Privacy & Child Safety

1. Who this policy covers

This policy explains the privacy practices for Recess Reflections pages and activities that link to it. We refer to visitors under age 13 as “Children.” It is intended to help parents, caregivers, educators, and school officials understand how the site works.

2. Information from Children

No student account, email address, school name, or login credentials are required to play. Phonics Fun offers an optional name field for its on-screen certificate; it may be left blank. That value stays on the page and is not submitted by the game. We recommend leaving it blank on shared or school devices. Children do not create online profiles. Reading Room and most games keep answers and scores only while the page is open; refreshing resets them. Multiply and Syllable Adventures save completion progress in browser local storage, without a student name or account. This progress can remain after the page is closed and can be removed by clearing that site’s browser data. Other users of the same browser may see that completion progress.

Children should not use the adult email sign-up form or send personal information through any adult contact channel. If we learn that a Child has provided personal information directly to us, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

3. Information from Adults

Parents, caregivers, teachers, and other adults may choose to submit a name and email address through the “Stay connected” form. This information is used to provide requested Recess Reflections news and resources. The form is processed by our website hosting provider. Adult subscribers may ask to unsubscribe or have their submitted information deleted.

4. Limited technical information

Like most websites, our hosting and content-delivery providers may automatically receive limited technical information needed to deliver and protect the site, such as an IP address, browser or device type, requested page, and date and time of access. We do not use this information to build student profiles or for targeted advertising.

The site currently uses Netlify for hosting and form processing and Google Fonts to display typefaces. Phonics Fun loads styling software from the Tailwind CDN. The Songs page embeds YouTube videos; loading or playing these videos can send technical information to YouTube and may involve cookies or other storage under its policies. Browser read-aloud features use device or browser speech services; depending on the selected voice, text may be processed by the browser’s speech provider. These providers process limited information under their own privacy terms and may use security technologies necessary to operate their services.

5. Advertising, tracking, and sales

• We do not sell or rent Children’s personal information.
• We do not show targeted or behavioral advertisements on Recess Reflections pages.
• We do not use child-facing activities to create advertising profiles.
• We do not ask Children to enable precise location, camera, microphone, or contacts access.

6. Schools and classroom use

Schools remain responsible for determining whether a resource is appropriate under their own policies and applicable law. A school or district may contact us with a privacy or security review request using the contact information below.

7. Links to other websites

This policy also covers our Syllable Adventures, Phonics Fun, and Picture Beginning Sound Match games hosted on their separate Netlify addresses when they link to this policy. Recess Reflections also links to separately operated services, including Teachers Pay Teachers, YouTube, Amazon, and Beacons. A link opens the other service, whose privacy practices and terms apply. Adults should review those practices before allowing a Child to use an external service. This policy does not cover information collected on third-party websites.

8. Children’s privacy and COPPA

Our child-facing activities are designed to avoid collecting personal information from Children. We do not condition participation in an activity on a Child disclosing personal information. If our practices change in a way that requires verifiable parental consent under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will provide notice and obtain consent before collecting covered information.

9. Choices, deletion, and contact

An adult may ask what information they submitted, request correction or deletion, unsubscribe, or submit a school privacy or security question by emailing recessreflections@gmail.com. Please do not include student personal information in a request.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when the site or its services change. We will post the revised policy here and update the date below. If a change materially affects information collected from Children, we will provide any notice or consent required by law.