AliKa is a transparent (non-hidden) parental control application designed to let a parent/guardian manage screen time on the device of a child in their care. The app does not run covertly: it is visibly present on the device, and lock screens and notifications are shown openly.
The app may only be installed by the device owner/guardian, with the child's knowledge. It may not be used secretly on another person's device without their consent, and such use is expressly prohibited.
Because it lets a parent see and limit how a child's device is used, the Android app is
declared to Google Play as a parental-control monitoring tool
(isMonitoringTool = child_monitoring). Its icon is never hidden, a persistent
notification is shown while protection is running, and Google Play Protect may tell the
device user that a monitoring app is installed.
For its parental control functions, the app collects the following data only on the device (locally):
| Data | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Names and durations of used applications | Usage reports, time limits |
| Titles and addresses of visited websites / videos | Parental visibility, content filtering |
| Lock / limit / block events | Event log |
| Parent PIN (stored only as a cryptographic hash) | Protecting settings |
| Family chat messages between paired family devices | Family communication |
| Short voice recordings made by the child in speaking questions (temporary) | Letting the child replay and compare their own pronunciation |
| Technical diagnostics: crashes and their cause, app restarts, permission and protection changes, failed network or feature operations, the app's own warning lines | Kept locally for 8 days so a problem report can be prepared; leaves the device only if the parent sends a problem report (see below) |
Each permission below is requested only for the feature named, is granted by the user in Android, and can be revoked at any time in the system settings.
| Permission | What it accesses and why |
|---|---|
| Usage access | Which app is in the foreground and for how long, to count screen time and enforce limits. Stays on the device. |
| Display over other apps | Shows the visible lock screen when a limit is reached. Reads no data. |
| Notifications and foreground service | Shows the persistent notification while protection runs, plus limit and reminder notices. |
| Accessibility service (optional “Settings Guard”) | See the dedicated section below. |
| Device administrator (optional) | Activation alone provides uninstall protection. AliKa requests no device-admin policies, so it cannot wipe, lock or change passwords. |
| VPN (optional web filter) | See “Android web filter (local VPN)” below. |
| Microphone | Only when the child taps record in a speaking question. The clip is kept in the app's temporary cache on the device so the child can replay it; recording the same question again overwrites it, Android may clear the cache at any time, and it is never uploaded or shared. |
| Camera | Only on the family pairing screen, to scan a QR code. Frames are decoded in memory and are not saved or sent. |
| Local network and Wi-Fi state | Finds and talks to paired family devices on the home network. Wi-Fi network names, BSSID and MAC addresses are not collected. |
| Close background apps | Closes the picture-in-picture window of an app that is currently blocked so it cannot float above the lock screen. |
| Biometrics | Optional unlocking of the parent panel through Android's own biometric prompt. AliKa receives only success or failure, never biometric data. |
Settings Guard is optional and off by default. Before Android's accessibility settings are opened, AliKa shows a separate in-app disclosure with Accept and Decline buttons; declining does not limit any other feature.
%ProgramData%\AliKa\; the
current Windows user's learning library and local state are stored under
%LocalAppData%\AliKa\. Android usage history, child profiles, messages,
learning content, rules and visited-domain history remain on the device or move directly
between paired family devices on the approved local network.If the parent explicitly enables Family Network features and pairs family devices, supported data is transferred directly between the paired devices on the approved local network using encrypted communication. This optional transfer does not pass through an AliKa-operated cloud service. The feature can be turned off by the parent.
To let one Google Play family subscription work on up to 10 paired Android phones, tablets and TVs, AliKa uses a limited licensing service. It processes a random AliKa family identifier, a random AliKa device identifier, a SHA-256 digest of the device public key, the device role, revocation status, and the Google Play product, subscription status and paid-period end time. Purchase and refresh tokens are retained only as SHA-256 digests; their plain values are not stored. Google account names and email addresses are not collected by the licensing service.
This metadata is used only for app functionality, subscription verification, fraud prevention and enforcement of the 10-device limit. Transfers use HTTPS/TLS. Inactive or expired family-license records and their device records are permanently deleted within 90 days. Google Play separately processes purchases under Google's own privacy terms.
AliKa may give a single-use free access code to people it offers free use to (for example, educators who test question quality). A code is used only if the parent enters it; nothing is sent in the normal purchase or trial flow.
%ProgramData%\AliKa\; after that no connection is needed. No usage,
profile, learning or other data is sent.The parent panel has a Send a problem report button (Android: Help; Windows: Device Health). Nothing is sent automatically or in the background. When the parent taps the button, AliKa prepares one ZIP file on the device and opens the parent's own email app (Android share menu, or a Windows email draft with the file shown in Explorer) addressed to destek@alika.tr. Earlier AliKa versions address the same report to alika.destek@gmail.com; reports received there are handled under the same terms. The report reaches ErenKa Software only if the parent sends that email; the parent can look at, keep or delete the file instead.
The file covers the last 7 days and contains:
The report never contains the PIN or its hash, passwords, tokens or keys, the child's name, web history or visited domains, window titles, family messages, voice recordings, photos, location, contacts, Android ID or IMEI. ErenKa Software also receives the sender's email address and anything the parent writes in the email.
Reports are used only to find and fix problems in AliKa and to reply to the parent. They are not used for advertising or profiling and are not sold; they are processed only for this purpose and only through the service providers listed below. Sending the email from the parent's side is handled by the parent's own email provider under its own terms. On ErenKa Software's side:
A report is kept only as long as needed to resolve the reported problem and is deleted no later than 12 months after it is received. The parent can ask for earlier deletion by writing to destek@alika.tr.
The question screen has a Report button for reporting a mistake in a question (for example a wrong answer key or a missing or incorrect choice); on Windows it is Report a wrong question. It appears only on questions from content packs, not on questions the parent wrote. The report contains only:
The child’s name or profile identifier, their answers, device details and logs are not included. The whole report is shown on screen before it is saved or sent. Please do not write personal information in the description.
On Windows, after the preview is confirmed, the report opens as a draft addressed to destek@alika.tr in the default email app (earlier versions address it to alika.destek@gmail.com). On Android the report is first kept only on the device (at most 20 reports); the parent can open the reports in one email draft, or delete the list, from Parent panel → Help → Reported questions. AliKa never sends a report by itself; it reaches ErenKa Software only if the email is sent. Question reports are used only to fix the reported question and are handled under the same terms as problem reports above (service providers, deletion no later than 12 months, earlier deletion on request).
On Android the web filter uses a local VPN (VpnService) on the device. It only inspects DNS requests (the domain names of visited sites) to block listed sites and non-safe-search content. No encrypted tunnel is created and no traffic is routed to an AliKa server; only ordinary DNS resolution goes to a public resolver. Page content is not read. Visited domain names remain on the device. The parent must enable the filter after an in-app prominent disclosure and explicit consent, and can turn it off at any time.
(If cloud sync is added in the future, this section will be updated and separate, explicit consent will be requested.)
This app processes data on behalf of a legal guardian, for the sole purpose of managing their own child's device. Data is not used for marketing, profiling, or third-party sharing. The guardian can delete history and library items through the parent panel; the steps for deleting all local data are stated below.
%ProgramData%\AliKa\ and %LocalAppData%\AliKa\ so a
reinstall can resume without data loss. To erase everything, delete the first
directory as an administrator and the second as the relevant Windows user after
uninstall. The classic Setup uninstaller separately offers to delete
%ProgramData%\AliKa\; silent update/uninstall retains data.Local settings are protected by a parent PIN. Android licensing-service transfers use HTTPS/TLS, device public keys and hashed tokens; access to production records is limited to the service identities required for verification and retention cleanup. Device security (disk encryption and operating-system updates) remains the user's responsibility.
This section applies only to the www.alika.tr website, not to the AliKa app. The app does not contain Cloudflare Web Analytics or any other analytics service.
To count visits to the website, ErenKa Software uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, a service of Cloudflare, Inc. When a page loads, a small script from Cloudflare sends information about the page load to Cloudflare. According to Cloudflare, this service does not use cookies or local storage to collect these metrics, does not “fingerprint” visitors through their IP address, browser User-Agent or other data for analytics, and does not record the query string of the page address. ErenKa Software sees only aggregated statistics: numbers of visits and page views, the pages viewed, referring websites, countries, device types, browsers, operating systems and page-load times. These statistics are used only to understand how the website is used and to improve it.
How Cloudflare processes this data is described in the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
Videos. The videos on the Turkish “Nasıl kullanılır” (how to use) page are hosted on YouTube (Google LLC). When the page opens, only a cover image stored on this website is loaded and no connection to YouTube is made. When you press the play button of a video, the player is loaded from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced address (youtube-nocookie.com). From that moment your browser connects to YouTube, and YouTube may process data such as your IP address and browser information under the Google Privacy Policy. If you do not play a video, no data goes to YouTube. Videos on the other pages of the website are the website’s own files.
If this policy changes, this document will be updated and the change announced in the app or on the store page.
Questions: destek@alika.tr — ErenKa Software, Türkiye. Email sent to this address is processed through the service providers listed under “Problem reports sent by the parent” in section 3.