Squiggle Magic Draw
Squiggle Magic Draw is a drawing game made for children and families. It has no accounts or sign-in, and it never asks for a name, email address, phone number, photo or any other personal information. It has no chat, messaging or social features, no advertising and no in-app purchases.
Your child's drawings are stored only on the device, in the app's own storage. We never receive, upload or see them. A drawing leaves the device only when someone taps Save to Photos, which saves a copy to the device's photo library, or Share, which hands a copy to another app chosen through the system share sheet. Deleting a drawing in the app, or deleting the app, removes the app's copies.
The app uses Google Analytics for Firebase to count how it is used: for example which screens are opened, when a drawing is started, saved or shared, and which tools are chosen. With those events it sends basic technical information: the app version, the device model and operating system version, a random app-instance identifier that Firebase creates for the installation, an approximate location (country or region) that Google derives from the network connection and, on Android, the Google Play install referrer. None of this is linked to your child's identity, and we cannot use it to identify anyone. We use it only to understand which features are used and where something goes wrong, so that we can fix problems and improve the app. It is sent over an encrypted connection.
Every advertising feature is switched off. The app does not collect the Android advertising ID or Apple's advertising identifier (IDFA), Firebase's advertising storage and ad personalisation are disabled, and the app's analytics data is never used for advertising, for tracking across other apps or websites, or for building profiles, and is never sold. Google processes it on our behalf; see policies.google.com/privacy.
On Android the app uses internet access to send the usage statistics above and, on Android 9 and older only, storage access to save a drawing to your photos when you ask it to. On iPhone and iPad it asks for permission to add pictures to your photo library the first time you tap Save to Photos, and cannot read the photos already there. The app never uses the camera, microphone, contacts or precise location. It also asks Google Play or the App Store whether a newer version is available, which sends nothing about your child.
Drawings stay on the device until you delete them or the app. Usage statistics are kept by Google Analytics for a limited period and then deleted automatically, and we only look at them in aggregate. Deleting the app also deletes its app-instance identifier. Parents and guardians can contact us at privacy@flashco.xyz with any question about the app or to ask us to delete its usage data.