Privacy Policy

Pandahua is a Mandarin learning app for kids, made by [Company name] (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what information the Pandahua app and this website use, and why. We wrote it for parents, in plain language.

The short version

• There are no accounts, no ads, and no analytics or tracking in the app.
• Your child’s profile, settings and progress are stored only on your device. We don’t receive them.
• The microphone is only used during voice games, and we never receive or keep recordings.
• The selfie camera is off by default and is a live preview only. Nothing is recorded or uploaded.
• We don’t sell or share personal information.

Information stored on your device

To work, the app keeps the following on your phone or tablet:

• your child’s nickname, avatar emoji, age band and home language;
• settings such as Simplified or Traditional characters, pinyin on or off, the daily time limit and allowed playing hours;
• game progress and how many minutes were played each day.

This information stays in the app’s storage on your device and is not sent to us. You can change it in parent settings, and deleting the app deletes it.

Microphone and speech

Voice games ask for microphone access when a game starts, never at install, and stop listening when you leave the game. What your child says is turned into text by your device’s built-in speech recognition, and the app compares that text with the word on screen.

• On iPhone and iPad, the app asks Apple’s speech recognition to run on the device.
• On Android, the phone’s speech recognition service (usually Google’s) is used, and it may process audio on that provider’s servers under its own privacy policy.

We don’t receive, store or listen to audio or transcripts. The beat game doesn’t use the microphone at all.

Camera

Selfie mode is off until it’s switched on inside the game, and the camera permission is only requested then. It shows a live preview so your child can see themselves play. Nothing is recorded, saved or uploaded.

Spoken words

When the app says a word out loud, it uses your device’s built-in text-to-speech voice.

Children’s privacy

Pandahua is made for children, so we’ve designed it to work without collecting personal information from them. We don’t ask children for contact details, show them ads, or let them talk to other people in the app. Microphone and camera access are controlled by your device’s permission prompts, and you can turn them off at any time in your device settings.

This website

This website doesn’t use cookies, analytics or advertising trackers. If you tap a tone tile, the sound is made by your browser’s built-in voice. If you email us, we use your email only to reply to you.

Changes to this policy

If we change how Pandahua handles information, we’ll update this page and the date at the top before the change takes effect.

Contact us

Questions about privacy, or a request about your family’s information? Email [email protected].