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Pip's Pairs — Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 1, 2026

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PARENTS: Pip's Pairs (published in Spanish as "Las Parejas de Pip") is a matching game designed for children ages 2 to 8. This policy explains, in plain language, exactly what information the app handles, what leaves your device, and how we protect your child's privacy under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), including its 2025 amendments, Google Play's Families policies, Apple's App Store Review Guidelines for the Kids Category, and the EU/UK GDPR.

Scope: This Privacy Policy covers the Pip's Pairs mobile game on both platforms it is published on: the Android application (package com.gizmotronsoftware.matchgame) downloaded from Google Play, and the iOS application (bundle identifier com.gizmotronsoftware.matchgame) downloaded from Apple's App Store. Almost everything below is true of both. Where the two platforms genuinely differ — how purchases are processed, how device backup works, how advertising identifiers are handled, and how to delete the app's data — the difference is called out in place and labelled Android or iOS; anything not so labelled applies to both. This policy does not cover our websites or our other apps, which have their own policies.

A note on the age range: the range above is the range the game is designed for. Each store also assigns the app its own age rating or age band under its own rating system, shown on that store's listing; those bands sit inside the range above.

1. OVERVIEW & COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY

Pip's Pairs was built so that gameplay works entirely offline. There are no accounts, no registration, no sign-in of any kind, and no analytics or tracking libraries in the app — the only usage statistics involved anywhere are the ad-delivery statistics described in Section 3.

Core Privacy Principles:

The app sends data off your device to only four services, and each is explained in this policy: (1) ad serving by Kidoz (Section 3), (2) crash reporting by Sentry, scrubbed of identifying details before it is sent (Section 4), (3) the store the app came from — Google Play on Android, Apple's in-app purchase system on iOS — which the app contacts to check and restore purchases and to process a parent's purchase (Section 5), and (4) your device's web browser, which opens when an adult follows the link to this privacy policy. Separately, your device's own system backup may copy the app's data into your own cloud backup — Google account backup on Android, iCloud Backup on iOS. That path is controlled entirely by your device settings and is described in Section 2.

2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Information the App Itself Collects

None that identifies your child. The app never asks for, and never collects, a name, email address, phone number, photos, contacts, precise location, or voice recordings. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to type in during play.

Settings Stored on Your Device

The app saves a small set of preferences on the device itself, so the game remembers how you like it set up:

These settings contain no identifiers, no timestamps, and no gameplay history. They stay on the device, with one standard caveat that applies on both platforms: if your device's own backup is turned on, it may include the app's data — these settings, and the crash-reporting installation identifier described in Section 4 — in your own cloud backup, exactly as it does for other apps. That backup belongs to you and is controlled entirely by your device's backup settings — we never see it, and we cannot read it.

We Do NOT Collect

Network Connections & IP Addresses

Like every internet connection made by any app, when the app contacts an ad or crash-reporting server, that server can technically see the connecting device's IP address for the duration of the connection. The app itself never sends an IP address as data. Sections 3 and 4 describe how our two service providers handle this, and Section 6 explains how COPPA treats it.

3. ADVERTISING (KIDOZ)

Pip's Pairs shows ads through Kidoz, an advertising network built specifically for children's apps. A one-time "Remove Ads" purchase (Section 5) turns advertising off completely.

Why We Trust Kidoz

What Kidoz Collects (per its privacy policy)

These specifics are drawn from Kidoz's own privacy policy (as of 16 June 2026), which you can read at: https://www.kidoz.net/privacy-policy

Apple's Ad Attribution System (SKAdNetwork) — iOS only

iOS: the app registers one advertising network with SKAdNetwork, Apple's own advertising-attribution system, because the Kidoz library requires it. SKAdNetwork is operated by Apple and is designed so that an advertiser can learn that an ad led to an install without learning who installed it; neither we nor Kidoz receive an identifier for your child from it. There is no equivalent mechanism in the Android version of the app.

How Ads Appear in Pip's Pairs

4. CRASH REPORTING & DIAGNOSTICS (SENTRY)

To find and fix bugs, the app uses Sentry (operated by Functional Software, Inc.) for crash and error reporting that is scrubbed of identifying details before it leaves the device. This is the "support for internal operations" that COPPA permits, and fixing crashes is its only purpose.

What a Crash Report Contains

What Is NEVER Sent

As a second layer of protection, every outgoing report passes through a scrubber in the app that strips IP address fields, user details, the device's network name, and web-request data before anything is transmitted. This scrubbing is covered by automated tests.

IP Addresses and Location

Connection details are not used and are not kept. In addition to the on-device scrubbing described above, our Sentry organization is configured to prevent the storage of IP addresses and to scrub server-derived location fields from incoming reports. We have verified this end-to-end: a test report submitted with an IP address and location attached is stored with both removed.

Where and How Long

Crash data is processed on Sentry's servers in the United States. We have executed Sentry's Data Processing Addendum, which incorporates the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and, for UK users, the UK Addendum to those clauses (see Section 10). Crash and error data is automatically deleted by Sentry within at most 90 days.

5. IN-APP PURCHASES & PARENTAL GATE

The "Remove Ads" Purchase

Pip's Pairs offers a single optional purchase: Remove Ads — a one-time purchase that permanently disables all advertising. The app never sees or stores payment information on either platform.

The Parental Gate

Purchases, purchase restoration, and this policy's external link live behind the app's settings screen, which is protected by an adult-verification gate: a random multiplication question that changes on every attempt and locks for 60 seconds after three wrong answers. Children cannot reach purchase screens or leave the app for the web without an adult solving the gate. This gate is the same on both platforms.

Your platform's own parental controls sit alongside ours, not instead of them, and we recommend them: on Android, Google Play's purchase authentication and Family Link; on iOS, Screen Time restrictions and Family Sharing's "Ask to Buy". Both apply to this app exactly as they do to any other.

What We Receive From a Purchase

We never receive payment card details, billing names or addresses, or Google or Apple account information — the store handles the entire payment process under its own privacy policy: Google, https://policies.google.com/privacy; Apple, https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/

The app checks with the store for existing purchases so that Remove Ads survives a reinstall or a new device without any account of ours — on Android it contacts Google Play each time it starts to do so. Entitlement state is kept on the device; we operate no server that could hold it.

Note: unlocking a free content pack by watching a rewarded video (Section 3) is not a purchase and does not use the parental gate, but it always shows its own "The video is an ad." disclosure first.

6. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY & COPPA COMPLIANCE

Our COPPA Compliance Statement

Your Rights as a Parent

You have the right to review the personal information collected from your child, to have it deleted, and to refuse any further collection or use.

Because we collect so little, here is what those rights mean in practice:

Response times: we aim to respond to urgent privacy requests within 24–48 hours and to standard requests within 10 business days.

7. INFORMATION SHARING & DISCLOSURE

We do NOT sell, rent, trade, or share personal information for marketing purposes. We do not use data brokers. The only parties that process any data in connection with Pip's Pairs are:

A copy of the app installed from one store never contacts the other store's operator.

Gizmotron LLC is the designated contact for inquiries about the information practices of every party listed above (16 CFR 312.4(d)(1)); our contact details are in Section 12.

We may disclose information if required to do so by law. Since we hold essentially no personal information, there is very little that could ever be disclosed.

8. DATA RETENTION

This is our written data retention policy, as required by COPPA (16 CFR 312.4(d)(2), as amended 2025). Data is kept only as long as reasonably necessary for the specific purpose it was collected for, and is never retained for any secondary purpose:

9. DATA SECURITY

10. USERS IN THE EU & UK (GDPR)

Who Is Responsible

Gizmotron LLC is the data controller for the processing we ourselves carry out, as described in this policy. Kidoz (ad serving, Section 3) acts as an independent controller of its own processing, as does the store the app came from — Google on Android and Apple on iOS (app distribution and payment processing, Section 5) — under their own linked policies.

Our Lawful Basis

We rely on legitimate interests (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)) for serving contextual ads and for crash diagnostics, and on contract (Article 6(1)(b)) for processing the store's purchase record and the entitlement state that make a parent's purchase work (Section 5). In relying on legitimate interests, we give particular weight to the fact that our users are children, who merit specific protection (Recital 38). The processing passes that balance precisely because of how this app is built: ads are contextual only with no profiling and no behavioral advertising, crash data is not linked to any identity we can resolve, and data collection overall is minimal. We do not, and will not, engage in behavioral advertising or profiling of children.

Your Rights

You (or a parent/guardian acting for a child) may exercise the following rights by contacting us (Section 12):

How objection (Art. 21) works in practice: the app has no in-app data toggles, so objection to ad processing is exercised by purchasing Remove Ads (which ends all advertising connections), and objection to crash diagnostics is exercised by removing the app from the device. You can also raise either by email (Section 12).

Please note that our processing does not require us to identify anyone (GDPR Art. 11): the data we handle is not linked to any identity we can resolve, so we may be unable to connect a request to any specific data. Where that is the case, Articles 15–20 may not apply, and we will tell you so in our response — in most cases the practical answer is that there is simply nothing held about you or your child.

International Transfers

Crash diagnostics are processed by Functional Software, Inc. (Sentry) on servers in the United States. We have executed Sentry's Data Processing Addendum, which incorporates the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (GDPR Art. 46(2)(c)) and, for UK users, the UK Addendum to those clauses: https://sentry.io/legal/dpa/

Ad serving is provided by Kidoz Ltd., which processes data in Israel — a country covered by a European Commission adequacy decision (GDPR Art. 45). Kidoz's practices for children in the EU are additionally certified under PRIVO's GDPRkids program.

11. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

How We Handle Updates

Notice of Changes:

Your Choices After Changes:

Changes take effect on the date posted, except for material changes affecting children's privacy, which take effect only after appropriate parental notice.

12. CONTACT INFORMATION

Company: Gizmotron LLC

75032, USA

We're happy to explain our practices. When emailing about a parental rights request, please include the app name (Pip's Pairs), the type of request (review / delete / refuse further collection), and enough information for us to verify you are the child's parent or guardian.

Questions about this Privacy Policy? Contact us at privacy@gizmotronsoftware.com.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on August 1, 2026 and is effective as of that date.