Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 2, 2026

1. Who we are

Yonder ("Yonder," "we," "us," or "our") is a geography learning app for children in roughly grades 4–6, published by Understudio LLC. This policy explains how the Yonder app and this website (yondergame.com) handle personal information, with special care for the privacy of children. The app is where children actually are, so that is what most of this policy is about; the website is a page for grown-ups, and is called out separately where it differs.

2. Our commitment to children's privacy

Yonder is designed for children, and we take the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) seriously. Our guiding principle is data minimization, and we have taken it as far as it goes: the Yonder app does not collect personal information at all. Everything the app knows about your child stays on your device. There is no account, no sign-in, and nothing is sent to us.

Yonder contains no third-party advertising, no behavioral analytics, no advertising identifiers, and no social-media integrations.

3. What we collect — and what we never collect

Information from children

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children. During setup, a child enters a first name or nickname to personalize their explorer. That name stays on the device and is never transmitted to our servers — it is used only to display a friendly greeting on that device.

As a child plays, the app records learning-progress data — for example, which states or landforms have been introduced or mastered, achievement progress, and cosmetic choices (the gear and camp decorations a child selects). This information reflects learning activity, not identity, and it is stored only on your device. It is never transmitted to us.

Information from parents

Yonder has no accounts. We do not ask a parent for an email address, a password, or any other sign-in detail, and the app has no way to send information to us.

The only time we receive anything from you is if you choose to write to us — for example at our support or privacy address. In that case we have whatever you put in your message, including your email address, and we use it only to answer you.

What we never collect

• No precise or approximate location.
• No contacts, photos, microphone, or camera access.
• No advertising identifiers or cross-app tracking.
• No behavioral or marketing analytics.
• No persistent identifiers used to build a profile of a child.
• We never ask a child for a home address, phone number, or email. A first name or nickname is entered at setup to personalize the app; it stays on the device and is never sent to our servers.

4. How we use information

• Your child's learning progress is used on your device, by the app, to decide what to teach next and to show you a progress report. We never see it.
• If a parent chooses to make the one-time in-app purchase, Apple processes it (see Section 7).
• If you email us, we use your message to answer you.

We do not use any information to advertise to children or to build marketing profiles.

5. Parental consent and controls

The grown-ups' area — progress reports, printable worksheets, managing explorers, and the in-app purchase — sits behind a parental gate: a short task intended to be answered by an adult. Purchases are additionally protected by your device's own purchase authentication (and, on a child's Apple Account, by Apple's Ask to Buy approval).

Because nothing leaves the device, there is no consent for a parent to give about transmitting a child's information — we never receive any.

Parents may, at any time:

• Review their child's progress in the grown-ups' area.
• Export their family's data from within the app, as a file you keep.
• Delete an individual explorer and all of their progress, in the grown-ups' area.
• Delete everything by deleting the app — because the data lives only on your device, removing the app removes it.

To make a request or ask a question, contact us at privacy@yondergame.com.

6. How we share information (we don't sell it)

We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information, and we do not share it for advertising. We share information only with the service providers that make the app work (see Section 10), and only as needed to provide the service. We may disclose information if required by law or to protect the safety and rights of our users.

7. Purchases

Yonder may offer a one-time in-app purchase to unlock additional content. Payment is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We do not receive or store your payment-card details. Apple's handling of purchase information is governed by Apple's privacy policy.

8. Data retention and deletion

All app data — a child's name, their learning progress, gear and camp choices — lives on your device and nowhere else. It remains there until you delete the explorer in the grown-ups' area or delete the app. We hold no copy, so there is nothing for us to retain and nothing for us to delete on your behalf.

If you have emailed us, we keep that correspondence only as long as needed to answer you and to keep a record of the request, and you may ask us to delete it.

9. Security

The strongest protection we can offer is simply not to hold your family's information: the app keeps it on your device, under your device's own security. This website is served over HTTPS, and email we receive is held with our mail provider. No method of storage or transmission is perfectly secure, but the amount we hold is as close to nothing as we can make it.

10. Service providers

We rely on a small number of providers strictly to operate the service. The app and this website are different, so they are listed separately.

The app

• Apple — app distribution and payment processing (App Store).

That is the whole list, and it is the whole list because the app makes no network requests at all during play. Its illustrations, maps and fonts are all built into the app itself, so it works with no connection and contacts nobody — including us. It sends no learning progress, no name, and no identifiers, because it has no way to.

This website

• Cloudflare — hosting for yondergame.com. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes standard request information (such as IP address) to serve pages.

This site loads no third-party fonts, scripts, analytics or embeds — its typefaces are served from this domain — so reading it does not announce you to anyone else.

These providers act as processors on our behalf and are not permitted to use your information for their own purposes.

11. Where your data is stored

Your family's app data is stored on your device — wherever that device is. We operate no servers that hold it, and the app does not send it anywhere — it has no network connection to send it over.

Yonder is operated from the United States, and any email you send us is processed there — so if you contact us from outside the United States you understand that your message is handled here. This website is served by a content delivery network with servers around the world, so the page you are reading may have been sent from one near you.

12. Your U.S. state privacy rights

Some U.S. states — including California — give residents rights over their personal information, such as the right to know what we hold, to request a copy, and to request deletion. From the app, we hold nothing — your family's data is on your device, where you can review it, export it as a file, and delete it yourself at any time. We do not sell or share personal information, and we do not use it for targeted advertising (see Section 6). If you have written to us and want that correspondence copied or deleted, contact us at privacy@yondergame.com. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any privacy right.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the app evolves. Material changes will be posted here with a new "Last updated" date. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised policy.

14. Contact us

Questions about privacy? Reach us at privacy@yondergame.com or through our support page. Mailing address: Understudio LLC, 7901 4th St N, Ste 300, St. Petersburg, FL 33702, USA.