Privacy Policy
Effective 19 October 2026
Mochi Pet is a game for children. It does not collect, store off the device, share or sell any personal information. It has no accounts, no advertising, no analytics, no in-app purchases and no links out of the app, and it does not connect to the internet.
What stays on the device
- Game progress: the pet's name, her needs, stars, game progress and settings are saved on the device only.
- Children's names: the names shown in "Who's playing?" (and any a grown-up adds) are saved on the device only. They are used so Mochi can greet each child by name.
- What Mochi remembers: small notes such as a child's favourite food or the last game played, saved on the device only, so she can talk about them later.
None of this is sent anywhere. Deleting the app, or using Start over in the grown-ups settings, erases it.
Microphone and speech
The app uses the microphone only when a child taps the microphone button (Mochi repeats what was said in her own voice) or answers one of Mochi's questions out loud. The system asks permission the first time.
- Recordings for "copy me" are kept in memory only while Mochi plays them back, and are never saved or sent.
- Spoken answers are understood by the device's own speech recognition in on-device mode (Apple's on-device recognition on iPhone and iPad, the on-device recogniser on Android). Mochi Pet does not send the audio or the words anywhere.
- Mochi's own voice is made on the device by the system's text-to-speech and by sounds generated inside the app.
Microphone access can be turned off at any time in the device's Settings; the app still works, and questions can be answered by tapping.
Children's privacy
Because no personal information leaves the device, Mochi Pet does not collect personal information from children within the meaning of the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), the EU and UK GDPR, or similar laws. There are no third-party services or software development kits in the app that collect data.
Grown-ups
Settings (volume, Mochi's voice, vibration, conversations, language and children's names) are behind a press-and-hold lock, so children are unlikely to change them by accident.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. A change that collects any data would be described here before it shipped.
Contact
Questions about privacy: zenbainc@gmail.com
隐私政策（简体中文）
Mochi Pet 是一款儿童游戏。它不会收集、上传、分享或出售任何个人信息。没有账号、没有广告、没有数据分析、没有内购、没有外部链接，也不连接互联网。
只保存在设备上的内容
- 游戏进度：宠物的名字、状态、星星、游戏进度和设置只保存在设备上。
- 孩子的名字：“谁来陪我玩”里的名字（以及家长添加的名字）只保存在设备上，用来让 Mochi 叫出每个孩子的名字。
- Mochi 记住的事：比如孩子最喜欢的食物或上次玩的游戏，只保存在设备上。
这些内容都不会被发送出去。删除应用，或在家长设置里选择“重新开始”，即可全部清除。
麦克风和语音
只有当孩子点麦克风按钮（Mochi 会学他说话），或者用说话回答 Mochi 的问题时，才会使用麦克风。第一次使用时系统会请求许可。录音只在播放时暂存于内存，不会保存或发送。语音回答由设备自带的离线语音识别处理，Mochi Pet 不会把声音或文字发送到任何地方。可以随时在系统设置中关闭麦克风权限，应用仍可正常使用。
儿童隐私
由于没有任何个人信息离开设备，Mochi Pet 不收集儿童个人信息，应用内也没有收集数据的第三方服务。