Privacy policy

Who we are

MD Space LLC (“we”) operates MD Space STEM at mdspacestem.com. We are based in Dallas, Texas. You can reach us at support@mdspacestem.com.

Notice to parents about children’s information (COPPA)

Our programs are for children aged 9 to 14. We follow the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). A child cannot sign up alone: a parent or legal guardian creates the child’s account, agrees to this policy, and verifies that consent when they pay for a program with a card.

What we collect about a child

• First name, a username, a password (stored only in scrambled form) and year of birth.
• Learning activity: which lessons were watched or played, quiz answers and scores.
• The final project: what the child writes, any files they upload (images, PDFs or videos up to 25 MB each) or a link they add, and the instructor’s review.
• The name the parent chooses to print on the certificate.

We do not ask children for an email address, phone number, home address, photo or location. Children cannot chat, comment or post anything that other people can see, and there is no public profile.

How we use it

Only to run the program: to let the child sign in, keep their place, open lessons in order, score quizzes, let an instructor review the final project, show progress to the parent, and issue the certificate. We do not use children’s information for advertising, and we do not build profiles of children.

Who can see it

• The child’s parent or guardian, in their report card.
• Our instructors, to review the final project.
• Companies that host and run the site for us, under contracts that let them use the information only to provide their service: Vercel (website hosting), Neon (database), Cloudflare (file storage and domain).

A certificate has an ID that anyone can check at mdspacestem.com/verify. The check shows the name the parent chose, the program and the date. We do not sell, rent or share children’s information with anyone else, except if the law requires it.

Your rights as a parent

At any time you can ask us to show you the information we have about your child, delete it, or stop collecting it. Deleting it closes the child’s account. Write to support@mdspacestem.com from the email address on your parent account; we answer within 5 business days and complete requests within 30 days.

Information about parents

• Your name, email address and password (stored only in scrambled form).
• When you add a child: the date of your consent, and the internet address and browser you used, as a record of it.
• When you buy a program: what you bought, the price and the date. Card details go straight to Stripe, our payment processor; we never see or store your card number. Stripe handles them under its own privacy policy.

Cookies and measurement

We use one cookie to keep you signed in. On our public pages and parent pages we may count visits with a privacy-friendly tool that uses no cookies and does not identify you. We never measure student pages, and we have no advertising trackers anywhere on the site.

How we protect information

Every connection to the site is encrypted. Passwords are stored only in scrambled form. Lesson files and student uploads sit in private storage and open only through short-lived links given to people who may see them.

How long we keep it

We keep a child’s information while their account is open and delete it when a parent asks us to. Payment records are kept as long as tax and accounting law requires, without the child’s learning information.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use children’s information, we will ask parents for consent again before it applies.

Contact

MD Space LLC, Dallas, Texas. Email support@mdspacestem.com.