Privacy Policy

Who we are

Colorful is made and published by Utsav Patel (“we”, “us”), an independent developer. This policy covers the Colorful iPhone and iPad app and the pages served from erbittuu-studio.web.app. Questions go to utsavhacker@gmail.com.

What stays on the device

Everything a child makes:

• Drawings. Each page a child colors — the filled areas, the crayon strokes, the patterns and the undo history — is written into the app’s own private storage on the device. It is not uploaded, not backed up to us, and not visible to anyone but the person holding the device.
• Preferences. Whether the app speaks colour names aloud, and whether it is set to day or night, are stored on the device.
• Downloaded pages. The artwork the app fetches on first launch is kept on the device so it works offline afterwards. Clearing it in Settings removes it.

If the device owner uses the share button to save a finished picture to Photos, print it, or send it to someone, that is the device doing it, at their instruction. The picture goes where they send it; it does not come to us.

What we do receive

The app sends us nothing. It has no crash reporter, no analytics, no usage-measurement service and no advertising service. The only outside request it makes is to download the artwork, described next.

Serving the artwork

On first launch, and occasionally afterwards to check for new pages, the app requests files from raw.githubusercontent.com, where GitHub, Inc. hosts them. Like any web server, GitHub logs those requests, including the IP address that made them, and retains those logs under GitHub’s own privacy statement. We do not use them to build any profile of a user.

What we never collect

Tracking, advertising and selling data

We do not track users across apps or websites, and we do not allow anyone else to. There is no advertising SDK in Colorful, no in-app purchase, and no analytics service. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising — under the CCPA/CPRA or under any other law.

Children

Colorful is made for young children, and it is built so there is nothing for a child to give away: no account, no sign-in, no name to enter, no chat, no comments, no user-to-user contact, no links out to the web, and no advertising. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age.

The only thing that leaves the device is the request for the artwork pages, which carries no name and nothing a child made. If you are a parent or guardian and have a question about data on a device, write to us at utsavhacker@gmail.com.

How long it is kept

GitHub’s server logs follow GitHub’s own retention schedule. Drawings are kept on the device until the child clears the page, the app is deleted, or storage is cleared in the app’s Settings — we hold no copy to delete.

Who else is involved

GitHub, Inc. hosts the downloadable content, under GitHub’s own terms. Their handling of that data is described in the GitHub Privacy Statement. Data may be processed on servers in the United States and elsewhere; transfers out of the EEA and UK rely on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. Nobody else receives anything.

Your rights

Depending on where you live — the EU and UK under the GDPR, California under the CCPA/CPRA, and comparable laws elsewhere — you may have the right to ask what we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to it being processed, or to receive a copy. Because we hold nothing that identifies a person, there is usually nothing to send back; where a request can be acted on, we act on it free of charge and within 30 days. Write to utsavhacker@gmail.com.

Where the GDPR applies, the only personal data involved is the web-server log GitHub keeps when the artwork is downloaded, which GitHub handles under its own terms. You can stop all of it at any time by deleting the app. Exercising any right will never cost you anything or make the app work worse.

Security

Everything the app fetches is fetched over HTTPS. Drawings sit in the app’s own sandbox on the device, protected by iOS. No system is perfect, but there is very little here to lose: we hold no accounts, no passwords and no personal data.

Changes

If this policy changes we will post the new version on this page and move the date at the top. A change that materially affects what is collected will also be described in the app’s release notes on the App Store.

Contact

Utsav Patel · utsavhacker@gmail.com