Children's Privacy (COPPA) Policy

Last Updated: July 5, 2026

1. Overview

QuizTime Manager is a family screen time and learning app operated by QuizTime Labs LLC ("we," "our," or "us"). It is designed for families with children ages 4–16, which means many of the children who use it are under 13. This policy explains our practices for children under 13 in compliance with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"). It supplements our general Privacy Policy, which covers parents and other adult users; where the two differ with respect to children under 13, this policy controls.

The short version: Children never create their own accounts. A parent or guardian sets up every child profile, sees everything the child does in the app, and can delete the child's data at any time. We collect from children only what the app needs to work, we never show them ads, and we never sell or rent their information.

2. Parental Consent

Children cannot register for QuizTime Manager on their own, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from a child under 13 without parental consent.

A parent or legal guardian (or an educator authorized by one) creates the account and each child profile, and provides the child's information themselves.
By creating a child profile and installing the app on the child's device, the parent consents to the collection and use of the child's information as described in this policy. The setup flow requires the parent to take these affirmative steps; the child cannot complete them alone.
Enabling screen time features additionally requires the parent to grant Apple's Family Controls authorization on the child's device.
A parent may withdraw consent at any time by deleting the child's profile or the account (see Section 8).

3. Information We Collect About Children

Provided by the Parent

Child's first name or nickname
Child's age and grade level

We encourage parents to use a nickname rather than the child's full name. We never ask for a child's email address, phone number, precise location, or photo of the child.

Generated by the Child's Use of the App

Quiz and learning module activity: answers given, scores, completion status, and timestamps
Assignment progress
AI Tutor conversations: help messages the child types when stuck on a question, and the tutor's responses (see Section 6)
Screen time usage data (e.g., time earned and time used, via Apple's Screen Time frameworks)
Photos of completed worksheets, if the family uses the worksheet feature (these are photos of the child's written work, taken under parental supervision, not photos of the child)

Collected Automatically

Device registration identifiers (so the app knows which device belongs to which child profile)
Device type, operating system version, and app version
Anonymized crash logs and performance data
IP address, as an incidental part of communicating with our servers

Persistent identifiers such as the IP address and device identifiers are used solely to operate the Service — authentication, syncing, security, and enforcing the screen time rules the parent configured. They are not used for behavioral advertising or to build profiles of children, and we do not combine them with other information for any other purpose.

4. How We Use Children's Information

To deliver quizzes, modules, and worksheets appropriate to the child's age and grade level
To track completion and award the screen time the child has earned
To answer the child's AI Tutor help requests with a hint about the question they are working on (see Section 6)
To show the child's progress — including any tutor conversations — to the parent on the parent dashboard
To grade worksheet photos, when the parent uses the AI-assisted grading feature (see Section 6)
To maintain the security and reliability of the Service and diagnose technical problems

5. What We Never Do With Children's Information

We do not show advertising to children, targeted or otherwise.
We do not sell, rent, or trade children's information to anyone.
We do not use children's information for marketing, analytics profiling, or any purpose unrelated to the Service.
We do not allow children to publicly post content, share content with other users, chat, or otherwise make personal information publicly available. (Sharing modules to the Community Library is an action available only to parent/manager accounts.)
We do not condition a child's participation in any activity on disclosing more information than is reasonably necessary for that activity.
Children do not have access to the AI Module Builder; it is operated only by parent/manager accounts. The only AI feature children interact with is the AI Tutor, which is limited to short hints about the assignment question at hand and is fully visible to parents (see Section 6).

6. Disclosure of Children's Information

We disclose children's information only in these limited circumstances:

Service providers: Infrastructure providers (such as hosting and database services) that store and process data on our behalf, are contractually bound to confidentiality, and may not use the data for any other purpose.
AI worksheet grading: If the parent uses the AI-assisted grading feature, the photo of the child's completed worksheet is transmitted to our AI provider (currently Anthropic) to read and grade the answers. We use API offerings whose terms state that customer content is not used to train models. Parents should avoid photographing worksheets that show the child's full name or other identifying details. This feature is optional; parents who prefer not to use it can grade worksheets manually.
AI Tutor: When a child asks the built-in tutor for help on a question, the child's typed message and the question context (module title, the question, the child's current answer, and attempt count) are transmitted to our AI provider to generate a hint. We do not send the child's name or profile information, and we use API offerings whose terms state that customer content is not used to train models. Every tutor conversation is recorded and visible to the parent on the dashboard, and parents can disable the tutor for each child from the parent portal. Parents should teach children not to type personal information into the tutor.
Legal requirements: When required by law, such as in response to a court order or subpoena, or to protect the safety of a child or others.
Business transfers: If QuizTime Labs is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, information may be transferred to the successor, which will remain bound by commitments at least as protective as this policy; we will notify parents of any such transfer.

We may use and disclose anonymized, aggregated data (which does not identify any child) for purposes such as understanding how the Service is used.

7. Data Retention

A child's information is retained while the child's profile is active.
When a parent deletes a child's profile or the account, the child's personal information is permanently deleted within 30 days.
Quiz history is retained for up to 12 months for progress tracking; anonymized crash logs are deleted after 90 days.
Accounts inactive for 24 months are deleted, along with their child profiles.

We retain children's personal information only as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy.

8. Parents' Rights

As a parent or guardian, you can at any time:

Review everything we have collected about your child — the parent dashboard shows your child's profile, quiz history, and progress.
Correct or update your child's profile information from the parent portal.
Control the AI Tutor — disable it for any child from the parent portal, which stops any of that child's information from being sent to our AI provider.
Delete your child's profile (or your whole account), which permanently deletes the child's data as described in Section 7.
Refuse further collection by removing the app from your child's device and deleting the child's profile. Note that the Service cannot function for a child without the data described in Section 3.
Ask us questions or exercise any of these rights by emailing support@quiztimemanager.com. We will verify that you are the account holder and respond within 30 days.

9. Security

We protect children's information with the same safeguards described in our Privacy Policy: TLS 1.2+ encryption in transit, hashed credentials, restricted and logged database access, and SOC 2 compliant hosting. In the event of a data breach affecting children's personal information, we will promptly notify affected parents and any authorities as required by law.

10. Changes to This Policy

If we make material changes to how we collect, use, or disclose children's personal information, we will notify parents by email and in-app notice and, where required by COPPA, obtain new consent before applying the changes to previously collected information.

11. Contact Us

If you have questions about this policy or your child's information, contact us at support@quiztimemanager.com.

To learn more about COPPA, visit the FTC's guide: Children's Privacy | Federal Trade Commission.