Privacy, the short version

SceneBeans · Last updated July 11, 2026

SceneBeans is a game-maker for kids, built to be safe for children under 13 and designed to meet the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and Apple's Kids Category rules. This policy explains, plainly, what the app does and does not do.

What we collect

Anonymous usage and crash data — and nothing else. The games your child builds, their progress along the adventure trail, their drawings, their recordings, and any settings are stored only on the iPad and never leave it. Separately, so we can tell whether the app is working and where kids get stuck, the app sends us a stream of anonymous events — for example "a game was started", "a level was won", "a tutorial step was finished", or "the app crashed on this screen". These events carry no names and no content a child created. This is what privacy law calls "support for the internal operations" of the app: analytics, debugging, and keeping the app working.

The anonymous install ID

To tell one iPad's events apart from another's without knowing who anyone is, the app makes up a random ID the first time it opens (a string like 3f6c2a91-…). It is not your device's serial number, not an advertising ID, and is not shared with any other app or company. It exists only to group our own anonymous events. Deleting the app deletes the ID and makes a brand-new one next time — it can't follow your child anywhere.

Accounts & personal information

There are no accounts. We never ask for a name, email address, phone number, birthday, photo, or location. Your child cannot type any personal information into a field that gets sent to us, because there is no such field — and none of the anonymous events described above ever include text, titles, drawings, or recordings a child made.

The microphone

SceneBeans can ask for microphone access so a child can record their own silly sound effects for a game (a roar, a boing, a "ta-da!"). These recordings are saved on the device as part of the child's game and are never uploaded, shared, or transmitted. Microphone access is optional — the app works fully without it — and iOS always asks for permission first.

Network use

SceneBeans is designed to work offline; a child can build and play with no connection at all. When there is a connection, the app contacts the network to check Apple's servers for a software update, to handle purchases through Apple, and to send the anonymous usage and crash events described above to our own servers. The only place those events are ever sent is our own server at scenebeans.app — never to any third party. If the iPad is offline, events wait on the device and are sent later; none of this ever blocks or slows down play.

Purchases

SceneBeans is free to start. It offers one optional in-app purchase — the "Whole Workshop" unlock — handled entirely through Apple's App Store and protected behind a parental gate. Payment is processed by Apple; we never see your card, billing details, or Apple ID. There are no subscriptions and no recurring charges.

No ads, no third-party tracking

There is no advertising in SceneBeans, and there are no third-party advertising networks or third-party analytics SDKs in the app — our analytics are entirely first-party, built and run by us. We never track your child across other apps or websites, we never build a profile of your child, and nothing about your child is used for marketing or sold to anyone. Ever.

How long we keep it

The anonymous events are kept for at most 400 days and then automatically deleted. We may keep fully aggregated, anonymous totals (for example "how many games were played this month") indefinitely, but those totals contain no individual install's data.

Parental controls & deleting your data

Actions that leave the app — such as making a purchase — are placed behind a parental gate that requires an adult to complete. Because we only ever hold anonymous events tied to a random install ID, deleting the app removes that ID and stops any new events. If you would also like us to delete the events we've already received, email us from the Grown-Ups area of the app (or the address below) and we will delete everything associated with your install.

Changes to this policy

If we ever change how the app works in a way that affects privacy, we will update this page and the "last updated" date above. Our commitment — collect no personal information, keep it anonymous, use it only to make the app better, and never sell it or hand it to advertisers — is the whole point of the product and is not going to change.

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