Privacy Policy

The short version

• You never create an account and we never ask for your name, email address or phone number.
• The pictures you color and draw are saved on your device.
• The app sends anonymous usage statistics through Google Analytics for Firebase. You can switch this off in Settings.
• Sharing a picture is optional. If you share, the picture, your user name and your pin are public right away, and the app signs in anonymously so only you can change or delete them.
• The app does not use the advertising identifier, does not ask to track you, and shows no third-party advertising. We do not sell personal data.

What stays on your device

Your colored pages, drawings, animations, favorites and settings are stored on your device. If iCloud sync is switched on, Apple stores a copy in your private iCloud account so your art follows you to your other devices. We cannot see what is in your iCloud.

Usage statistics (Google Analytics for Firebase)

What is collected. The app uses Google Analytics for Firebase, a service of Google. It records:

• which screens are opened (for example the globe, a world, a lesson, Settings);
• a small set of events: a page, lesson or game started or finished, a world or place opened, a favorite added or removed, the Share button tapped, the Pro screen shown, a purchase completed, a page or world reset. Events carry only ids and numbers, such as the id of the page or the game level;
• general information Google Analytics adds on its own: device model, iOS version, app version, language, and the country or region estimated from the connection;
• an app-instance identifier: a random number Google Analytics creates for this installation of the app. It is reset when you delete the app.

What is not collected. No name, no email address, no user ID from us, no text you type, no pictures, no precise location. The app does not use the advertising identifier (IDFA), contains no advertising SDK, and never shows the “Allow tracking” prompt because it does not track you across other companies' apps and websites.

Why. To see which worlds, pages and features people use, which ones nobody finds, and where the app has problems, so we can decide what to draw and fix next.

How to turn it off. Open Settings › Privacy in the app and switch off Share usage data. The app then stops sending usage statistics. The switch is on when you first install the app.

Popularity counts and favorites

When you color a page for the first time, finish it, or add it to your favorites, the app may add one to a public counter for that page. The counter is a number only. It is not linked to you, and your list of favorites stays on your device.

Purchases

DrawingEZ Pro is bought through Apple's App Store. Apple handles the payment. We receive no card details; the app only learns from Apple whether a subscription is active.

If you share a picture

Sharing is optional and described in the Community guidelines. Nothing in this section applies if you never share, heart, comment or report.

Anonymous sign-in. The first time you use a sharing feature, the app signs in to Firebase Authentication anonymously. No email address, password or name is involved: Google creates a random ID for the app on your device. It exists only so the server can make sure that you, and nobody else, can change or delete what you shared, and that each person gives one heart.

What we store when you share:

• the picture you chose to share (and, for pictures made only with fills, the list of colors used so others can replay it);
• the user name you typed and, if you allow it, your country;
• the pin you placed on the globe, rounded to about 50 km, with a label such as “Near Toronto, Canada”. The app never reads your GPS location and never asks for location permission;
• the comments and hearts you give, and the reports you send (reports are seen only by moderators);
• an anonymous identifier, so your shares follow you to your other devices. It is a one-way code computed from your iCloud account or, without iCloud, from a random secret on your device. It cannot be turned back into your identity and is never shown to anyone.

Who can see it. Shared pictures, user names, pins and comments are public as soon as you share them, in the app and on a share page of this website. They are moderated afterwards: an item that is reported or breaks the guidelines can be hidden or removed.

Deleting your data

• Everything you shared: Settings › Community › Delete everything. This removes your shared pictures, comments, hearts and user name from our servers for everyone. Your artworks stay in My Art.
• One shared picture: Settings › Community › My shared pictures, then Remove.
• Art on your device: delete a picture in My Art, or delete the app.
• Usage statistics: switch off Share usage data to stop them. Statistics already sent are not linked to your name or to anything you shared; Google keeps them for a limited period and then deletes them.
• By email: write to [email protected] and we will help, including if you no longer have the app.

Where data is processed

Catalog files, counters and shared pictures are stored with Google Firebase (Google Cloud) in the United States. Usage statistics are processed by Google Analytics for Firebase. Apple provides iCloud and the App Store. These companies process data on our behalf under their own terms.

Children

DrawingEZ does not knowingly collect personal information from children. Coloring and drawing work without sharing anything. If you believe a child has shared something they should not have, write to [email protected] and we will remove it.

This website

This website sets no advertising cookies and runs no analytics script. It remembers your light or dark theme choice in your browser. Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs (such as IP address and browser type) for security.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Questions, requests and complaints about privacy: [email protected]. See also the Terms of Use.