Children’s Safety & Privacy
Last updated: 9 October 2026
Katha Kutty is made for children aged roughly two to ten, and their safety is the constraint we design around rather than a feature we added. This page sets out what that means in practice.
No advertising. Ever.
There is no advertising anywhere in Katha Kutty. No banners, no video ads, no sponsored stories, no advertising SDKs, and no advertising identifiers collected. We have no commercial reason to hold a child’s attention longer than the story they chose — we are paid by their parent, not by an advertiser.
Nothing a child can buy
There are no in-app purchases a child can make. Subscriptions are bought by an adult, and every screen that could cost money sits behind the parent’s control.
Nothing a child can be contacted through
Katha Kutty has no chat, no messaging, no comments a child can see, no user-to-user contact of any kind, and no way for a stranger to reach a child. There are no external links inside the children’s experience.
There is one way a voice reaches a child, and a parent controls all of it. A parent can invite a grandparent or another family member to record a short message. The invitation is sent by the parent, to someone the parent chose. The recording comes back to the parent, not to the child — the parent listens to it and approves or rejects it before the child ever hears it. A parent can delete any recording at any time.
Nobody can record a message for your child without you inviting them, and nothing reaches your child that you have not heard first.
A child cannot hold an account
Accounts belong to a parent or guardian, verified by mobile number. A child profile is something the parent creates inside that account; it is not a login and it has no password of its own.
What the parent controls
- A PIN guards settings, subscription and account screens. Repeated wrong attempts lock it temporarily.
- Daily listening limits can be set per child, because siblings differ.
- Bedtime mode pins the app to the foreground so a child cannot wander into other apps on the device.
- Listening history is visible to the parent.
- Deletion — a child’s profile, including any name recording, can be removed at any time.
- Family messages — you decide who may record for your child, you hear every recording before your child does, and you can remove any of them at any time.
What we know about a child, and why
Only what is needed to make the app work for them: a first name or nickname to greet them, a date of birth to suggest stories of the right age and to wish them happy birthday, an optional avatar, and what they have listened to so a story can resume where it stopped. Nothing about a child is used to profile, target or advertise to them, and nothing about a child is sold or shared with anyone outside the service providers who run the app.
Name recordings
If you ask us to say your child’s name at the end of stories, you may record a few seconds of yourself saying it so our storyteller says it the way your family does. That recording of your voice is deleted as soon as the clip has been made. The finished clip is stored privately, delivered only through links that expire, and can be removed by you at any time.
The stories themselves
Every story, song and reading is produced or reviewed by our own team before it appears. There is no user-generated content in Katha Kutty, so nothing can arrive in front of a child without a person here having chosen it.
Consent, and the law
Under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, personal data of a child may only be processed with verifiable consent from a parent or guardian, and children may not be tracked or targeted with advertising. Our account model exists to satisfy exactly that: an adult verifies their own mobile number, creates the account, and gives that consent knowingly. We also design to meet Google Play’s Families policy.
Telling us about a problem
If something worries you — content that seems wrong for the age it is shown to, a fault that might expose information, or anything at all to do with your child’s safety — tell us and we will treat it as urgent.
For a child-safety concern, email info@kathakutty.com or call +91 88910 19420. Both reach a person. A member of our team acknowledges every child-safety report within 24 hours.
Our WhatsApp number, +91 88910 19420, is answered by an automated assistant and is the quickest way to get help with everyday questions — subscriptions, payments, how a feature works. If you raise a safety concern there it is passed to a person, but email or the phone number above will always reach one sooner.
Contact
AU Innovations Private Limited
TC-10/104/1, Krishnanjali, Samskara Lane,
Powdikonam, Thiruvananthapuram – 695588,
Kerala, India
CIN: U85499KL2024PTC089872
Email: info@kathakutty.com
Phone: +91 88910 19420
Grievance Officer: Unnikrishnan R, at the address and email above.