The holidays are over but if you gave your child a tablet, cell phone or laptop, the spirit may just last, well, until the damn thing gets lost or broken. But before then, if we as parents aren’t careful about the information we share on apps, there are some consequences we will could suffer for longer. For example you may:

Find Surprise Charges to Your Credit Cars 

All of our favorite app creators including Apple Inc, Google Inc. and Amazon have settled claims with the government after being accused of charging parents’ credit cards for things children had agreed to buy while playing with an app. As an example, a child might be playing a game and be presented with the option of clothing a virtual horse — WHICH OF COURSE SHE WOULD (please) and the parents would be charged for the privilege. For Amazon alone, over $70 million worth of purchases were available for refunds and when it came to Google and Apple, customers were returned over $50 million.

Have Given Companies A New Way to Access Your Personal Information

Most recently, a company called VTech — though it’s Kid Connect app a now-defunct web-based gaming and chat platform called Planet VTech — was accused by the government of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act after collecting information, such as children’s names, birthdays and genders, from over 2.25 million parents. And never told the parents what the company would be doing with this information. Don’t give out information unless the privacy policy is easy to find and easy to understand. Just so you know, apps, online services, and websites that are directed to children under 13 years old have to get a parent’s approval before they can collect, use, or disclose kids’ personal information, but talk to your kids and issue warnings, just in case.

Do not let apps access your child’s location – and tell your child, “Hey, do not authorize any app to access your location.” The FTC just sent a warning letter to a major early childhood software developer based in China, known as BabyBus, because its apps appear to collect precise geo-location information. That means BabyBus knows exactly where your child is when she is playing their game. And there’s nothing stopping them from sharing that with advertisers. All this happens without your consent.

That’s not just creepy, it’s illegal. Remember mobile apps can automatically capture a broad range of user information — like the user’s precise geolocation, phone number, list of contacts, call logs, and other info stored on the device.