How we look after your family’s data
Last updated 16 October 2026
My Homeschool is a private learning space for home-educating families. It is invite-only while we try it with a few families. This page explains, in plain words, what we keep, where it is kept, who can see it, and what you can ask us to do.
What we keep
- About the parent: your name, your email address and your password (stored only in a scrambled form that cannot be read back).
- About your family: your family name and family sign-in name.
- About each child: the name and age you give, their username, their 6-digit code (scrambled, cannot be read back) and the learning support switches you choose.
- Learning: activities and questions, your child’s answers and tries, hints used, reflections, voice answers, photos and pictures, saved work, your observations, results, skills, notes and comments, and the day’s order and messages.
- Tutors and schools: their accounts and exactly what you have chosen to share with them.
- To keep things safe and working: when people sign in, a history of important changes, and timings of slow or failed requests (the type of action, how long it took, the device type and connection type; never what was typed or answered).
- On your own device: a sign-in cookie, and small things such as unsent typing, timers and preferences. We use no advertising or tracking cookies.
Where it is kept
Your family’s data is kept by Supabase on servers in London, United Kingdom. The website itself is delivered by Cloudflare. Sign-up emails are sent through Supabase. These providers store and deliver the data for us; they do not use it for their own purposes.
Who can see it
- You, the parent, see everything in your family.
- Each child sees only their own activities and work, never answer keys, never your private notes.
- A tutor or school sees only the children and subjects you share with them, for as long as you choose. You can end it at any time.
- Other families can never see your family’s data.
- The person who runs My Homeschool can reach the data only to keep the service running, safe and backed up, or to help when you ask.
We never sell your data, never show advertising and never use it to profile you or your children.
Children
Children use My Homeschool through an account their parent creates. As the parent, you decide what information about your child goes into it, and you give consent on your child’s behalf.
How long we keep it
We keep your family’s data while you use My Homeschool. Changes keep their history, so records stay trustworthy. Timings of slow or failed requests are deleted after 60 days. Our database backups are kept for 7 days. When you leave, we delete your family’s data on request (see below).
How we protect it
Connections are always encrypted. The database is locked so that only our own service can read or change it. Photos and voice answers are stored privately. Sign-in has limits on wrong tries, and important changes are recorded. An independent security review is planned before more families join.
What you can ask us
You can ask to see the data we hold about your family, to correct it, to receive a copy of it, or to have it deleted. Write to hello@myhomeschool.ai. If you are not happy with how we handled your data, you may also complain to the Information Regulator (South Africa).
Changes
If we change how we look after your data, we will update this page and tell you in the app.