In short
- We collect no data. There are no accounts and no server of ours receives any data. No analytics, ads or tracking, and no in-app purchases.
- Everything stays on the device: the (optional) name, the age, progress and the album photos.
- Never the camera, never the microphone. Album photos only show scenes from the game.
- The voice is the device's own text-to-speech (Apple, Google or the phone's maker).
- You can delete everything whenever you like, from the parents' area or by uninstalling the app.
1. Who we are
Mondolino is an app by Davide Volpato (“we”). For any privacy question, write to us at [EMAIL DI CONTATTO].
This policy covers the Mondolino app for iPhone, iPad and Android, the version you play in the browser, and this website, [DOMINIO]. A short version can also be read inside the app, offline: parents' area › Privacy & info.
2. What data we collect
None. Mondolino has no accounts and never asks you to sign up. No server of ours receives any data from the app or from the browser game.
We use no analytics, no advertising, no third-party SDKs that collect data and no tracking. There are no in-app purchases. We do not sell or share anyone's data, because we do not receive any.
3. What stays on the device
To work, the game saves some information in the device's memory (localStorage and IndexedDB, the local storage areas of the app or the browser). It stays there and is not sent to us or anyone else:
- the child's first name, if the parent chooses to type it (it is optional);
- the age;
- the gender, used only for Italian grammar (“bravo” or “brava”);
- the animal chosen as a friend;
- progress in the game, daily play time, settings, prizes and the friend's clothes;
- the memory album photos (see point 4).
In the iPhone, iPad and Android app, the game also keeps a safety copy of the save in the app's private storage (the system preferences), because when space runs low the phone sometimes clears the built-in browser's storage. This copy stays on the device too.
This information is used only by the game: to remember where the child is, to fit the activities to their age and to what they already know, and to respect the play time set by the parent. After 45 days, the details of each play day are reduced to totals.
4. The album photos
While playing, Mondolino takes its own “photos” of special moments. They are pictures of the game's own 3D scenes: the app never uses the device's camera or microphone.
The photos stay on the device and are never uploaded. From the parents' area, a grown-up can choose to download one or share it through the system share sheet. In that case, they decide where it goes and with which app.
5. The voice
Mondolino speaks through the device's own text-to-speech engine, provided by the phone's maker, by Google or by Apple. In the browser it uses the browser's speech synthesis.
To do this, the text of the game's sentences is handed to that system engine. The sentences may include the child's first name, if one was entered.
Some text-to-speech engines and some browsers may use online voices. In that case the text is processed by their provider, under that provider's privacy policy. Mondolino itself sends nothing. In the browser, Mondolino picks a voice that runs on the device by default: online voices are marked ☁︎ in parents' area › Settings › Voices, and are used only if you choose one or if no other voice exists.
Mondolino never records any voice and never uses the microphone.
6. Backups
Device backups. If the phone's or tablet's own backup is on (for example iCloud or Google), Mondolino's data is included in it like any other app's data, in your own account. We never receive it.
“Copy backup”. In the parents' area, the “Copy backup” button copies the game's data (not the photos) to the device's clipboard, so you can move it to another device with “Restore backup”. This also happens only on the device: where you paste that text is up to you.
7. Permissions
- Android. The app asks for no permissions while in use. It only declares internet access, which the framework it is built with requires; the game itself makes no network requests. It may check which text-to-speech engines are installed, to find the voices, and it keeps the screen on while the child plays.
- iPhone and iPad. The app does not ask for access to the camera, microphone, photos, location or contacts.
- Browser. The game asks for no permissions.
8. The parents' area
Settings, the album and any external link sit behind a parental gate: to get in, you type in digits a number written out in words. It is a check designed for adults, which a young child will not pass by accident.
9. How to delete data
- Everything: parents' area › Settings › Data › “Reset everything”. It deletes all the game's data, photos included.
- A single photo: parents' area › Album tab.
- Uninstalling the app, or clearing the site's data in the browser, deletes everything.
There is nothing to ask us: we hold no copies of your data. Step-by-step instructions are on the Support page.
10. The web version and this site
This site and the browser version are static files hosted by [HOSTING PROVIDER]. Like any hosting service, the provider may keep standard technical logs (for example IP address, browser type, date and time of the request) for the security and operation of the service, under its own privacy policy.
The site and the game use no cookies, analytics or tracking tools, and load nothing from other servers: even the fonts are hosted on the site. After the first visit the web version also works offline, because the game's files stay in the browser's storage.
11. Children and privacy laws
Mondolino is designed for children aged 3 to 6, to be used together with a parent or another adult.
Laws such as COPPA (United States), the GDPR (European Union, including Italy) and the personal data protection law of the United Arab Emirates give precise rights over how data is collected and used, especially children's data. Mondolino collects no personal data from children or adults, so there is nothing to request, correct or delete from us. The data stays on the device and the parent controls it directly: they can see it, change it and delete it at any time.
If you have any doubts you can write to us, and you always have the right to contact the data protection authority in your country.
12. App Store and Google Play
If you download Mondolino from the App Store or Google Play, downloads and updates are handled by Apple or Google under their own privacy policies.
13. Changes
If anything changes, we update this page and the date at the top. If a change ever concerned data, we would say so clearly here before it reached the app.