Last Updated: August 18, 2026

Homeschool Advantage is a brand operated by HS Advantage LLC (“HS Advantage,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect through our websites, learning portal, and related services (together, the “Services”), how we use it, when we disclose it, and the rights you have.

Our Services are sold to and intended for use by adults — parents, legal guardians, and other adult educators — who purchase and administer a homeschool curriculum for children in their care. Accounts are created, owned, and controlled by an adult, and the curriculum is intended to be used under that adult’s guidance and supervision. Please read Section 4 carefully.

By purchasing, registering for, or using the Services, you confirm that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.

1. Scope

This Policy applies to personal information we collect through our marketing website, our enrollment and checkout process, our learning portal, and our email and support communications. It does not apply to third-party websites or services we link to, to information you provide directly to a third party such as our payment processor, or to information collected in an employment or contractor context.

2. Information We Collect

A. Information You Provide

• Account information. The email address of the purchasing parent or guardian, and the first name or nickname of the child who will use the curriculum. You may use a nickname or initials; the Services work the same either way.
• Enrollment responses. Answers to a few basic questions asked during enrollment, which we use for marketing and product planning.
• Newsletter signups. If you subscribe to our email list, the name and email address you provide.
• A record, with date and time, of your acceptance of our Terms of Service and this Policy and of any marketing consent you give.
• The contents of messages you send us and the contact details you use to send them.

Please do not include a child’s last name, date of birth, address, photograph, school records, or health information in any free-text field or message. We do not need that information and do not want to receive it.

B. Information Generated Through Use

• Account and learning records. The products you purchase or access, and lesson progress and assessment results recorded within your account and associated with the first name or nickname you supplied.
• Email engagement data. If you receive our marketing email, records of whether a message was delivered, opened, and whether links in it were clicked.
• Device and log data. IP address and the approximate city, state, and country inferred from it; browser, device, and operating system details; language settings; referring URL; pages accessed and times of access; and error and security logs.

We do not collect precise geolocation, such as GPS coordinates, and we do not use biometric identifiers, voice recordings, or camera access.

C. Payment Information

Payments are processed by Stripe, Inc., an independent third-party payment processor. When you proceed to payment you are directed to a secure page hosted by Stripe, and you provide your card details directly to Stripe. HS Advantage does not collect, receive, transmit, or store full card numbers, expiration dates, or security codes.

Stripe provides us with the limited transaction details we need to service your account, including the billing name and email associated with the payment, the card brand and last four digits, the amount and date, reference identifiers, and whether the transaction succeeded. Stripe processes payment data as an independent controller under its own privacy policy, available at https://stripe.com/privacy.

D. Information We Do Not Collect

In the ordinary course of providing the Services we do not request or require:

• A child’s last name, date of birth, home address, telephone number, or email address
• A child’s photograph, video, or voice recording
• Social Security or government identification numbers
• Full payment card numbers or bank account credentials
• Health, biometric, or precise geolocation data
• Persistent identifiers used to build advertising profiles of children

3. How We Use Information

We use personal information to provide and maintain the Services and deliver the materials you purchase; to process transactions, issue receipts, and maintain financial records; to respond to support requests; to send transactional and administrative messages; to send marketing messages where you have consented; for marketing and product planning; to understand aggregate usage of our marketing website so we can improve it; to authenticate users and to detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and unauthorized access; and to comply with legal obligations, enforce our Terms of Service, and establish or defend legal claims.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not use it to make automated decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects.

4. Children’s Privacy (COPPA)

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) governs the online collection of personal information from children under 13. Our practices are as follows.

A. Our Services Are Sold to and Administered by Adults

The Services are marketed to, purchased by, and administered by parents, legal guardians, and adult educators. By registering or purchasing, you represent that you are at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, and that you are the parent or legal guardian of, or are otherwise authorized to act for, any child you enroll.

We do not create separate accounts or login credentials for children. There is one account and it belongs to the adult who created it. Whether a child uses those credentials directly is a decision the account holder makes and controls, and the account holder controls all settings, purchases, and content access at all times. The curriculum is designed to be used under adult guidance and supervision.

B. The Only Child Information We Request Is a First Name, Provided by You

The single item of information about a child that we ask for is a first name or nickname, and it is supplied by the parent or guardian during enrollment. It is never entered by, or solicited from, a child. It is used to personalize materials within your account.

As the curriculum is used, the portal records lesson progress and assessment results so you can follow how your child is doing. These records sit inside your account, are associated only with the first name or nickname you chose, and are used to deliver the curriculum and show you progress. We do not use them to build a profile of your child, we do not use them for advertising, and we do not disclose them except as described in Section 5.

We do not operate analytics, advertising, or other tracking technologies within the learning portal. The portal contains no chat, messaging, public profiles, forums, comment fields, uploads, or other feature through which a child could disclose personal information to us or to other users.

C. Parental Rights

At any time, and without affecting your child’s access to what you have purchased, you may review the information associated with your account, including the first name you provided and the learning records generated through use; correct or change it; request that we delete it; and refuse to permit any further collection or use of it.

Email us at [email protected] from the address associated with your account. We may take reasonable steps to confirm the request comes from the account holder. If deleting information would make it impossible to continue providing the Services, we will tell you before proceeding.

D. If You Believe a Child Has Given Us Information

Contact us at [email protected]. We will review and delete the information from our active systems unless we are required by law to retain it.

E. Student Data Commitments

We sell directly to families and do not contract with schools or districts, so we are not a “school official” under FERPA and do not receive education records from schools. Regardless, we commit that we do not sell student information; do not use it to deliver targeted advertising; do not build a profile of a student for any purpose other than delivering and supporting what you purchased; and do not disclose it except to service providers bound to protect it, or as required by law.

5. How We Disclose Information

We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information. We disclose it only as follows.

Service providers. We engage vendors to perform functions on our behalf, in the following categories: payment processing (Stripe); website hosting, cloud storage, and content delivery; security and protection against automated abuse; email delivery; website analytics (Google Analytics 4); consent management; and professional advisors such as accountants, auditors, insurers, and counsel. These vendors may use the information we provide only to perform services for us, under contractual confidentiality and security obligations, and not for their own purposes. We may change vendors within these categories from time to time; any replacement will be subject to comparable obligations.

Legal and safety. We may disclose information where we believe in good faith that it is required by law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other legal process, or is reasonably necessary to enforce our agreements, investigate suspected fraud or violations, or protect the rights, property, or safety of HS Advantage, our customers, or the public.

Business transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will require the receiving party to honor the commitments in this Policy and will notify you of any material change in how your information is handled.

At your direction. We will disclose information in other ways when you ask us to or agree to it.

6. No Sale, No Sharing, No Targeted Advertising

HS Advantage does not sell personal information, and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended and comparable state privacy laws. We do not use personal information about you or your child to serve targeted advertising, and we do not deploy advertising network pixels or retargeting tags on our sites.

We have not sold or shared personal information for these purposes in the preceding twelve months, and we do not sell or share the personal information of consumers we know to be under 16 years of age.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies that are strictly necessary to authenticate you, keep you signed in, secure enrollment and checkout, and protect against automated abuse; functional technologies that remember preferences such as language and display settings; and analytics technologies that help us measure aggregate traffic and performance on our marketing website. We do not use advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, or cross-site tracking technologies anywhere in the Services, and we do not operate analytics or tracking technologies within the learning portal.

Our analytics provider is Google Analytics 4. You can opt out of Google Analytics on any website by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Consent and controls. Where the law of your location requires consent before non-essential cookies are placed, we present a consent banner and place those cookies only after you agree. You may change or withdraw your choices at any time through the cookie preferences link on our site, and you can block or delete cookies through your browser settings, though blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent sign-in and portal access. Where we receive a Global Privacy Control, Do Not Track, or similar opt-out preference signal from your browser, we honor it as a valid opt-out request and suppress non-essential tracking technologies.

8. Email Communications

Transactional email. While you have an active account or pending transaction, we send administrative messages such as receipts, access instructions, service notices, and policy updates. These are necessary to provide the Services and cannot be opted out of separately from closing your account.

Marketing email. If you consented at enrollment or elsewhere, we send product news and promotional messages. Our email provider records whether messages are delivered, opened, and clicked, and we use that information to understand which messages are useful and to improve them. You may withdraw consent at any time using the unsubscribe link in any marketing email or by emailing [email protected]. We process opt-outs promptly and in any event within ten business days. Withdrawing consent does not affect transactional messages, and we retain a minimal suppression record so we can honor your opt-out.

9. Retention

We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes described in this Policy, then delete or de-identify it. Account information is retained while your account is active and for a reasonable period afterward to permit reactivation and resolve disputes. Transaction and financial records are retained as required by tax, accounting, and audit obligations. Support correspondence is retained for a limited period after the matter closes. Marketing records are retained until you unsubscribe, after which we keep only what is necessary to honor the opt-out. Server, security, and analytics logs are retained on a short rolling basis. We may retain information longer where required by law or necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

10. Security

We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and loss. These include encryption of data in transit, access controls limiting internal access to personnel who need it, use of a PCI-DSS compliant payment processor so that card data never enters our environment, and monitoring for unauthorized or automated access.

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure and we cannot guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for keeping your credentials confidential and for notifying us promptly at [email protected] if you believe your account has been compromised.

11. Artificial Intelligence

We do not submit your account information, your enrollment responses, your child’s first name, or your child’s learning records to third-party artificial intelligence tools, and we do not permit that information to be used to train any third-party AI model. We do not use AI to make automated decisions about you or your child.

12. Your Privacy Rights

If you reside in a state that has enacted a comprehensive consumer privacy law, and to the extent that law applies to us, you may have the following rights:

• Know and access. Confirm whether we process your personal information and obtain the categories and specific pieces we hold, the sources, the purposes, and the categories of recipients.
• Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
• Request deletion, subject to legal, tax, security, and record-keeping exceptions.
• Obtain a copy of certain information in a portable, readily usable format.
• Opt out. Opt out of any sale or sharing of personal information, targeted advertising, or profiling with legal or similarly significant effects. As stated in Section 6, we do not engage in these activities.
• Non-discrimination. We will not deny service, charge a different price, or provide a lower quality of service because you exercised a privacy right.

Regardless of where you live, you may contact us with a privacy question or request and we will consider it. Parents and guardians additionally have the rights described in Section 4.C with respect to a child’s information.

Categories Disclosure

The categories of personal information we have collected in the preceding twelve months are: identifiers; commercial information; internet or other electronic network activity information, including email engagement data; coarse geolocation inferred from IP address; learning records; and other information you voluntarily provide. We collect these from you directly, automatically through your use of the Services, and from our payment processor. We collect and use them for the purposes stated in Section 3 and disclose them only to the categories of recipients stated in Section 5. We do not collect biometric information, precise geolocation, government identifiers, financial account numbers, or the categories of sensitive personal information that carry a right to limit. We do not sell or share any category of personal information, and we do not disclose personal information to third parties for those third parties’ own direct marketing purposes.

Submitting a Request

Email [email protected] with the subject line “Privacy Request.” To protect your information we will verify your identity, usually by confirming the request comes from or can be confirmed through the email address associated with your account. We will respond within the period required by applicable law. An authorized agent may submit a request with written, signed authorization or a valid power of attorney; we may still ask you to verify your identity directly. If we decline to act and the law of your state provides a right to appeal, you may appeal by replying to our response with the subject line “Privacy Appeal,” and if the appeal is denied you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.

13. Users Outside the United States

HS Advantage is based in the United States. The Services are designed, offered, and marketed for families located in the United States, and we do not direct marketing to individuals in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or other jurisdictions outside the United States. Our public content may nevertheless be surfaced internationally through search engines, social platforms, and AI-driven discovery tools we do not control; access to that content from abroad does not mean the Services are offered to you in your country. If you access the Services or contact us from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those of your country, and you consent to that transfer and processing to the extent consent is required.

14. Third-Party Links

The Services may link to third-party sites or resources we do not control. We are not responsible for their privacy practices or content. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party site you visit, particularly before allowing a child to use it.

15. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. We will revise the “Last Updated” date and post the revised Policy on our site. If changes are material we will provide additional notice, such as by email to the address associated with your account or a prominent notice on our site, before they take effect. Continued use of the Services after the effective date of a revised Policy constitutes acceptance of it.

16. Contact Us

• HS Advantage LLC, operator of the Homeschool Advantage brand
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: https://homeschool-advantage.com

If your inquiry concerns a child’s information, please use the subject line “COPPA Request.”