BuildIt! Labs
Privacy Notice
This notice explains what we collect, how we use it, and the rights available to parents and guardians using Build It! Labs and the Sparky App.
Who This Is For
Build It! Labs offers a child-directed STEM learning service for families. Parents or guardians create and manage accounts, choose tracks, and oversee child participation.
Children under 13 should use the service only with a parent or guardian's permission and involvement.
What We Collect
From parents or guardians, we may collect a name, email address, login credentials, enrollment details, and consent records.
From children, we may collect a first name, age, learning track, mission progress, chat text, and journal content. Journal photos are kept on-device by default until a parent or guardian reviews and approves sharing.
We also process technical identifiers needed to operate the service securely, such as authentication and session-related identifiers.
How We Use Information
We use information to create and manage parent accounts, create learner profiles, deliver missions, provide Sparky chat help, store approved journal entries, respond to support requests, and maintain security.
We do not sell children's personal information or use it for behavioral advertising.
Service Providers
We use service providers to operate the app, including Firebase services for authentication, database storage, and file storage.
If a parent approves sharing a journal photo or a child uses Sparky chat, the content may be processed by Google's Gemini API so the product can generate educational responses.
Parent Rights
A parent or guardian may ask to review the categories of personal information collected from their child, request deletion, refuse future collection, or revoke consent for future use.
For privacy requests, contact builditlabs0@gmail.com.
Data Retention
We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Parent waitlist leads are deleted after 12 months if no enrollment occurs. Parent account records are kept while the account is active and deleted within 60 days of a verified deletion request. Child profile and progress data is deleted within 12 months of inactivity or on parent request. Child chat records and journal photos are deleted within 180 days after the active program term ends, or earlier on parent request. Consent records are retained for the period reasonably necessary to document lawful collection, even after other data is deleted.
To request deletion or a data export, contact builditlabs0@gmail.com.
Privacy and Safety Reminder
Children should not share full names, home addresses, phone numbers, school names, or faces in photos unless a parent has specifically approved that sharing.
Parents should review journal photos before upload and confirm that the photo shows the project, not personal details.