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Privacy Policy

Spellalotl · Draft · Last updated 20 September 2026

This is a first draft prepared for review, not yet a final published policy — it hasn't had a legal review yet.

The short version

Spellalotl doesn't use accounts, doesn't collect your child's name, doesn't show ads, and doesn't use any tracking or analytics tools. Word lists you create stay on your device unless you explicitly choose to share one — and even then, only the words themselves are shared, never any list title or personal note you've added.

Who runs Spellalotl

Spellalotl is developed by J Curry, based in the United Kingdom. If you have any questions about this policy or how the app handles data, you can contact j.application123@proton.me.

Information stored only on your device

The following never leaves your device — it's stored locally in the app/browser and we never see it:

If you delete the app or clear your browser's site data, this information is permanently deleted along with it — we hold no copy of it anywhere.

Information sent to our servers

A few features need to talk to our server (a Cloudflare Worker) to work. Here's exactly what's sent and why:

Generating hints & example sentences

Sent: the words you type

Why: passed to Anthropic's Claude AI to write a child-friendly hint and sentence for each word

Sharing a list

Sent: the words, hints, example sentences, and optional test date — never the list title

Why: stored anonymously so a short link can be given to someone else (e.g. the other parent, or your child's teacher)

Content safety check

Sent: the words, hints and sentences you're about to share

Why: checked against a blocklist and an AI safety check before a share link is created, so nothing inappropriate can be shared

Premium: better spoken audio (Premium subscribers only)

Sent: the word, or the example sentence, that's about to be spoken — nothing else about you or your child

Why: turned into spoken audio by ElevenLabs. The audio is stored against the text itself (e.g. "glorious"), not against you or your device, so it can be reused

Premium: checking your subscription

Sent: the purchase token Google Play gives the app when you subscribe

Why: our server asks Google Play whether the subscription is active and sends back a short-lived pass. Google handles the payment — we never see your name, email address or payment details

We only ever check content you've typed yourself — hints and sentences the app generates are trusted and not re-checked.

Third parties we use

We don't use any advertising or analytics services.

How long we keep things

Children's privacy

Spellalotl is designed to be used by children under adult supervision, for spelling practice set up by a parent, carer or teacher. The app doesn't ask a child for their name or any other personal information, and list titles — where a name might otherwise be typed — are explicitly kept private on-device and never transmitted.

We ask that anyone setting up a list avoid including a child's name in anything that might be shared (the app's own guidance in the list editor says the same). If a shared list is accidentally found to contain something inappropriate, our content safety check is designed to catch it before the share link is created.

Your rights

Because Spellalotl doesn't use accounts, most of your data is already entirely in your own control — deleting the app or clearing site data removes it immediately. For the limited data that does reach our server (see above), you can ask us to delete a specific shared list before it expires by contacting us with the share code. Under UK GDPR you have the right to ask what data we hold about you, request its correction or deletion, and lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Continuing to use Spellalotl after a change means you accept the updated policy.