1. What COPPA is
COPPA is a U.S. federal law. It applies to operators of websites or online services that are directed to children under 13, and to operators that have actual knowledge they are collecting personal information from a child under 13. COPPA requires those operators to provide notice and to obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13, with limited exceptions.
There is no official “COPPA certification.” This page describes how Kernelie LLC is designed so that we do not collect personal information from children under 13.
2. Kernelie is directed at adults, not children
Kernelie is a family organization tool for parents, legal guardians, and other adult caregivers. You must be at least 18 to create an account (see our Terms of Service). Children cannot create their own Kernelie accounts, post in the community, or use the assistant in their own name.
The public community at /community is parent discussion. It is not a children’s social network.
3. We do not collect personal information from children under 13
We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. We do not ask children to register, we do not market to children, and we do not condition a child’s participation in an activity on the child providing more information than is reasonably necessary — because children are not users of the Service.
If we learn that a child under 13 has created an account or has submitted personal information directly to us, we will delete that account and information as soon as reasonably possible. Please write to support@kernelie.com.
4. Information about children that parents provide
Parents and authorized caregivers may create child profiles and enter information about a child so the family can coordinate. That information is provided by the adult, not by the child. Depending on what you choose to enter, it may include:
- Name, date of birth, grade, and gender.
- Calendar events, assignments, and school-related notes you log.
- Health, sleep, mood, nutrition, growth measurements, and similar logs you enter.
- Academic courses, grades, and extracurricular activities you enter.
- Photos you upload to a profile.
We use this information only to provide the Service to that family: to display records you created, to share them with caregivers you invite, to send notifications you enable, and — if you use Premium AI features — to generate assistant replies, insights, or calendar suggestions from context you already stored. We do not sell children’s information. We do not use it to advertise to children. Details are in the Privacy Policy.
By creating a child profile you confirm you are the parent or legal guardian, or that you have that person’s authority, and you instruct us to store and process that information as described in the Privacy Policy.
5. Sharing and service providers
Child-profile information is visible to the account holder and to caregivers that person invites, to the extent of the access granted. We also use processors listed in the Privacy Policy (for example hosting, authentication, optional AI, analytics, and email) to operate the Service. We do not share children’s information with third parties for their own marketing.
Do not post identifying information about a child in the public community. Community posts are public and may appear in search results.
6. Parental rights and how to exercise them
If you are a parent or legal guardian, you can:
- Review information stored on a child profile by signing in to Kernelie (web or iOS).
- Correct that information in the app at any time.
- Delete a child profile using in-app controls, which removes that profile from the live Service subject to backups and legal holds described in the Privacy Policy.
- Ask us to delete a profile or an account by emailing support@kernelie.com.
- Stop further collection by deleting the profile or account, disconnecting calendars, and not entering new information.
- Refuse further use of a child’s information by requesting deletion; we will complete that request except where we must retain limited records (for example security or legal compliance).
We may need to verify that you are the parent or account holder (typically via the email on the account) before completing a request.
COPPA’s formal “review / revoke consent / delete information collected from the child” rights apply when an operator collects personal information from a child under 13. Because Kernelie collects child information from parents rather than from children, those statutory COPPA consent mechanics are not the basis of our product. We still honor the practical equivalents above because parents control the profiles they create.
7. Direct notice
Operator: Kernelie LLC, available at https://www.kernelie.com and as the Kernelie iOS app.
Types of child-related information: whatever a parent or authorized caregiver chooses to enter on a child profile, as listed in Section 4, plus technical data tied to the adult’s account (see the Privacy Policy).
Purpose: family coordination, record-keeping the parent requests, notifications the parent enables, and optional AI features the parent uses. We do not require a child to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary, because we do not collect from the child.
Contact: Kernelie LLC, support@kernelie.com
8. Other child-privacy laws
Some U.S. states and other countries have additional rules about children’s data (for example age 16 in parts of EU law for certain online consent, or state consumer-privacy laws). Kernelie’s product rule is the same everywhere we operate: accounts are for adults; information about children is provided by those adults. Our Privacy Policy describes access, deletion, and California rights for personal information generally.
9. Changes
We may update this statement when the Service or the law changes. The “Last updated” date at the top of the page will change. Material changes will be notified when required.