Child Safety

1. A contained game experience

Children choose from supplied drawing prompts and create on an in-app canvas. They cannot message strangers, browse the open internet, upload photographs from the camera roll, or publish drawings to a public social feed through Doodle Dare.

2. Private identity by default

The game creates a Guest alias instead of asking for an email, phone number, or real name. Leagues show the alias or chosen game nickname, points, and rank. Families should use a playful nickname that does not reveal a full name, school, address, or contact information.

3. Age-aware prompts and feedback

Prompts are generated and curated for a child-friendly drawing game. Automated filters and prompt rules are used to avoid sexual content, graphic violence, drugs, hate, dangerous instructions, personal-data requests, frightening themes, and adult topics.

The Doodle Shark’s feedback is short and encouraging. The evaluator is instructed to reject empty or meaningless submissions, look for the requested ideas, consider creativity, and apply a somewhat higher expectation to Hard mode while remaining kind.

4. AI limitations

Computer vision may misunderstand a child’s marks, miss an object, or give an odd score. A surprising result is a limitation of the game, not a failure by the child. Parents can frame scores as one playful guess and focus on the story behind the picture.

5. Purchases and device controls

Optional Star packs are sold through Apple and Google in-app purchase systems. The game uses a hold action before opening the grown-up shop, and families should also enable the store’s purchase approval, password, Screen Time, or Family Link controls appropriate to the child.

Doodle Dare contains no third-party advertising. Purchases are optional; daily Gems provide continuing free scored play over time.

6. What parents can do

We recommend that parents and guardians:

• Try the first few rounds together and explain that the Doodle Shark is an AI character that can guess incorrectly.
• Remind children not to put private information in a nickname or drawing.
• Use device-level purchase approval and choose supervision appropriate to the child’s age and needs.
• Use Delete game data or contact us if private information is entered accidentally.
• Report an unsuitable prompt, score, nickname, or safety concern with the Support ID and approximate time.

7. Reporting a concern

Open grown-up settings to copy the Support ID, then email us. Describe what happened without including unnecessary information about a child. If a child is in immediate danger, contact local emergency or child-protection services; Doodle Dare is not an emergency service.