Privacy
Last updated 1 October 2026
The short version
- WhizKids is free. There are no ads, no ad trackers, no third-party analytics and nothing to buy.
- Parents own the account. Children play through a profile that is only a nickname, a buddy picture and a grade.
- We never ask a child for a name, email, birthday, photo, address or location, and the app never listens through the microphone.
- Children cannot message anyone. There is no chat and no public profile.
- A grown-ups PIN keeps player settings, the family dashboard, your account and the feedback form away from children.
- New players are not on the leaderboard. Only a grown-up, after entering the PIN, can put a player on it, and it shows a nickname and buddy only, to signed-in players in the same grade band.
What we collect
From the parent: an email address and either a password (stored as a one-way hash) or a Google sign-in. With Google we also receive your name and profile picture. We keep the date you confirmed you are a parent or guardian, and a one-way hash of the grown-ups PIN. Optionally, the topics your family likes.
For each child profile: a nickname the family chooses (we block nicknames that look like phone numbers, addresses or unkind words), a buddy picture, a grade, and an optional 4-digit PIN (stored as a hash). Please do not use a child's real full name as a nickname.
Learning activity: which questions a profile answered and whether they were right, lessons practised, stories read, puzzles finished, XP, streaks, badges and cards earned, how many minutes were spent learning each day, and a best score for each Brain Break game. This is what makes progress, recommendations and the family dashboard work. We also keep a first-party log of product events (for example "lesson completed") tied to the profile number only, to understand what children enjoy.
Feedback: notes a grown-up sends us, and any pictures attached to them. The form sits behind the grown-ups PIN, so a child cannot use it.
Technical: your browser's time zone (so streaks roll at your midnight), standard server logs, and crash reports that hold only an error message and the page it happened on. We rate-limit sign-in attempts by network address; addresses are not stored with accounts or profiles.
Kept on your device only, never sent to us: anything drawn or typed in the scratchpad, and the answers a child can look back at during a lesson.
What we never do
- Show advertising or use advertising identifiers.
- Sell, rent or share personal information with third parties.
- Let strangers contact children. Family Quiz Race rooms are private, joined by a code your family shares, and guests get a generated name.
- Send email or notifications. WhizKids sends none at all.
- Put a chatbot or an AI tutor in front of a child, or send anything about a child to an AI service.
How long things are kept
| What | How long |
|---|---|
| Your account, each player, and their learning history | Until you delete the player or the account. Deleting is immediate and removes everything that belongs to it. |
| Family Quiz Race rooms (nicknames and answers for one game) | Deleted 7 days after the room expires. |
| Photos attached to a feedback note | Deleted 90 days after the note is marked resolved. The note itself stays until you delete it or the account. |
| Crash reports (a message and the page it happened on, no account or player) | Deleted after 90 days. |
| Your sign-in on a device | Lasts 60 days, or until you sign out or choose Sign out other devices. |
| The grown-ups PIN unlock | Lasts 15 minutes, and ends when a player is picked. |
| Backups of the database, kept so the site can recover from a failure | May still hold deleted data until newer backups replace them. |
Other services involved
Sign in with Apple and Google Sign-In, only when a parent chooses one, and only on the sign-in screen (with Apple you may hide your email address; the relay address works like any other). Wikimedia Commons, where some answer photos are loaded from. That is the whole list.
Read-aloud uses the voice built into your phone, tablet or computer. An optional cloud voice exists in the code and is switched off; if it is ever turned on, this page will say so first, and it would only ever be sent the lesson text, never anything about a child.
How the content is made
Lessons and stories are written for WhizKids with the help of an AI writing assistant. Part of the quiz bank was drafted by an AI model, and part comes from open trivia collections; the credits page says which is which. Nothing a child does or types is used to make content or to train anything.
Parent choices
- Turn the leaderboard on or off per profile, set or remove a player PIN, change a grade, rename or delete a profile at any time from Manage players.
- Turn read-aloud, sounds and the guide character on or off per profile.
- Change the grown-ups PIN or your password, and sign every other device out, from Account.
- Delete the whole account, including every profile and all activity, from Account.
Contact
Questions or requests about a child's data, or a correction to anything on this page: Use Send feedback at the bottom of any page once you are signed in (it opens from your account too). A person reads every note.
See also the terms.