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Privacy Policy
Last updated: 25 September 2026
Pip's Story Studio ("Story Studio" on your home screen, "the app") is an app for children aged 4–7 who make their own animated stories, published by Future Bloom Studio ("we", "us"). Because our users are children, we built the app so that there is as little to say in this policy as possible. It applies to the iOS and Android versions of the app (package com.futurebloomstudio.storystudio).
We do not collect, store, or transmit any personal information about you or your child. There are no accounts, no sign-up, no advertising, no analytics, no tracking, no subscriptions, and no third-party services collecting data through this app.
The one optional purchase, Story Studio Plus, is made by a grown-up behind the parental gate and handled entirely by the App Store or Google Play. Everything your child makes stays on your device unless you, a grown-up, choose to share it.
What the app stores, and where
The app saves a small amount of information on the device only:
- The first name or nickname your child types (or says) during setup, their age band and the buddy character they picked — used to greet them and to label the stories they export
- The stories themselves: which heroes, places, feelings, actions and speech lines are in each scene
- Your settings from the Grown-ups area: app language, sound effects, Story Helper on or off, and which idea themes are allowed
- Exported videos and PDF storybooks, until you delete them
- Whether Story Studio Plus has been purchased
This never leaves the device. It is not sent to us, it is not backed up to any cloud service (we have deliberately turned off cloud backup of app data on Android), and it is not shared with anyone. "Delete this child's data" in the Grown-ups area removes all of it, and so does deleting the app.
What your child can create
A story in Story Studio is put together from the app's own pieces — six heroes, six places, six feelings, five actions, a handful of fixed speech lines and the Story Helper's ready-made scene ideas. There is no free typing anywhere a child plays, no drawing, no photos and no recording. Nothing a child makes is ever shown to other users or published anywhere.
The microphone
During setup, a child can tap the microphone to say their name instead of typing it. Here is exactly what happens:
- The microphone is used only for that moment, only after the child taps it, and only on the setup screen.
- Speech is turned into text on your device, using the speech recognition built into your phone or tablet. The only thing kept is the name that ends up in the name field.
- The app never records, saves, or uploads audio. If your device has no on-device recognition for your language, the microphone button simply does not appear and the name is typed.
Read-aloud and the Story Helper
- Captions and screen titles are read aloud by the text-to-speech voice already on your device. No text is sent anywhere to be spoken.
- The Story Helper suggests scene ideas built only from the app's own characters, places and feelings, from a list of ideas written and reviewed by us and shipped inside the app. In the version on the stores the Story Helper works entirely offline and contacts no server.
Exporting and sharing — grown-ups only
Behind a parental gate (a multiplication question on the app's own keypad), a grown-up can:
- Save a story as a video to your device's photo library. The app asks for add-only access to Photos; it never reads your pictures.
- Share a video or a PDF storybook through your device's normal share sheet, to whichever app or person you choose. The file goes where you send it and nowhere else; we never receive it.
The app on the stores has no upload feature and no server of its own. A future version may offer an optional "Send to family" link that uploads a single video to our own server for up to 30 days; if it ever ships, it will be off by default, switched on only by a grown-up behind the gate, described in this policy before it appears, and never used for anything but that one link.
What the app does not do
- No user accounts, logins, or profiles stored anywhere but your device.
- No advertising of any kind, and no ad networks.
- No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, or usage tracking.
- No subscriptions and no consumable purchases.
- No social features, chat, messaging, or public sharing of anything a child makes.
- No links out to websites from anywhere a child can reach.
- No internet access at all in the app you download from the stores: on Android it does not even ask for the internet permission.
- No selling or sharing of personal information. There is none to sell.
The one purchase: Story Studio Plus
The app is free. Three fairy tales and two studio books can be read by everyone; the rest of the bookshelf and the video and PDF exports come with Story Studio Plus, a single purchase that is never repeated and never renews. It is sold only in the Grown-ups area, behind the parental gate. The child's bookshelf shows the other books with a lock; tapping one opens the parental gate, and no screen a child uses shows a price or a purchase button.
The payment is made in the App Store or Google Play purchase sheet, under the rules and the payment method of that store account. The app receives only the store's confirmation and remembers it on the device. We receive no card details, no name and no account identifier; the app has no server to send them to. "Restore purchase" asks the store for an earlier purchase on a new device. Refunds are handled by the store, under its rules. Those companies process the payment under their own privacy policies:
- Apple — https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
- Google — https://policies.google.com/privacy
Children's privacy
This app is intended for children and is designed to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the United States, the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, and the GDPR's protections for children (including Article 8) in the EU and UK, as well as the Google Play Families policy and Apple's Kids Category requirements.
Because we collect no personal data from anyone, there is no data for a parent to review, correct, export, or ask us to delete. If you wish to remove everything the app has stored, use "Delete this child's data" in the Grown-ups area, or delete the app.
Permissions we request
| Permission | Why | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Microphone / speech recognition | So a child can say their name during setup instead of typing it; recognised on the device | Optional — asked only when the child taps the microphone; typing always works |
| Photos (add only) | To save an exported video to your photo library | Optional — asked only when a grown-up taps "Save to Photos" |
The app requests no location, contacts, camera, calendar or background activity.
Store privacy declarations
- Apple App Privacy: Data Not Collected.
- Google Play Data safety: No data collected; no data shared.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top and publish the new version at this address before the change takes effect. Material changes — for example an optional sharing feature that uses the internet — will also be described in the app's release notes.
Contact us
Questions about privacy, or about this app:
Future Bloom Studio
Email: support@futurebloomstudio.com
We aim to reply within 30 days.