Privacy

Brainy Noodle (brainynoodle.com) makes printable math worksheets for kindergarten to grade 6. Questions about this page, or about anything we hold, go to info@brainynoodle.com.

The options you pick (the worksheet, the number of problems, the paper size and so on) are sent to our server, which makes the PDF. A sheet with no name on it is saved by its contents, so the next person who asks for the very same sheet gets it faster. Those saved copies contain only the worksheet.

A student name travels inside the request, never in the web address, so it does not end up in links, browser history or our records. It is printed on the sheet and the reward star, and then it is gone: it is not stored, logged or saved, and a named sheet is never kept.

Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, records each request to our server (the address asked for, the time and technical details of the connection) and keeps those records for up to a week, for security and to fix problems. Your connection's internet address (for the newer kind, the part shared by your home network) is also used, for a minute at a time, to stop any one connection making too many PDFs at once.

We use Google Analytics to learn how the site is used: which pages are visited, which worksheets and options are chosen, the paper size, and whether the worksheet form is working. Google also records the kind of device and browser, and an approximate location (the country and city) that it works out from your internet address. It sets cookies (named _ga) so that a later visit from the same browser counts as the same visitor.

We have set it up to collect as little as it can while still telling us what we need. Its advertising features and Google signals are off, so nothing is used for ads or linked to a Google account. We never send it anything you type, such as a student name. It does not run in the pet game.

If your browser's time zone is in Europe (or is set to plain UTC), we ask first, and Google Analytics does not load until you say yes. Everywhere else it is on unless you turn it off. As a second safeguard, Google sets no analytics cookies for visitors it places in Europe, the UK or Switzerland unless they have said yes, so someone there whose browser reports another time zone is counted only by anonymous, cookie-free signals. Either way you can change your mind in Cookie settings at the bottom of every page. Google explains how it uses this information at policies.google.com.

An account is for a parent or teacher, and it holds your email address and the child profiles you add. A profile is only the name or nickname you give it (it is printed on that child's sheets), with nothing else about the child. You sign in with a code we email you; there is no password. Signing in sets three cookies: one that keeps you signed in (which a web page cannot read), one that only tells our pages someone is signed in, so they can show "Account" without asking our server, and one that remembers this browser has signed in with your address (a scrambled form of it, kept a year), so you can always get a code here even if someone elsewhere keeps asking for yours. We do not record your internet address or browser with your sign-in. Our emails show our owl, a picture loaded from this site; it is the same picture for everyone, and we do not use it to tell whether you opened an email. So that the same address is not sent email after email, we count how often we have emailed it lately (a code a minute at most from one connection and ten an hour in all; an invitation every ten minutes from one account and three emails a day in all), keeping a scrambled form of the address and of who asked (the account, or for a code the internet address asking), never the addresses themselves, and delete each count within two days.

You can share an account with another grown-up, such as a partner. When you invite them, we email the address you type, saying who invited them (your email address), and keep that address with the invitation until they join, decline or it expires after 30 days, or you cancel it. Once they join, each of you can see the other's email address on the account page, and both of you can see and change the child profiles.

Delete account, on the account page, removes your email and sign-in at once and for good. If you are the only grown-up on the account, it also removes every profile and everything that goes with them; if another grown-up shares it, the profiles stay with them.

A message sent with the contact form is emailed to us with what you chose to give: the topic, your message, and your name, email address and a worksheet code if you filled them in. It is kept in our mailbox so we can answer it, and not on the site. We use your email address only to reply.

To keep out automated spam, the form uses Cloudflare Turnstile, which looks at your browser and connection to tell a person from a bot, usually without asking you anything. Cloudflare explains what it collects in its privacy policy. Your connection's internet address is also used, for a minute at a time, to limit how many messages one connection can send.

A few choices are saved in your own browser so you do not have to make them again: your paper size (Letter or A4), whether the reward star prints on the worksheet or the answer key, and your analytics choice. They never leave your device. Clearing your browser's site data removes them. A device that has opened a child's pet also keeps a cookie that says which child's pet it opens (a signed id, not their name), so the pet is there next time, and for ten minutes after a code is scanned, one that says which child is coming in while they tap their pictures.

Brainy Noodle is for parents and teachers to print worksheets for the children they look after. We do not ask children for personal information and do not knowingly collect it. The name printed on a sheet is whatever the grown-up types, and it is not kept.

Each child profile has a pet in our pet game, which is still being built. We keep the pet's state (its name, what it has eaten, its coins and stickers) with the profile, and it goes when the profile goes. A worksheet printed for one of your child profiles carries a coin code for that pet. If you turn on secret pictures for a child, their pet asks for three pictures they choose on any new phone or tablet. We keep them encrypted, so that the grown-ups on the account can see them (to remind a child who forgets) and can choose to print them on the child's pet card; you can reset them, or turn them off, from your account. A pet card you print carries a code that opens the same pet. For each sheet printed for one of your child profiles, we store which worksheet it was (its grade, topic, title, level, number of problems and the settings it was printed with), when it was printed, when your child checked it in, and, for its coin code, what it is worth and its answer (so the code can be checked). That is how the account page shows how many sheets each child has printed and finished, and lists their recent sheets so you can print one again. Removing the profile removes its sheets. A worksheet printed without a profile carries no code and is not stored.

Turn analytics off in Cookie settings, or block cookies in your browser; the worksheets work the same either way. To ask what we hold, or to have it removed, write to info@brainynoodle.com.

If we change what we collect, we will update this page and the date at the top. See also About and contact.