Privacy Policy

Last updated October 1, 2026

Hyde Science Lab is an independent study site made by Hyde parent volunteers for Hyde students. It is not run by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Hyde Middle School or its school district.

This policy covers all of Hyde Science Lab (hydesciencelab.com) and every course on it. Parent volunteer coaches set up teams; students, most of them in middle school, practice on the site. This page explains what we collect, why, and who else handles it. Questions: help@hydesciencelab.com.

The short version

We don't sell personal information, show ads, or use tracking or advertising cookies.
We count page views in anonymous daily totals on our own servers (which page, and whether the visitor was signed out, a student or a coach). Nothing in those counts identifies a person or a device, and visitors who send Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control aren't counted.
Students don't need an email address, phone number or Google account. A coach creates each student's login.
Only Hyde students and coaches have accounts. Students sign in with a username and password their coach gives them.
In courses with written questions, students' written answers are read by an AI grader to score them.
A coach can delete a student, or a whole team, and their data goes with it.

What we collect

Who	What	Why
Coaches and teachers	Name, email address and the teams they run. If you sign in with Google, we receive your name and verified email address from Google, nothing else.	To create and secure your account and run your dashboard.
Students	The first name (and last initial if needed) the coach types, a username and password we generate, the school and team they belong to, and their practice results in each course: answers to drills, quizzes and practice tests, scores, lessons finished, and the times they practiced.	To let them sign in, save their progress, and show their coach how the team is doing.
Written answers	The text a student types in a written question, practice test or assessment, and the grade and feedback returned.	To grade it and let the student and their coach review it.
Everyone	Anonymous daily page view totals (a count per page, per kind of visitor and per broad referrer such as "Google", with no IP address, device ID or name), basic technical logs kept by our hosting provider (such as IP address and browser type), and the sign-in cookie that keeps a signed-in person signed in. Pages also load fonts from Google Fonts, so Google sees the request.	To keep the site running and secure, and to see which pages get used.

We don't ask students for their email address, phone number, home address, photo or exact location.

Who we share it with

We use a few services to run the site. They handle data only to provide their service to us:

Google (Firebase and Google Cloud): hosting, sign-in, and the database where accounts and progress are stored. Google is also the sign-in provider for coaches who choose "Continue with Google".
Resend: sends account emails to coaches (password links and invitations).
Anthropic: the AI service that grades written answers. We send only the question, the grading checklist and the student's answer, with no name, username or school. Anthropic's commercial terms say data sent through its API isn't used to train its models.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it. We never sell the site's data.

Who can see a student's information

A student's results are visible to that student and to the coaches on their team (and the site administrator, for support). Other students and other teams can't see them.

Children

Hyde Science Lab is for Hyde students on teams run by parent volunteer coaches. Students don't sign themselves up: a coach creates their account, and only that adult decides who joins their team. By adding a student, the coach confirms they are authorized to do so for their team, including, where the law requires it, on behalf of the school or with parents' permission. We collect only what the site needs to work, as listed above, and use it only to provide the site.

Parents can ask the coach or email help@hydesciencelab.com to see, correct or delete their child's information, and we will remove it. We don't knowingly create accounts for anyone directly under 13 without a teacher or coach setting them up, and if we learn one exists without that, we'll delete it.

How long we keep it

We keep an account's data while the account is active. A coach can remove a student (which deletes the student's login, results and written answers) or delete a team (which deletes all of its students and records) from the dashboard at any time. A coach can ask us to delete their own account by emailing us. Backups and logs age out on the providers' normal schedules.

Security

Data is sent over HTTPS and stored with Google Cloud. Access is limited by account role, so students, coaches and the administrator can see only what their role allows. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable steps to protect what we hold.

Your choices

Coaches can sign in with a password or with Google, and can change their name or connect Google from the account menu.
To see, correct or delete information, ask your coach, or email help@hydesciencelab.com from the address on the account.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll update the date above and tell coaches by email.