Children’s Privacy Notice
MandarinMiles publishes reading material for children, including the kids’ reading area. This notice explains how we handle children’s data. It supplements the Privacy Policy; where a school provides the service, the FERPA Notice also applies.
1. Accounts are for adults
Accounts, purchases and family or classroom seats are created and managed by a parent, guardian, teacher or other adult. Children do not create their own accounts and are not asked to provide a name, email address, photograph, location, or any other personal information to read the kids’ content. Seat names and levels, where used, are entered by the adult account holder and are kept to the minimum needed to deliver the service.
2. United States — COPPA
We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from children under 13 as defined by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The kids’ pages do not require registration, do not contain advertising, and do not load behavioural-advertising or analytics trackers. We do not condition a child’s participation on providing more information than is reasonably necessary.
If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, email [email protected] with enough detail to locate the record. We will delete it promptly and, where applicable, terminate any associated feature. Parents may request access to, or deletion of, information we hold about their child and may refuse further collection.
3. EEA and UK — age of digital consent
Where processing relies on consent, the age at which a young person can consent is 13–16 depending on the member state; below that age, consent must be given or authorised by the holder of parental responsibility. Our paid accounts are intended for adults. Where a school or parent provides the service, that school or parent acts as the responsible adult and controller for the child’s data, and we process it on their instructions.
4. What we do not do
- No behavioural advertising, profiling for marketing, or sale or sharing of children’s data.
- No third-party advertising networks on children’s pages.
- No public posting of children’s names, work, comments or progress.
- No use of children’s data to train generative AI models; AI-assisted illustrations are created from our own editorial prompts and reviewed by an adult before publication (see the AI Content Disclosure).
5. Safety and content review
Reader texts and AI-assisted illustrations intended for children are reviewed by a person for age-appropriateness and cultural sensitivity. If you find content you consider unsuitable, contact us and we will review it.
6. Contact
Parental requests, deletion requests and questions: [email protected] · Contact & Imprint · California Privacy Notice.
MandarinMiles is operated by David Chen, an individual based in mainland China.