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Child safety + COPPA / GDPR-K

What we do differently for users under 18.

effective September 2026

The short version

  1. Anyone under 18 needs a parent or guardian to click a consent link before the tutor is unlocked.
  2. Parents can see whether their child showed up (Brain score, days active, sessions closed). Never what they wrote.
  3. We don’t use minors’ data for advertising, profiling, or model training.
  4. You can revoke consent or delete the account any time.

How the consent flow works

  1. During sign-up, a student under 18 provides a parent’s email address.
  2. Brainback emails the parent a one-time consent link (30-day expiry, renewable).
  3. The parent clicks; we record the consent with IP and timestamp.
  4. The student’s account is unlocked for tutor use.
  5. Consent records persist for the life of the account plus 1 year (retention required by regulators).

Consent may be revoked at any time by emailing brainback@stratosync.solutions from the same address that granted it. Revocation suspends the child’s account within one business day.

What educators + parents can and cannot see

Content-blind by design, enforced in the database:

SignalEducator seesParent sees
Days active this month✓ (per group)✓ (per child)
Session counts
Brain score
Concept mastery + weak concepts
Which specific problems attemptedAssignment-tracking only
Contents of student’s attempt
Tutor’s replies
Explain-back text
Recall answers
Uploaded images

Data we intentionally don’t collect from minors

  • Precise location.
  • Persistent device identifiers beyond authentication needs.
  • Advertising IDs.
  • Contact lists, calendar, camera, or microphone (Permissions-Policy explicitly disables these).
  • Biometric data.
  • Health data.

What we do collect + why

  • Email + display name — to sign in and personalize.
  • Date of birth — to determine whether COPPA/GDPR-K consent is required.
  • Parent’s email — to send the consent link.
  • Attempts, tutor replies, recall answers — to power the learning experience (visible to the student only).
  • Aggregate metrics (Brain score, concept mastery) — to power dashboards.

Model training

Brainback does not train AI models on any user’s content. Prompts sent to our AI provider (Anthropic) are processed under zero-retention API terms.

Retention + deletion

  • You can export all your data any time from Settings.
  • You can delete your account any time from Settings. Deletion is permanent within 30 days.
  • We retain the parental consent record for 1 year after account deletion as legal proof of authorization; nothing else.

Questions?

Email brainback@stratosync.solutions — a real person will respond within one business day. If you’re a parent or guardian and can’t reach someone about your child’s account, mark the email “PARENT — URGENT.”

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