Draft. This describes what version 1.0 of the app actually does. It is not legal advice and has not been reviewed by a lawyer. Before any public release, and certainly before any online feature ships, this needs review against the Privacy Act 1988, the Australian Privacy Principles and the Privacy (Children’s Online Privacy) Code 2026, and a documented best interests of the child assessment.
Gem Hunt does not collect anything. It has no accounts, no sign-in, no advertising, no analytics and no servers. It never sends anything anywhere.
It plays completely offline. Put the device in aeroplane mode and every part of the game still works: all ten levels, every question, the collection, the leaderboard and the settings. There is nothing to download and nothing to wait for. On Android the app is not even granted permission to use the internet.
There are no advertisements of any kind, and no advertising or analytics SDK is present in the app. There is one optional purchase, made through Apple or Google, that unlocks levels 4 to 10. It sits behind a parental gate.
Profiles, scores, stars and the gem collection are saved in your own browser’s local storage, on your own device. Nobody else can read it, including us. It is not backed up to us or to anyone. Clearing your browser data, or using Delete everything in the Grown-ups area, removes it permanently.
A child’s name typed into a profile stays on the device and is never transmitted. We do not collect or transmit ages, birthdays, free text, photos, contacts, location, or any device identifier.
Gem Hunt is made for children aged 4 to 10. Purchases, settings and data controls sit behind a parental gate. There is no way for a child to contact anyone, buy anything without passing the gate, or leave the app by accident.
Open Grown-ups in the app to export a copy of everything stored, delete an individual digger, or delete all data. Because nothing leaves the device, there is nothing held elsewhere for us to return or erase.
Later versions may add optional online features. Those will be off by default and will require a parent to switch them on explicitly. This page will be updated before any such feature ships.
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Last updated: replace before release.
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