Children's Code

Why this page exists

Learn with Zidni is built for children as well as adults. The UK Age Appropriate Design Code (the Children's Code) applies if under-18s are likely users. US COPPA applies because the kids zone is directed at children under 13. This page maps those duties onto what the code does today. It is a technical description, not legal advice.

In the product

• Only an adult can create a login. Signup refuses to continue unless they confirm they are 18 or over.
• A child profile stores a first name, an avatar key and an age band. There is no child email, photo, date of birth or behavioural advertising profile.
• Adult content is not selected with a zone parameter from the browser. The server uses the profile's age band.
• The parent area, where settings would live, asks for the parent PIN again.
• Learner screens use a link component that only accepts paths on this site.
• There is no messaging, comments, public profile or upload.
• Journal rows have no database policy a login token can read, including the parent's.
• There are no ads, no pixels and no analytics that profile a child.
• High-privacy defaults are written when a child profile is created, including read-aloud on.

Not done yet

• Verifiable parental consent for collecting a child's first name is not implemented. The adult checkbox is not that method. [LAWYER: choose the method before a child profile can be created in production.]
• A published children's privacy notice written for a child to read is not separate from the adult privacy notice.
• The ICO data protection fee ([ICO REGISTRATION NUMBER]) is an off-code registration. It is not paid from this repository.
• Connected toys, geolocation and nudge techniques are absent. Keep them absent. A child profile must never see a purchase prompt.