Privacy and child safety

Plain language, on purpose. Last updated: October 2026.

The short version

Parents own the account. Children are never asked for personal information. We do not show ads to children, we do not sell data, and there is no social feed, no chat with strangers, and no public profile for any child. Ever.

Who creates the account

Only a parent or legal guardian can create an OrbitlyNow account and enroll a child. Signup asks for the parent’s email and an explicit parental-consent confirmation. This follows the spirit and the requirements of the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA): verifiable parental consent before any child uses the service.

What we collect about children

Almost nothing, by design:

• A nickname the child chooses (never a full real name).
• An age band (K–2 ages 5–7, Grades 3–5 ages 8–10, Grades 6–8 ages 11–13, or Grades 9–12 ages 14–18) so the tutor teaches at the right level.
• Learning activity inside lessons: topics studied, answers given, quiz results, and progress — used to teach and to fill the parent dashboard.

We never ask children for their school name, home address, photos, phone number, email, passwords, or location. The tutor is instructed never to request personal information, and if a child volunteers it, the tutor does not repeat or store it as profile data.

What we collect about parents

• Email address, to run the account and send enrollment and progress information.
• Billing details when a subscription starts, processed by our payment provider — we do not store full card numbers.

How the tutor keeps children safe

• Kid-safe content only, adjusted to the child’s age band.
• Grown-up or unsafe topics are gently redirected back to learning — the tutor does not engage with them.
• The tutor teaches and explains; it does not act as a friend, companion, or confidant, and it encourages children to talk to trusted adults about anything worrying.
• No advertising, no sponsored content, no in-app purchases aimed at children.

Data sharing

We do not sell personal information. We share data only with the service providers needed to run OrbitlyNow (such as hosting, the AI model provider, email, and payments), only to the extent needed, and never for their own marketing.

Your rights as a parent

At any time you can review your child’s learning records in the parent dashboard, ask us to correct them, withdraw consent, and delete your child’s data and the account. Deleting the account deletes the child’s learning records with it.

Questions

Reply to any OrbitlyNow email or reach us through the parent dashboard and we will answer in plain language, like this page.

Demo note

This demonstration version of OrbitlyNow stores waitlist emails and learning sessions only in your own browser (local storage) to show how the product works. Nothing is transmitted or stored on a server in the demo.