👪 For grown-ups

What is Oomba Academy?

A free website where kids play web games and build their own by describing them to an AI Builder. No downloads, no purchases, no loot boxes, no in-game money that costs money.

What we keep

Own accounts keep a made-up name, a password (stored scrambled) and what your child does here: the games they make, their chats with the Builder and any pictures or files they add, saves, scores, ratings, favorites, friends, chat messages, a profile photo if they upload one, and settings such as language and theme. Guest play keeps a made-up name, saves, scores, ratings and favorites.

A school account is one your child signs in to with a login card from school. It is made and owned by the school, and keeps the same things plus the student's real name as the school typed it for the class list (only the school's staff and our team see it), their classes, lesson progress, written answers and their teacher's feedback. If your child joins a class with their own account and a class code, the school keeps the same things for that class, including their real name if the teacher types one.

What we never collect

We never ask for an email address, age, home address, location or payment details, and there is nothing to buy. Hidden location data is removed from photos and pictures before they are kept. There are no ads, and no advertising or tracking cookies.

What the AI sees

To make a game, the messages, pictures and files your child gives the Builder are sent to Claude, an AI made by the company Anthropic, which writes the game. Your child's name and username are not sent with them. Profile photos are also sent to Claude to be checked before anyone sees them. Claude reviews games before they can be shared with everyone, and our team checks any it is unsure about. Chats between friends and lesson answers are not sent to the AI.

How long we keep it

We keep an account's data for as long as the account exists. None of it is deleted on a timer yet. A game your child deletes is taken off the site for everyone, but a copy stays on our server.

There is no button yet to delete an account or download its data. To ask for either, a grown-up can contact us. For a school account, ask the school; it can ask us.

Friends and chat

Friends are added only by a 6-character friend code, never by searching names. Chat is text between accepted friends only, filtered for bad language and personal details, rate-limited, and reportable. You can switch chat off on the Me page.

The Builder

The Builder follows fixed kid-safety rules: no gore, no horror jump-scares, no gambling, no real brands or real people, no chat or data collection inside games, no links out. Requests that break the rules are kindly refused.

Languages

Pick a language with the 🌐 button at the top of any page or on the Me page. The Builder answers in that language and writes the words inside new games in it too. The same safety filters check every message, in every language.

Privacy

We keep the Google account's id, email address and school domain while it is connected, to recognise it at sign-in. We never store the Google photo, never show a student's Google name on the game site, and never use the account to read anything else from Google.