Ethera Kids Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 5, 2026

Ethera Kids is an app of positive affirmation and relaxation audios for children. A parent sets it up. The child presses play.

We built Ethera Kids to collect as little as possible. We do not show ads. We do not use advertising or tracking tools. We do not sell your information or your child's information, and we never share it for advertising.

This policy explains what we collect, why, who helps us run the app, and the choices you have. It covers only the Ethera Kids app. Our main Ethera app has its own policy at https://www.ethera.online/privacypolicy.

1. Who we are

Ethera Kids is made by Ethera LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company ("Ethera", "we", "us").

  • Address: 30 N Gould St, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA

  • Email: support@ethera.online

  • Website: https://www.ethera.online

You can contact us about anything in this policy, including your child's information.

2. What we collect

Information about you, the parent

  • Your email address, to create and secure your account.

  • Your password, if you sign up with email. It is stored in encrypted (hashed) form by our sign-in provider. We cannot see it.

  • Sign in with Apple (on iPhone): Apple shares your email (or a private relay email, if you choose "Hide My Email") and, the first time only, your name.

  • Your name, if you type it during setup. We use it to greet you in the app.

  • Your settings: reminder times and on/off choices, and email preferences.

  • Your acceptance of the Parent Agreement & Waiver: which version you accepted and when.

  • Your parent PIN, if you set one. We store only a scrambled (salted hash) version, never the PIN itself. If you use Face ID, it stays on your phone. We never receive your face data. Your phone only tells the app "yes" or "no".

  • Basic app information: your time zone, your phone type (iPhone or Android), the app version, when you last opened the app, and how many times you have opened it. This helps us show the right day of the journey, fix bugs and know which versions are still in use.

  • Subscription status: whether you are on a free trial or a paid plan, which plan, and when it renews or ends. We get this from Apple or Google through RevenueCat. We never receive your card or bank details.

  • What you type into the Journey finder (see section 4).

Information about your child

The parent adds this. Children do not create accounts and are never asked to type anything.

  • First name. We use it to personalize the app, for example "Good morning, Mia". Please use a first name or nickname only.

  • Age. We use it to show audios made for your child's age group (5 to 10, or 10 to 13).

  • Listening activity: which journey your child is on, which day they are on, which audios they finished, the date, how long they listened, stars and streaks.

  • Choices in the app: favorite audios, preferred voice, preferred relaxation, and how long the sleep audio should repeat.

We do not collect a child's photo, voice, video, location, contacts, email, phone number, or any way to contact the child directly. The app does not use the microphone or camera. There is no chat, no messaging, no public profile and no way for a child to share anything with anyone.

Information we do not collect

  • No advertising IDs (IDFA or Google Advertising ID).

  • No precise or approximate location.

  • No third-party analytics, tracking or advertising tools.

  • No push notification tokens today. Reminders are local notifications that your phone schedules by itself.

3. How we use information

We use information only to:

  • run the app and keep your account working on all your devices;

  • personalize audios with your child's first name and age group;

  • track progress through a journey (days, stars, streaks);

  • send the daily reminders you turn on (scheduled on your phone);

  • unlock your subscription and handle free trial status;

  • suggest journeys when you use the Journey finder;

  • keep the app safe, stop abuse and fix problems;

  • answer you when you contact us;

  • meet legal duties.

We do not use any information for advertising, behavioral advertising, profiling, or selling. We do not build marketing profiles of children.

4. The Journey finder (AI)

The Journey finder helps you pick a journey. You type a few words about what your child needs, for example "shy at school". Only the parent uses it. It sits behind the parent PIN.

  • What you type, and your child's age if you have added one, are sent from our server to Anthropic (the maker of the Claude AI model). Anthropic returns up to three journey suggestions.

  • We do not send your child's name, your name, your email or your account details to Anthropic.

  • Under Anthropic's commercial terms, Anthropic does not use this text to train its AI models.

  • We keep a log of what you typed, your child's age and the suggestions, linked to your account. We use it to make the finder work better and to prevent abuse. It is deleted when you delete your account.

  • Please do not type your child's full name, health information, or anything you would not want stored. A short description is all the finder needs.

  • Free accounts can use the finder 5 times per day.

5. Parental consent

Only a parent or legal guardian may create an Ethera Kids account. You create the account, add your child, choose what they hear and accept our Parent Agreement & Waiver before the first audio plays. By doing this you give consent for us to collect and use your child's information as this policy describes.

You can give consent for the information we need to run the app without agreeing to any sharing beyond our service providers. We do not ask for more information than the app needs, and we do not require a child to share more to use any feature.

If we ever want to collect new kinds of information about children or use it in a new way, we will tell you first and ask for your consent.

If we learn that a child created an account, or that we have a child's information without a parent's consent, we will delete it.

6. Who helps us run the app

We share information only with service providers that help us run Ethera Kids. They may use it only to provide their service to us, and they must protect it. We do not let them use it for their own advertising.

  • Supabase (USA) — Database, sign-in and server functions — Your account and settings, your child's profile and listening activity

  • Bunny.net (Bunny CDN) — Delivers the audio files — The request for the audio file and your device's IP address, as any website or file server does

  • Anthropic — AI for the Journey finder — Only the text you type in the finder and your child's age

  • RevenueCat — Manages subscriptions — An anonymous account ID and your purchase and subscription status

  • Apple App Store / Google Play — Downloads, payments, free trials, refunds — What they collect under their own privacy policies, including payment details

  • Apple (Sign in with Apple) — Sign-in on iPhone, if you choose it — Handled by Apple under its own privacy policy

We may also share information if the law requires it, to protect the safety of a child or anyone else, or to protect our rights. If Ethera is ever sold or merged, information may move to the new owner, who must keep following this policy or ask for your consent.

7. Your choices and rights as a parent

You are in control of your child's information. You can:

  • Review and change your child's first name and age at any time in the Parents tab.

  • Delete your child's profile in the Parents tab. This deletes their listening history, favorites and settings.

  • Delete your whole account in the Parents tab. This deletes all Ethera Kids information: your parent profile, every child profile, all listening history, favorites, settings and Journey finder history.

  • Stop all further collection about your child by deleting their profile or your account.

  • Turn reminders off in the app or in your phone's settings.

  • Ask us by email at support@ethera.online. You can ask to see the information we have about your child, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. We will check that you are the account holder, then reply within 30 days at the latest.

One login for two apps. Ethera Kids uses the same login as our main Ethera app. If you also use the main Ethera app, deleting your Ethera Kids account deletes all your Ethera Kids information but keeps your main Ethera account. To delete that too, use the delete option in the Ethera app or email us.

Subscriptions are separate. Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription. Please cancel it in your Apple or Google account settings (see our Terms of Use).

Depending on where you live (for example California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas and other US states), you may have extra rights, such as knowing what we collect, getting a copy, correcting it, deleting it, and saying no to selling or targeted advertising. We do not sell information or use it for targeted advertising. To use any of your rights, email support@ethera.online. We will not treat you differently for using them.

8. How long we keep information

  • We keep your account and your child's information while your account is open, so the app keeps working.

  • When you delete a child's profile, we delete that child's information right away.

  • When you delete your account, we delete your Ethera Kids information right away. Copies in secure backups are removed automatically within 30 days.

  • Subscription records from Apple, Google and RevenueCat may be kept by them, and by us in a limited form, as long as needed for tax, accounting and legal reasons. These records do not include your child's information.

  • Small usage counters we use to stop abuse (for example, how many finder searches were made today) contain no child information.

We do not keep a child's information longer than we need it for the reasons in this policy.

9. How we protect information

  • All data travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS).

  • Each parent can only reach their own family's information. Our database enforces this with access rules on every table.

  • Audio links are handed out one at a time to signed-in parents.

  • The AI key and other secret keys live only on our server, never in the app.

  • The parent area of the app (Journeys and Parents tabs) can be locked with a PIN or Face ID, so your child cannot change settings.

  • Only a small number of people at Ethera can reach the database, and only to run and support the app.

No system is perfect. If we ever learn of a security problem that affects your information, we will tell you as the law requires.

10. Information on your phone

The app saves a copy of your family's data on your phone so it works offline. Your sign-in session and parent PIN (scrambled) are stored securely on your phone. Signing out or deleting the app removes them from that phone.

11. Children's privacy and the stores

Ethera Kids is made for families with children. It follows the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Apple's App Store rules for the Kids Category and Google Play's Families Policy. There are no ads and no social features. Settings, journeys and account choices are in the parent area, which can be locked with a PIN or Face ID. Subscriptions are bought through Apple or Google, which ask for the store account holder's password, Face ID or Ask to Buy approval.

12. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will post the new version here and change the effective date. If a change affects how we collect, use or share your child's information, we will tell you in the app or by email first, and ask for your consent where the law requires it.

13. Contact us

Ethera LLC
30 N Gould St, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA
Email: support@ethera.online
Website: https://www.ethera.online