Last updated: August 26, 2026
Readersmith is a voice-first reading tutor for young children. It is built by a parent, for families, and this policy is written the same way: plainly. The short version — there are no accounts, no ads, no data sales, and no third-party analytics. Your child's words are used to run the tutoring conversation and are not stored on our servers.
On your device only: your child's profile (the name and emoji you pick), their reading progress, and app settings. This stays on the device. We never see it.
Voice audio: when a reading session is running, the microphone streams your child's voice to our server, which relays it to Google's Gemini API — that conversation is the tutor. We do not save recordings of your child's voice, and our production servers are built to keep the words of the conversation out of their logs. Google processes the audio as our service provider under its Gemini API terms.
On our server: an anonymous device identifier (a random token — no name, email, or phone number is ever collected), which invite code a device used and when, per-device usage counters (sessions, minutes, and spending caps that keep the service safe to run), and technical diagnostics about sessions — timings, audio quality signals, and event counts, not words.
Optional, off by default: app telemetry and crash reports are only sent if a grown-up turns them on in the app's settings.
Readersmith is made for children who cannot yet read, and it is set up and controlled by a parent or guardian: access requires a family invite code that a grown-up enters, and all settings live behind grown-up surfaces. We collect no personal information about your child — no name, no age, no contact details. The one sensitive thing the app touches, your child's voice, is used only in the moment to hold the tutoring conversation, as described above.
The operational records described above (usage counters, invite redemptions, technical diagnostics) are kept while we operate the service. To have everything associated with your device deleted, email us — deleting the app also permanently removes everything stored on the device itself.
Questions or deletion requests: aran.donohue@gmail.com.
If this policy changes, the date above changes with it, and material changes will be called out in the app's grown-up settings.