Children's privacy

Who we are, and how to reach us

Brainsladder is a K–8 practice program for families, run by Brainsladder.

Write to us at 92 Corporate Park, Ste C #1091, Irvine, CA 92606, or at hello@brainsladder.com. We are the only operator collecting anything through Brainsladder.

No child can make an account here

There is one sign-in in a family and it belongs to an adult. A child has no email address with us, no account of their own, and no way to sign up. A parent or guardian makes the account and adds each student to it by hand.

What we collect from a child

Two things, and nothing else.

A parent may set their child a username and a password of the parent’s choosing, and may hand over a device with a link or a QR code that signs that one device in for about 3 months of use. Both are the parent’s to make and the parent’s to undo: every signed-in device is listed on the student’s page, with a way to sign it out.

The button that reads a question aloud uses the voice already built into the browser on the device. Nothing a child says or does is recorded, and nothing is sent anywhere.

Never more than the practice needs

We do not ask a child for an email address, a telephone number, a photograph, a location, a date of birth, or anything about them beyond what is above. A child is never asked to give more in order to take part, and there is nothing on these pages for a child to post, say, or send to anybody.

We show a child no advertising. We sell nothing about a child, to anybody. We let no other company follow a child around the internet from these pages.

How a parent consents

By making the account and adding the student, a parent or guardian consents to what this page describes. Nothing is collected about a child before that: there is no child to collect anything about until an adult has added one.

If this notice ever changes in a way that would collect more, we will write to the parent and ask again before it takes effect.

How a parent sees it, deletes it, or stops it

Everything above is on the parent’s own pages, and so is the way to remove it. From a student’s Settings tab a parent can change what they typed, sign out any device, or remove that student altogether. From the Plan page a parent can close the whole account, which removes every student on it and everything they have earned.

A parent can also ask us to do any of it, or to send them everything we hold about their child, by writing to hello@brainsladder.com. We answer within thirty days and we never charge for it. A parent who wants us to stop keeping anything further about their child removes that student, or closes the account, and we stop — the rest of the family can carry on either way.

Who else holds any of it

Running Brainsladder takes a handful of other companies, each given only what its own job needs and permitted to use it for nothing else. None of them is given anything about a child for their own purposes.

The rest of what we keep, about the whole family, is in the privacy policy.