Privacy notice for the test version

This is a test

The service is still being built. Things may break, change or be reset, and your family's test data may be wiped.

What we collect

• Your email address, your name, and how you are related to your child.
• Your child's first name or nickname, date of birth, grade, school system and region.
• Your signed consent form (an image or PDF with your signature), a reference code and our record of reviewing it.
• Your child's answers, how long they took, which hints they asked for, and their scores and progress.
• Standard technical logs: IP address, browser type and sign-in times.
• A short memory of which kinds of help your child chose, such as a clue or the board. It is kept on our servers, never sent to AI, and deleted with your child's data. You can clear it from your child's “Privacy and data” page.
• Typed or spoken working and study buddy chats (optional, when available): we remove identifying details we can detect, which can miss some. We keep that text, masked, for up to 45 days so our team can review quality, then delete it. Our team is alerted before it is deleted.

About the study buddy

Why we collect it

We use your email to sign you in and to contact you about your child's account. We use the name and birthday to set up the account and to check whether we need your consent. We use grade, school system and region to choose suitable practice. We use answers and timings to give feedback and to fix problems.

Who else sees it

To check your child's work, we send the question, your child's typed answers (with names, email addresses and phone numbers removed first) and any photo they upload to Google's AI service in the US. You cover personal details on any uploaded paper on your own device, and we remove hidden file details. Google doesn't use it to train its models, and it is not cached. If Google's automated safety system flags a request, Google may keep it for up to 90 days, and its staff may review it. If your child uses the optional working and study buddy chat features, the text they type or say goes to the same service with identifying details we can detect removed first. We do not show ads. We never sell personal information or share it for advertising, and that includes information about anyone under 16.

We don't track your child across other sites and we use no third-party trackers, so browser “Do Not Track” settings don't change anything here.

Your stage, your paper timing choice and your look choices are kept in this browser only and are cleared when you sign out. The light or dark theme is kept in this browser until you change it.

Voice typing (only if a parent turns it on)

Voice is optional and off unless you turn it on. Speech is turned into text on your child's device. Audio never leaves the device and is not stored. The text is kept like typed working: masked, up to 45 days (see Privacy notice).

Consent for children

Under 18? A parent sets up the account and gives consent before your child starts. You give it on the consent form.

Your choices

You can ask to see, download, correct or delete your family's data, or to stop us collecting more, at any time.

To do this, sign in, open your child's page and choose “Privacy and data”.

How long we keep it

• Child account details (name or nickname, date of birth, grade, region): while the account is open, plus 90 days after it closes.
• Answers, scores, progress, the private record of what your child seems to know, and practice sets made to help fix mistakes: while the account is open, plus 12 months.
• Working and study buddy chats (optional, when available): the text is kept up to 45 days, masked, then deleted. Google may keep flagged requests for up to 90 days.
• The study buddy's short memory: deleted with your child's other information.
• Practice paper files: deleted once the copied questions are saved. A file that is never saved is kept until a person on our team deletes it, which we aim to do within about 30 days. Our backups hold a copy for up to 7 more days, then it is gone. The copied questions are kept, encrypted, while the account is open.
• Our record of your signed consent: 3 years after consent is given or until your child turns 13, whichever is later, then deleted.

To delete your child's information, including everything they typed or uploaded, use your child's “Privacy and data” page. We stop collecting at once, wait 72 hours in case the request was a mistake or did not come from you, then delete within 4 days. During the pilot, automatic deletion is paused, so the deletions at the end of each period above are carried out by a person on our team.

When the test ends

We delete the test accounts and what they recorded. Routine backups and server logs expire on their normal schedule.

Run by a small team of educators and engineers.

The full privacy policy is coming before public launch.