Privacy Policy

What we keep

Your account: the email address you sign in with and, if you set them up, the names and PINs of the family profiles on your account. Passwords are stored scrambled and nobody at Color with Grace can read them.

Your work: the pictures you color, the books you build, your writing notes, and any photo you upload as a guide for a drawing.

Your purchases: what you bought and when. Card numbers are handled by the payment company and never reach us.

Basic app records needed to keep the app working, such as error reports and counts of how many pictures an account has made.

Picture downloads: when a signed-in free account or member uses an app picture-download button, we record their account, picture filename, file format, time and whether it happened on the live site or in Preview. Only the owner can read these reports. We count the file being handed to your browser, not proof that it was saved to disk. Device sharing menus and earlier downloads are not counted. Unsynced download records stay on your device until they can be sent.

Owner-only reports count page visits, signup dates, membership types, saved-work totals and purchases. A random visit identifier is kept in this browser tab and renewed after 30 minutes of inactivity. Signing in during a visit can connect those page counts to your account. Preview testing is separate from the published site. These reports do not store IP addresses, drawing prompts or journal writing, and are not sent to advertisers.

What we do not do

We do not sell your information. We do not rent it, trade it, or hand it to advertisers.

We do not run advertising trackers or behavior profiling in the app.

We do not use your artwork or your uploaded photos to train picture-making models, and we do not show your work to other people unless you share it yourself.

Children and family profiles

Children use the app through a family profile created by an adult account holder. A family profile has a name and a PIN and cannot buy anything, change billing, or share pages publicly.

A parent or guardian can see, download, or delete everything on a child's profile at any time from the family profiles page.

Photos you upload

A photo you upload as a drawing guide is used to make your picture and to keep your hairstyle guide working for your later drawings. It is kept on your account and your device, not shown to anyone else, and removed when you remove it.

Share links

When you create a share link, that one picture becomes viewable by anyone who has the link — that is the whole point of it. No sign-in is needed to view it and the rest of your gallery stays private. Deleting the picture or turning off the link stops it working.

The email list

Lesson reminders and news are sent through AWeber, and only to people who asked for them. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and you can ask us to remove you at any time.

Companies that help run the app

A small number of services make the app work: hosting and the database that stores your account and artwork, the payment processor that handles cards, the email service for the newsletter, and the picture-making service that draws new pages. Each one only receives what it needs to do its job.

How long we keep things

Your work stays until you delete it or close your account. Deleting a picture removes it from your devices and from our storage. Closing an account removes the account and its artwork; purchase records are kept as long as the law requires.

Your choices

You can download or print any picture, delete any picture, remove a family profile, leave the email list, or ask us to close your account entirely and erase what we hold. Ask through the Complaints page and we will handle it.

You can also delete your account yourself from My Dashboard. After you type your email to confirm, any paid plan stops renewing and you are signed out. Seven days later your pictures, books, journals, family profiles, notes, saved copies, download records and sign-in are erased. Signing back in before then cancels the deletion. Payment receipts and printed-book orders are kept as the law requires.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and anything significant will be said plainly in the app.