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Last updated October 30, 2026
BAPA Plus (Bilingual Articulation and Phonology Assessment) is an iPad app that speech-language pathologists use to assess speech sounds in English and Spanish. It is made by Smarty Ears LLC. This page explains what happens to information when you use it, and the terms for using it.
Our other apps and the smartyearsapps.com website are covered by the Smarty Ears privacy policy, and Smarty Ears Online has its own policy. The promises are the same in all of them.
The students you add (name, date of birth, language and an optional photo), their answers, scores, notes, audio recordings and the reports BAPA Plus makes are all kept on your iPad, inside the app. They aren't sent to us or to anyone else, and we can't see them. BAPA Plus has no accounts and no sign-in.
On the App Store, BAPA Plus says "Data Not Collected".
BAPA Plus asks to use your camera or your photos only when you add a photo to a student's profile, and your microphone only when you record a student's answers. You can say no and still use everything else, and you can change your answer at any time in your iPad's Settings. Photos and recordings stay in the app on your iPad.
When you back up in BAPA Plus, the app saves a backup file in its own folder on your iPad, and you copy it to your computer with Finder or iTunes. We never receive it. To restore, you put the file back and choose it in the app.
If you back up your iPad to iCloud or to a computer, that backup can include BAPA Plus's information, like your other apps. It belongs to your Apple account; we can't see it.
No student information is ever sent over the internet by BAPA Plus. The app goes online only for these things:
You can buy single tests (Pay Per Test) or Unlimited Testing, billed monthly or yearly. Apple handles every purchase. We don't receive your name, card or Apple Account details; Apple only tells us about sales in a way that doesn't identify you.
You manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings. Refund requests go to Apple, under Apple's policies, at reportaproblem.apple.com.
When you email us from the app, your own email app opens with a message to [email protected]. It already includes the app's version, your device model, its iOS version and your device's name, so we can work out what's wrong. You see the message before you send it, and you can remove these details. We use your email only to help you, and we'll delete it if you ask.
BAPA Plus has no advertising and no tracking, and it doesn't use analytics or crash-reporting services. We never sell personal information, to anyone.
If you have chosen in your iPad's settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple may send us crash reports and usage statistics that don't identify you. You can turn this off in Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements.
BAPA Plus is made for speech-language pathologists and other professionals, who use it with the children they assess. BAPA Plus doesn't collect personal information from children: what's entered stays on the iPad, and there are no accounts, ads or tracking. If you think a child has sent us personal information, write to [email protected] and we'll delete it.
Because student and patient information stays on your iPad, Smarty Ears doesn't receive, store or process it, and BAPA Plus doesn't connect to your organization's systems. Your organization stays in control of the iPads and of anything staff choose to share from them.
For a vendor, privacy or security review, write to [email protected] and we'll help.
Delete a student inside the app, or delete the app to remove everything it stored on that iPad. Copies in your own backups and in reports you emailed stay until you delete them.
When we change this page, we update the date at the top. If a change is significant, we'll say so here before it takes effect.
Questions about privacy: [email protected]. Help with the app: [email protected].
Smarty Ears LLC, 3839 McKinney Avenue, Suite 155-2129, Dallas, Texas 75204-3839, United States. (214) 253-9196.
The terms for using BAPA Plus.
You get BAPA Plus from Apple's App Store, so Apple's Standard License Agreement for apps applies to it. The terms below add to it. By downloading or using BAPA Plus, you agree to both. If you don't agree, please don't use the app.
Smarty Ears gives you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use BAPA Plus on the Apple devices you own or control, as the App Store's rules allow. You can use it with the people you assess and support, at school, in a clinic or in a hospital.
Pay Per Test and Unlimited Testing are bought through Apple. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Unlimited Testing renews automatically each month or year unless you turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your Apple Account is charged for the next period within the 24 hours before it starts. You can manage or turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings at any time.
Payments are made to Apple, and refund requests are handled by Apple under its policies at reportaproblem.apple.com. Smarty Ears can't issue refunds for App Store purchases.
BAPA Plus and its content, including its pictures, words, sounds, scoring and design, belong to Smarty Ears or the companies that license them to us, and are protected by copyright and other laws. The license lets you use them in the app; it doesn't give you ownership of them.
The information you enter about your students is yours.
BAPA Plus is an assessment tool for qualified professionals. It supports, and doesn't replace, your professional judgment. It isn't a medical device, and it doesn't diagnose or treat any condition on its own. Results should be interpreted by a speech-language pathologist or another qualified professional.
We work hard to make BAPA Plus reliable, but we provide it "as is", without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. We don't promise that it will always work without errors or interruptions. Keep backups of the results that matter to you.
To the fullest extent the law allows, Smarty Ears isn't liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for lost data, arising from your use of the app. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.
This agreement is between you and Smarty Ears, not Apple. Smarty Ears, not Apple, is responsible for BAPA Plus, its content, its support and maintenance, and for answering any claims about it. Apple and its subsidiaries can enforce this agreement as third-party beneficiaries.
Questions or claims about the app go to Smarty Ears: [email protected], Smarty Ears LLC, 3839 McKinney Avenue, Suite 155-2129, Dallas, Texas 75204-3839, United States. (214) 253-9196.
The license lasts until you or we end it. You can end it by deleting the app. It ends on its own if you break these terms. This agreement is governed by the laws of the United States and of the State of Texas.
