Privacy Policy

Last updated: 7 October 2026

This policy explains how Spots, the times-tables app for iPhone and iPad, and this website handle information. Spots is made by Salimov Studios (“we”, “us”).

The short version

• Spots collects nothing about your child. Its App Store privacy label lists two items, neither linked to you: Purchases and Product Interaction (the anonymous step counts in section 5).
• No accounts, no ads and no tracking. Purchases are checked through RevenueCat (section 4), and a small counter of ours counts how far families get through setup, without knowing who anyone is (section 5).
• Your children’s names and progress stay on your iPhone or iPad.
• Apple handles every payment. We never see your payment details.

1. Who is responsible

Salimov Studios makes Spots and runs this website. Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Salimov Studios is the controller for the small amount of personal data we handle, which in practice means emails you send us and the purchase records described in section 4. You can reach us at salimovstudios@gmail.com.

2. What the app keeps on your device

To work, Spots stores a few things in its own storage on your iPhone or iPad:

• each child’s name, if you enter one (a first name or nickname is plenty), and their ladybug colour;
• their progress: which facts they have met and know, how quickly they answer, badges, diplomas, checks and practice days;
• your settings, such as language, school system, sound and practice time.

This information stays on the device. It is never sent to us or to anyone else, and we cannot see it. Like other app data, iOS may include it in your device’s backups (iCloud Backup or a backup on a computer). Those backups belong to your Apple Account, and we have no access to them.

The app also notes which steps it has already counted (section 5), so that none is counted twice.

3. What the app never does

• It has no accounts and no sign-in.
• It shows no ads of any kind.
• It contains no advertising or tracking tools, and no analytics from other companies.
• Nothing about your child ever leaves the device. The only thing the app sends us is the anonymous step counts in section 5.
• It sends no notifications.
• It does not ask for your location, contacts, camera or microphone, and it does not read your photos.

4. Purchases

Plans, the free trial and the lifetime purchase are sold through Apple’s App Store, under Apple’s own terms and privacy policy. We never receive your name, your Apple Account details or your payment details.

To know which tables to open, the app uses RevenueCat (RevenueCat, Inc., in the United States), a service many apps use for subscriptions. When the app starts, and after a purchase or restore, it sends RevenueCat the App Store’s record of this Apple Account’s purchases of Spots (which plan, when it started and renews, and the store’s country), with a random ID the app makes on the device. RevenueCat tells the app which plan is active and shows us totals in its dashboard. It never receives your name, email or payment details, your child’s name or progress, or your device’s advertising ID, and it does not track you across apps. RevenueCat handles this for us under its privacy policy, possibly outside your country, including in the United States. Our legal basis is giving you the plan you bought (GDPR Article 6(1)(b)).

Apple also gives us sales and subscription reports in App Store Connect. These show totals by country and product and do not tell us who you are.

5. Counting how far families get

To see which parts of setting up Spots are unclear, the app counts how many families reach each step, such as the welcome, each question, the plans and the child’s first check. The first time a step is reached on a device, the app sends a small counter of ours the step’s name, the day the app was first opened, the school system and language it started with, and the app’s version. It also tells the counter, once each, when the app is opened again a day, a week and two weeks after that first day.

The counter adds one to a total and keeps nothing else. No ID of any kind is sent or kept, and nothing about your child (no name, answers or progress) or about your device. The counter runs on Cloudflare, which, like any web host, receives the request’s IP address in order to deliver it; our counter does not keep it, and its request logs are off. Because no count points to anyone, we cannot find, show or delete one family’s counts. Our legal basis for the request itself is our legitimate interest in making Spots easy to set up (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)).

6. Files you choose to share

Some features make a file you can send on: a calendar entry for your practice time, the weekly card, a diploma or certificate, and the paper check sheet. They are made on your device and go nowhere until you pick a destination in the iOS share sheet, such as Messages, Mail, Photos, a printer or your calendar. From then on, the file is handled by you and the service you chose. We never receive a copy.

7. What Apple may share with us

If you have agreed, in your device settings, to share analytics with app developers, Apple may give us crash reports and usage statistics. Apple collects this, not Spots. It does not identify you, and Apple’s privacy policy covers it.

8. Children

Spots is made for children aged 6 to 10 and follows the rules of Apple’s Kids Category. We built it so that no personal information about a child ever reaches us:

• a child’s name and progress stay on the device;
• there are no ads, no analytics from other companies and no links out of the child’s part of the app;
• purchases, settings, sharing and links to this website are in the grown-ups area, behind a parental gate.

Because we collect no personal data from children, we never rely on a child’s consent for anything, including under Article 8 of the GDPR. If a child writes to us, we will reply to a parent where we can and delete the child’s details.

The parental gate shows a number written in words and asks for it in digits. It keeps younger children out of the grown-ups area, but it is not a password. If you want every purchase to need your approval, use Ask to Buy or Screen Time.

9. Deleting data

• One child: in the grown-ups area, open Settings and remove the child. Their name and progress are deleted from that device.
• Everything: delete the app. iOS removes its storage with it.

Older copies can stay in device backups until those backups are replaced or deleted. We hold no copy of this data. Purchases belong to your Apple Account, not to this data, so you can restore them after reinstalling. To have the purchase records at RevenueCat (section 4) deleted, write to us; your plan stays with your Apple Account.

10. When you write to us

If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you write. We use it only to answer you and handle any follow-up. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering your question (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). We keep the conversation as long as that takes, and delete it when you ask.

Our email is provided by Google (Gmail), so messages are stored on Google’s servers, which may be outside your country, including in the United States. Please don’t send us personal details about your child.

11. This website

This website uses no cookies, no analytics, no ads and no tracking. It loads nothing from other companies: the fonts and images come from this site. It is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes your IP address and basic request details to deliver the pages and protect them from abuse; see Cloudflare’s privacy policy. We have not turned on any analytics for this site.

12. Your rights

The app’s data is on your device, so you can see, change and delete it yourself at any time. For anything we hold (in practice, emails you have sent us and the purchase records at RevenueCat), you can write to us to:

• get a copy of it;
• have it corrected or deleted;
• restrict or object to how we use it.

In the EU or Norway, you can also complain to your data protection authority: in the Netherlands the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, in Belgium the Data Protection Authority, in Sweden IMY and in Norway Datatilsynet.

In Australia, we follow the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988. You can ask us for access to, or correction of, personal information we hold about you. If you are not happy with our answer, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).

13. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will post the new version here with a new date. If a version of the app would ever collect anything more, we will update this policy and the App Store privacy label before that version is released.

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