Privacy Policy
MathSkills4Kids (“we”, “us”) offers math worksheets, games, lessons and learning paths for Pre-K through 6th Grade at mathskills4kids.com. This policy explains what information we collect, why, how long we keep it, and the choices and rights you have. We wrote it to be read by parents and teachers.
Children's privacy (COPPA and GDPR)
- Children cannot create an account on their own. A child profile is created by a parent or a teacher, who gives consent on the child's behalf.
- For a child profile we only keep what the learning features need: a first name or display name, grade, an avatar, an optional birth year or date, and learning activity (games played, answers, scores, progress, badges).
- We never ask a child for an email address, phone number or home address.
- No ads are shown to signed-in children, and we never use advertising or tracking cookies to target children.
- Messaging available to children is limited to the adults and classes linked to them by their parent or teacher.
- In the European Union and the UK, children under the age of digital consent in their country (13 to 16, GDPR article 8) can only use an account set up and consented to by a parent or teacher.
- A parent can review, correct or delete their child's information at any time from the parent dashboard, or by contacting us.
Information we collect
- Adult accounts (parents, teachers, self-learners, observers): name, email address, password (stored only as a secure hash), role, and settings you choose.
- Learning activity: games and worksheets used, answers, scores, time spent, homework, classes and learning paths.
- Payments (adults only): payments are processed by PayPal, by card or with a PayPal account. We receive the payment or subscription status, a PayPal reference, the amount and the payer's country (needed for tax records), never your card number. See our Terms of Sale.
- Messages sent through the site between linked parents, teachers and students.
- Technical data: basic server logs (IP address, browser, pages requested) used for security and to fix errors, and anonymous usage counts kept on our own server.
- Visitors who are not signed in: no account data. Cookies are described in our Cookie Policy.
How we use it
- To provide the service: sign-in, progress tracking, reports for parents and teachers, homework and classes.
- To keep the site safe: preventing fraud, abuse and unauthorized access.
- To improve our games and worksheets, using aggregated statistics.
- To show ads to adult visitors and visitors who are not signed in, so free content stays free. We only request non-personalized ads unless you accept advertising cookies.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share children's information with advertisers.
Who we share it with
- Service providers who help us run the site (hosting, email delivery, payments), only as needed and under contract.
- Google, for ads shown to adults and visitors who are not signed in, and for collecting cookie consent in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland.
- The teacher or parent linked to a child's profile, who can see that child's learning activity.
- Authorities, when the law requires it.
How long we keep it
- Account and learning data: while the account is active. When an account or child profile is deleted, its data is removed within 30 days, except what we must keep by law (for example billing records).
- Sign-in cookies: up to 30 days. Cookie choice: 6 months. See the Cookie Policy for every cookie.
- Server logs: kept for a short period for security, then deleted.
Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under COPPA in the United States, the GDPR in the European Union and the UK GDPR), you can ask to access, correct, delete or export your information or your child's, object to or restrict some uses, and withdraw consent at any time. Parents can also refuse further collection from their child by deleting the child profile. You may also complain to your local data protection authority.
Security
We use encrypted connections (HTTPS), hashed passwords, protection against cross-site request forgery, and access controls so that each adult only sees the children and classes linked to them.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will update the date above and tell account holders by email or on the site.
Contact us
For any privacy question or request, including a parent's request about a child: admin@mathskills4kids.com.