Privacy notice

Written in plain English, as the UK Age Appropriate Design Code expects.

What we store

• Your name, email address, a hashed password and a hashed grown-up PIN.
• For each child: a first name or nickname, school year, working year, maths and reading scheme, optional interests and current book, and their learning history (questions, answers, time taken, levels).

Schools

When a school uses Horace, the school is the data controller and Horace processes pupil data on its behalf. We store staff names, school email addresses and roles, class names, and for each pupil: first name, surname, a generated username, an encrypted PIN, year group and learning history. Pupils never give an email address and cannot reset passwords; their teacher manages their login. Teachers see their own classes; school leaders and admins see the whole school. Admins can delete any pupil, class, or the entire school at any time.

How AI is used

Horace uses Anthropic's Claude to write questions, check answers, mark short written answers and write explanations and parent summaries. We send only curriculum information, the year group, optional interests and, when marking or explaining, the child's answer to that question. We never send children's names, your name, your email or any other identifying details.

What we never do

• No adverts, no tracking, no analytics, no third-party scripts or fonts. Everything is served from our own server.
• No selling or sharing of data.
• No contact with children. Children never create accounts or give an email address.

Your rights

You can download all your data or permanently delete any child, or your whole account, at any time from Settings. Deletion is immediate and complete.

Cookies

One strictly necessary session cookie keeps you logged in. Nothing else.