Privacy

There is nowhere on this site to enter a child’s real name, so we do not hold one. Children do not have accounts and cannot be contacted through the site. There is no advertising, no tracking and no analytics of any kind, and nothing is sold or shared with anyone.

Accounts belong to adults: a parent or carer, or a teacher. For each account we hold an email address and a password, which is stored hashed and is not readable by us. A teacher also gives the name their class knows them by, such as “Mrs Patterson”.

A child uses their parent’s account by choosing their character. They have no login of their own.

A character name that the site generates, such as SpeedyEagle81, along with a picture and their answers to questions. From those answers we keep the score for each quiz, how long questions took, how many quizzes have been finished, and which days in a row they have played.

None of that is a real name, and no real name is asked for at any point.

A class list of character names is not much use to a teacher, so a teacher can write a child’s initials beside a character on their own class list. Those initials are visible only to that teacher. They are the most identifying thing the site holds about any child, and nothing longer than initials can be entered.

A class has a name chosen by the teacher, a six-character joining code, and optionally the school’s name and crest if the teacher uploads them.

Anybody signed in can report a question that looks wrong. When they do, we keep the note they wrote, the question it was about, and what was on the screen at the time, so that the problem can be understood without having to reproduce it.

The database is run by Supabase on Amazon Web Services in Paris, in the European Union. The site itself is hosted by Vercel. Emails about your account, such as confirming your address or resetting a password, are sent through Resend.

The spelling questions are read aloud by a synthetic voice. Those recordings are made once, in advance, and no child’s voice or data is ever sent to that service.

One cookie, which keeps you signed in. There are no advertising, analytics or tracking cookies, so there is no cookie banner to dismiss.

Your account and your children’s characters are kept while you are using the site. If you would like an account and everything attached to it deleted, ask and it will be done.

You have the right to ask what is held about you, to have it corrected, and to have it deleted. If you are not satisfied with how that is handled, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

To be completed before launch: the name of the person or company responsible for this site, a contact email address, and an ICO registration number if one applies.