Privacy, plain and kid-friendly

The short version

• No accounts. No sign-ups. No email.
• No analytics. No trackers. No advertising.
• No cookies that follow you around.
• We do not collect your name, your phone, or your home address.

What the app stores on your phone

The kid feed saves a few small things on your own phone, in a place called localStorage. It never leaves your phone unless you copy it yourself.

• Which places you tapped Save on (so the bucket list works).
• Which voice you picked for the storyteller.
• Whether you turned on hands-free voice mode.
• If you tapped "use my location" once, your latitude and longitude are remembered for 24 hours so we do not have to ask again.

Clear your browser data and all of this disappears.

Location (the GPS pin)

The app only asks your phone where it is when a grown-up taps the directions button. Before the phone asks, the app shows a "show this to a grown-up" screen so a kid cannot accidentally hand out a location.

• If a grown-up says yes, the location stays on the phone, in localStorage, for 24 hours, then it is forgotten.
• The location is used to show a rough distance and drive time, and to launch Apple Maps or Google Maps if you tap directions.
• The location is never sent to a CaliPOI server. We do not run an analytics server.

The microphone (voice mode)

Voice mode is optional. It is OFF by default. A grown-up has to turn it on, twice, before the phone starts listening.

• When voice mode is on, the phone listens for short commands like "next" or "save it".
• The listening is done by the browser's built-in speech recognition. On Chrome and on most Android phones, the audio is sent to Google's speech service to be turned into text. On iPhone Safari, Apple handles it.
• CaliPOI does not record, save, or send any audio to its own server. We never get the audio. We only see the words the browser hands back.
• Tap the red mic button at any time to turn voice mode off.

Photos and stories

The places of interest, photos, and short stories come from a database we run on Supabase, plus public Wikipedia summaries. When the app fetches a photo, your phone's IP address briefly touches Supabase the same way it touches any website you visit. Supabase keeps short-lived request logs per its standard policy, but we do not send your name, your saved list, or anything personal in those requests.

Map tiles come from Mapbox. The Mapbox token we ship is restricted at the Mapbox dashboard to our official CaliPOI domains, so it cannot be reused on other websites.

The bucket list (and a future opt-in for grown-ups)

The bucket list of saved places lives only on your phone. We do not have a copy.

One day, a grown-up may want to back up the kid's bucket list across devices. If we ever build that, it will be a separate, grown-up-only feature with a clear opt-in. The kid feed itself will never ask for an account.

COPPA and grown-up requests

CaliPOI Kids is designed not to collect personal information from anyone, kids included. If a grown-up still wants to ask us to delete anything we may hold, or wants to ask a question about how this works, email us:

matt@matthewsmithrealty.com

We try to reply within a few business days.

Changes to this notice

If we change anything material, we will update this page and the date at the bottom. There is no email list to notify because we do not collect emails.