Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 20, 2026  |  Effective: April 20, 2026

1. Who We Are

AI Academy ("AIA", "we", "us") is an AI-powered homeschool education platform. We are operated from Ontario, Canada.

Contact our Privacy Officer: admin@aisomad.ai

2. Who This Policy Applies To

This policy applies to all users of AIA, including:

• Students (ages 7–15) using the learning platform
• Parents and guardians who create and manage accounts for their children

If your child is under 13 (US) or under 16 (EU), a parent or guardian must create their account and provide consent.

3. What Data We Collect

Data	Why We Collect It	Required?	Shared?
Student name or username	Personalize lessons and greetings	Yes	No
Learning progress (subjects, levels, topics completed)	Track progress, enable adaptive learning	Yes	No
Quiz scores and performance history	Adapt lesson difficulty, identify weak areas	Yes	No
XP points and badges earned	Motivate and reward learning milestones	Yes	No
Parent email address (if provided)	Account recovery, consent verification, progress reports	Optional	No

4. How We Use Data

• Generate personalized AI lessons matched to your child's level and progress
• Adapt lesson difficulty based on quiz performance (adaptive learning engine)
• Display progress, XP, and badges to motivate learning
• Generate progress reports for parents
• Improve the platform (aggregated, anonymized analytics only)

We do not use student data for advertising, profiling, or any commercial purpose.

5. Children's Privacy (COPPA)

🇺🇸 COPPA — US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

AIU complies with COPPA (16 CFR Part 312). For children under 13:

• Parental consent is required before we collect any personal information. A parent or guardian must create the account.
• We collect only the minimum data necessary to provide the educational service.
• We do not condition participation on providing more information than necessary.
• We do not share children's personal information with third parties.
• We do not retain children's data longer than necessary for the educational purpose.

Parental Rights Under COPPA

As a parent or guardian, you have the right to:

• Review all personal information collected about your child
• Correct inaccurate information
• Delete your child's account and all associated data
• Refuse further collection or use of your child's information

To exercise these rights, email admin@aisomad.ai with your child's username. We will respond within 10 business days.

6. Canadian Privacy Rights (PIPEDA)

🇨🇦 PIPEDA — Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

AIA is operated from Canada and complies with PIPEDA. Under PIPEDA, you have the right to:

• Know what personal information we hold about you or your child
• Access that information and request corrections
• Withdraw consent at any time (subject to legal or contractual restrictions)
• File a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: priv.gc.ca

Our lawful basis for processing is consent — provided by the parent on account creation.

7. EU/UK Privacy Rights (GDPR)

🇪🇺 GDPR — General Data Protection Regulation

If you are located in the EU or UK, the GDPR applies to your data. Your rights include:

• Right of access — request a copy of your data
• Right to rectification — correct inaccurate data
• Right to erasure — request deletion of your data ("right to be forgotten")
• Right to data portability — receive your data in a machine-readable format
• Right to object — object to processing based on legitimate interests
• Right to restrict processing — limit how we use your data

For children under 16 in the EU (or under 13 in some member states), parental consent is required. Our account creation process obtains this consent.

Our lawful basis for processing is consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR). To exercise your GDPR rights, contact admin@aisomad.ai. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority.

8. Data Storage and Security

• All student data is stored on our private servers in Canada
• AI lesson generation uses a local language model on our private infrastructure — no student data is sent to OpenAI, Google, or any external AI provider
• Data is stored in encrypted JSON files with access restricted to the AIU application
• We do not use third-party analytics, advertising networks, or tracking services
• Server access is restricted by SSH key authentication and firewall rules

9. Data Retention

We retain student data for as long as the account is active. If an account is inactive for 2 years, we will delete the data. You may request deletion at any time by contacting us.

10. Cookies and Tracking

AIA uses only essential session cookies necessary for the platform to function (e.g., keeping you logged in). We do not use advertising cookies, tracking pixels, or third-party analytics cookies. No cookie consent banner is required as we use only strictly necessary cookies.

11. Third Parties

We do not sell, rent, or share student personal information with any third party. The only "third party" involved in lesson generation is our local AI model (Ollama/Llama), which runs entirely on our private servers and does not transmit data externally.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy. We will notify users of material changes by posting a notice on the platform. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.

13. Contact Us

For any privacy questions, requests, or complaints:

• Email: admin@aisomad.ai
• Website: aisomad.ai

We aim to respond to all privacy requests within 10 business days.