloeil (Québec) J3G 0T7, Canada.

Person in charge of the protection of personal information (Québec Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, “Law 25”, s. 3.1): the President of 9454-7916 Québec inc. Contact: support@owlbuddyworlds.com. This person is also our contact for requests under Canada’s PIPEDA, the US COPPA and the EU/UK GDPR.

2. What stays on the device

To remember progress, the app saves on the phone or tablet only:

• the chosen app language, the child’s age (used only to choose the difficulty), the chosen world, avatar look and settings (sound, read-aloud, microphone on/off);
• progress: stars, stickers, levels, finished lessons, worksheets and missions, the dragons raised in Dragon Valley, collections and saved worksheet templates;
• an optional first name that a grown-up or child can type so it is printed on worksheets and used in “Write my name” — it is never sent anywhere by the app;
• small pictures: Animal Snapbook cards (section 5), in-game photo albums from the 3D worlds, and coloring pages made from photos;
• for Premium: whether a subscription is active and until when, so Premium keeps working offline.

We do not receive any of this. To delete everything (including the pictures), use Android Settings › Apps › Owl Buddy Worlds › Storage › Clear storage, or uninstall the app. “Reset progress” in the parent area only restarts the progress (stars, levels, lessons).

3. Backups of the progress

• Android backup (automatic, controlled by the device owner). If the device owner has turned on backup (Settings › Google › Backup), Android copies the app’s progress file (including the optional first name and the small pictures) and its settings into the owner’s Google account backup, and into a new phone during a device-to-device transfer. This is a feature of Android run by Google under the owner’s Google account and Google’s privacy terms; on recent Android versions the backup is encrypted with the device’s screen lock. We cannot access it. It can be turned off in the device settings and deleted from the Google account.
• Backup file (optional). In the parent area, “Save my progress” lets a grown-up save the progress into a file at a place they choose (for example Downloads or their own cloud drive) and restore it later. We never receive this file. Keep it private: it contains the progress, the optional first name and the small pictures.
• There is no account, no cloud sync and no server of ours that stores progress in the current versions. If we ever add a “family devices” sync, we will update this policy and ask for consent first.

4. Microphone

• Speaking games (“Say it!” and the Language Garden): before the first use, a note for grown-ups explains the microphone, then Android asks for permission. While the child holds the microphone button, the app asks Android’s speech recognition service (SpeechRecognizer) to turn the spoken word into text and only receives the text, which it compares with the expected word and then discards. The speech service is part of the device, not of our app: on many Android phones it is provided by Google and may process the audio on Google’s servers under Google’s privacy terms; some devices process it on the device. Our app does not record, store or send any audio.
• Music World (“Listen to me”, tuners): the sound is analysed in memory, on the device, a few times per second to find the musical pitch, then thrown away. It never leaves the device.
• A grown-up can switch the microphone off in the parent area, answer “Not now” to the note, or deny the Android permission; the games then offer picture choices or “I said it” buttons.

5. Camera and photos

• Animal Snapbook: the child points the camera at a pet, a bird, a toy or a picture. An image-recognition model built into the app (MediaPipe with a MobileNet model) runs on the device to suggest which animal it is. It does not detect or recognise faces or people. Only a small thumbnail is kept, inside the app on the device, to make the collection card.
• Photo → coloring page: a grown-up or child picks a photo or takes one; it is turned into line art on the device (a built-in model, no internet). The result stays on the device unless the user prints it.
• Photos are never uploaded or shared by the app. They are only part of the Android backup and of a backup file, as explained in section 3.

6. Printing

Worksheets, writing sheets and coloring pages are printed through Android’s printing system. The page (and the optional first name typed on it) goes only to the printer or print service the user chooses (for example “Save as PDF”). We do not receive it.

7. Internet and the optional Premium subscription

All pictures, sounds, 3D worlds and recognition models are inside the app, and the activities need no internet. To keep the download small, the app downloads the natural voices of a language once, when a grown-up chooses to, from our website owlbuddyworlds.com (hosted by Cloudflare). This download sends no personal information, only the technical data that every internet request reveals (such as the IP address); afterwards the voices work offline. Until then the device’s own voice reads aloud. Most of the app is free. A grown-up can choose a monthly or yearly Premium subscription. The Premium page can only be opened by a grown-up, after a parent check (a multiplication question) or from the parent area; a child tapping a locked item only sees that it is not open yet, with no price and no buy button. Apart from the voice download, a device on which nobody ever opened the Premium page makes no network requests from our app.

• Payment is processed by Google Play (or Apple’s App Store on iPhone/iPad) under their own terms and privacy policies. We never receive your name, email address or payment card.
• Subscription service: RevenueCat, Inc. (USA), our service provider (processor), checks purchases and keeps the subscription status. When the Premium page is used, the RevenueCat SDK sends to RevenueCat: a random app user ID created on the device (not linked to a name, email or advertising ID), the purchase records from Google Play (product, purchase token and order ID, purchase and expiry dates, price and currency, test flag), and technical data needed to run the service (app and SDK version, Android version, device model, language/country/store country, and the IP address that every internet request reveals). RevenueCat uses this only to provide the service to us (verifying purchases, keeping the subscription status, fraud prevention). We do not use RevenueCat’s attribution or advertising integrations and do not ask it to collect device identifiers. See revenuecat.com/privacy.
• We use this information only to provide the subscription you bought, to answer support requests and to meet legal, accounting and tax obligations. We never sell it or use it for advertising.
• Managing or cancelling: Google Play › Payments & subscriptions (the parent area has a “Manage subscription” button).
• Retention: RevenueCat keeps purchase records while needed for the subscription and for legal, accounting and fraud-prevention purposes; Google keeps its own records. We can delete the RevenueCat record on request (section 11).
• Data sent to RevenueCat travels encrypted (HTTPS/TLS).

8. What we do not do

• No advertising and no advertising SDKs; the app does not request or use the Android advertising ID (AAID) and the AD_ID permission is removed from the app.
• No analytics, crash-reporting or tracking SDKs; no tracking across apps or websites; no profiling.
• No location, contacts, phone number, calendar or other device identifiers (IMEI, MAC, serial…).
• No chat, no user-to-user messages, no public profiles, no sharing of content with other users, no links to social networks.
• No online play in Owl Buddy Worlds. Playvento’s online play is switched off in the current version (games with friends are on the same device only).
• No sale or rental of personal information.

9. Children’s privacy

Owl Buddy Worlds is designed for children (about 4 to 10 years old) and their parents, and follows the Google Play Families Policy. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

• United States (COPPA). The app does not collect personal information from children. The only online data flow (section 7) is started by a parent behind a parent check, and the random app user ID it uses serves only to support the internal operation of the subscription (verifying the purchase, keeping it active), not to contact anyone, build a profile or show ads.
• Canada (PIPEDA) and Québec (Law 25). We collect personal information only from the adult who subscribes, only for the purposes stated here, with the protections of section 10. Children’s information stays on the family’s device. Privacy-protective settings are on by default: there is nothing to turn off.
• EU/UK (GDPR, UK Children’s Code). We do not process children’s personal data on our side. For the subscription, the legal bases are the performance of the contract with the paying adult and our legal obligations (accounting, tax). There is no profiling and no automated decision-making.

If you believe a child’s personal information reached us by mistake, contact us and we will delete it.

10. Where data is processed, security and incidents

Subscription data is processed by RevenueCat and Google, mainly in the United States, outside Québec and Canada; it may then be accessible to authorities under the laws of those countries. We chose these providers because they protect the information (encryption in transit and at rest, contracts limiting the use of the data to providing the service). We keep the data we access to a minimum and give access only to the person in charge (section 1). If a confidentiality incident involving personal information happens, we record it, take steps to reduce the risk and, where there is a risk of serious injury, notify the people concerned and the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec (and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada), as the law requires.

11. Your rights and how to delete data

• On the device: Clear storage in Android settings (Apps › Owl Buddy Worlds) or uninstall deletes everything; “Reset progress” in the parent area restarts the progress only. Delete any backup file you saved, and the app’s Android backup in your Google account (Google Drive › Backups) if you want.
• Subscription records: you can ask us for access, correction, deletion or a copy (portability) of the information linked to your subscription, or withdraw your consent, by writing to support@owlbuddyworlds.com. Please include the Google Play order number of the subscription (it starts with “GPA.” and is in your Google Play receipt email) so we can find the record; we do not have your name or email otherwise. We answer within 30 days. Some records may be kept where the law requires it (for example tax records), and Google keeps its own purchase records (ask Google for those).
• Complaints: you can contact the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec (cai.gouv.qc.ca), the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca), the US Federal Trade Commission, or your EU/UK data protection authority. Please contact us first: we would like to fix the problem.

12. Third-party components

The app is built with Capacitor (Ionic) and uses: the Android speech-recognition and text-to-speech services of the device (section 4); RevenueCat with Google Play Billing (section 7); MediaPipe and ONNX Runtime models that run on the device (section 5); three.js for the 3D worlds; and a small built-in plugin to save/print files. None of them is an advertising or analytics SDK, and the on-device ones send nothing. Credits and licences are listed in the app (parent area › Credits).

13. Changes

We will update this page and its date if our practices change. For an important change (for example any new online feature), we will update this policy and the Google Play “Data safety” section before the change, show a notice to parents in the app, and ask for parental consent where the law requires it.

14. Contact

9454-7916 Québec inc. · 847, rue Denise-Asselin, Beloeil (Québec) J3G 0T7, Canada · +1 514-228-5296 · Person in charge of the protection of personal information: the President · support@owlbuddyworlds.com