Privacy Policy

Squiggle Studio · Last updated 21 August 2026

Who this is for

Squiggle Studio is made for children (roughly ages 4–12) and is designed to be used with a parent or guardian nearby. This policy is written for parents.

What we collect

• The words you ask us to draw. When your child taps an idea, types one, or speaks one, that short piece of text is sent to our server, which passes it to Google's Gemini AI to create the drawing.
• A random session number. The app saves a random ID (like a3f1…) on your device so it can keep count of how many new drawings have been made. It is not linked to a name, email, or account, and it tells us nothing about who your child is.
• A count of new drawings. Making a new drawing costs us money, so each month there is a limit on how many can be made. To count them, our server keeps a single number next to that random session number — how many drawings have been made this month, and nothing else. No drawings, no words, and nothing about your child are stored with it.
• Basic technical logs. Like most websites, our server records when errors happen so we can fix them. These logs do not contain what your child asked for, and the session number is scrambled before it is written down.

What we do not collect

• No names, ages, birthdays, email addresses, phone numbers, or addresses.
• No accounts or logins.
• No photographs or videos.
• No advertising, no ad networks, and no behavioural tracking of any kind.
• No analytics or tracking software from other companies.

About the microphone

The microphone is only used while your child is actively holding a conversation with the app — it turns itself off after a few seconds, and the browser will always ask your permission before it can be used at all.

Please know this: to turn speech into text, your web browser may send the recorded audio to the company that makes it — Google for Chrome, Apple for Safari — under their privacy policies, not ours. Where your browser supports doing this privately on the device itself, Squiggle Studio asks it to do that instead. Either way, Squiggle Studio never receives or stores the audio — only the text it becomes. If you would rather no audio ever left your device, you can simply type ideas instead of using the microphone.

Where the drawings live

Drawings are created and coloured entirely in your browser. We do not upload, store, or keep copies of them. If you use Save or Print, the file goes wherever you choose on your own device. Closing the tab clears the drawing.

Other companies involved

• Google (Gemini AI) — receives the text of what to draw, and returns the shapes.
• Google Cloud — runs our server and stores the technical logs described above.
• Cloudflare — delivers the website to your browser.
• Your browser's maker — may process microphone audio, as described above.
• Apple — in the iPhone and iPad app only, handles the subscription described below. Apple never tells us who you are.

We deliberately host our own fonts and images so that simply opening the page does not announce your visit to any other company.

If you subscribe

In the iPhone and iPad app, a grown-up can subscribe for more new drawings each month. There is no subscription on the website, and nothing about it is shown to a child without a grown-up answering a question first.

• Apple takes the payment, not us. We never see your card, your name, your email or your Apple Account.
• Apple gives the app a signed receipt. The app sends it to our server, which checks Apple's signature and reads one number from it — the subscription's identifier — so it knows how many drawings the subscription has left this month.
• That number is not a name and is not linked to one. It comes from Apple and identifies the subscription, not the person or the device.
• We keep it, and the monthly drawing count beside it, for as long as the subscription is active. Cancelling is done in your Apple Account settings, as with any other App Store subscription.

How long things are kept

• The random session number stays on your device until you clear the app's or browser's data.
• The monthly drawing count is kept on our server against that random session number and resets at the start of each calendar month.
• Technical error logs are kept by Google Cloud for a limited period (30 days by default) and then deleted automatically.
• Drawings are never stored on our servers at all.

Colouring without the internet

The pictures in the gallery are already inside the app. Colouring them, drawing on them, saving and printing all happen on your device and send nothing to us at all — only asking for a new drawing does.

Children's privacy (COPPA)

Squiggle Studio is built to avoid collecting personal information from children in the first place, which is the simplest and strongest protection we can offer. Because we do not collect personal information, we do not ask for verifiable parental consent — if that ever changes, we will ask for your consent first and update this policy before doing so.

Your choices as a parent

• Clearing your browser's or app's data removes the random session number completely. A new one is created the next time the app is opened, with a fresh monthly count.
• You can decline or revoke microphone permission at any time in your browser settings; typing still works.
• You can ask us any question about this policy by emailing the address below.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or want a drawing or session number deleted? Email contact@squigglestudio.app and a person will read it.

Changes to this policy

If we change how Squiggle Studio handles information, we will update this page and change the date at the top.