Updated October 26, 2026

Privacy in Language Toybox

This policy explains the Language Toybox app, this website, and subscriptions bought on this website. Language Toybox is published by RYDAR LLC. Parents and guardians can contact us at support@languagetoybox.com with privacy questions or requests.

Play stays on your device

The app does not require a Language Toybox account, display advertising, include third-party behavioral analytics, or send play activity to our servers. Website subscribers can choose to sign in with their email; see “Signing in to the app” below. Artwork and spoken learning audio are bundled with the app. Learning-language choices and play settings are saved locally; device backups may include those settings according to your Apple backup settings.

Telephone and the microphone

Telephone requests microphone and speech-recognition permission when a call begins. It uses Apple’s on-device speech recognition during the child’s turn to compare their reply with the spoken word. Audio and temporary recognized text are used in memory for that turn. The app does not save or upload recordings or transcripts. If on-device recognition is unavailable, automatic listening is disabled. You can decline or revoke permissions in iOS Settings and continue using other play features.

The grown-up check

The birth year entered to open the grown-up area is checked on the device and is not saved or sent to us.

Purchases through Apple

For versions offering subscriptions, Apple processes payment and manages subscriptions. The app uses Apple’s StoreKit service to check access and restore purchases. We do not receive your payment-card information. Apple may provide developers with sales and financial reports under its own terms. TestFlight beta access does not itself start a paid subscription.

Subscribing on our website

You can also subscribe at languagetoybox.com. When you do, we collect your email address and keep a record of your subscription: the plan, its status, and trial and renewal dates. We also keep the answers chosen in our short quiz (such as the learning language and your child’s age range) and, if you arrived from one of our ads, the campaign code in that link. We use this to provide your subscription, let you sign in to the app, send messages about your subscription, and understand which of our pages and ads are working. We don’t ask for your child’s name, photo or voice.

Payments are processed by Stripe, which receives your card or Apple Pay details directly. We never see or store your full card number. Stripe may collect information about your device and browser on the payment step to prevent fraud, under Stripe’s privacy policy.

Signing in to the app

In versions of the app that support web sign-in, signing in is only for website subscribers, and it’s optional. You sign in with your email address and a one-time 6-digit code that we email to you. While you’re signed in, the app occasionally sends a sign-in token to our server to check that your subscription is active. It does not send play activity, recordings, or anything about your child. You can sign out in the grown-up area.

Who processes this information

We use a few service providers to run web subscriptions: Stripe (payments and the subscription management page), Supabase (our database and sign-in service, which stores your email and subscription record), Resend (sending sign-in codes), and Hostinger (website hosting). They process information on our behalf. We don’t sell personal information. The only information shared for advertising is the ad measurement on our subscription pages described under “This website”.

Keeping and deleting it

We keep your subscription record while you subscribe, and afterwards only as long as we need it for accounting, tax and legal reasons. To delete your website sign-in and the information we hold, email support@languagetoybox.com from the address you subscribed with. Stripe keeps payment records as financial rules require.

Support messages

If you email us, we receive your email address and the information you include. We use this to respond and investigate your request. Please do not send recordings of children or unnecessary personal details. Contact us to request deletion of your support correspondence; information may need to be retained where required by law.

This website

Our main pages don’t use analytics scripts or advertising trackers. Our subscription pages (under /start) send your quiz answers and email to our server when you start a trial, and load Stripe’s payment form on the payment step.

To measure whether our ads work, the subscription pages (and only those pages) use the Meta Pixel. When you use them, Meta receives which steps you reached (viewing the page, finishing the quiz, reaching checkout, starting a trial), the page address, and your IP address and browser details, and may set or read Meta cookies. We don’t send Meta your email, your quiz answers, or payment details, and the pixel is never in the app. Meta may connect this to a Facebook or Instagram account and uses it under Meta’s privacy policy; you can review your ad settings in your Meta account. Blocking cookies or using a content blocker stops it, and the subscription pages still work.

Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address and browser details when the fonts are requested. Our hosting provider processes network information, such as an IP address, as needed to deliver and protect the website. Opening an external link takes you to another provider’s service and privacy practices.

Production tools and children’s information

Some bundled voices were created with ElevenLabs during production. The app does not connect to ElevenLabs during play or send children’s speech to it. We do not sell children’s personal information or use it for targeted advertising.

Your choices

You can manage microphone and speech permissions in iOS Settings, change local play preferences in the grown-up area, sign out of a website subscription in the grown-up area, and delete the app’s local data by deleting the app. You can manage or cancel a website subscription at languagetoybox.com/manage. Device backups are managed separately through Apple. For privacy questions or support-data deletion requests, contact the address above.

Changes

We will update this policy when the app’s data practices change and show the updated date on this page.