Kiko Privacy Policy

• No account or login for the child, ever.
• No collection of email, phone number, precise location or photos.
• No camera or microphone access — the built-in narration speaks to the child; it does not record them.
• Learning progress, drawings and settings are stored in a local database on the device and are not synced to any server.
• Ads (where shown — see below) are never personalised and are never shown inside a lesson.

Kiko is made by AXPERTZ, the software product brand of AXPERTZ ONLINE CONNECT LLP, based in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. For the purposes of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we act as the party responsible for the data practices described in this policy.

Kiko is directed at children roughly 5–10 years old, and is also used directly by parents to set up a profile and review progress. Because it is child-directed, we apply COPPA (United States), the UK Age Appropriate Design Code principles, and the children's-data provisions of India's DPDP Act as a baseline for the whole app — not only for verified-child users.

During setup, a parent or child chooses a language, a grade level, a first name (or nickname) and a cartoon avatar for each child profile. Up to four profiles are supported on one paid subscription. None of this is a real identity check, and none of it is transmitted off the device — it is written to a local SQLite database that lives in the app's own storage.

Behind a simple number-sequence lock (to keep small fingers out, not to authenticate an identity), a parent can see a weekly progress report, set screen-time and bedtime limits, manage child profiles, and reach subscription and account-deletion controls. Nothing typed into the parent zone leaves the device either — there is no AXPERTZ server that Kiko reports to.

Kiko Plus, the optional paid subscription, is sold and billed entirely through Apple's App Store or Google Play's in-app purchase systems. AXPERTZ never sees or stores your card number, billing address or Apple/Google account details — that relationship, and its own privacy protections, are with Apple or Google. AXPERTZ only receives confirmation of which subscription is active, so the app can unlock the paid content.

On Android, a small banner ad may appear on menu and results screens for users who have not subscribed to Kiko Plus — never inside a lesson, a quiz, or the drawing canvas. Every ad request is sent to Google's AdMob with two settings forced on in code, not configurable from a dashboard: non-personalised ads only, and Google's child-directed treatment flag. This means no behavioural profiling, no ad tracking identifiers, and no interest-based targeting — which is what COPPA and India's DPDP Act require for advertising reaching children. Kiko Plus subscribers see no ads on either platform.

We do not sell, rent or trade any data. Because a child's learning data never leaves the device, there is nothing about your child for us to share in the first place. The only third parties involved in Kiko at all are:

• Apple and Google, to process a subscription purchase (they hold the payment relationship, not us).
• Google AdMob, to serve the non-personalised Android banner ad described above — receiving only what is needed to serve an ad (such as approximate ad-request context), never a child's name, profile, or in-app activity.

Kiko is built so that COPPA's and the DPDP Act's children's-data protections are the default for every user, not a mode a parent has to switch on: no account creation for the child, no collection of persistent identifiers tied to a real child's identity, no behavioural advertising, and no data transmitted off the device in the first place. Because there is no server-side collection to consent to, Kiko does not operate a "verifiable parental consent" flow of the kind COPPA describes for apps that do collect children's data — there is nothing collected that would trigger it.

If a parent believes their child has entered personal information anywhere in the app despite these safeguards, contact us at the email below and we will help you locate and remove it — though in practice this would require finding a text field the app does not have.

Because a child's data is stored only in the app's private, sandboxed storage on their own device — the same protection iOS and Android give to every app's local data — there is no AXPERTZ server or database holding it that could be breached. The security question that matters most for Kiko is physical: anyone with access to the unlocked device can open the app. The parent-zone number lock keeps a young child out of settings and purchases; it is not a substitute for normal device security.

Local data (profile, progress, drawings) is kept for as long as the app remains installed, so learning can resume where it left off. It is removed the moment the app is uninstalled, or immediately if a parent uses "Delete everything" in the parent zone.

If what Kiko collects or how it handles advertising changes, this page will be updated and the "last updated" date below will change. Material changes affecting children's data will also be reflected in the app's own in-app privacy summary before the update reaches users.

Questions about this policy, or about a child's data in Kiko, can be sent to axpertzpro@gmail.com. Our grievance officer for data-protection matters is Suraj Chandravanshi, CEO (Grievance Officer).