Ad-free and safe for children. Read our promise to grown-ups
Olli & Waffle

For grown-ups

The safe bit is the whole point

We are parents. We built this the way we wanted it built for our own children, which meant deliberately making it less sticky than it could have been.

Six promises

What we will and will not do

  • No advertising, anywhere

    Not on the site, not in the episodes, not in the emails. We do not run third-party ad code at all, so nobody is bidding on your child’s attention.

  • No tracking on children’s pages

    No analytics scripts, no pixels, no cross-site identifiers on any page a child can reach. Video embeds use YouTube’s no-cookie domain and only load after you press play.

  • Children hold no accounts

    A child never signs in and never types anything we keep. Accounts belong to a verified adult. Optional child profiles hold a nickname and an age band — nothing else.

  • Nothing autoplays

    An episode ends and the screen stays ended. No countdown to the next one, no infinite feed, no streaks, no reward for coming back tomorrow.

  • No comments or messaging

    There is no way for a stranger to contact your child on this site, because there is no child-facing messaging of any kind. Product reviews come only from verified adult accounts and are read by a person before they appear.

  • Shopping is a grown-up job

    Children can browse and add to a bag. Completing a purchase requires an adult account. We never advertise products inside children’s content.

What it costs us

Being honest about the trade-off

Watch time is the metric platforms reward. Autoplay, cliffhangers and countdowns all work, which is exactly why they are everywhere. Declining to use them is a commercial decision with a real price attached, and we would rather tell you that than pretend it was free.

We would rather be the thing your family chooses deliberately than the thing that is difficult to turn off.

Read why we made our slowest episode on purpose

Data

What we keep, and for how long

The complete list. If something is not here, we do not store it.

DataKept forWhy
Order records7 yearsAustralian tax and consumer law
Consent recordsLife of account + 7 yearsEvidence of lawful basis
Child profiles (nickname + age band)Until the parent deletes themParent-controlled
Viewing progress24 months of inactivityResume playback only
Support conversations3 yearsDispute resolution
Analytics events14 months, aggregated after 90 daysTrend reporting
Newsletter subscribersUntil unsubscribed + 30 daysHonour suppression lists
Server logs30 daysSecurity and abuse investigation