Privacy

Last updated November 4, 2026

LightPath is a learning app for homeschool families, now in a small family pilot. This page explains what we collect and why. It’s short because we collect as little as we can.

On the website

• If you join the waitlist: your email address and the date you joined. That’s all.
• The company that hosts the site keeps standard server logs, such as IP addresses and the pages requested, for a short time to keep the site running and secure.
• We don’t use analytics, advertising, tracking cookies or third-party scripts. Even the fonts are served from our own site. Signing in sets one cookie that keeps you signed in. (Inside the kids’ missions, a pilot family can keep its own replays of how the missions are used; see below. Nothing like that runs on the public pages.)

If your family is in the pilot

• Your account: your first name, email and password. The password and your parent PIN are stored scrambled, so no one can read them, including us.
• Your kids’ practice: their first names and each answer, mission and check-in, so the missions can adapt and you can see their progress. Also the notes you write to Blink. If a child taps quick wrong answers again and again, the board pauses for a break and saves a short note of it: when, which mission and how many quick misses. You see these notes in the parent dashboard.
• Your notes on the skill map: in the parent dashboard you can mark a skill as one your child already knows outside the app or one you’re teaching now, note where each child is in their books, choose which new lessons are open (we keep the day each one opens or closes), switch a child’s board to the new home screen, set the day a child starts school away from home, and open a child’s board again after a guessing pause. These are stored with your family’s data. The AI model that writes Blink’s evening note and the Sunday review reads these notes and settings, as the next point describes. The skill map itself is Marble’s open skill taxonomy, served from our own site; nothing about your kids is sent to Marble.
• Help, speaking checks and Blink’s notes: AI models do these jobs. We reach them through OpenRouter, and only where nothing we send is kept or used for training (zero data retention). Google’s Gemini checks a word a child reads or says aloud (in English or Japanese) and writes a stuck child’s live help. Fish Audio speaks that help in the buddy’s voice and records most of the buddies’ lines. Gemini records the rest: the Japanese, including what the friends in the Japanese stories say, and a few single sounds and words. Some lines say a child’s first name. DeepSeek’s model, or Moonshot’s Kimi as a backup, writes Blink’s evening note and the Sunday review from the kids’ practice, the notes you write, and your skill-map notes and settings. When a mission asks a child to say a word, the iPad’s microphone listens for a few seconds; that audio is checked in memory and never stored, and we keep only the word and what was heard. If the microphone hears no voice at all, we note only that it didn’t, how the iPad was recording, how loud the loudest sound was, whether the microphone was muted and the iPad’s random code, so we can tell when a microphone has stopped working. You can turn the microphone checks off in the parent view.

Replays of the kids’ missions

So we can make the missions easier for young kids to use, the kids’ Mission Board can save a replay of each time a child plays. It’s our own, first-party feature, made for your family. It isn’t a video and it never records sound.

• What it saves: where on the screen each tap landed, how long it was held and, when a finger drags, the path it took; what was tapped (the kind of button and the first few words on it) and whether it works, was a choice that wasn’t open yet (or one the mission wasn’t listening to yet), or was nothing at all; a copy of what the child’s screen showed (its words, buttons and drawings, rebuilt from the page itself rather than photographed) each time it changed, and where it was scrolled; when the buddy started and stopped each line; each answer the board saves (the question, whether it was right, the first answer given, which try got it, how long it took once the choices opened, and any taps before they opened); and when the iPad was put away or brought back. Also the time, the size of the screen, which child was playing, a random code for the iPad and the board’s version. It’s on unless a parent switches it off.
• What it never saves: sound, the microphone or the camera; anything typed; anything while the grown-up PIN pad or a parent page is open (only that a grown-up stepped in, never the PIN); and anything in test mode.
• Where it’s kept: on the iPad only until it’s sent (normally within seconds; at most about 500 KB if the iPad is offline, and none at all when the iPad needs the room for your kids’ progress), then in your family’s data in our database (Neon, in the United States), separate from the nightly backup copies, until you delete them. Each day’s replays are capped in size. Only your family’s signed-in parents, behind the parent PIN, the people building LightPath and their AI coding assistant can see them. To study them, we may download a copy to a private folder on our own computer. It’s shared only with that assistant (see Who can see it), and it’s deleted when that study is done, or sooner if you ask. Deleting a replay in the parent dashboard removes it from LightPath.
• What it’s for: for you to watch how your kids use the missions, and for us to find what’s hard to use (taps that do nothing, waiting after the buddy stops talking, where kids stop) and fix it. It isn’t used for anything else.
• Turning it off: in the parent dashboard, under Replays, switch recording off. Every iPad stops, and anything an iPad hadn’t sent yet is dropped. You can delete one replay or all of them there too.

Flagging a bug

If something goes wrong, a parent can tell us: hold the small flag at the edge of a child’s screen and enter the parent PIN, or use Flag a bug in For Mom & Dad or the parent dashboard. Nothing is sent until you press Send. This also works in test mode and when you view a child’s board from the parent dashboard.

• What it sends: what you pick and type, which parent you are, the size of the screen and the browser. From the kids’ board, also the board’s version, a random code for the iPad, its own list of problems and how it’s using the microphone. From the flag on a child’s screen, also which child and screen it was, a copy of that screen rebuilt from the page itself with its pictures left out, the last 24 taps, buddy lines, screen changes and saved answers, and which replay and moment it matches, if any. It never includes sound or anything from the camera; from the microphone, only numbers on how it’s working.
• Where it’s kept: in your family’s data in our database (Neon, in the United States) until you ask us to delete it, with a card on our own task list. The nightly backup copies keep the report without the screen copy, and older copies aren’t changed when a report is deleted. The people building LightPath and their AI coding assistant read it to find and fix the problem. To fix it we may download a copy to a private folder on our own computer. It’s shared only with that assistant (see Who can see it), and it’s deleted when the fix is done.

How we use it

Only to run LightPath for your family: to adapt the missions, show you progress, write your evening note and, with the replays and the bugs you flag, make the missions easier to use. We email waitlist members once, when there’s room.

Who can see it

Only your family’s signed-in parents, the people building LightPath and the AI coding assistant they use. We never sell your information or share it with anyone but the services named on this page. It’s stored in the United States with the companies that run our website and database (Vercel and Neon). The AI models described above process it through OpenRouter only to do those jobs, and none of them keeps it. We build LightPath with Anthropic’s Claude, an AI coding assistant. When we build lessons, fix a problem or study how the missions are used, Claude reads the family data we give it for that work, such as check-ins, learning notes, bug reports and replays. Those work sessions go to Anthropic, which doesn’t train on them and keeps them for 30 days, or up to 2 years if its safety systems flag one. A record of them also stays on our own computer.

Children

LightPath is set up and used under a parent’s account; children don’t create accounts or give us information themselves. The practice mission on the home page runs in your browser and saves nothing.

Your choices

To see, correct or delete what we have about you or your kids, email hello@lightpath.app and we’ll take care of it.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.