How does Classroom Hero Protect Children’s Personal Information?

Protecting children's privacy is especially important to us - we're educators ourselves and understand the critical importance of maintaining student privacy and safety in educational technology platforms. As a classroom management and gamification platform designed specifically for educational environments, Classroom Hero is committed to implementing robust privacy protections for all student users.

While Classroom Hero is currently in the process of pursuing formal privacy certifications, we have designed our platform with COPPA compliance as a fundamental principle from the ground up. Our data collection practices, parental consent procedures, and student privacy protections are structured to meet and exceed COPPA requirements, ensuring that children's personal information is handled with the utmost care and security.

Classroom Hero is committed to responsible stewardship, protection, and transparent handling of student personal information. We believe in providing clear, understandable information to parents, teachers, and school administrators about how we collect, use, and protect student data within our gamification platform.

For more information about COPPA and generally protecting children's online privacy, please visit OnGuard Online.

We have also prepared a Student Data Privacy Addendum, an agreement we enter into with schools and teachers, that further describes our duties, responsibilities, and commitments with respect to Student Data that we collect or receive through our classroom management platform.

This Children's Privacy Policy explains our information collection, disclosure, and parental consent practices with respect to information provided by children, and uses terms that are defined in our general Services Privacy Policy. For our full Services Privacy Policy please see here. Any terms not defined in this Children's Privacy Policy are defined in the Services Privacy Policy. This policy is in accordance with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and its implementing regulations under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (collectively "COPPA").

Classroom Hero extends the U.S-based COPPA consent protections in all jurisdictions, even if not required. If we rely on other legally applicable grounds for processing children's personal information (e.g. if we rely on legitimate interest in the European Union and the United Kingdom when acting as a Controller), we will still use the FTC COPPA consent methods described to provide further transparency for parents.

Important Note for Parents and Educators: Classroom Hero operates as a teacher-controlled platform where students cannot create accounts independently. All student accounts are created and managed through teacher-provided classroom codes, ensuring that appropriate educational oversight is maintained at all times. Students access the platform exclusively through their teacher's classroom, providing an additional layer of protection and supervision.

We do not collect demographic information about students.

Student data is retained only as long as teachers maintain their accounts.

Teachers have full control over student data and can delete individual student records or entire classes at any time.

We use secure, anonymized identifiers to protect student identity.

All data transmission is protected using SSL encryption.

We do not share student data with third parties for commercial purposes.

Classroom Hero is designed with COPPA compliance as a core principle, implements comprehensive student privacy protections, and extends U.S.-based COPPA consent protections to all jurisdictions, even where not required. Our platform operates under direct teacher supervision with robust controls for data management and deletion.