Sparkwild Privacy Policy
Last updated November 9, 2026 (error reports)
Sparkwild is a learning game for kids and teens. It is built for families. This page explains what the game stores and why. In short, the Sparkwild game has no ads, no tracking and no social features, and we never sell or share anyone's information. The only ads are on our public parents page, which is for grown-ups, not the game. Sparkwild Plus is an optional family subscription that only a grown-up can start, behind the Grown-ups PIN; kids never see prices or purchase screens.
What Sparkwild stores
- Player profiles: a nickname (we ask kids to use a nickname, not a real name), the grade they chose, their chosen world and buddy, and their game progress, such as answers, skills practiced, stars, minutes played and story summaries they write.
- Family account (optional): if a grown-up creates a family, we store the family name they type, the grown-up's email address, the password in a protected (hashed) form (we never store the password itself), and the grown-ups PIN in a protected (hashed) form.
- Sparkwild Plus status: when a family account is created (which starts the free month) or a grown-up subscribes, we store the trial start date and subscription status on the family account, so Plus works on every device.
- Player PINs: each player's secret 4-digit PIN is stored only in a protected (hashed) form, so nobody can read it back.
The grown-up's email is used only to sign in and to send one-time codes (to confirm the email, reset the password, or reset the grown-ups PIN). We never send marketing emails and never share the address. Sparkwild does not collect children's emails, phone numbers, real names, photos, location, contacts or device advertising IDs.
Where it is stored
- On the device: progress is always saved on the device so the game works offline.
- In the cloud (only if a grown-up signs in with the family email): each player's progress is also saved to Sparkwild's server, hosted by Netlify in the United States, so it can sync between your family's devices. Only someone who signs in with the family's email and password can load it. All data travels over encrypted (HTTPS) connections.
Other services
- Read-aloud voice: to read questions and stories aloud in a natural voice, the game's own text (not anything personal) is sent through our server to Google Cloud Text-to-Speech, which returns the audio. Grown-ups can switch to the device's built-in voice on the Grown-ups page, which keeps all speech on the device.
- School videos (Spark TV, off by default): real lesson videos are turned off unless a grown-up switches on "Allow YouTube videos in Spark TV" on the Grown-ups page. When on, videos play through YouTube in its privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). When a video plays, YouTube (Google) receives a standard request from the device. Search, comments and links out to YouTube are blocked. YouTube may show ads and collects data under Google's policies. While videos are off, nothing is loaded from YouTube. See Google's privacy policy.
- Payments (when available): Sparkwild Plus subscriptions are processed by Apple (App Store), Google (Google Play) or Stripe (website). They tell us the subscription status, never card details, and no payment information is ever collected from children.
- Email delivery: one-time codes are sent through Resend, an email delivery service, which receives the email address and the message.
- Fonts: the game may load its fonts from Google Fonts, which receives a standard web request (including the device's IP address) when the fonts load.
- Hosting: Netlify, which runs the website and save server, keeps standard short-term server logs (such as IP address and request time) for security and reliability.
The game does not use analytics, advertising or tracking services. Our public parents page, a separate web page for grown-ups, may show ads from Google AdSense. Google may use cookies there under Google's advertising policies. These ads never appear inside the game or the apps.
Error reports: when something goes wrong in the game (an error, or a file that fails to load), the game sends a short anonymous report to our own server so we can fix it. No outside crash or analytics company is involved. A report contains the error message and where in the game's code it happened, which screen, world and game mode was open, the game version, and the device and browser type. It also carries a random ID made up on that device, used only to tell whether one device or many are seeing the same problem. It is never linked to a family account, a player, a name or an email. Emails, codes and web address details are removed from the error text before it is sent. Reports are not used for advertising or tracking and are deleted after 60 days.
Children's privacy
Sparkwild is designed for children and is meant to be set up by a parent or guardian. The only optional account is a family account, created by a grown-up behind a "Grown-ups" area. We collect only what the game needs to save progress, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children beyond a nickname they choose.
Your choices
- Play on one device without any account by choosing "Play on this device only".
- Remove a player's progress from the device with "Reset progress" on the Grown-ups page, or by deleting the app.
Deleting a player or your account
- Delete one player: on the Who's playing screen, tap the player's delete button and enter the grown-ups PIN. Their progress is removed from the device and from the cloud.
- Delete the whole family account, in the app: open Grown-ups (enter the grown-ups PIN), scroll to Delete data and tap Delete account & cloud data. After you type DELETE to confirm, we immediately delete the family account, the email address, every player's cloud save and any pending sign-in codes, and the app erases its data on the device and returns to the start screen.
- Delete this device's data only: in the same place, Delete this device's data only erases every player and all Sparkwild data on the device but leaves the cloud account untouched.
- If you can't use the app: email jcreatives1x@gmail.com from the family's email address with the subject "Delete my Sparkwild account" and we will delete the account within 7 days. See also our support page.
Contact
Developer: Sparkwild. Questions or deletion requests: jcreatives1x@gmail.com. More help is on our support page. See also our Terms of Use.
If we change this policy, we will update this page and the date at the top.