How does Ed.ai handle COPPA and students under 13?

Last updated: October 15, 2026

Ed.ai complies with COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) and relies on the school-authorization model: in an educational context, your school can consent on behalf of parents when the service is used only for educational purposes.

How it works

Your school or district authorizes Ed.ai to collect only the student information it needs to run the service: grading, feedback, insights and reteaching activities.
Student data is never used for advertising, never sold, and never used to train AI models. Names, class rosters and other identifiers are masked before student work reaches a language model.
Parents keep the right to review their child’s data, ask for its deletion, and refuse further collection. These requests go through the school, and Ed.ai helps the school answer them.

For middle school teachers

If you teach grades 6–8, some of your students are under 13. You can use Ed.ai with them under your school’s authorization: you don’t need to collect individual parental consent yourself.

If you use Ed.ai on your own, without an agreement between your school and Ed.ai, check with your school administration before you use it with students under 13.

Full details, including our COPPA compliance documentation, are on the Ed.ai Data Privacy Hub. Questions: privacy@ed.ai.