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Privacy Policy for ColorJoy

Last updated: 25 September 2026

ColorJoy is a drawing and colouring app for children, published by Dhungel’s.

This policy explains, in plain language, what ColorJoy does with information. The short version: ColorJoy collects no personal information, needs no account, and everything your child makes stays on your device. The only exception is an optional rewarded video ad, described below.

What we collect

ColorJoy itself collects nothing. It does not collect, store, transmit, sell or share:

Names, email addresses, phone numbers or postal addresses
Photographs, contacts, calendar entries or files from your device
Location of any kind, precise or approximate
Advertising identifiers, device identifiers or IP addresses
Usage analytics, crash reports or behavioural data
Voice or audio recordings
Anything a child types or draws

There is no sign-up, no login and no user account.

Internet access

ColorJoy requests internet access for exactly one purpose: to load the optional rewarded video ad (see “Advertising” below). No other feature uses the network. Colouring pages, games, lessons and stories all work fully offline, with or without a connection.

Reminders (notifications)

ColorJoy can show optional reminder notifications inviting your child back to create. There are at most two per week (Wednesday and Saturday, in the late afternoon) and never two on the same day. They are scheduled entirely on your device — no server is involved, nothing is sent anywhere, and they can be turned off at any time in Settings. Android requires a notification permission and a permission to re-schedule the reminders after your device restarts; both are used solely for these on-device reminders.

What is stored on your device

ColorJoy saves the following locally, in the app’s own private storage:

Drawings and coloured pages your child creates
Progress: which pages and levels are finished, stars earned, badges unlocked
Settings: sound, music, haptics and accessibility preferences, screen-time limit, reminder preference, and the child’s age group (3-4, 5-6 or 7-8), which a grown-up picks in the Parent Zone to set how easy the games and pictures are
An unfinished drawing, saved automatically if the app is closed before the child saves it, so the drawing is not lost; it is replaced by the next unfinished drawing and removed when the child saves or discards it
How many optional ads have been watched toward unlocking each item (a simple count per item), and how many optional ads were watched today
A child’s first name, only if a grown-up chooses to enter one in the Parent Zone. It is used solely to say hello on the home screen and to congratulate the child when they finish an activity. It never leaves the device.

None of this is transmitted anywhere. Deleting the app removes all of it permanently.

When information leaves the device

There are three ways anything can leave your device:

Sharing or saving a picture. If you use the share or export button, ColorJoy hands that single image to your device’s standard share sheet. You choose where it goes; ColorJoy sends nothing itself.
Exporting a backup. The Parent Zone can export progress as a file you save or send somewhere of your choosing. ColorJoy only hands the file to your device; it uploads nothing.
Watching a rewarded ad. If a grown-up allows it, a child can choose to watch a short video ad (see below). This is the only feature that contacts a server on its own, and it only happens when a clearly labelled “Watch Ad” button is deliberately tapped and then confirmed.

If you never use these features, nothing ever leaves the device.

Advertising

ColorJoy shows exactly one type of ad: a short, optional rewarded video, shown only if a child taps a button labelled “Watch Ad” and then confirms. It can be used to:

earn a few bonus in-app stars;
unlock an item in the in-app shop (a brush, colours, stickers, a colouring book, a mascot friend or outfit, and similar) instead of spending stars — an unlock takes several ads, between 5 and 10 depending on the item, and progress toward it is kept on the device;
carry on a round of the Mascot Dash game once, instead of starting again.

Every one of these can also be reached without any ad: stars are earned by colouring and playing, shop items can be bought with those stars, and a game can always be restarted for free. At most 12 ads can be watched in one day. There are no banner ads, no interstitial ads, no ads that play by themselves, and no ads anywhere else in the app. A grown-up can turn ads off entirely in Parent Zone.

This ad is served using Google’s Mobile Ads SDK (AdMob). Because ColorJoy is a children’s app, every ad request is flagged as child-directed and as coming from a user under the age of consent: ColorJoy does not collect or transmit an advertising ID, and ads are not personalised or behaviourally targeted. Loading the ad requires a basic network request (which inherently includes technical information like IP address, handled by Google for serving and fraud-prevention purposes only), but no profile is built and no persistent identifier is collected by ColorJoy.

Where local law requires it — the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and the US states with comparable privacy laws — ColorJoy asks for your choice before any ad is requested, using Google’s User Messaging Platform. The consent message appears the first time the app runs and is resolved before the advertising SDK makes any request.

If consent is declined, or the message cannot be shown for any reason, ColorJoy simply does not request an ad. Nothing else in the app changes: every colouring page, drawing tool, game, lesson and story remains fully available, because none of them use the network.

Where that consent applies, you can change your answer at any time from Parent Zone → Privacy choices. Outside those regions no consent message is shown, and that option is not displayed.

ColorJoy contains no in-app purchases. The stars and unlockables in the app are earned by playing (or, optionally, by watching rewarded ads) and cost no real money. Children cannot spend anything.

Children’s privacy

ColorJoy is designed for children and is intended to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, and Article 8 of the GDPR. Its one advertising integration is configured for child-directed treatment as described above.

Because ColorJoy collects no personal information itself, there is nothing for us to disclose to a parent, correct, or delete from our records — we hold no records. All app data lives on your own device and is under your control.

The Parent Zone is behind a simple arithmetic question, so that settings and data controls are reachable by grown-ups but not by young children.

Your control over the data

Delete individual artwork from the gallery.
Delete all artwork from the Parent Zone.
Clear the child’s name by saving an empty name in the Parent Zone.
Turn off the rewarded ads and/or the weekly reminders in Settings or Parent Zone.
Change or withdraw your advertising consent from Parent Zone → Privacy choices, where that consent applies.
Remove everything by uninstalling the app.

Third-party components

ColorJoy is built with Flutter and uses open-source libraries for local storage, local audio playback, local notifications, image encoding and the system share sheet — none of these contact a network service or receive personal information. The one exception is Google’s Mobile Ads SDK, used solely for the optional child-directed rewarded video described above.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of ColorJoy changes how it handles information, this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change. Any change that introduces new data collection would be described here plainly.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about ColorJoy:

dhungel9814@gmail.com

This document describes ColorJoy version 1.3.0 (build 9) and later, until next updated. It is provided as an accurate description of the app’s behaviour and is not legal advice.