Hushwood — Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 18, 2026

Effective date: 2026-10-18
App: Hushwood (Quiet, hand-painted worlds for children aged three to six) for Android — com.hushwood.garden
Provider: Shoutswap (the developer shown in Google Play)
Contact / Grievance: precisiongpt@gmail.com

Summary

Hushwood is a set of quiet worlds for young children to play in. It needs no account, has no internet access, and collects no personal information from children or from anyone else. The few settings it keeps stay on the device.

1. Data We Process

Hushwood does not collect, store, or transmit your personal data to us. Everything the app needs — the grown-ups' sound and haptics settings, which worlds are switched on and a salted hash of the grown-ups' PIN — is stored locally on your device.

  • No account or sign-up is required to use the app.
  • Hushwood keeps a few settings on your device using the operating system's standard app storage: sound on or off, volume, a quieter ambience, haptics, which worlds are switched on, the home pebble's colour, and a salted hash of the grown-ups' 4-digit PIN (never the PIN itself).
  • What a child makes in the worlds is not saved. Each world starts fresh when the app opens and is kept only in memory while the app is running.
  • Hushwood never asks for a name, age, photo, voice recording, location or contact details, and there is nowhere in the app to enter them.
  • The app has no internet permission, so it cannot send anything off the device.
  • The app does not transmit your personal data to our servers — we do not operate a server that receives your data.
  • The app does not include third-party advertising SDKs in this version. If that changes, this policy is updated before the new build ships.
  • The app does not include analytics that identify you personally.
  • You can permanently delete all app data at any time by clearing the app's storage in your device settings or by uninstalling the app.

2. How Your Information Is Used

The settings Hushwood keeps are used only to make the app behave the way a grown-up set it up, such as the volume and which worlds appear. They are never used for advertising and never sold.

3. Advertising

This version of Hushwood contains no advertising SDKs and shows no ads. We do not build advertising profiles about you. If advertising is ever added, this policy is updated before that build ships.

4. Purchases

Hushwood has no in-app purchases.

5. Data Sharing

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties. Because your data stays on your device, there is nothing for us to share.

6. Your Rights Under India's DPDP Act, 2023

As a Data Principal you have the right to access, correct and erase your data, and to raise a grievance. Because Hushwood keeps everything on your device:

  • Access & correction: all your data is visible and editable inside the app.
  • Erasure: uninstall the app, or clear its storage in your device settings. Erasure is immediate and irreversible.
  • Grievance: email precisiongpt@gmail.com. We respond within 30 days.

7. Retention

Your data exists only while the app is installed, and is erased when you uninstall the app or clear its storage. We keep no server-side copy, so there is nothing for us to retain.

8. Children

Hushwood is made for children aged three to six. It collects no personal information from children: no name, age, photo, voice, location, device identifier or usage data. Nothing a child does in the app is recorded, transmitted or shared.

There are no ads, no in-app purchases, no links that leave the app, no chat and no social features. The grown-ups' settings sit behind a PIN that a grown-up sets up.

Because no personal information is collected, there is nothing held by us for a parent to review or delete. Hushwood is designed to meet the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), India's DPDP Act, 2023, and Google Play's Families Policy. A parent or guardian with a question can email us and we respond within 30 days.

9. Permissions

This app requests no sensitive Android permissions.

10. Changes to This Policy

We post changes at this URL and update the effective date above. Material changes are reflected here before the build that makes them ships.

11. Contact

Questions about this policy, or a grievance to raise? Email precisiongpt@gmail.com.