Privacy, kept short.

Nothing about your child

This is the heart of it: nothing about your child ever leaves the phone — no child profiles, no progress files, no behavioural data, no analytics reach us. In the app, learning content and narration are fetched anonymously, so we hold no record of what your child read, tapped, or played. A “kid space” is only a parent-chosen nickname, a symbol, and an age range — never your child’s real name, photo, voice, or any identifier. How much time each kid has used or earned lives only on the device — for your eyes, never ours — and resets daily. Private by construction, not by policy: our servers have no place to put a child’s data.

What we collect (from you, the parent)

In the app: your phone number. You sign in with it and a one-time code we text you — there is no password, and no Google or email sign-in. Your number isyour account: it is what your subscription is held against, which is why Slate works on any phone you sign in on. Kid spaces live only on your phone — our servers store nothing about them. Slate holds no passcode of its own: ending Slate Time uses your phone’s own lock, which we never see. (Older versions of the app kept a Slate parent code on the phone. It never left the device either, and updating from the store removes it.)

When you pay: the payment itself is handled by the store — Google Play Billing on Android, Apple’s In-App Purchase on iPhone and iPad — or by Razorpay if you subscribe on this website. Your card number, CVV, UPI PIN and bank login never reach us — you type those into the payment provider, never into Slate. What we keep is your subscription’s state (which plan, whether it renewed, when it runs out) and the receipt the provider sends us. For a web payment that receipt can name the method used — a masked card, meaning its last four digits and issuer, or your UPI ID — and we keep it as the record of what you paid.

On this website: nothing personal for simply reading it — the site keeps only anonymous counts, like which link brought you. Joining the community happens on WhatsApp, not here. If you subscribe here, it is the same phone number and one-time code as the app, and Razorpay takes it from there.

One piece of history: an early version of this site had a waitlist form that asked for a name and phone number. The form is gone and we collect neither here any more. If you signed up through it back then, email us and we’ll delete your entry.

What we never do

We do not sell your data. We show no ads, and the app contains no third-party advertising, analytics, or tracking SDKs. We do not follow you across other companies’ apps or websites, and we hand nothing to ad networks or data brokers. We do not send marketing spam. And — to say it plainly — we never track your child.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit. Your account is protected by your phone number and the one-time code sent to it, and ending a Slate session requires your phone’s own lock — Face ID, Touch ID, a fingerprint, or your PIN, pattern or passcode. That check is the operating system’s; Slate is only told whether it passed.

Children’s privacy

Slate is used by a child but set up and managed by a parent. Because nothing about the child ever leaves the device, we meet children’s-privacy rules — India’s DPDP Act and equivalents elsewhere — by design. A parent is always in control.

Your rights (DPDP Act)

Under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, you can ask us to show, correct, or delete your data, and withdraw consent, at any time. Email support@slatekids.com and we’ll act promptly.

When you delete your account — from Settings → Delete account in the app, or by writing to us — your number, your subscription record and everything else held against it go, and it cannot be undone. If that number bought a plan through the App Store or Google Play, or used a free trial, one small record stays behind: a scrambled, one-way form of the number (the digits cannot be read back out of it), the store’s reference for that plan, and which free trial the number used. If it did neither — no store plan and no trial — nothing stays behind at all, and a plan bought on this website leaves no store reference either.

That record holds no name, no digits, no payment details and nothing whatsoever about your child. It exists for two reasons: so a plan bought on one number cannot be claimed by a different number — even where the store links a later purchase to the same plan — and so a free trial cannot be taken again and again by deleting and starting over. Sign back in with the same number and you pick your own plan back up — the store part of the record is deleted the moment you do. Otherwise we stop using it two years after the deletion (or two years after the store last linked a new purchase to that plan, if that is later), and records past that point are deleted.

Changes

If anything here changes, we’ll update this page and the date above.