Your child's privacy

Last updated: 14 November 2026

Who we are

My Montessori Shelf ("the app", "we", "us") is a Montessori learning app for children aged 1½–6. This policy explains how the app handles information. It applies to the Android app with the package name com.littlehands.montessori and to this website.

Information we collect

None. The app does not ask for or collect names, email addresses, ages, photos, voice recordings, location, contacts, device identifiers or any other personal information. It does not have accounts or sign-in.

What is stored on your device

To work like a real classroom, the app remembers a few things on your device only:

• the age group you chose (for example "3–4"),
• which works have been done, how often, and whether each one is presented, practising or mastered,
• simple settings such as the session length and whether the voice is on,
• the state of the classroom plant.

This information never leaves the device through the app. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage in Android settings, deletes it.

If you have turned on Android's own backup to your Google account, Android may include the app's settings in that backup so they come back on a new phone. That backup is made and controlled by Android and Google under your Google account settings, not by us, and we cannot see it.

Spoken guidance

The app reads instructions aloud using the text-to-speech engine already installed on your device (for example, Google's speech services on most Android phones). The app only sends the short instruction text to that engine on the device; it does not record or listen to your child.

Permissions

The app does not ask for permission to use the camera, microphone, location, contacts, photos or files. It uses vibration (haptics) for gentle feedback when pieces are moved.

Advertising, analytics and third parties

The app contains no advertising, no analytics or crash-reporting tools, no social-media buttons and no links that take a child out of the app. We do not share or sell any information to anyone, because we do not have any.

Children's privacy

The app is designed for young children and follows Google Play's Families policy. Because we collect no personal information, there is nothing for parents to review or delete with us. We believe this approach is consistent with children's privacy laws such as COPPA (United States), GDPR-K (European Union and United Kingdom) and India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

This website

This website does not use cookies, analytics or tracking, and it loads its fonts from this site itself rather than from a third party. Our hosting provider may keep standard server logs (such as IP addresses and the pages requested) for security and reliability, which we do not use to identify anyone.

If you email us, for example to become an early tester, we use your email address only to reply to you and to send you the test link. We delete it when you ask us to.

Changes to this policy

If the way the app handles information ever changes, we will update this page and the date at the top before the change reaches the app.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email us at support@mymontessorishelf.app.