Fox & Pencil does not ask for an account, your email or your real name, and nothing about your child is ever sent to us.
Your child's name. A name typed into the name tracing tool stays in your browser (local storage) so it is there next time. It is never put in the page address and never sent to us, to Google or anyone else. Your own words for a word search do go in the page address, so you can bookmark the puzzle.
Children and the play screens. The play pages (/play and its versions in other languages) are made for children to use with a grown-up nearby. They show no ads and load no Google Analytics or ad cookies; we only count visits there with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies. Kid profiles (a first name or nickname and an age), stars and the daily play-time limit are kept on your device only. Nothing a child does in play mode is sent to us.
Preferences. Your theme and page-width choices are stored in your browser.
Fonts, Chinese characters and cursive. The site's fonts load from Google Fonts. To draw stroke order, your browser downloads public character data for the characters on the sheet from jsDelivr. Like any web request, these services see your IP address.
Advertising. The worksheet pages, which are for parents and teachers, show ads from Google AdSense, which may use cookies to personalise ads. You can manage this at Google ad settings. Ads never appear on the play screens.
Analytics and cookies. On the worksheet pages we use Google Analytics to count visits and see which worksheets are useful. It uses cookies and receives the page address, the site you came from, your approximate location, device and browser, but never your child's name. We also use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts visits without cookies. Visitors in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland are asked first: analytics and ad cookies stay off until you agree, and you can change your choice at any time from the privacy settings link on the page.
Story videos. Story pages with a video show a still picture from YouTube (loaded from i.ytimg.com). The YouTube player, from youtube-nocookie.com, only loads when you tap the picture; from then on YouTube's own privacy policy applies. The play screens never show videos.
Hosting. The site runs on Cloudflare, which processes standard request data such as IP addresses to deliver and protect the site.
Your rights. We hold no account or profile about you or your child, so there is nothing for us to look up or delete; clearing your browser's site data removes everything stored on your device. Questions: contact us.
Planning more than homework?
Our sister site Plan Your Kid helps you pick a name your child can grow with, and predicts how tall they'll be.