Yezbi Privacy Policy

The short version

• Parents are in charge. An adult creates the family account. Children never sign up or sign in on their own. They use Yezbi on a family display a parent sets up, and in browser games that keep nothing on our servers.
• We ask a parent's permission before we save anything a child does, and we check that the person giving it is the parent. We email our notice to the parent's sign-in address, the parent agrees from that email, and a day later we send a second email confirming it, with how to change their mind.
• We collect what the apps need to work, and we keep it only as long as we need it. Section 7 lists how long.
• We never sell your family's information, we show no ads of our own, and we never use your family's information to train AI.
• Some features use AI, including Ask, which reads what's typed into it. AI help is on unless you turn it off, and you can turn it off for your whole family at any time. Your children's uploads and what they do on the family display's own screens never go to AI. The one exception is Ask on the family display: it's on there unless you turn it off, and what anyone types in it, a child included, goes to our AI provider with children's names replaced.
• You can see, download, correct and delete your family's information.
• Some outside services are part of the apps, and we name them all in Section 5. The biggest is YouTube, which plays the videos we suggest.

1. What this policy covers

This policy covers Yezbi's websites and apps:

It also covers yezbi.com, our sign-in pages (accounts.yezbi.com) and our server (api.yezbi.com). It does not cover other companies' websites, even when an app links to them or shows their content. Those companies' own policies apply.

Yezbi is for families in the United States. Adults must be 18 or older to create an account.

2. Information we collect

2.1 Your account (adults)

• Sign-in details: your email address, your name, and either a password or your Google sign-in. Our sign-in provider, Clerk, stores these. Our own systems receive your verified email address and first name. If you sign in with Google, Google shares your basic profile with Clerk.
• Your profile in the family:
  • your display name;
  • a label such as "Mom";
  • your role (owner, parent, caregiver);
  • your language, time zone and theme choices.
• Your parent PIN. It unlocks parent controls on shared devices. We store only a scrambled (hashed) version, never the PIN itself.

2.2 Your family

• Family name, time zone and school-year start month.
• Optionally, your ZIP code, used for local events and field trips, and your local library's name and catalog link.
• The adults you invite: their email, name and a label such as "Grandma Jane". We send them an invitation email.
• Your AI help choice (on unless you turn it off; Section 4).
• A record of your consent: who gave it, when, how it was confirmed (by email: when we sent the notice, when you agreed from it and when we sent the confirming email), which version of our notice you saw and your AI help choice. We keep only a scrambled (hashed) form of the link we emailed you.
• Your agreement to our Terms: which versions of the Terms of Service and this policy you agreed to at sign-up, and when.
• Your plan: your free month and, once paid plans start, your subscription's status.

2.3 Your children's profiles (information you type)

• Required: a display name and birth year.
• Optional:
  • birth month and day;
  • sex and pronouns;
  • interests and strengths;
  • learning notes;
  • grade band;
  • calendar color.
• Content preferences for each child:
  • interest and celebration tags;
  • a religious-content preference (from secular to devotional);
  • a cultural-content preference (from progressive to conservative);
  • your own notes.

We use these only to filter what Kids Videos and Movie Night show that child.

• A picture for each family member, if you choose one: an emoji, or a photo you upload. A child's photo is kept in your family's private storage with location and camera details removed. Only your family sees it, on your screens and your family display, and it never goes to AI.

We do not ask for children's addresses, phone numbers or school names. Please don't put health or diagnosis details in free-text fields unless you need them there. They are optional.

2.4 What your children's own activity creates

Once you give permission, when a child uses your family display, we record what they do there: which chores and lessons they mark done and when, the stars they earn, the rewards they ask for, and when they use the display as themselves. Section 6 describes this in detail.

2.5 App by app

2.5a Organizers who list events

If you list your organization's events with Yezbi, we collect its name, website, calendar link, town or address and who the events are for, plus a contact name, email and any notes. We use the contact details only for questions about your listing. We never show them to families or add them to mailing lists. We record that you confirmed you represent the organization and gave permission, with the date and the wording you agreed to. To prevent abuse, we keep a scrambled (hashed) form of your internet address for two days. Organizer contact details are erased 12 months after a listing is rejected or withdrawn. You can withdraw a listing at any time with the private link shown after you submit it, or by emailing support@yezbi.com.

2.6 Information collected automatically

• Internet (IP) address and browser type.
  • Our hosting provider sees these with every request. We use IP addresses briefly to stop abuse (rate limits) and do not store them in our database.
  • Some account actions record the IP address and browser type in your family's activity log, for security. We clear them after 90 days.
  • Our hosting logs keep basic request records for 7 days.
• Feature use. We count which Homeschool features each adult uses and when, so we can see what helps. We count actions such as "saved a repeating event", never what you wrote. These counts are in your data export.
• How parents use the apps. We count which screens and features parents use, and where they stop before finishing something, so we can fix what's hard. We never count what you type, and never anything in kid view or on the family display. Each visit gets a random ID, and your family's ID is scrambled, so these counts don't name your account. They stay with our hosting provider, Cloudflare, for about 90 days.
• Browser storage. The apps save settings, progress and sign-in state in your browser (local storage and similar). Section 11 explains this.
• No advertising or third-party analytics. We use no advertising cookies, tracking pixels or outside analytics services.

3. How we use information

We use information to:

• run the apps you use and show your family's information to your family;
• show your children what's theirs on your family display, the way you set it up;
• sign you in and protect accounts, devices and our service;
• send the emails you trigger, such as invitations and the notice and confirmation of your permission, and answer your messages;
• send the alerts you turn on;
• fix problems and improve the apps, using counts rather than your content;
• meet legal obligations and keep records that prove we did, such as consent and deletion receipts.

We do not use your family's information for advertising, sell it, rent it, or use it to train AI.

4. AI help

Some Yezbi features use artificial intelligence (AI) to draft or suggest things for you.

Which features use AI

• Homeschool: suggesting books for a weekly theme, reading a curriculum's table of contents from a photo, matching a workshop theme you type to a topic and drafting its guide, and Ask, which reads what a grown-up types and turns it into an event, a list item or an answer (below).
• Bookshelf: finding books in shelf or cover photos, suggesting book details, and finding a book's catalog title so we can show its cover.
• Local events: reading public organizer web pages and estimating suitable ages for public events. These use public information only, not your family's.
• Kids Videos: catalog ratings may have been drafted with AI help before review. They come from video information, not from your family.
• Activities, chores, meals and the family display's own screens never use AI. Ask on the display is the exception, below.

What we send to AI

• Your typed theme and schedule labels, with your children's names replaced by "Child 1", "Child 2".
• For theme book picks, each child's age range (such as 6–8) and up to eight short interest words, with no names. We don't send strengths, or health or learning words from interests.
• The photos you choose to scan (books or curriculum pages), with location and camera details removed first.
• Book titles, authors and ISBNs.
• What you type in Ask (below).

What we never send to AI

• Names, learning notes, strengths, sex or pronouns, religious or cultural preferences, grades, birth dates.
• Anything your children do on the family display (done marks, stars, rewards), and children's uploads. The one exception is what someone, child or grown-up, types in Ask on the family display (below).
• Family members' pictures.
• Anything about your Activities.

Ask

• What it sends. Ask uses our AI provider, named in Section 5.1. When AI help is on, we send what you type in Ask to that provider, with your conversation with Ask so far (up to its last 50 messages) and the dates involved. Your children's names are replaced by "Child 1", "Child 2". Requests Ask never handles, such as your PIN, your account or sharing, aren't sent. Our AI provider doesn't train on it and deletes it within 30 days.
• Ask on the family display. On a family display, Ask is on without a PIN unless a parent turns it off for that display. It works as the parent who set up the display, so whoever is at the display can use it, and what they type goes to our AI provider as above. If your children use the display, you can turn Ask off there in the display's settings, or leave it on and let them ask for help as you would at your own screen.

Who runs the AI

• Ask runs on our AI provider (Section 5.1).
• Everything else runs on Cloudflare Workers AI, part of our hosting provider Cloudflare. The model, GLM-5.3 Flash, was published by Z.ai (Zhipu AI) under an open license. Cloudflare runs it on its own network; the model's maker receives nothing.
• Cloudflare uses computing partners CoreWeave (United States) and Nebius (England) to run AI models.
• Cloudflare's terms say it does not use our AI requests or results to train AI.

How long we keep AI requests

• We keep our own copy of each AI request and answer for 30 days, to fix problems and check quality.
• We keep a record that a request happened (feature, time, size, cost, no content) for 13 months.
• Cloudflare does not publish how long it holds requests while processing them.

AI can be wrong. Treat every AI suggestion as a draft, and check it before you use it with your children. AI never makes decisions about your children: it does not grade, place or approve content for them.

AI help is on unless you turn it off. We explain what it sends when you set up your family, and in the permission email and page, where you can uncheck it. The family owner can switch AI help off at any time in Family settings. When it's off, nothing your family types or uploads goes to AI, and every feature still works the manual way.

5. Who receives information

5.1 Companies that work for us (service providers)

These companies process information only to provide their service to us, under contracts or published terms that limit their use of it.

5.2 Other services the apps connect to

Some features work by contacting another company's service. Some requests come from our server, which sends no information about who you are. Others come from your browser, which, like any website visit, shares your device's IP address and browser details.

We chose these services for what they do, not to share your information. They are independent companies, and their own privacy policies apply.

5.3 People you choose to share with

• Adults in your family whom you invite see the family's information that their role allows.
• Anyone at your family display sees what it shows: your family's day (titles and times), chores, meals, lists and the pictures you chose. Notes and links stay off it.
• Other families you connect with for co-op planning see your family name and how many of your family are coming, not your children's names.
• Plans you share with families you know. If you and a family you're connected with both turn on "Share plans with families you know" (it starts off), each of you sees which local events the other has planned or saved, and the dates and times you plan to go. Your children's names are never shared. Turning it off, or disconnecting, hides your plans at once.
• Calendar share links. Anyone who has the link can see that child's schedule: block titles and details from 30 days ago to 180 days ahead, and the child's first name. Links expire 12 months after you create them. You can turn a link off at any time.

5.4 Legal and safety reasons

We may share information if the law requires it (for example, a valid court order), to protect a child or anyone else from harm, or to protect Yezbi and our users from fraud or attack. Where the law allows, we will tell you first.

5.5 If Yezbi changes hands

If Yezbi is sold or merged, your information may move to the new owner. It stays covered by this policy unless you agree otherwise. Children's information will not be used in a new way without a parent's permission.

5.6 What we never do

• We never sell or rent personal information.
• We never share it for targeted advertising.
• We never let companies use it to train AI.
• We never make children's information public.

6. Children's privacy (notice to parents)

This section is our notice to parents under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the Arkansas Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act.

6.1 Who to contact

Yezbi LLC is the only company that collects or keeps children's personal information through Yezbi.

• Address: P.O. Box 71, West Fork, AR 72774
• Phone: 302-469-3924
• Email: privacy@yezbi.com

6.2 Which parts of Yezbi are for children

Children use Yezbi only through:

• the family display: a tablet or screen in your home that a parent pairs with the family. Children see their day there, check off their chores and lessons, earn stars and ask for rewards, and can use the display as themselves;
• the browser games (Time Travelers, National Parks, Tree of Life) and HistoMap's kids mode, which keep progress in the browser only;
• Placement, with a parent.

Children do not get their own accounts or sign-ins. On October 29, 2026 we retired the children's screens that worked on a device a parent turned on for one child (Kids Videos' children's screens and Homeschool's student checklist); videos we suggest now open on YouTube. Children cannot post anything publicly, and Yezbi has no chat, comments or messaging between users.

6.3 Your permission comes first

Until a parent gives permission, the family display still shows your family's day, but nothing your children do on it is saved. Your own parent tools work either way. To give permission, a parent:

1. asks for it in Yezbi Homeschool → Family settings → Parental permission;
2. receives our notice by email, at the address they sign in with. The link in it works for 7 days;
3. opens the link, reads the notice again, confirms that they are the children's parent or legal guardian, chooses whether AI help stays on (Section 4), and selects I agree;
4. receives a second email about a day later, confirming the permission and explaining how to withdraw it.

This is the "email plus" method the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule allows when an operator doesn't disclose children's information (16 CFR 312.5(b)(2)(viii)). We don't disclose it: no one outside Yezbi receives what your children do, apart from our hosting provider (Section 6.5) and, if a child types in Ask on the family display, our AI provider, which works only for us, doesn't train on it and deletes it within 30 days (Section 4).

We keep a record of your permission (Section 2.2). If you don't give permission, we save nothing your children do, and an unused request is deleted 30 days after its link expires.

If we make an important change to how we handle children's information, we'll email you the new notice and ask for your permission again before the change applies to your child.

6.4 What we collect from children, and why

Ask on the family display is a grown-up's tool: it works as the parent who set up the display, and it's on there unless a parent turns it off. If a child types in it there, what they type goes to our AI provider like a grown-up's words, with names replaced (Section 4). Otherwise children can't send messages, post, upload or use voice on Yezbi.

We collect only what the activity needs. We never require a child to give more information to play, watch or take part.

Information you type about your children (Section 2.3), such as their names, birth years, plans, chores and pictures, is not collected from your child, but we protect it the same way.

6.5 Who receives children's information

• Cloudflare (hosting, storage, logs), as our service provider. This is necessary to run the service.
• No one else. Our AI provider and Cloudflare Workers AI never receive your children's done marks, stars or rewards. The one exception is anything typed in Ask on the family display (Section 4). Calendar share links, and the push alerts you turn on, carry only what you entered, never what your children did.
• People you choose (Section 5.3): anyone at your family display, other adults you invite, and anyone holding a calendar share link you create. These are optional.

We never sell your children's information, use it for advertising, or let anyone use it to train AI.

6.6 Can children make information public?

No. Children cannot post, chat or share anything that others can see. Only a parent can create a calendar share link, and it can be turned off.

6.7 Device identifiers used only to run the service

We use a family display's key and IP address only to:

• keep the display signed in to your family;
• protect the service against abuse;
• keep it working.

We do not use them to contact your child, to build a profile of your child for any other purpose, or for advertising. We keep IP addresses out of our database (Section 2.6), and our hosting logs keep them for 7 days.

6.8 Your rights as a parent

You can:

• See what we have about your child: the family owner can download the family's data in Settings → Privacy & Data. Uploaded files can be downloaded one at a time. Or email us.
• Correct your child's profile at any time in the family settings.
• Stop collection from your child: turn off your family display, or withdraw your permission.
• Delete your child's information:
  • by deleting the child in family settings. We purge everything within 7 days;
  • by deleting your whole family in Settings → Privacy & Data, which takes effect immediately;
  • or by emailing privacy@yezbi.com.
• Withdraw your permission at any time in Family settings → Parental permission, or by emailing privacy@yezbi.com. We then stop saving what your children do and at once delete what their own activity created: the stars they earned, their reward requests, their display sessions, and what they did on the earlier children's screens (viewing history and totals, the "watch next" list, requests, checklist work and work photos). Done marks stay on your plan as part of your school records, and you can clear them. The profiles you typed and your plans stay unless you delete them too. You can give permission again later.

We check that requests come from the child's parent: through the family owner's signed-in account, or, by email, by confirming details only the account owner would know. Children's information deleted from our live systems may remain in our encrypted backups for up to 35 days until they are replaced.

We will never stop providing a service because you asked us to delete information, as long as the service can still work without it.

6.9 Teens in Arkansas

Arkansas law gives teens aged 13 to 16 their own rights. A teen, or their parent, can ask us to see, correct or delete the teen's information by emailing privacy@yezbi.com. We may confirm the request with the family owner.

6.10 How long we keep children's information

This is our retention policy for children's information.

7. How long we keep other information

8. Your choices and rights

• Download your data: Homeschool → Settings → Privacy & Data (family owner), Movie Night → Privacy settings, and Download personal data for an adult's own records.
• Delete:
  • single items, a child or the whole family in the apps;
  • your account: email privacy@yezbi.com for now. A family owner deletes the family instead;
  • or email privacy@yezbi.com.
• Correct anything in the family and child settings.
• Turn off AI help (family owner) in Family settings.
• Turn off a family display, or Ask on it, at any time in its settings.
• Turn off alerts on any device in Settings, or in your browser's settings.
• Withdraw permission for your children in Family settings → Parental permission (Section 6.8).
• Manage invitations, co-op connections, shared plans and share links at any time.
• Browser-only apps: use each game's reset or export, Placement's Erase, or clear your browser's site data.

We answer requests within 30 days and tell you if we need more time. We don't charge for them. You don't need to live in a particular state to use these choices.

9. How we protect information

• Every connection is encrypted (HTTPS). Cloudflare encrypts stored data.
• Each family's information is kept separate on our server, and every request is checked against the signed-in adult's family.
• Parent PINs, display PINs and display keys are stored only in scrambled (hashed) form, and calendar feed addresses are encrypted.
• A family display works only after a parent pairs it with the family, and parent controls on it need a PIN.
• Alerts are encrypted on our server for your device, so the push service that carries them can't read them.
• Our own accounts use two-step sign-in, and our passwords and keys are kept in a password manager.
• We follow a written information security program, review it every year and test our safeguards.

No online service can promise perfect security. If a breach affects your information, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires.

10. Where information is stored

Our servers and storage are provided by Cloudflare, which stores and processes data in the United States and in other countries where its network operates. AI requests may be processed in the United States or England. Yezbi is meant for families in the United States.

11. Browser storage and cookies

The apps store some things in your browser:

• settings;
• game progress;
• a family display's key, on that display;
• whether alerts are on, on that device;
• favorites;
• the selected child;
• your Roku's address.

Clerk sets cookies to keep adults signed in. We use no advertising or analytics cookies. YouTube's player may set its own cookies or similar identifiers when it plays a video (Section 12). Clearing your browser's site data removes what's stored on that device. On a family display, it unpairs the display.

Because we do not track you across other websites, we don't change anything in response to "Do Not Track" or Global Privacy Control signals; there's nothing to turn off.

12. YouTube

Yezbi Homeschool, Kids Videos, HistoMap and Movie Night use YouTube API Services to show and play YouTube videos.

• By watching YouTube videos in Yezbi, you agree to YouTube's Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms.
• Google's Privacy Policy explains how YouTube handles information: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy.
• YouTube's player can collect information from the device when it loads and when a video plays, including the device's IP address and browser details, and it may place or read cookies or similar identifiers. YouTube may show ads, which Yezbi does not control.
• Where a video plays inside Yezbi, we use YouTube's privacy-enhanced (no-cookie) player, including Movie Night trailers, and Kids Videos loads YouTube's player script from that same privacy-enhanced address.
• Videos we suggest in Homeschool open on youtube.com, where YouTube's own player, terms and your YouTube settings apply. Movie Night's "Search YouTube for a trailer" button opens youtube.com in a new tab, at an adult's choice.
• For Kids Videos, we use YouTube's API to look up whether YouTube marks a video "made for kids", sending only the video's ID, and we refresh or delete each answer within 30 days.
• Yezbi does not sign in to YouTube on your behalf and does not access your YouTube account. You can review apps connected to your Google account at https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions.
• To delete the information Yezbi keeps about your family's viewing, use the deletion choices in Section 8. Deleting it from Yezbi does not change anything YouTube keeps. To manage that, use YouTube's or Google's own settings.

13. Changes to this policy

• We'll post any change here with a new date.
• For an important change, we'll tell the family owner by email and in the app at least 30 days before it takes effect.
• If a change affects how we collect, use or share children's information, we'll email you the new notice and ask for your permission again before the change applies to your child.

14. Contact us

Yezbi LLC

• P.O. Box 71, West Fork, AR 72774
• Phone: 302-469-3924
• Privacy questions and requests: privacy@yezbi.com
• Everything else: support@yezbi.com