🐝 Spell Simple - Privacy Policy

Last updated: 25 August 2026

Spell Simple is a spelling-practice app for children, used at home by families and in classrooms by teachers. We built it to collect as little personal information as possible. This policy explains exactly what we collect, why, and what we never do.

Who runs the app

Spell Simple is operated by AI-Upgrade.me. For any privacy question or to have data deleted, email [email protected].

What we collect

A grown-up's email address - a parent's or teacher's. It is how you sign in: we email a 6-digit code and you type it back. We never ask a child for an email address.
Speller names or nicknames - the short names a parent or teacher types for each child (for example "Ava" or "Speller 1") so the right child sees their own progress. Use a first name or a nickname; a full name is not needed.
Spelling practice data - which words were practiced, how many were correct, accuracy, and time spent, so progress is saved and a parent or teacher can see how a child is doing.

We do not collect location, contacts, photos, phone numbers, device advertising identifiers, or any child's email address.

How we use it

To sign you in and keep you signed in.
To save each child's progress and restore it on any device you sign in on.
To show a parent or teacher their own children's or students' progress.
To provide the $5/month subscription after the 7-day free trial.

Advertising and tracking

Spell Simple has no advertising, no third-party advertising SDKs, and no cross-app or cross-site tracking. We do not build advertising profiles and we do not use children's data for any advertising.

Who we share it with

We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for advertising. We use a small number of service providers only to run the app:

Cloudflare - hosts the app and the database where accounts and progress are stored.
Resend - sends the sign-in code emails. It receives only the destination email address and the code.
Google Play - processes the subscription payment if you subscribe. We never see your card details.

Children's privacy (COPPA / Google Families)

Spell Simple is intended for children and is designed to be compliant with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). A parent or teacher creates the account and provides the only email address involved. We collect only the limited information described above, solely to run the app, and we do not use it for advertising or sell it. A parent or teacher can review or delete their account's data at any time by emailing us.

Deleting your account and data

You can permanently delete your account and all of its spellers' progress at any time, in two ways:

In the app: open Settings → the Account & Cloud Save section → Delete my account, then confirm. This immediately and permanently removes the account and every speller's saved progress from our servers. It cannot be undone.
By email: write to [email protected] from the address on the account and we will remove it.

We keep an account's data only while the account is in use; once deleted, the account, its email address, its spellers' names, and all practice data are erased and not retained.

Deleting one speller, without deleting the account

You do not have to close the whole account to remove a child's information. On the speller-selection screen, press the 🗑️ (trash) button on a speller's card and confirm. That erases that child only — their name, their practice history, their words-to-work-on list and their accuracy and time records — while the account, its email address and every other speller stay exactly as they are. The change is saved to our servers with the account's next cloud save (within a few minutes, or immediately when you close the app), and it cannot be undone.

You can also ask us to remove a single speller by writing to [email protected] from the address on the account, telling us which speller to delete.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of this page.

Contact

Questions? Email [email protected].