Zoombinis Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy
Updated Novemeber 05, 2025. We may use cookies to track your use of this website.
ZoombinisWeb Version for K-12 or Zoombinis Clubs and Sites for Ancillary Materials andfor Merchandise
If you place an order for the Zoombinis Web Version for K-12 or Zoombinis Clubs or for Merchandise on our Store, our platform host (FableVision) or product vendors (Mimeo, FourthWall) will collect such personal information as is necessary to process your payment and shipment of materials to you. They will provide to us, and we will retain, your name, email address, and postal address. We will use that information solely to communicate with you regarding Zoombinis and other TERC products. Our host and vendors may use your information also as outlined on their respective sites.
As part of purchasing Zoombinis Web Version for K-12 or Zoombinis Clubs you will get an administrator account for a number of Zoombinis licensed individual accountsto be set up by you and used under terms of our End User License Agreement. Inmost instances we expect licensed individual accounts will be used by children under the age of 18, and we strongly encourage you to not use the child’s full name but rather to use a nickname or a generic identifier such as “Student1”,etc. for each account. Do not use a name which would be identifiable as the student by someone outside of your program or use case. We store these individual account names and the passwords for them, but do not ask for, collect, or store any other info on these accounts other than tracking progress through the game for purposes of reporting to the administrator.
For Mac, Windows, Kindle
What Information Do We Collect?
The Zoombinis app does not collect any personal data nor send any game or player data to the Internet. In the future we may release an update that collects anonymous user data such as clicks and progress through the game and will amend this policy at that time. The Zoombinis app does retain user names on the device, so you should be careful not to use a user name that contains any personally identifiable information.
In no event will we ever sell, trade, or in any other manner intentionally distribute, disseminate, or disclose any personal identification information about you as an individual user of this app to any companies, organizations, individuals, or any other third party without having first received your permission.
For IOS & Android
What Information Do We Collect?
The Zoombinis app collects anonymous data on certain actions and events in the game, such as play time, time taken to complete a particular challenge, etc. We also use certain marketing analytics that let us know which ad or social media post might have brought a person to the game and if they then bought Zoombinis. For those over the age of 13 our marketing analytics do use the Google Ad ID or device ID but we make no effort to associate it with any individual(s).
What Information Do We NOT Collect?
The Zoombinis app does not collect any personally identifiable information for users of any age, and is in compliance with COPPA and with Apple and Google Play policies for apps which have users under the age of 13. We may in the future offer opt-in user accounts but will verify age before creation of such an account.
General
In no event now or in the future will TERC ever sell, trade, or in any other manner intentionally distribute, disseminate, or disclose any personal identification information about you as an individual user of this app to any companies, organizations, individuals, or any other third party without having first received your permission.
If You Contact Us
If you contact us at support@terc.edu, zoombinis@terc.edu, or via social media or some other means with questions, bug reports, or suggestions, we may use your personal information in order to respond to you. We may also share the information you provide or your contact info with our Zoombinis development partner or marketing firm for the sole purpose of follow-up to your request or comment. We may also keep your comments or questions for future reference in troubleshooting or evaluating suggestions or modifications to the game. In no event now or in the future will we ever sell, trade, or in any other manner intentionally distribute, disseminate, or disclose any personal identification information about you as an individual user of this app to any companies, organizations, individuals, or any other third party without having first received your permission except as provided above.
If You Post About Zoombinis on Social Media
If you post about Zoombinis on publicly visible social media, we may quote your post/content with attribution or link to it. We will attempt to contact your first but if unable may still use your post as described. At any point you may contact us at zoombinis@terc.edu and request the quote and/or link be taken down and we will do so as soon as is commercially viable.
Privacy of Children
TERC does not solicit personal information from minors. We will never knowingly request or collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of thirteen (13) without prior verifiable parental consent and will dispose of any such information if we learn the person is thirteen or under.
If You’d Like Your Information Removed
In compliance with GDPR, if you’d like any information we’ve collected about you deleted, please contact us at zoombinis @terc.edu – please note as mentioned above we do not collect any personally identifiable information.
