Data and safety
- The short version
- What we store
- Who can see it
- The children's version
- What is in the content
- Where Claude is used
- Getting it back or deleted
- For schools
The short version
Learnington is a town a learner walks around to practise English. There are no adverts and no tracking: the town, games and tools load nothing from anyone else's server (only the sign-up and sign-in pages load one bot-protection script from Cloudflare), so nobody is watching your child but us, and we only keep what the learning itself needs. There is no chat of any kind — a learner cannot message another learner, and there is nothing for a stranger to contact them through.
This page is the plain-English version. The Privacy Policy is the full legal one, and it wins wherever the two seem to differ.
What we store about a learner
All of it, with nothing left out:
- The account — the email address used to sign up, the age band chosen at sign-up, and the plan.
- Sign-ins — when a session started, when it expires, when it was last used, and which device it belongs to.
- Classes — the classes the learner has joined and when.
- Results — for each game, quiz, film or tool: the score, the number it was out of, how long it took, and the date.
- Progress — whatever the learner has saved in an app or tool, such as a route through the study hub.
- Stars and feedback — any rating they give an item, and anything they write in the feedback form.
- Consent records — for an under-14 account, the parent's email and whether they confirmed or refused.
- A security log — sign-ins, password changes and the like, so an adult can see what happened on the account.
- Which items were opened, by day, and how long the page took to load.
There is no microphone recording, no camera, and no location. We do not ask for a surname, an address, a school year, or anything about a learner's health or background.
Who can see it
- The learner, on their own account.
- A parent or guardian of an under-14, in full, at any time.
- Their teacher, for a learner in that teacher's class: the scores and what has been opened, so the teacher can set work and see who is stuck.
- Their school, where the school holds the account.
- Justin, who runs Learnington, when something needs supporting or fixing.
Nobody else. We do not sell data, and we do not share it for advertising — there is no advertising.
The children's version
Switching the town to the children's version is not a filter laid over the adult one: it changes what is there.
- The business district's offices, banks and courts become buildings to look at rather than places to go into. The museum, the stadium, the theatre, the planetarium and the places a child would actually enjoy stay open.
- The levels a child sees are Young learners, A1 and A2 only.
- Sound is off everywhere except the games, and nothing speaks on its own.
- Everything that moves respects a device set to reduce motion.
What is in the content, and what never is
Every item on the site is checked against a written rulebook before it goes up. The rules a parent is most likely to care about:
- No real people. No celebrities, no public figures, no real teachers, schools or pupils. The characters are ours and invented.
- No brands and no trademarked game names.
- No frightening or unsuitable material. Mysteries are bloodless. The ghost only appears at Hallowe'en.
- No real places as the setting — the town is Learnington, and its two versions are Wordville and Wordbury. Real cities appear only where the point is real geography or travel.
- Levels are CEFR only (A1 to C2, and "Young learners" for anything below A1). No ages, no school years, no exam board names in what a learner reads.
Where Claude is used, and what it is told
A few parts of the site ask Claude, the AI assistant made by Anthropic, to do something in the moment: judge an answer in a guessing game, reply to a letter, or give a hint. Where that happens:
- The request goes through our own server, so the key is never in the page.
- We do not log what was asked or what came back.
- There is a daily limit per account, so it cannot run away with itself.
- The learner's name, email and history are not sent: the question is about the exercise, not about the child.
Getting it all back, or deleted
Two buttons on the account page, no email needed and no waiting:
- Export gives you a file with every item in the list above, exactly as we hold it.
- Delete removes the account and its data.
A parent or guardian can do both for an under-14's account, and can withdraw consent at any time, by writing to hello@mylearnington.com. We act within 30 days, and usually the same week.
An under-14 account cannot open any content until a parent or guardian confirms by email. If nobody confirms within 14 days, the account is deleted.
For schools and academies
Where a school creates the accounts, the school is responsible for telling families and holding their permission; we are the processor. We will sign a data-processing agreement — write to hello@mylearnington.com and ask. Teachers see their own classes and nothing else.
How it is kept
HTTPS everywhere. Passwords and PINs are stored only as salted hashes, so nobody at Learnington can read them. A sign-in is tied to one device. Sign-in and sign-up are rate-limited and bot-protected. Account pages run under a content-security policy. There are daily backups and an audit trail. If a breach ever put anyone's rights at risk we would tell the Spanish data protection authority within 72 hours and tell you without delay.
Resumen en español
Learnington no tiene publicidad ni rastreadores, y no hay chat entre alumnos. Guardamos el correo de registro, la franja de edad, las clases, las puntuaciones, el progreso guardado, las valoraciones y un registro de seguridad; nada de micrófono, cámara ni ubicación. Lo ven el alumno, su madre, padre o tutor si es menor de 14 años, su profesor o profesora, su centro y Justin para dar soporte. En la versión infantil, el distrito de negocios se ve pero no se entra, los niveles son Young learners, A1 y A2, y el sonido está apagado salvo en los juegos. Desde la página de la cuenta se puede exportar todo o borrar la cuenta; también escribiendo a hello@mylearnington.com, y respondemos en 30 días. La Política de Privacidad es el documento legal completo.