Privacy policy

Applies to version 1.0.

Applies to

The Smiley Man Homework app for iPhone and iPad, its parent emails, and the Parent page

Operator

Daniel Praid, 120 N. Pearl Street, Apt 407, Port Chester, NY 10573, United States

Privacy contact

smileymanhomework@gmail.com

Last updated

October 12, 2026

Consent notice version

2026-10-12

The short version

• Your child uses the app on their own phone to keep track of homework. Parents stay informed by email.
• Until a parent confirms their email address, our server holds only that email, and deletes it after 7 days without a confirmation. Your child's nickname and homework stay on the phone until then. The confirmation is your consent.
• We collect only what the emails and the Parent page need: the homework your child adds, Proof photos of finished work, your child's nickname, and parents' email addresses.
• No ads, no tracking, no selling or sharing for marketing, and no AI training on your child's data. No AI chat for your child, ever.
• Photos of homework sheets are kept on the phone. To read a sheet, a copy with the name and student number blacked out may go to Apple's Private Cloud Compute or, only if you allow it, to Anthropic; we don't store those copies. Proof photos are kept for 30 days. Homework is kept until the end of the school year. If the app isn't opened for 6 months, we delete everything we hold for your family, and we email you a month before.
• You can see everything on the Parent page and delete single assignments or everything, in the app or on the Parent page, at any time.

Who this policy covers

Smiley Man Homework is used by children, including children under 13, with a parent's permission. The child has no account, no password and no sign-in. A parent (the "primary parent") sets the app up on the child's phone, protects its settings with a Parent PIN, and can invite other parents by email. Parents don't need the app: they get emails and a private Parent page.

We follow the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC's COPPA Rule.

What we collect

From your child, through the app

From parents

Collected automatically

We don't collect location, contacts, the advertising identifier, browsing history or anything for advertising. The app contains no third-party analytics, advertising or tracking code.

Reading: how homework photos become assignments

When your child snaps a sheet, the app proposes assignments with due dates, and your child confirms each one before it's saved. Where the Reading happens depends on the phone:

1. On the phone. On phones with Apple Intelligence, Apple's on-device model reads the photo. Nothing leaves the phone.
2. Apple Private Cloud Compute. If the phone's model can't make sense of a sheet, Apple's model on Private Cloud Compute may read it. Apple says this data is used only to answer the request and is never stored. Before it's sent, the phone blacks out the Name and Student number fields.
3. Anthropic, only with your permission. Where Apple Intelligence isn't available (phones without it, such as an iPhone 13 mini, or with it turned off), a parent can allow cloud Reading on a separate permission screen that names Anthropic. The phone first reads the text itself, blacks out the Name and Student number fields in the photo and leaves their values out of the recognized text, crops the sheet and removes location data. The photo and the text then go through our server to Anthropic's Claude model. Anthropic doesn't train AI on them. Under Anthropic's standard terms it may keep them for a limited time for safety checks, then deletes them. Our server doesn't keep the photo. It keeps the reading result, which is the assignment text, for 24 hours so a retry doesn't run twice.
4. Simple rules on the phone. Otherwise, the phone reads the text itself with simple rules.

Typed and spoken homework is always read on the phone.

Steps for big assignments. When your child asks for a plan for a big assignment, the app suggests Steps on different days. A packet is split by pages on the phone. For other work, Apple's on-device model names the Steps from the assignment's title and Class, or its title and Class (as text, never a photo, with the child's nickname hidden) may go to Private Cloud Compute or, where Apple Intelligence isn't available and only if you allowed cloud Reading, through our server to Anthropic, under the same terms as cloud Reading. Otherwise simple rules on the phone name the Steps.

How we use information

Only to provide the service you signed up for:

• sending the consent notice, confirmations, invitations, Done emails, the Daily digest and account notices
• showing your child's homework and Proof photos on the Parent page
• reading homework photos into assignments, as described above
• checking the subscription
• keeping the service secure and working

We don't use it for advertising, profiling, selling, or training AI models, and we never combine it with data from any other app, including Smiley Man Check-In.

Who we share it with

We don't sell or rent personal information. We share it only with service providers that help run the service, under contracts that limit their use to providing that service:

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect the safety of a child or the security of the service. If the service is ever transferred to another operator, we'll tell parents first and the new operator must follow this policy.

Parental consent

No homework leaves the phone before a parent confirms their email:

1. During setup, you choose a Parent PIN and the app shows a summary of this policy.
2. You enter your email and your child's nickname, and we send you a notice describing what we collect, why, our service providers, how long we keep it, and your rights, with a confirmation link. Until you confirm, our server holds only that email; the nickname stays on the phone.
3. Tapping the link is your consent. Until you do, the app keeps homework and the nickname only on the phone. If you don't confirm within 7 days, we delete your email address and the household.
4. About a day after you confirm, we send a second email repeating what you agreed to and how to withdraw.

Cloud Reading through Anthropic needs a separate yes on a permission screen in the app.

Your rights as a parent

You can, at any time:

• Review your child's information on the Parent page, linked from every email.
• Delete a single assignment on the Parent page, or everything from the app's parent settings or the Parent page. Deleting everything removes it from the phone and our server, and we email you a confirmation.
• Stop further collection by turning off emails, removing other parents, turning off cloud Reading, or deleting everything.
• Withdraw consent by deleting everything. You can also email us at smileymanhomework@gmail.com.

We'll answer requests within 30 days.

How long we keep information

The full schedule is in our retention schedule below. Deleting everything removes the household's data from our server at once, except for database recovery backups, which expire within 30 days.

Retention schedule

This is our written data retention policy. The rule: keep each piece of information only as long as the service needs it, then delete it automatically. A parent can delete anything sooner.

A family that stops using the app. When the app on the child's phone hasn't connected to our server for 6 months (183 days since it last synced, or since the parent confirmed if it never synced), we delete everything we hold for that household, as Delete everything would. A month before (after 153 days), we email the primary parent once with the date; opening the app before then keeps the data. Daily digests stop after 14 days without a sync and start again with the next one.

On the child's phone

On our server

At service providers

Deletion requests

• Delete everything (in the app or on the Parent page) deletes every record and photo for the household on our server at once, then emails the primary parent a confirmation, and clears the phone. If the phone is offline, the phone is cleared first and the server deletion is retried until it succeeds. On the Parent page it first emails the primary parent a link, good for an hour, and deletes only when that link's button is pressed, so a forwarded email can't delete a family's data.
• Delete one assignment on the Parent page deletes it on our server, and the phone deletes it at the next sync.
• Email requests to smileymanhomework@gmail.com are answered within 30 days.

We review this schedule once a year and whenever the data the app collects changes.

How we protect information

We keep a written information security program. In short: the connection between the app and our server is encrypted; the phone keeps its device key in the iOS Keychain on that device only; the server stores only a hashed form of the key; Parent page links are signed, expire after 14 days, and stop working when a parent is removed or when a parent asks the app to stop old links; deleting everything from the Parent page needs a second link emailed to the primary parent; and our logs never contain homework, photos, names or email addresses.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we collect, use or share your child's information, we'll email the primary parent and ask for consent again where the law requires it.

Contact

The operator of Smiley Man Homework is Daniel Praid. For privacy or support questions, contact:

Telephone: +1 347-569-5334
Email: smileymanhomework@gmail.com