We run no server for your children's drawings. They live in your own iCloud, shared only with people you invite.
Read the full privacy policyYou snap and sort here. Clean-up runs on the phone itself.
Apple keeps the gallery in your own iCloud, under your Apple ID.
The other parent and the grandparents see it because you asked them in. How family sharing works
No Crayon Years server. Your family's drawings never pass through us, so there is nothing to look at, lose or sell.
Crayon Years is built so none of this reaches us, not even for analytics or support.
We use PostHog on EU servers to count things, like how many drawings get saved in a day. No profiles, no names, no photos, no text. A count can't be traced back to you or your children.
What a count looks like
In the app's Settings. On by default, off with one tap.
Names, birthdays, drawings, portraits and voice notes never leave your devices, except to your own iCloud and the people you invite.
Apple handles the payment. RevenueCat tells the app whether Pro is active, using a random ID. We never see your name, email or card.
Crayon Years is made by Zeus Apps B.V., a private limited company registered in the Netherlands. Zeus Apps B.V. is the controller for the personal data described in this policy.
Usage counts show us which features help and where the app breaks. Our legal basis is legitimate interest, and you can object at any time with the switch in Settings. Purchase status is needed to give you what you paid for. Support emails are used only to answer you.
Your family's content stays in your iCloud until you delete it. Deleted drawings wait in Recently deleted for 30 days, then they are gone for good.
Usage counts are stored by PostHog in the EU and deleted after 24 months. Purchase records are kept as long as tax law requires. Support emails are deleted 12 months after the last reply.
Apple (iCloud and App Store payments), PostHog (anonymous usage counts, hosted in the EU) and RevenueCat (purchase status). Where the law asks for it, we have a data processing agreement in place. We never sell data and we work with no advertising networks. We do not sell or share personal information, as US state privacy laws define those words.
Apple stores your family's content in your iCloud under the iCloud terms and privacy policy you agreed with Apple, and Apple decides in which data centres it is kept. PostHog hosts the anonymous usage counts in the EU. RevenueCat, a US company, processes App Store purchase receipts and the random purchase ID in the United States. Where personal data leaves the EU, the transfer relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
Crayon Years is for parents. Children have no account and don't use the app on their own. A parent enters their names, birthdays and artwork, and all of it stays in that parent's iCloud and with the people they invite.
Crayon Years is not directed at children under 13, and we collect no personal information from children, as the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) defines it. Your child's art never reaches us: it stays in your own iCloud.
Under the GDPR you can ask to see, correct, delete or take a copy of your data, and object to or limit how we use it. Most of this you can do yourself: export everything as a ZIP or PDF, delete drawings or the whole gallery, and turn off anonymous usage in Settings.
Because usage counts are anonymous, we cannot find the ones that came from you. You can also complain to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).
When this policy changes, we update the date at the top. If a change matters to you, we say so in the app first.
Zeus Apps B.V., the Netherlands. Email privacy@crayonyears.com with any question about your data.
For help with iCloud, sharing or Pro, see the help center. How invites and roles work is on the families page.