Curious Learning Privacy Policy

We founded Curious Learning so every child could learn to read, regardless of their language or location. We know that privacy is important to our community, especially for children and their parents. This privacy policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and what we're doing to keep it safe. 

What apps does this Privacy Policy cover?

This Privacy Policy covers the following apps that Curious Learning has developed/co-developed:

  • Curious Reader

  • curiousreader.org

  • Feed The Monster (Afrikaans)

  • Feed The Monster (Amharic)

  • Feed The Monster (Arabic)

  • Feed The Monster (Australian English)

  • Feed The Monster (Azerbaijani)

  • Feed The Monster (Bangla)

  • Feed The Monster (Brazilian Portuguese)

  • Feed The Monster (Farsi)

  • Feed The Monster (French)

  • Feed The Monster (Georgian)

  • Feed The Monster (Haitian Creole)

  • Feed The Monster (Hausa)

  • Feed The Monster (Hindi)

  • Feed The Monster (Igbo)

  • Feed The Monster (Indian English)

  • Feed The Monster (Javanese)

  • Feed The Monster (Kinyarwandan)

  • Feed The Monster (Kurdish)

  • Feed The Monster (Lugandan)

  • Feed The Monster (Malagasy)

  • Feed The Monster (Malay)

  • Feed The Monster (Marathi)

  • Feed The Monster (Nepali)

  • Feed The Monster (Ndebele)

  • Feed The Monster (Nigerian English)

  • Feed The Monster (Oromo)

  • Feed The Monster (Pashto)

  • Feed The Monster (SePedi)

  • Feed The Monster (Sesotho)

  • Feed The Monster (Shona)

  • Feed The Monster (Somali)

  • Feed The Monster (South African English)

  • Feed The Monster (Spanish)

  • Feed The Monster (Swahili)

  • Feed The Monster (Swati)

  • Feed The Monster (Tagalog)

  • Feed The Monster (Tajik)

  • Feed The Monster (Thai)

  • Feed The Monster (Tsonga)

  • Feed The Monster (Tswana)

  • Feed The Monster (Turkish for Arabic speakers)

  • Feed The Monster (Turkish)

  • Feed The Monster (Twi)

  • Feed The Monster (Ukrainian)

  • Feed The Monster (US English)

  • Feed The Monster (Venda)

  • Feed The Monster (Vietnamese)

  • Feed The Monster (Wolof)

  • Feed The Monster (Xhosa)

  • Feed The Monster (Yoruba)

  • Feed The Monster (Zulu)

  • Lire Avec Akili - Plusieurs Lieux Differents

  • Lire Avec Akili - Qu'est-ce Que Vous Aimez Faire?

  • Read With Akili - Akili and the River

  • Read With Akili - My Marvelous Market

  • Read With Akili - So Many Different Places

  • Read With Akili -  What Do You Like To Do?

  • Vakio miaraka amin'i Akili - Inona Ny Tianao Atao?

  • Vakio miaraka amin'i Akili - Toerana Maro Be!

What information does Curious Learning apps collect?

Our exact data collection changes over time, but we broadly collect two types of data:

  1. Anonymized, aggregated usage data like what is tapped or clicked in the app, what level you reach, whether you succeeded on a level or failed, how much time is spent in the app, and what parts of the app you use. This 'usage data' (collected through a tool called Google Firebase) helps us figure out ways to improve the app. 

  2. Through the third-party services Google Firebase Analytics and Facebook, we obtain:

Anonymized usage and analytics data including what avenues a user may have found out about our app, app usage duration, device type and model, and limited demographic information such as country and city data for improvement of our app experience.

We have two reasons for collecting so much information from our apps: first, we want to use it to measure what users are learning and how, so we can personalize learning to make our apps much more effective – eventually, by allowing apps to tailor themselves to each child’s learning stage and style. Second, to help improve our apps and develop new technology for other e-learning apps to use, we share this information with researchers who are developing new ways to teach, measure, and personalize learning through technology.

 

How does Curious Learning use the information it collects?

  • We may use the information in research studies intended to improve our understanding of how people learn with Curious Learning apps. The results of this research are shared with educators and researchers through conferences, journals, and other publications.

  • We analyze the information to understand and improve Curious Learning apps, such as determining which activities are most popular or effective, which images are most used, and how long users spend in the app.

  • We may disclose some of the information to third-party service providers, such as Google, Facebook, and Unity that help us perform various support functions (such as usage analytics and the number of installations). We are satisfied that these service providers have privacy policies that restrict them from further disclosing any of your information but these third-party service providers may collect or receive information from our app and other apps and use that information to provide measurement services and targeted ads. 

    To learn more about how our third-party service providers use this information and to stop or limit their use of this information on your Android device, please visit the following websites:

    Google Privacy Policy

    Facebook Privacy Policy

    Unity Privacy Policy

  • We may disclose some of the information to third-party researchers that seek to improve Curious Learning apps or develop complementary apps and other technology designed to improve learning.

How does Curious Learning protect you and your information?

  • Although Curious Learning apps use Firebase, they do not share any information they collect with Google, and Google does not collect any personal identifying information about you. Google Firebase acquires information during app usage which is sent back to Google servers, without any personally identifiable information.

  • We store our detailed usage data, as of July 2017, on servers hosted by Google. This detailed usage data may contain limited demographic information such as country and city, but it does not include personally identifiable information. In order for research partners to gain access to these data, they must sign a partnership agreement with Curious Learning, a data-sharing agreement stating that they will follow our data use and security policies.

Contact

If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@curiouslearning.org.