Privacy

Children do not have accounts

Only an adult can register. A child never signs in, never enters an email address, and never has a login of their own.

When you add a learner, you choose a first name and a grade. That is a label on your account, not a record about a person — we do not ask for a surname, a birthday, a photograph, a school, or an address, and there is nowhere in the app to enter them.

This is deliberate. It means the only email address we hold belongs to an adult who chose to give it to us.

What we collect

Nothing, to read the lessons. You can browse and use Cogito without an account, and we do not ask who you are.

If you create an account: your email address, and a name to greet you by. If you sign in with Google, Google tells us your email address and the name on your Google account, and nothing else. We never see your Google password.

If you add a learner: the first name and grade you type.

If you send feedback: your message, your email address if you choose to leave one, which page you were on, and your browser’s identifier. The email field is optional and only used to reply.

Automatically: our host records standard server logs, including IP addresses, as any web server does. We do not build profiles from them.

What we do not do

No advertising. No third-party analytics or tracking scripts. No selling, renting or sharing of personal information. No profiling of children. No email to you that you did not ask for.

Your child’s progress through lessons is stored in your own browser and, if you are signed in, on your own account. It is not used for anything else.

Who else handles your data

Four companies, each because the site could not do something without them, and none for marketing:

• Supabase stores accounts, learners and feedback, on servers in the United States.
• Cloudflare serves the website and keeps standard server logs.
• Stripe handles memberships and payments. Your card details go to Stripe on their own page and never reach us, so we cannot see or store them.
• Anthropic answers questions asked through “Ask about this lesson” and “Ask for a hint”, and only then. If nobody in your family uses them, nothing of yours reaches Anthropic.

Asking about a lesson

Every lesson offers “Ask about this lesson”, where a grown-up can ask how to explain something. A child also gets “Ask for a hint”, where the helper gives a hint and never an answer; it is on for every child, and the account page has a switch to turn it off for any of them. The first time you sign in with hints on, a notice asks you once, for each child, to keep them on or turn them off. Both are written by AI, not by a person, and can be wrong — the lesson itself is what we stand behind.

On the home page the same helper answers questions about Cogito itself — how to start, where a setting is, which lesson teaches something. There, what is typed is sent with our own notes about the site, the matching parts of our guide, and the list of course and lesson names.

Before you sign in, the home page helper answers the same way, and no record of the question is kept at all — there is no account to keep it under. We count requests from each connection for a minute at a time so the helper cannot be run up by a script, and that count is the whole of it.

On a lesson, what is typed is sent to Anthropic, together with the text of that one lesson, and their model writes the reply. It is given nothing else: not your name, not your email, not your children’s names, and nothing about what anybody has done in the app beyond which question on that page was last tried. It cannot see your child’s work, so it cannot comment on it. The child’s copy of the lesson has the answers taken out before it is sent.

We do not store the questions or the answers. They are not written to our database and not kept in our logs. What we do keep is a record that a question was asked: when, on which lesson, by which learner, and whether it was answered. You can see it on the family page, and it is deleted with the learner. Anthropic keeps what passes through it for a short period for safety monitoring and does not use it to train its models.

If something typed sounds like a child may not be safe, the helper does not answer it. It shows a message a person wrote — tell a grown-up you trust, and how to reach help — and the family page tells you that it happened.

Please do not type anything about your child that you would not want to leave Cogito. Nothing you enter about the lesson itself is sensitive, and there is no reason the box needs a name in it.

How long we keep it

Your account and learners are kept until you ask us to delete them. Feedback is kept while it is still useful for fixing what it reported. Server logs are kept for a short period by our host and then discarded.

Your choices

Write to hello@cogitolearning.com and we will tell you what we hold about you, correct it, or delete it and your account entirely. We do not require a reason.

Deleting your account removes your learners and their progress with it. That cannot be undone.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or who sees it, we will update the date at the top and, where the change is significant, tell account holders by email.

Contact

Questions, requests, or concerns: hello@cogitolearning.com.