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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 24, 2026

1. About Amal School

Amal School is a free online learning platform focused on helping Sudanese children continue their education. We provide Maths and English lessons, interactive Practice activities, progress tracking, and teacher support. We work with families, volunteers, and partner organisations, including teams supporting refugee communities.

This policy explains what personal information we collect, why we use it, and the choices available to children, parents, caregivers, teachers, and volunteers.

2. Information We Collect

Parent and caregiver applications

When a parent or caregiver applies, we may collect:

  • Parent or caregiver name, profession, WhatsApp number, optional email, city, and country
  • Whether the family is of Sudanese descent and whether a child has been affected by the war
  • Information about missed schooling or time out of school
  • The number and ages of eligible children
  • Website, Zoom, and device access information
  • Preferred language and confirmation that the terms were accepted

Volunteer and teacher applications

We may collect a volunteer's name, verified email, WhatsApp number, city and country, educational background, areas of interest, availability, and application status.

Student and account information

We may collect a student's name, grade level, preferred language, account details, enrolled programme or cohort, lesson progress, Practice answers and scores, teacher feedback, and learning activity. We may also process basic technical information needed to keep accounts secure and make the service work, such as device, browser, login, and error information.

Please do not submit home addresses, identity documents, medical records, or other sensitive information unless an authorised Amal School team member has specifically requested it through an appropriate process.

Anonymous platform analytics

We collect limited, cookieless analytics to understand whether the website and learning journey are working. An analytics record may contain the action taken, page path, interface language, a campaign label or referring website domain, lesson or Practice content identifiers, progress milestones, score percentages, broad error categories, and the time of the action. We do not store full referring URLs.

Our anonymous analytics records do not contain names, account IDs, IP addresses, advertising IDs, device fingerprints, Practice answers, or persistent visitor identifiers. Saved account, lesson progress, and Practice attempt records may be aggregated separately to report participation, completion, pass, retry, and return rates without exposing individual learners in the analytics dashboard. These measures are used only by authorised Amal School administrators.

3. How We Use Information

We use information to:

  • Review applications and contact families or volunteers, usually by WhatsApp or email
  • Create and manage accounts and provide Maths and English learning
  • Save lesson progress, mark Practice answers, unlock the next lesson, and support students
  • Help teachers and authorised partner staff understand participation and learning progress
  • Protect children, prevent misuse, investigate technical problems, and keep the platform secure
  • Improve lessons, Practice activities, accessibility, and platform performance
  • Meet safeguarding, legal, and regulatory obligations where they apply

We rely on consent where it is required, on providing the requested service, on legitimate interests such as operating and protecting the platform, and on legal or safeguarding obligations where applicable. Parents and caregivers should supervise young children and provide any consent required by local law.

4. Who We Share Information With

We do not sell personal information and we do not use children's information for behavioural advertising.

Information may be shared only when needed with:

  • Authorised Amal School staff, teachers, and volunteers
  • A child's parent or caregiver
  • Partner organisations supporting the relevant programme or refugee community
  • Service providers that host or operate the platform, including Supabase and Netlify
  • OpenAI when authorised staff use AI tools to help draft lesson or Practice content; generated content should be reviewed before publication
  • WhatsApp, Zoom, or email providers when those services are used for communication or lessons
  • Safeguarding or legal authorities when necessary to protect a child or comply with law

These organisations may process information in other countries. We take reasonable steps to limit access and use appropriate safeguards for international transfers where required.

5. Children's Privacy and Safety

We design Amal School for children and aim to collect only the information needed to provide and improve learning. Children's accounts and programme participation may require parent or caregiver involvement. Student progress is not public, and children should not share passwords or unnecessary personal information in answers or messages.

If we become aware that personal information was collected without appropriate permission, a parent or caregiver can ask us to review or delete it.

6. Retention and Security

We keep information only for as long as it is reasonably needed to run the programme, maintain learning records, handle safeguarding concerns, meet partner commitments, resolve disputes, or comply with law. Retention periods vary by record and programme. We delete or anonymise information when it is no longer needed, subject to backups and legal requirements.

We use access controls, authentication, secure connections, database permissions, and other organisational and technical measures intended to protect information. No online service can guarantee complete security. Please contact us promptly if you believe an account or personal information has been compromised.

7. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live, you or your parent or caregiver may ask us to:

  • Provide a copy of personal information we hold
  • Correct inaccurate or incomplete information
  • Delete information or close an account
  • Restrict or object to certain processing
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
  • Explain a decision or request human review where appropriate

We may need to verify the request and may retain limited information where law, safeguarding, or legitimate educational record-keeping requires it. You may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

8. Cookies, Local Storage, and Analytics

Amal School uses cookies and similar browser storage for sign-in, language preference, lesson progress, offline features, security, and essential platform operation. We do not use them to sell personal information or deliver behavioural advertising to children.

Our aggregate analytics do not set analytics cookies and do not follow a person across websites. Campaign and referral context is held only for the current browser tab so a signup can be attributed to its source; it contains no visitor identifier. Anonymous analytics events are kept for up to 13 months and then deleted. Account and learning records follow the retention approach described in Section 6.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as Amal School and its programmes develop. The date at the top shows the latest revision. We will provide an appropriate notice if a change materially affects how personal information is used.

10. Contact Us

For privacy questions, safeguarding concerns, account requests, or complaints, contact:

Email: admin@amalschool.org