What Atlas sends, and what it never sends.
The short version: what Atlas learns about your child is never stored next to their name. And while they are learning, nothing is sent at all.
Atlas syncs a pseudonymous learning record — which skills were practised and how they went — whenever the phone next has a connection. Your child's name is never part of that record.
The answer, in two columns.
| Never travels with what they learn | Sent when there's a connection |
|---|---|
| Your child's name: it lives on the phone and in your account, never in the learning record | Which skills were practised, and how they went |
| Anything they say: no audio is recorded or transmitted | The mastery estimate |
| Anything they type | Which items were shown, and which were got right |
| Photographs: there are none, Atlas does not use the camera | A random ID that is not your child's name |
| The parent report, generated on the phone | Your region, and nothing finer than that |
Does Atlas record my child's voice?
No. Atlas does not record audio, does not transmit it, and does not use the camera. There is nothing typed to travel either: your child taps, drags, traces and chooses, and that is what the engine needs to decide what comes next.
The day Atlas starts listening to a child read aloud, this page will say so before it happens, and will say exactly where that listening is processed.
Nothing is sent during a lesson.
Why does Atlas send anything at all?
We say this plainly rather than pretending we do not want it. A tutor that cannot see where children get stuck cannot get better at un-sticking them, and refusing that signal would make Atlas a worse teacher.
So we take the learning signal — what was practised and how it went, against a random identifier — and we do not take identity.
That is the line, and it does not move: the learning syncs, the person does not.
Does Atlas show ads?
The word we use on purpose.
The record that syncs is pseudonymous: it is tied to a random identifier, not to a person. We use that word instead of the warmer one, because the warmer one would let us imply more than we have earned.
Take the name off a long history of one learner and you have not made it impossible to trace. You have made it harder to trace. That is a real difference and it is worth something, but it is not the same claim, and the person reading this deserves the version that is true. So we name it precisely and handle it as though it still matters. It does.
And the Privacy Policy.
Your child's name does not travel with their results. Their education does travel with them.
One email when Atlas opens. Nothing else.