RoSchool · privacy
What we know about you
Short version: enough to teach you maths and to know it’s you. Not your real name, not your email, not your Roblox password. Here is the whole list.
What we collect
- A name to show
- Whatever you want to be called. It doesn’t have to be your real name, and most people use the name their friends use. It’s there so the screen can say hello and so a grown-up can tell your account from your sister’s.
- The year you were born
- The year only — not the day, not the month. We use it to pick the right first questions, because a ten-year-old and a thirteen-year-old should not start in the same place. It is also how we know you are old enough to be here.
- A four-digit PIN
- So your account doesn’t just open when someone else picks up the tablet. It’s a speed bump, not a safe: whoever has the device can reset a forgotten PIN, because otherwise you’d lose all your work the first time you forgot it. We never store the PIN itself — we store a scrambled version that can check a PIN is right but cannot be turned back into your PIN. Nobody at RoSchool can look it up, including us.
- Your Roblox username
- So we know where to send an item you earn. We look your username up on Roblox’s public pages — the same ones anyone can see without logging in — and show you the picture we find while you’re setting up, so you can check we found the right you. We don’t keep a copy of that picture.
- Your answers, and how you worked
- Every question you answer, whether it was right, and things like how long you took and how many times you changed your answer. This is the actual point of RoSchool: it’s how the app knows what you already understand and what to give you next. Nothing here is shown to other players, and none of it is used to decide you were cheating.
What we don’t collect
- No email address, from anyone
- Not yours, and not a grown-up’s. RoSchool doesn’t ask for one when you sign up, so there isn’t an email address attached to your account. If a grown-up wants to ask us something they email us — we never email them first.
- No real name needed
- Use a nickname. We never ask you to prove who you are.
- Never your Roblox password
- RoSchool will never ask for it, and there is nowhere on this site to type it. If any page anywhere asks you for your Roblox password to get RoSchool items, it is not us and it is not safe.
- No ads, no trackers, no selling anything about you
- There are no advertisements in RoSchool, no third-party analytics, no tracking pixels, and no company buying information about you. Not “we don’t right now” — there is no code in the app that could.
- No address, no phone number, no photos of you
- We never ask for them, so we never have them.
Where it all lives
- On our own database
- Everything above sits in one database that only RoSchool talks to. Your browser never talks to it directly.
- Except your Roblox picture, while you set up
- On the setup screen where we check we found the right you, that image loads straight from Roblox, the same way it would on any page showing a Roblox avatar. It is the one thing on RoSchool that comes from somewhere else, and it means Roblox’s servers see that a device asked for that picture. We don’t save it, so it isn’t loaded again after setup.
- Nothing is shown to other players
- RoSchool has no friends list, no leaderboard, no chat, and no way for one player to see another player’s work.
For parents
- What this page is not
- It is a description of what the software does today, written to be readable by the child using it. It has not been drafted or reviewed by a lawyer, and it is not a contract.
- Minimisation is the design, not a promise
- Signup takes a display name, a birth year, a PIN and a Roblox username — that is the whole form. We collect a birth year rather than a date of birth because the age check does not need the date. Sign-up attempts are rate-limited per network address, and even that address is stored only as a one-way hash so the database never holds it.
- There is no parent account during the pilot
- We don’t collect your email and we don’t open guardian logins yet, so there is no dashboard to sign in to. Your child’s own screens carry the same numbers one would — ask them to show you — and anything else is an email to the address below.
- What your child’s work is used for
- Answers and response timings drive the teaching engine — which topic comes next, and when a topic is rested. They are not used to profile your child, are not shared with anyone, and are not currently used to flag anybody for anything.
- Deletion and questions
- Ask, and we will delete a child’s account and their work. There is no self-service button for it yet, so today it is an email to a human.
- Roblox
- RoSchool is not made by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Roblox Corporation. Your child never signs in to Roblox through RoSchool; we only look up a public username.
Questions, or a deletion request
A real person reads it. Parents and kids both welcome.
This page is a plain-English summary, not a legal document.