Privacy Policy

Last updated August 29, 2026 ยท Public beta

The short version

  • Kids can play MeowZap without an account and without giving a name.
  • Children are not asked for names, comments, photos, or messages.
  • Most of what MeowZap remembers (your kitten, settings, best scores) is saved in your own browser on your own device.
  • The only personal information we collect is from adults who choose to contact us or create an organization account.
  • We do not sell information and we do not run ads.
  • MeowZap's optional AI Voice Guide is for adults age 18 and older. Voice is processed in real time through ElevenLabs, with call recordings and transcripts configured not to be retained after the conversation.

Children can play without accounts

Games, languages, avatars, Purr & Reset, and MeowZap Care activities work with no sign-up, no email, and no login. We do not knowingly ask children for personal information anywhere on the site.

What is stored on your device

MeowZap saves a few things in your browser's local storage so the site remembers your choices. This stays on the device and is not sent to us:
  • Your kitten avatar settings and any glasses/dress-up choices.
  • Personal best scores and game progress (for example language lessons).
  • Sound, music, and accessibility settings (reduce motion, larger text, high contrast, captions, untimed mode).
  • A play nickname used only by the paused Party feature, and small preference flags such as chosen difficulty.
Clearing your browser data removes all of it.

What is sent to our backend

MeowZap's backend is hosted for us by Lovable Cloud (which runs on Supabase). The following is stored there:
  • Top score entries. For games that keep a score, we store the game name, the number of points, the difficulty, and the time. No player name, nickname, or other identifier is stored with public scores, and scores are shown by rank only.
  • Anonymous usage counts for organization play pages. When a waiting-room or classroom page is opened, we record that a visit happened and which activity and age range was chosen. No names, no accounts, no profiles, and nothing that identifies a child.
  • Adult contact details submitted through our forms (below).
  • Organization records created by staff (below).

Early Access and other adult forms

Our Early Access, teacher pilot, and practice request forms are for adults representing an organization. They ask for name, work email, optional phone, organization name, job title, organization type, city and state, an estimated number of children served, and an optional message. These forms must not be used to enter child, student, or patient information. Submissions are stored in our backend and a notification email is sent to the MeowZap owner (currently through a connected Gmail account) so we can reply to you.

Organization accounts and subscriptions

Staff who create an organization account sign in with an email address through our backend's authentication service. An organization record can include the organization name, a slug, an optional logo image, accent color, welcome message, location label, and the age ranges, categories, and activities the organization has turned on. Organization dashboards show aggregate counts only โ€” never child-level data. MeowZap is in public beta and we do not currently process payments on the site.

Party rooms and voice

Party Mode is an optional, separate friends-only voice feature available outside MeowZap Care. It is not available in dental, medical, eye-care, practice-branded or other Care Mode sessions. Party rooms require a private six-digit code, expire automatically and do not include public matchmaking or text chat. A locally selected nickname may be visible to invited participants in the same room. Voice is transmitted through WebRTC. MeowZap does not record, store or listen to Party conversations.

Speech and audio

Some language and wellness activities read words aloud. This uses either your device's built-in speech voice or a text-to-speech request to our hosting provider's AI service containing only the short phrase to be spoken. No microphone audio is sent anywhere by these activities.

The language and wellness activities described above do not send microphone audio. The optional adult AI Voice Guide described below is separate and uses microphone access only after an adult deliberately starts a voice conversation.

AI Voice Guide for grown-ups

MeowZap may provide an optional AI Voice Guide for adults age 18 and older, including parents, caregivers, educators, childcare professionals, healthcare-practice representatives, and other authorized organizational users. It is not designed as a child chat companion.

The visitor must deliberately open the guide, accept the displayed terms, and grant browser microphone permission before a voice conversation begins. The guide does not listen automatically.

Microphone audio and conversation text are processed in real time through ElevenLabs and its service providers to operate the voice conversation. The agent is configured with ElevenLabs Zero Retention Mode and audio saving is disabled, so call recordings and transcripts are not retained after the conversation. MeowZap has not configured a post-call transcript or audio webhook and does not receive or store a call recording or transcript.

The guide does not ask for or collect adult contact information during the voice conversation. Adults who want follow-up are directed to MeowZap's existing adult-only website forms.

Visitors must not share any child, student, or patient name, diagnosis, treatment information, school record, medical information, account credential, payment information, or other sensitive personal information. If a visitor indicates that they are under 18, the guide is instructed to stop asking questions and direct them to a parent, caregiver, teacher, or another trusted adult.

The widget stores only a terms-acceptance flag in the visitor's browser under the local-storage key meowzap_voice_guide_terms_v1. This flag does not contain a name, profile, conversation, or other identifying information.

The AI Voice Guide provides general information only. It is not medical care, mental-health care, therapy, diagnosis, educational advice, legal advice, or other professional advice. AI responses may occasionally be incomplete or incorrect.

For information about ElevenLabs' privacy practices, see https://elevenlabs.io/privacy-policy.

Third-party services we actually use

  • Lovable Cloud / Supabase โ€” hosting, database, and sign-in for adult accounts.
  • Lovable AI Gateway โ€” the text-to-speech used by some activities.
  • ElevenLabs โ€” real-time speech recognition, AI conversation processing, and voice generation for the optional adult AI Voice Guide. The guide is configured with Zero Retention Mode and audio saving disabled.
  • Google Gmail (connected account) โ€” sending us the notification email when an adult submits a form.
  • WebRTC peer connections plus public STUN/TURN relay servers โ€” used only by the Party feature, which is currently disabled.
We do not use advertising networks or third-party marketing trackers.

Keeping and deleting information

Score entries and anonymous usage counts are kept so leaderboards and organization dashboards work; they contain no personal identifiers. Adult contact submissions and organization records are kept while we are in touch with you or your organization uses MeowZap. You can ask us to delete an adult contact submission or an organization account at any time by emailing dayna@meowzap.com. Anything saved on a device can be deleted by clearing that browser's storage.

Changes and contact

MeowZap is in public beta and this policy may change as features change. Questions, deletion requests, or concerns: dayna@meowzap.com or contact us here.

MeowZap has not been independently certified or audited against COPPA, FERPA, HIPAA, WCAG, or any other standard. We build with child safety and accessibility in mind and describe here only what the site actually does.

See also our Terms of Use and Accessibility page.