Privacy Policy
Effective date: September 29, 2026
Shaka-Luli is a math and reading game for children, made by Eugert Jani, an independent developer (called “we” and “us” below). We built it so that nothing about your child ever leaves your iPhone. This policy explains what the app keeps on the device and what it never does.
The short version
- Shaka-Luli does not collect any personal information from children or from adults.
- Nothing the app saves is sent off the device, shared with anyone or sold.
- There are no accounts, ads, in-app purchases, analytics or tracking, and no third-party SDKs that collect data.
- What the game saves stays on the iPhone and is removed when you delete the adventure or the app.
What the app keeps on your iPhone
So that your family can pick up the story where you left off, the app saves a small amount of game information in its own private storage on the device:
- adventure progress, such as districts cleared, Bright Shards and friends found, skill levels, badges and daily challenges;
- practice counts for each skill, such as how many puzzles were solved or missed, which power the My Progress screen and the weekly view in the Grown-ups area;
- the names shown for the two heroes, which are Emma and Jonus unless someone changes them (if you type your child’s own name, it stays on the device like everything else);
- the Grown-ups settings, which are the daily play-time limit and the Grown-ups PIN, stored in scrambled (hashed) form and shared by every adventure on the device;
- a sound on or off setting and a count of minutes played on each of the last seven days.
This information stays in the app’s storage on the device. The app never transmits it, and we have no way to see it.
What the app does not do
Shaka-Luli makes no network connections. It does not ask for or use the camera, microphone, photos, contacts or location. It does not use the advertising identifier or track anyone across apps and websites, and it has no chat, social features, profiles or sign-in. It contains no third-party analytics, advertising, crash-reporting or tracking SDKs. The app is built with open-source tools (Expo and React Native), and its fonts, pictures, music and voices are bundled inside it, so none of these parts send data anywhere.
Read-aloud voice
When the game reads a puzzle aloud, it uses the text-to-speech voice built into iOS, which runs on the device. Only the game’s own words are spoken. Nothing is recorded, and nothing is sent anywhere.
Children’s privacy
Shaka-Luli is directed to children. We respect the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the United States, the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation, and the UK Age Appropriate Design Code by not collecting personal information at all. Because we never receive any information about a child, there is nothing for us to use, disclose or retain, and nothing for a parent to consent to. If we ever wanted to change that, we would update this policy first and obtain verifiable parental consent wherever the law requires it.
Information handled by Apple
Apple distributes the app through the App Store, and your Apple Account, downloads and device settings are covered by Apple’s own privacy policy. If the device owner has turned on Share With App Developers in iOS Settings (under Privacy & Security, then Analytics & Improvements), Apple may give us crash reports and basic usage statistics that Apple has already stripped of personal information. We use them only to fix problems.
If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or to a computer, the backup can include the game’s saved progress together with your other app data. That backup is controlled by you and Apple, and we cannot access it.
Sharing and selling
We do not share, sell, rent or trade information about you or your child, because the app never gives us any.
Keeping and deleting information
Saved progress stays on the device until you remove it. To delete one adventure, open the app, tap Play, swipe left on the adventure under Choose your adventure, tap Delete, then tap Delete again to confirm. That removes the adventure’s progress and hero names. To remove everything the app has saved, including the Grown-ups PIN and daily limit, the sound setting and the play-time record, delete Shaka-Luli from the iPhone.
We hold no copy of anything on our side, so there is nothing for us to delete. You are still welcome to write to us with any question about your information.
Changes to this policy
If a future version of the app handles information differently, we will update this page and its effective date before that version is released.
Contact
Questions about privacy or about your child’s information can be sent to support.shakaluli@greatlair.com.