Joule JarSupportPrivacy Policy
- Joule Jar keeps everything you enter only on your device. We don't have servers that receive it.
- No accounts, no sign-in, no ads, no third-party analytics, no tracking, and no data sales — ever.
- We do not collect personal information from children.
- Deleting the app, or using “Erase all Joule Jar data” in the Grown-ups area, permanently removes everything.
1. Who we are
Joule Jar (the “App”) is made by Joule Kids LLC, a Texas limited liability company (“Joule Kids,” “we,” “us”). Contact: privacy@joulekids.com · Joule Kids LLC, 5473 Blair Rd Ste 100-974747, Dallas, TX 75231.
2. Information the App stores on your device
To work, the App saves the following locally in your device's private app storage. It is never transmitted to Joule Kids or anyone else:
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Kids' first names or nicknames, buddy (avatar), card color, and game level | To show each child their own card, list, and age-appropriate games |
| The name kids call the grown-up (for example, “Dad”) | To personalize prize text |
| Daily checklists, check-offs, prizes won, and whether prizes were given | To run the daily routine, Full Jar week, and “Prizes waiting” board |
| Custom tasks and custom prizes you create; settings (sound, captions, motion) | To remember your choices |
| Reminder times you choose | To schedule reminder notifications. Reminders are created by your device itself (local notifications). No push service is used, and nothing is sent to Joule Kids or anyone else. |
We recommend using first names or nicknames only. Please don't enter last names, addresses, or other identifying details.
3. Information we collect
Through the App: none. The App contains no analytics, advertising, crash-reporting, or social software development kits (SDKs), creates no persistent identifiers, and makes no network requests to send your data anywhere. All voices, music, fonts, and artwork are built into the App.
If you email us: we receive your email address and whatever you choose to write. We use it only to reply and keep it no longer than 24 months. Only grown-ups should contact us.
Free trial and purchases: The 7-day free trial and the one-time unlock are in-app purchases handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never receive your name, Apple ID, or payment details. The App only learns whether the trial was started (and when) and whether Joule Jar is unlocked, and it stores those facts on your device.
Apple: Apple may provide us aggregated, de-identified statistics (such as download counts) and, only if you opted in to “Share with App Developers” in iOS settings, crash reports. These do not identify you or your children. Apple's own handling of data is described in Apple's privacy policy.
4. Children's privacy (COPPA)
Joule Jar is designed for families with young children and is used together with a parent or guardian. Because all information stays on the family's device and is never collected by us, Joule Kids does not collect, use, or disclose personal information from children as defined by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC's COPPA Rule, as amended effective April 22, 2026.
- No third parties. No information from the App is shared with or accessible to any third party.
- Parent controls. Settings, lists, prizes, kid profiles, and links outside the App sit behind a grown-up check (“parental gate”).
- Your rights. You can review, change, or delete everything in the Grown-ups area at any time, or delete the App to remove all data.
- If this ever changes. If a future version would collect any personal information from children, we will update this policy, give parents direct notice, and obtain verifiable parental consent before any collection, as COPPA requires.
5. Data retention
We do not retain any App data, because we never receive it. On your device, data stays until you change it, erase it in the Grown-ups area, or delete the App. Checklist check-offs older than 14 days are automatically removed from the device. Support emails are kept no longer than 24 months.
6. Security
App data lives in the operating system's private, sandboxed storage for the App and is protected by your device's own security (passcode, Face ID or Touch ID, and encryption). Because nothing is sent over the internet, there is no server copy to be breached. Keep your device locked and up to date.
7. Age signals and app-store laws
Some states (for example, Texas, Utah, Louisiana, and Alabama) have laws under which app stores share an age range or parental-consent status with apps. If the App receives such a signal from Apple, it is used only to apply age-appropriate settings and comply with the law, is not stored longer than needed, and is never shared.
8. Your choices and rights
Name requests. If you choose to email us a name to add (from Grown-ups, using “Ask us to add it”), we receive only what you write in that email. We use it only to record the name for a future update and to reply to you, and we delete the email once the name is handled. Please don't include a last name or anything else about your child.
Because we hold no personal information about you, there is nothing for us to access, correct, sell, or delete on our side; you control everything on your device. If you live in a state with consumer privacy rights (such as California, Texas, or Colorado) and have questions, email privacy@joulekids.com and we will respond within 45 days.
9. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will update the date above and describe the change in the App's release notes. Material changes affecting children's information will be made only after the notice and consent described in Section 4.
10. Contact
privacy@joulekids.com
Joule Kids LLC, 5473 Blair Rd Ste 100-974747, Dallas, TX 75231, USA