Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 7, 2026

Hearth Learning ("we," "us," or "our") is a daily practice platform for homeschool families. We take your family's privacy seriously. This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your rights as a parent or guardian.

Who We Are

Hearth Learning is operated by Hearth Learning LLC. Our platform provides typing, math, and reading practice apps designed for children in grades Pre-K through 8, used under parental supervision.

Information We Collect

We collect only what is necessary to provide the service:

Parent account information: Email address, password (stored securely as a hash, never in plain text), and a family account name.
Student profile nicknames: Parents choose a nickname for each student profile. We recommend using a fun alias rather than your child's real name. We treat all nicknames as pseudonyms and do not use them to identify individual children.
Practice level preference: A parent-configured setting that controls curriculum difficulty (e.g., "3rd Grade"). This is a preference, not a record of your child's actual grade level.
Usage data per profile: Practice time, accuracy scores, progress through activities, and session timestamps. This data is associated with an anonymous profile identifier within your parent account, not with any child's real identity.

Information We Do NOT Collect from Children

We do not collect, store, or transmit:

Children's real names
Ages or dates of birth
Photographs or images
Physical addresses or location data
School names or classroom information
Contact information for children

How We Use Information

Account management: To authenticate parents, manage subscriptions, and provide access to the platform.
Progress tracking: To show parents how their children are progressing across practice apps via the parent dashboard.
Product improvement: We may use aggregate, non-identifying usage patterns (e.g., which quests are most popular, where users drop off) to improve our apps. We do not create individual behavioral profiles of children for any purpose other than showing progress to their parent.

Third-Party Services

We use a minimal set of third-party services to operate the platform:

Supabase — Database hosting and user authentication.
Netlify — Website hosting and deployment.

We do not use advertising networks, behavioral tracking tools, or third-party analytics on any pages where children interact. We do not sell, rent, or share your data with advertisers or data brokers. All fonts and assets are self-hosted; no third-party resources are loaded on child-facing pages.

Children's Privacy (COPPA Compliance)

Hearth Learning is designed for use by children under 13 with parental supervision. We comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA):

Only parents or legal guardians can create accounts.
Student profiles are created by parents and contain only a parent-chosen nickname and practice level preference.
Children do not create accounts, provide personal information, or interact with any registration or payment screens.
Providing a credit card during the subscription process serves as verifiable parental consent under COPPA.

Parental Rights

As a parent or guardian, you have the right to:

Review all data associated with your account by viewing the parent dashboard.
Update or delete any student profile and its associated data through the Parent Settings panel.
Delete your entire account and all associated data via the Parent Settings panel or by contacting us.
Refuse further data collection by deleting your account at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, use the tools in your account settings or contact us at the address below.

Data Retention

We retain your data for as long as your account is active. Upon account deletion, all associated data — including all student profiles, progress records, and session history — is permanently removed within 30 days.

Data Security

We use industry-standard security measures to protect your data, including encrypted connections (HTTPS), secure password hashing, and row-level security policies that ensure each family can only access their own data.

Changes to This Policy

If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we will notify you by displaying a notice when you next log in. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this privacy policy or wish to exercise your parental rights, please contact us:

Email: hearthlearn@gmail.com
Website: hearthlearning.com