Pluso Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 28, 2026

Pluso is an educational app for children aged 4–7, developed by Alexandru Ionescu. This policy explains, in plain language, what data we collect — the short answer is no personal data at all.

TL;DR

• We collect no personal information about your child.
• There are no accounts, no login, no registration.
• We use no advertising and no third-party trackers.
• We count feature usage anonymously — plain tallies like "a story was finished today", with no identifiers of any kind (details below).
• We don't sell or share any data with anyone.
• The app runs entirely on the device — once installed, it works fully offline.

Anonymous usage counters

To understand which games and stories children enjoy, the app sends us tiny anonymous counting events — for example "a game was completed" or "a story was started". These events contain only the event name and a coarse label: the game or story name, the platform (web, Android, or iOS), or the device's interface-language group (e.g. "Romanian" or "Spanish" — never the full locale). On the presentation page at pluso.app we count, just as anonymously, how many times it is opened and how many times its buttons are tapped, together with the kind of button shown (install, open in Safari or in Chrome, play on a computer, or listening to Pluso's voice). These events include no user ID, no device ID, no fingerprinting, no cookies, no IP-based profiles, and no location. Additionally, our server counts daily activity per country (for example "Spain: 12 devices today") using the country that our hosting provider derives from the connection; the connection details themselves are never stored — only the country total, never anything more precise than the country. It is technically impossible for us to see what any individual child or device did — we only see totals, like "the counting game was completed 40 times this week". These counters are operated by us (no third-party analytics service) and are stored as plain numbers.

What Pluso stores on your device (locally, never sent online)

To remember your child's progress between play sessions, the app keeps the following on the device only:

• selected age level (4–5, 5–6, or 6–7),
• preferred visual theme (cars, rockets, etc.),
• stars earned per game,
• sound on/off preference.

These values never leave the device. They are stored using the operating system's standard mechanisms (UserDefaults on iOS, SharedPreferences on Android) and can be removed at any time by uninstalling the app.

Network and updates

The app may make a single network request at launch to check whether a newer version is available in the App Store / Google Play. This request only contains the currently-installed version number — no identifier is sent.

Audio content

Pluso's voice is pre-recorded by Gabriela Tesileanu (host of the "La Povești... cu Gabriella" Spotify show). All audio files are bundled with the app and played back locally. We do not transmit audio to any server.

External links

The settings panel contains two outgoing links:

• Gabriela's Spotify show (voice credit),
• the developer's email address (feedback).

Both are protected by a parental gate — a small math problem trivial for adults but unsolvable for a 4–7 year old — to prevent accidental navigation away from the app.

Your child's rights

Under GDPR and COPPA, you have the right to request what data we hold about your child. Our answer will always be: none. Pluso receives, stores, and transmits no personal information about the child.

Contact

For any questions or feedback:

Alexandru Ionescu
alexandru.ionesq@gmail.com

Changes to this policy

If we ever update this policy, the new version will be available at pluso.app/privacy with the date of the change shown at the top.