Privacy
How Bridging Phonics handles account, subscription, and child learning information.
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Bridging Phonics is an app for parents and tutors to support children's phonics practice, track progress, and share learning summaries. Bridging Phonics is operated by Simon Feltham.
Contact email: bridgingphonics@gmail.com.
Simon Feltham is the data controller for Bridging Phonics.
We collect only the information needed to provide the app. This may include account email address, parent or tutor account role, child first name or display name, child age or school year, phonics progress records, notes about tricky sounds or learning progress, tutor and parent linking information, subscription status, and basic technical information needed to keep the app secure and working.
We do not ask children to create accounts.
Bridging Phonics is designed to be used by parents, guardians, and tutors. Children should not create their own accounts. Adults using the app are responsible for ensuring they are authorised to enter and manage a child's learning information.
We recommend using a child's first name or nickname only.
We use information to create and manage accounts, show phonics progress inside the app, allow parents and tutors to support a child's learning, provide tutor access when a subscription is active, restore purchases, manage access status, respond to support requests, and keep the app secure and reliable.
We do not sell personal information. We do not use children's information for advertising.
Under UK GDPR, we rely on Contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) to create and manage your account and store child progress; Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) to keep the app secure, prevent misuse, and improve reliability; Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) for optional analytics and any future marketing, which you can withdraw at any time; and Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)) to retain limited billing or subscription records where required.
Tutor Access is purchased through Apple's App Store. Apple manages payment processing, billing, cancellation, and refunds. We do not receive or store your full payment card details.
We use RevenueCat to help confirm subscription status and keep Tutor Access in sync with the app. RevenueCat receives our app account identifier and App Store purchase metadata for this purpose.
We use trusted third-party services to operate the app:
Supabase for account authentication, database, and app data storage; RevenueCat for subscription status and App Store purchase syncing; and Apple App Store for in-app purchases, subscriptions, cancellation, and refunds.
We may collect limited app usage or diagnostic information to understand whether the app is working correctly and to improve the service. Where the app asks for consent, you can choose whether to allow analytics.
We do not use analytics to sell personal information or target advertising to children.
We keep account and learning information while the account is active. You can request deletion of your account and associated data. Some limited records may be kept where required for security, legal, tax, or App Store subscription records.
You can delete your account from within the app where available, or contact us at bridgingphonics@gmail.com.
Deleting your app account does not automatically cancel an Apple subscription. Subscriptions must be cancelled through your Apple ID or App Store subscription settings.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access the personal information we hold about you, correct inaccurate information, request deletion, object to or restrict some processing, and withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
To make a request, contact bridgingphonics@gmail.com.
You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority. In the UK this is the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO): https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/. EU residents can contact their national data protection authority.
We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect information, including secure cloud services and authentication. No online service can guarantee complete security, but we aim to keep the data we hold limited and protected.
Some service providers, including Supabase and RevenueCat, may process information outside the United Kingdom, including in the United States and European Union. Where data leaves the UK, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as UK/EU Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent adequacy mechanisms.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will be posted on this page with an updated date.
For privacy questions, support, or data requests, contact bridgingphonics@gmail.com.