Privacy Policy

Who this is for

Steady Study is a service for parents and guardians. You create the account, you pick the plan, and you're the only one who logs in. Your child never gets a login, never types into an account, and never talks to us directly. That's on purpose — it's the simplest way to keep a kid's footprint small.

What we collect about your child, and why

Here's the whole list. If it's not here, we don't collect it.

• A first name or nickname — So worksheets and your dashboard can say whose they are. A nickname is fine — we don't need their real or full name.
• Birth month and year — To pick the right reading level and keep the tone age-appropriate. We ask for the month and year only — never a full date of birth.
• How they're doing in each subject — Their level and recent worksheet scores, so tomorrow's worksheet meets them where they are instead of repeating what they've got.

What we collect about you (the parent)

Your email, so you can sign in and we can send you the one worksheet-ready note a day you asked for. If you sign in with Google, we get your name and profile photo from Google. Your payment details go straight to Stripe, our payment processor — we never see or store your card number.

COPPA and your consent

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) says we need a parent's verifiable consent before collecting anything about a child under 13. We do that two ways at once: we show you exactly what we keep (the list above) before you add your first child, and your paid plan's card charge stands in as the verifiable step the law recognizes — it confirms you're an adult and that you're the one saying yes.

You can withdraw that consent anytime by closing your account, which deletes your child's information. You can also ask us what we have and have it corrected or removed by contacting us.

We don't sell or share your child's data

We don't sell your child's information, and we don't hand it to outside companies to run the service. If we ever add an outside tool that would touch your child's data, that's a separate choice you make on your account page — it's off until you turn it on, and turning it off stops it. It's never bundled into agreeing to use Steady Study.

How long we keep it

We don't keep your child's data forever. When you close your account, we delete it. If an account goes unused and unpaid for a long stretch (our current window is 24 months), we close it and delete the child's data for you.

The one thing we hold onto is a billing record — the account and plan identifiers our payment processor is legally required to keep for tax and audit. That record carries no information about your child and no parent name or email; it's just the pointers Stripe needs.

No voice, face, or other biometric data

Steady Study has no voice recording and no camera or face features, and we have no plans to add them lightly. The amended COPPA rule treats things like voiceprints and facial templates as personal information. If we ever build a feature that would collect any of that, it would get its own clear consent step before it collected anything — we wouldn't fold it into your existing agreement.

State privacy laws

Some states add their own rules for kids' and students' data, and they apply wherever you live because our users are nationwide. In plain terms:

• California (SOPIPA): we don't build advertising profiles of students, target ads at them, or sell their information.
• Illinois (SOPPA): we limit what we collect, protect it, and delete it on request, consistent with the practices described here.
• New York (Ed Law 2-d): the student-data protections in that law inform how we handle and delete a child's information.

FERPA

FERPA is a school-records law. It doesn't apply to Steady Study as we sell it today, because we sell directly to families, not to schools or districts. If we ever change that and sell into schools, FERPA obligations would kick in and this policy would be updated before we did.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or a request to delete your child's data: reach us from your account page or at the support address listed there. (Final contact details land here before launch.)