Skill Up is a thinking-fluency and typing practice app for children aged 8 and up. This note explains what parents control, what shared links show, and how consent works for children under 13.
1. The basics
- Ages 8+. Skill Up is designed for children aged 8 to 17.
- Under 13s need a parent account. A child under 13 may only use Skill Up with a parent account linked to theirs. The parent acts as the consenting adult: reviewing learning data, approving challenges, and able to revoke access or request deletion.
- Linking takes two steps. Your child shows you a 6-character code (valid 24 hours), or you save an invite inside the app for their email — and the other side accepts. No link is created silently or automatically. The app sends no invite emails; everything happens inside Skill Up.
2. What you can see and control
Once linked (signed in to your own account), you can:
- Review learning: progress graphs, vocabulary growth, weekly insight summaries, and session-level results including what your child typed.
- Approve challenges: friend challenges involving your child wait for parent approval on both sides before proceeding.
- Revoke the link: either you or your child can break the parent–child link at any time. If your last active link is revoked, any read-only dashboard link is automatically disabled too.
- Manage shared links: create or disable your read-only dashboard link at any time — disabling immediately revokes access for anyone holding the URL.
- Request deletion: ask us to delete your child's data at any time (see Data deletion & contact).
Teachers (if your child joins a classroom) see classroom progress and assignment work as described in the Privacy Policy — classroom membership is separate from parent linking, and joining a class does not give the teacher parent-level access outside the classroom.
3. Shared links stay preview-only
When you share a dashboard link or a weekly-insight card:
- it opens without sign-in for anyone who has the URL — treat it like a password and share only with people you trust;
- it shows only a small summary (e.g., a weekly snapshot), never your child's full typed writing;
- it expires automatically, and you can disable it instantly.
Our standing rule: shared links will always stay preview-only. If we ever offer a way to share fuller detail, it will be per-session with your explicit action each time — never automatic.
4. How we keep the app safe for children
What the app does today, verified from the code:
- No open chat with strangers. Classroom messages stay within the classroom. Friend challenges need both parents' approval.
- No email from us to your child. Invites are in-app only; we send no marketing or invite emails.
- No ads, no data sale, no third-party trackers in the app.
- No voice recording, no file uploads. Practice is typed text; profile photos come from the login provider only.
- AI with boundaries: typed practice text is sent to AI providers to evaluate and personalize learning (details in Privacy Policy §5). Teach your child not to type addresses, phone numbers, or other private details into practice sessions.
5. Consent for under-13s (how it works here)
Because a under-13 child uses Skill Up only with your linked parent account, your actions are the consent record: creating/linking the account, accepting the invite or code, and your ongoing ability to review, revoke, and delete. If you believe a child under 13 is using the app without a linked parent, contact us at divit.yadav44@gmail.com (we respond within 30 days) and we will restrict the account until a parent is linked.
What we still need to confirm as owners: there is currently no age screen or date-of-birth check in the app's sign-up flow — enforcement today depends on parents following the under-13 linking rule plus whatever controls exist in our login provider's settings (not verified from code). Closing this gap (an age check at sign-up) is tracked as owner follow-up before this note is published.
6. Practical tips
- Review the weekly insight together — it's designed for that.
- Remind your child that practice text is reviewed by AI and visible to you (and their teacher, for classwork) — it's for learning, not secrets.
- Keep shared links within the family; disable them when no longer needed.
About this document
Drafted from the Skill Up source code as of November 2026. The age-enforcement gap in §5 is the main item needing owner action before publication.