Privacy Policy

Effective October 11, 2026

The Lockodile app does not collect, share or sell any personal information. Everything the app uses stays on the iPad it runs on. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking.

What stays on the iPad

• Settings: the parent PIN, earning rules and chosen challenges.
• Stories: built-in stories and any stories a parent adds.
• History: a record of each challenge (date, score, level, words read, time earned), shown in the parent Report. A Report is only shared if a parent shares its PDF.

This information is never sent to us or anyone else. Deleting Lockodile deletes all of it.

Microphone and speech recognition

Lockodile uses the microphone only while a child reads a story out loud or practices words, and the screen shows when it's listening. It never listens in the background. Each word is checked by speech recognition that runs on the iPad. The recording is not saved and is never sent anywhere. The recognized text, which can include anything else said nearby while listening, is kept in the history on the iPad.

Camera and photos

A parent can photograph a book page to add it as a story. The text is read from the photo on the iPad. Photos are not sent anywhere.

Screen Time

Lockodile uses Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) to lock the apps and websites a parent picks. Apple's system hides which apps were picked, so Lockodile can't see their names or how they are used. Lockodile never shares Screen Time information.

Children

Lockodile is set up by a parent for a child. It does not collect personal information from children.

Beta testers and feedback

These are the only places we collect anything, and only what you type in:

• Signing up to test: your name, email, whether the Apple Account on your child's iPad is under 13 (which decides how the app is installed), and optionally your children's ages, your iPad model and how you heard about Lockodile. We use your email to send the TestFlight invitation through Apple or the direct install link, and to contact you about testing. Apple's TestFlight handles the invitation under Apple's privacy policy.
• Feedback: what you write, plus your email if you give it. Opening the form from the app also fills in the app version and iPad model. The text (without your email or name) goes into our private project tracker so we can fix and plan.

This is kept on Cloudflare, which runs the website, and is never sold or shared. We don't ask for children's names. Ask us to delete your information at any time.

Changes

If a future version adds a feature that sends any information off the iPad, this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the feature will be explained in the app.

Contact

The Lockodile app and this website are run by Lockodile LLC, an Arizona company.

Questions about privacy: support@lockodile.com