nanoGOAT LLC ("nanoGOAT," "we," "us") makes echoGOAT, a toy app for young children: a goat that repeats what it hears in a squeaky voice. This policy covers the echoGOAT app and this website, echogoat.com.
The short version: echoGOAT doesn't collect any personal information, from children or from anyone else. What the goat hears stays on the device for a few seconds and is then gone. The app has no ads, no analytics and no accounts, and playing with the goat never needs the internet.
The microphone, and what the goat hears
echoGOAT uses the device's microphone, because that's how the goat hears. The app asks for permission first. You can say no, and you can turn the microphone off at any time in the device's settings; the goat just won't hear anything.
While the app is open on the screen, sound from the microphone is handled entirely in the device's memory:
- the app listens for someone talking (or clapping, or giggling),
- keeps up to about 6 seconds of it,
- makes the goat's squeaky version and plays it back,
- and then throws the sound away.
Sound is never saved to the device's storage, never uploaded, and never shared. We never hear it, and we have no way to.
What the app keeps on the device
A few app settings, such as sound-tuning values, whether the grown-up options are switched on, and anything you've unlocked. They contain nothing about your child, and they never leave the device. Deleting the app deletes them.
What leaves the device
Nothing, from the app itself. echoGOAT has no ads, no analytics, and no crash reporting of its own, and it never sends what it hears, or anything else about your child, anywhere.
Purchases, through the app store. You get echoGOAT, and anything you buy in it, through Apple's App Store, Google Play or the Amazon Appstore. The store handles your payment and your account under its own privacy policy; we never see your payment details. On Android, the purchase goes through Google Play's own billing software, which is built into the app and talks to Google Play (and may send Google technical details about the purchase) under Google's privacy policy. We get the standard sales reports stores give every developer, and we use them for accounting only.
Optional diagnostics from Apple or Google. If you've chosen in your device's settings to share diagnostics with app developers, Apple or Google may give us crash reports and install statistics. These come from the platform, not from echoGOAT, and they don't tell us who you or your child are.
What we don't do
- No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
- No analytics, tracking, or third-party code that collects data.
- No accounts, sign-ins, or email addresses in the app.
- No links to websites, no chat, and no social features.
- No selling, renting, or sharing of anyone's information. There's none to sell.
Children's privacy (COPPA)
echoGOAT is made for young children, including children under 13. It is built to follow the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and similar laws elsewhere, the simplest way there is: the app collects no personal information from children. No names, photos, voice recordings, location, contact details, or device identifiers.
Because nothing is collected, there is nothing for us to review, share, or delete, and there is nothing we need to ask parental consent for. If a future version of echoGOAT ever needs to collect information from children, we will update this policy before that version is released and get verifiable parental consent first, as the law requires.
The app's settings, and anything you can buy in it, are for grown-ups: they sit behind a gate little fingers can't get past. Parents and guardians can ask us anything about echoGOAT and children's privacy at echogoat@nanogoat.io.
In the app stores
Here's what we declare in each store's privacy section:
| Store | Privacy declaration |
|---|---|
| Apple App Store | Data Not Collected |
| Google Play (Data safety) | No data collected, no data shared |
| Amazon Appstore | Collects no personal information |
Wherever you live
The app doesn't process personal data, so under laws like the GDPR and the UK Children's Code there is no app data for us to give you, correct, or erase. If you've emailed us, you can ask us to delete your email at any time.
This website
- No ads, no analytics, no tracking pixels, and no cookies set by us.
- Everything on the page, including fonts, pictures and the video, comes from this site. Your browser doesn't contact Google or anyone else to show it.
- The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which handles your IP address and basic request details to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. We don't keep visitor logs.
- The site tells your browser it may not use your microphone, camera, or location.
If you email us
We receive your email address and whatever you write, and we use them only to answer you. We'll delete them if you ask. Please don't send us your child's personal information.
Changes to this policy
If echoGOAT ever starts handling information differently, we'll update this page before that version is released and change the date at the top.
Contact
nanoGOAT LLC · echogoat@nanogoat.io