Privacy Policy for Trace It!
Effective date:8/6/2026
App name: Trace It!
Package name: com.proApps.tracingapp
Developer:greybits
Contact: greysonmiller67@gmail.com
This Privacy Policy describes how the “Trace It!” mobile application (“the App,” “we,” “us”) handles information when you or your child uses it. The App is designed for children and is intended to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the GDPR-K provisions for children, and Google Play’s Families and Designed for Families policies.
The short version. The App collects nothing. There is no account, no sign-in, and no personal information of any kind. Nothing your child draws ever leaves the device. The only outside service involved is Google AdMob, which serves non-personalised, G-rated ads.
1. Information We Collect
We do not collect, store, or transmit any personal information ourselves. The App does not include analytics, crash reporting SDKs, user accounts, sign-in, in-app messaging, social features, or any feature that asks the user for personal data.
The App does not access your contacts, photos, microphone, camera, location, or files on your device.
2. Advertising and Third-Party Services
The App displays advertisements served by Google AdMob, a service operated by Google LLC. AdMob is the only third-party service integrated into the App.
Because the App is directed to children, AdMob is configured in child-directed mode with the following settings:
- The ad request is tagged for child age treatment
(
AgeRestrictedTreatment.CHILD) — the COPPA / Families-policy signal. This setting replaced the previously usedTagForChildDirectedTreatmentflag when Google updated its Mobile Ads SDK; the effect on ad serving is the same. MaxAdContentRatingis set to G (general audiences).- The Android Advertising ID (AAID) permission is removed from the App’s manifest, so no advertising identifier is requested or transmitted.
- The Privacy Sandbox advertising ID permission (
ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID) is also removed, so the same identifier cannot be reached by that newer route either. - The Topics API permission (
ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS) is removed, so the App cannot request or receive interest-based ad targeting signals. - The Attribution Reporting API permission
(
ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION) is removed, so no ad conversion is measured across apps.
Under this configuration, Google serves non-personalized, contextual ads only. Personalized advertising, behavioral profiling, retargeting, and interest-based advertising are disabled. Google does not associate ad activity in this App with a persistent advertising identifier or with profiles used for behavioral targeting.
In order to deliver and measure ads, Google may process a limited set of technical information, including coarse device information (such as device model and operating system version), non-persistent ad request data, and approximate location derived from IP address. This processing is performed by Google as a service provider to us under their published policies.
For details on how Google handles data in child-directed apps, see:
- Google’s policy for child-directed apps: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/6223431
- AdMob & AdSense Privacy & Terms: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
- Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
3. Children’s Privacy (COPPA, GDPR-K, Play Families)
The App is intended for children. We have designed the App so that it does not knowingly collect any personal information from children, and we have configured all advertising in compliance with COPPA, GDPR-K, and Google Play’s Families policy.
Specifically:
- We do not knowingly collect, store, use, or share personal information from children.
- We do not require any sign-up, sign-in, or account creation.
- We do not include any social features, chat, messaging, or links to social networks.
- We do not include in-app purchases.
- All ads served in the App are non-personalized and limited to a “G” content rating, as described in Section 2.
If you are a parent or legal guardian and you have any questions or concerns about how the App handles your child’s data, please contact us at [CONTACT_EMAIL]. We will respond promptly.
4. Permissions Used by the App
The App itself declares one permission. The remainder are added automatically by the Google Mobile Ads SDK and its dependencies, and are listed here in full so that this section matches the App’s installed manifest exactly:
INTERNET(declared by the App) — required so that the AdMob SDK can fetch ads from Google’s ad servers.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE(added by the ads SDK) — lets the SDK check whether a connection exists before requesting an ad, so the App fails quietly offline.WAKE_LOCK(added by the ads SDK) — keeps the screen on for the duration of a video advertisement.
None of these permissions are the kind Android shows a runtime prompt for, and none grant access to personal content.
The App explicitly removes five permissions that the AdMob SDK and its dependencies would otherwise add by default:
com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID— the Android Advertising ID.android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID— the Privacy Sandbox route to that same identifier.android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS— the Topics interest-based advertising API.android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION— the Attribution Reporting API, used for cross-app ad conversion measurement.android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE— the App declares no service of its own and never starts one.
As a result no advertising identifier is read or transmitted, no interest-based targeting signal is requested, and no ad conversion is measured across apps.
The App does not request any of the following: location, contacts, microphone, camera, storage, phone, calendar, body sensors, SMS, or call logs.
5. Data We Store on the Device
The App does not save any personal information to the device. It writes no files, uses no database, and stores no preferences.
A child’s tracing is held in the App’s memory only, so that turning the device or switching between letters does not erase their work. Android may keep that same in-memory state briefly on the App’s behalf if it needs to reclaim resources while the App is in the background. It is never written to storage, never leaves the device, and is discarded when the App is closed.
The App does not back up user data to the cloud and does not synchronize data across devices.
6. Data Sharing
We do not sell, rent, or share any personal information with any third party. The only third party with which the App interacts is Google AdMob, and only in the limited, non-personalized, child-directed mode described in Section 2.
We do not transfer any data to advertising networks, analytics providers, or data brokers, and we do not participate in any cross-app or cross-site tracking.
7. Data Security
Because the App does not collect personal information, there is no personal information stored or transmitted by us that could be exposed in the event of a security incident. Communication between the AdMob SDK and Google’s ad servers is performed over encrypted HTTPS connections managed by Google.
8. Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you or your child may have rights under applicable privacy laws — for example, under the GDPR (EU/UK), the UK Children’s Code, the CCPA / CPRA (California), or COPPA (United States) — including the right to know what personal information is collected, the right to request deletion, and the right to object to certain processing.
Because we do not collect personal information from users of the App, there is generally no personal information in our possession to access, correct, or delete. If you believe we hold any information about you or your child, or if you wish to exercise a privacy right, please contact us at [CONTACT_EMAIL] and we will respond within a reasonable time.
9. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the App, in the services we use, or in applicable law. When we make a material change, we will update the “Effective date” at the top of this document and, where required, provide additional notice through the App’s Google Play listing.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or about how the App handles data, please contact:
Greybits
Email: greysonmiller67@gmail.com