Drawing Pad privacy policy
Effective 5 October 2026.
Drawing Pad (Dandelion Draw) is a drawing app made for young children, part of Dandelion's World. In short: the app collects no information and cannot use the Internet. It saves the pictures children make only on the phone, and never sends them anywhere.
Who we are
Drawing Pad is made by TCP3. Questions about this policy or the app: privacy@tcp3.com.
No Internet access
The app does not have Android's Internet permission, so Android does not let it send anything off the phone. It has no ads, no analytics, no tracking, no social features, no chat, no profiles, and no accounts or sign-in. Purchases are handled by the Google Play Store app on the phone, not by this app (see "Purchases").
Pictures
Pictures are saved only when a child taps Save, and only on the phone, in the Gallery album "Dandelion Draw" (the folder Pictures/Dandelion Draw), never in the phone camera's folder. Pictures carry no location.
The app has no Share button and never sends pictures anywhere. The album is part of the phone's Gallery, so other apps that a grown-up has allowed to see photos (for example a photo backup such as Google Photos) can see it too, and may copy it. That is controlled in the phone's settings, not by this app.
The app also keeps its own copy of each picture a child draws, with a small preview of it, in the app's private storage, so a child can open an old picture from "My pictures" and carry on drawing on it. It keeps the 100 most recent; a child can delete one from "My pictures", and uninstalling the app deletes them all. These copies never leave the phone.
Settings
The app keeps a few settings on the phone: the last tool, size and colour, and the grown-up switches. If a grown-up sets a grown-up code, the app keeps it scrambled (as a hash, not the digits). Only the app uses them.
Purchases
Optional upgrades are one-time purchases made through Google Play, with the Google account on the phone. Google Play takes the payment, under Google's own privacy policy. Google Play tells the app which upgrades that account owns, with a purchase record the app checks on the phone. The app keeps only the list of what is owned and, if Google Play stops listing an upgrade, the time it first noticed, so that a passing glitch never takes an upgrade away. It never sees payment details, or the account's name or email address. Purchases are made in the grown-up area.
Information you send us
If a grown-up emails TCP3, TCP3 receives the sender's email address and whatever the message contains. TCP3 uses it only to reply and to fix problems in the app, and does not share it with anyone else. It is deleted once it is no longer needed for that, or sooner on request to privacy@tcp3.com. Please don't send pictures of children, or personal details that aren't needed.
Children
Drawing Pad is designed for children aged 3 to 8. The app collects no personal information from anyone, children included. Settings and purchases are for grown-ups: they sit behind a grown-up check that asks a multiplication question, or a code the grown-up chose. Drawing and saving never need it.
Keeping and deleting information
- Pictures stay in the Gallery until someone deletes them there. Uninstalling the app does not delete them.
- Uninstalling the app deletes its settings, its own copies of the pictures ("My pictures") and its list of purchases on the phone. Purchases stay with the Google account and are found again after a reinstall.
- The app's own data is left out of Android's backup and out of transfers to a new phone, so it is not copied anywhere.
Security
- Everything the app keeps for itself (its settings, its own copies of the pictures and the list of purchases) is in its private storage on the phone, which Android does not let other apps read.
- The app has no Internet permission, so it cannot send anything off the phone.
- Saved pictures are in the phone's shared Gallery album, protected by the phone's screen lock and by Android's permissions for photos.
Permissions
- Storage (Android 8 and 9 only): to save pictures to the Gallery.
- Google Play billing: lets the app ask the Google Play Store app on the phone to sell an upgrade and to say which upgrades the Google account owns. Google Play handles the purchase itself. It does not give the app Internet access.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version comes with an app update and replaces the published copy, with a new effective date at the top.
Contact
TCP3, privacy@tcp3.com