We can't see your child —
and you can check.
The Learning Garden plays on your device with no ads and no analytics, and your child never has an account. By default nothing leaves your device — and instead of asking you to trust that sentence, this page helps you verify it in about a minute.
Check it yourself, right now
Your browser keeps a log of every network request a page makes. The button below reads that log and shows you exactly where this site talks to. You'll see one name on the list: ours.
Runs entirely in your browser. Ironically, it sends nothing anywhere.
Where the data goes
The whole story, in one table
| Question | Answer | Details |
|---|---|---|
| What do the games store? | ✓ Stars & progress | Saved only in this browser, on this device, so play picks up where your child left off. Clearing browser data erases it. |
| What do we collect about your child? | ✗ Nothing | No name, email, photos, location, voice recordings, contacts, or device identifiers — and your child never has an account. If a grown-up chooses to add their own email to sync progress, nothing about your child is ever attached to it. |
| What leaves the device? | ✗ Nothing by default | The games make no calls to analytics, ads, or any third party — and the browser-enforced rule you tested above means they couldn't. The only thing that ever leaves is opt-in: if a grown-up turns on the parent account, their sign-in email and an anonymous stars-and-progress blob sync to our own server — never your child's name or identity. |
How the Garden compares
Most kids' apps are paid for by ads or subscriptions, and the data practices tend to follow the money. Here's the honest comparison — and the last row is the one that matters: with the Garden, you don't have to take our word for it.
| The Learning Garden | A typical kids' app | |
|---|---|---|
| Ads shown to children | ✓ Never | Common |
| Third-party trackers & analytics | ✓ Zero | Common — even ad-free ones |
| Data sold or shared with third parties | ✓ Never | Varies; often on free tiers |
| Account required to start playing | ✓ No | Often required first |
| Data collected about your child | ✓ None | Usage, device IDs, sometimes name |
| Works with nothing leaving the device | ✓ Yes, by default | Rare |
| You can verify it yourself | ✓ Yes — test above | Take their word for it |
We compare against the category rather than naming individual apps — practices change and vary by plan. What never varies is the row you can check yourself: open your browser's network tools on any game page and watch it talk to no one.
About children's privacy law
In the United States, COPPA — including the amendments that took effect in 2026 — governs what apps may collect from children and how parents must consent to it. The Garden takes a simpler route: it was designed so there is nothing to comply about. We collect nothing at all about your child, so there is nothing to consent to, nothing to delete on request, and nothing about your child to breach. The only personal data we ever hold is optional and belongs to a grown-up: a sign-in email, and only if they choose to create a parent account to sync progress across their own devices. The same holds under GDPR-K and similar rules elsewhere.
More reading
📄 The short, plain-English privacy note covers the same ground in policy form.
💳 One design note: if you ever unlock extra games, checkout happens on a deliberately separate page — payment code never loads inside the games, so the pages your child plays on keep the strict "talk to no one" rule you tested above.