Children’s Privacy Notice

1. Who needs a guardian’s consent

We go by the birth year entered at sign-up. Because we only know the year, someone who turns 14 this year is still treated as under 14 until January 1 of next year. The birth year cannot be changed after sign-up.

The same rule applies in every region, including Korea, Japan and the United States. Using the app without an account sends no personal information to our server, so no consent is needed for that.

2. How consent works

1. The child enters their own email and a guardian’s email in the app. Only these two addresses are stored on the server at this point.
2. The guardian receives an email. On the linked web page the guardian reviews what is collected, confirms being an adult parent or legal guardian, and agrees or declines.
3. After consent the child receives an email to finish signing up, confirms that the guardian is right, and chooses a password and nickname.
4. If there is no answer within 7 days, or the guardian declines, both email addresses are deleted. The app keeps working without an account in the meantime.

3. What we collect and how we use it

• Before consent: the child’s email and the guardian’s email, used only to ask for consent
• After consent: email, password (hash), nickname, avatar, birth year, learning records, settings, the consenting guardian and the time of consent
• The push token of a guardian’s device for the weekly guardian notification (not the child’s device)

We use it as described in section 3 of the privacy policy. We never use a child’s information for advertising, targeted ads or sale, and we do not let outside companies build profiles of children.

4. Who can see a child’s information

• Linked guardians (up to 2): learning statistics and settings
• Friend group (invite code, up to 20 people): nickname, avatar, weekly starlight. A child under 14 who is linked to a guardian needs that guardian’s approval to join a group, and the guardian can turn groups off
• Remote duel opponents (members of the same group): nickname, avatar, the score of that duel

5. What parents and guardians can do

• Review, correct or delete the child’s information, or ask us to stop processing it
• In the app’s Guardian menu: see the child’s learning report, set and lock daily goal, notification, duel and group settings, approve group requests, and delete the child’s account (consenting guardian, while the child is under 14)
• Withdraw consent: write to support@laonmon.com or delete the child’s account in the app. We then delete the child’s account and server data. You can agree to the account without agreeing to any disclosure to third parties; we make none.

6. Legal basis

• United States, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA): verifiable parental consent is required before collecting personal information from a child under 13. OkiVoki asks for a guardian’s consent for everyone under 14, which includes all children under 13. Operator contact for COPPA questions: Laonmon, to be confirmed before release, support@laonmon.com.
• Republic of Korea, Personal Information Protection Act, Article 22-2: processing personal information of a child under 14 requires the legal representative’s consent; the minimum information needed to ask for it (the representative’s contact) may be collected from the child without consent.
• Japan, Act on the Protection of Personal Information: it sets no age, but official guidance calls for consent from a legal representative for children who cannot yet judge the consequences. OkiVoki applies the same under-14 rule.