The Why: Youth — Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 2026

The Why: Youth ("we," "us") is a Christian learning app for children and teens. We take children's privacy seriously and designed this app to comply with the Google Play Families Policy and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This policy explains what we collect, why, and the choices parents have.

Parents are in control

A parent or guardian creates the account and sets up each child's profile. Children do not create their own accounts. The parent chooses each child's learning track and can control access to sensitive topics with a parent PIN.

What we collect

• Parent account: the parent's email address, used only to sign in and secure the account.
• Child profile: a display name (first name or nickname) and birth year, used to tailor age-appropriate content and to know when to invite a child into the teen experience.
• In-app activity: which questions, lessons, and practice a child has viewed or completed, used to show progress and improve the app.
• Subscription status: whether the account has a paid subscription, managed by RevenueCat. We never see or store payment card details.

What we do NOT do

• We do not show advertising to children — no ads at all.
• We do not sell or rent personal information.
• We do not send a child's typed input to third parties for advertising or profiling.
• We do not collect a child's precise location, contacts, photos, or microphone/camera data.

Service providers

We share the minimum necessary data with trusted providers that help run the app:

• Clerk — secure sign-in for the parent account.
• RevenueCat — manages subscriptions and purchase status.
• Anthropic — generates training content for the practice features. Children's free-text entries (such as a gospel presentation they type) stay on the device and are not sent for grading.
• Bible text is fetched from a public Bible API to display passages; no personal data is sent.

Parental rights

Parents can review, edit, or delete a child's profile at any time inside the app. To delete the entire account and all associated data, open Me → Delete account in The Why: Youth (or Me → Privacy & Data → Delete Account & Data in The Why) — deletion is immediate and permanent. If you can no longer sign in, use our account deletion page or email us instead.

Data retention & security

We keep data only as long as the account is active. Data is encrypted in transit. When an account is deleted, the associated profiles and activity are removed.

Looking for the full legal text? Read the comprehensive COPPA-compliant Children's Privacy Policy.

Questions or requests about your child's data? Contact us at rogersmi87@gmail.com