Privacy Policy

1. Who this policy covers

This policy applies to the nepalibuddy.com website and the Nepali Buddy app for iPhone, iPad and the web. Nepali Buddy is operated by FILL IN — your full legal name, an individual developer based in the United States.

It does not cover the separate, password-protected Content Studio used by our own editors to write and review lessons. That tool is not part of the app, is not available to the public, and holds no information about the families who use Nepali Buddy.

2. What the app keeps on your device

As your child works through lessons, the app records their progress so they can pick up where they left off. That includes:

• which lessons have been started and completed, and the stars earned
• saved checkpoints inside an unfinished lesson
• which words have been practised or collected
• settings such as whether romanised hints and celebration sounds are switched on

All of this stays on your device. It is stored in the app's own local storage on iPhone and iPad, or in your browser's local storage on the web. It is not transmitted to us and we have no way to read it. Deleting the app, or clearing your browser's data for this site, erases it permanently — we cannot restore it for you, because we never had a copy.

3. What the app sends over the internet

The iPhone and iPad app bundles its lessons, audio and artwork, so ordinary use needs no internet connection at all.

When you ask the app to check for new lessons, it downloads public lesson data and media from our server. It does not send your child's progress, settings or any identifier in that request. As with any request to any website, our server and the network providers in between receive the technical details needed to deliver a response — your IP address, the time, and basic device or client information. We use these only to run and secure the service.

The app contains no advertising SDK, no analytics SDK, no tracking pixels and no social media integrations. It does not access the microphone, camera, contacts, photos or location.

4. This website

nepalibuddy.com is a static website hosted on Cloudflare Pages. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics. We do not use Google Analytics or any equivalent, and there are no third-party scripts on these pages.

Cloudflare, as our hosting provider, processes requests on our behalf and keeps standard server logs — including IP addresses — for delivery, security and abuse prevention. Their handling of that data is governed by their own privacy commitments as a processor.

5. The email list

If an adult enters an email address into the "notify me" form on this site, we store three things: the email address, the date and time, and the two-letter country code that Cloudflare derives from the request. The country code helps us understand roughly where interest is coming from; we do not store the IP address it came from.

This is held in Cloudflare KV storage and is used for exactly one purpose: to send a single message when the app is available on the App Store. We do not run a newsletter. We will not sell, rent, share or otherwise disclose your address, and we will not use it to advertise anything else.

You can have your address removed at any time, for any reason and without explanation, by emailing privacy@nepalibuddy.com. We will delete it and confirm.

6. Children's privacy

Nepali Buddy is designed for children of roughly six to ten, learning alongside an adult. We have built it so that no personal information is collected from a child, at any point. There is nothing for a child to sign up for, log in to, or type their name into. There is no chat, no profile, no social feature and no way for a child to communicate with anyone through the app.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, as defined by the United States Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), or from children under the applicable age of digital consent in other countries.

The email form on this website is intended for parents and guardians only. If we become aware that an address on our list belongs to a child, we will delete it. If you believe a child has given us information, email privacy@nepalibuddy.com and we will remove it promptly.

7. Who else is involved

We keep the list of third parties as short as we can. At present it is:

• Cloudflare — hosts this website, delivers the app's lesson updates, and stores the email list.
• Apple — distributes the iPhone and iPad app. Anything you do in the App Store itself, including downloads and any App Analytics Apple reports to us in aggregate, is governed by Apple's own privacy policy, not this one.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for advertising or any form of cross-context behavioural advertising.

8. How long we keep things

Email addresses are kept until the launch message has been sent, or until you ask us to remove yours — whichever comes first — after which they are deleted. Server logs are retained only for the short period needed for security and reliability. Your child's progress is not kept by us at all; it lives on your device for as long as you keep the app installed.

9. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export or delete the personal information an organisation holds about you, and to object to its processing. Because the only thing we hold is an email address you gave us voluntarily, we can satisfy all of these by telling you what we have and deleting it on request.

Write to privacy@nepalibuddy.com and we will respond. You do not need to explain why.

10. Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle information, we will update this page and move the "last updated" date at the top. If a change is significant — for example, if we ever began collecting something new — we will say so clearly here rather than quietly amending the text.

11. Contact

Privacy questions: privacy@nepalibuddy.com
Anything else: hello@nepalibuddy.com