Built for children from the first line of code

What we collect about children

• A first name or nickname, an avatar, a grade and a reading voice preference (girl's or boy's voice) — no email address, photo or exact birth date.
• Game results: which levels were played, answers' correctness, hints used and stars earned.
• Nothing from the microphone or camera, and no audio is recorded.
• Read aloud uses the voices of your browser or device. Some browsers (for example Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome) use online voices that send the text being read to Microsoft or Google. PlayOwl never sends a child's name to them: anything with a name is read by a voice on the device. Our apps use the device's own voices.

What we never do

• No advertising, no advertising IDs and no selling or renting data.
• No chat with strangers, no public profiles and no popularity rankings.
• No webcam monitoring or attention tracking.

Guest play

Guests can play free levels without an account. Their stars are kept only in this browser and disappear if the browser's storage is cleared. Nothing about a guest is sent to us unless a grown-up later chooses to save it to a child's profile.

Website visit statistics

This website uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are useful. It receives the page address (without anything after a "?"), the page before it, the browser and device type and the IP address that every website sees, and it keeps an identifier in its own cookie. We never send names, accounts, children's profiles or game answers, and Google's advertising features (Google signals and ad personalisation) are turned off. The PlayOwl app (where accounts and child profiles live) does not use Google Analytics.

Your controls

Parents can review and download their children's data and delete a child's profile; the Children's Privacy Notice explains exactly what deleting removes. Privacy controls are always free.