Privacy policy

Last updated October 3, 2026

Yorewind is a history course for kids, taught by voice. Many of our listeners are under 13. So we collect as little as we can, we never sell it, and we never show ads. This page explains what we collect, why, and how long we keep it.

The short version

Kids don't make accounts, and we never ask them for their name, address, school, or anything else that identifies them.
When your child talks to the guide or to someone from history, their voice is turned into text so the AI can answer. We don't record or keep the audio.
If you give us your email, we use it only to tell you about Yorewind. You can ask us to delete it any time.
We don't sell data, share it for ads, or let anyone train AI models on your child's words.

What we collect

Your child's voice, during a talk.The free lessons and the “Talk to someone from history” tool use the microphone. The sound goes to our voice provider, ElevenLabs, which turns it into text and speaks the answer. The audio is not recorded. ElevenLabs keeps the text of the conversation for 30 days, then deletes it. We tell the AI never to ask for personal information and never to repeat it if a child shares it.

Answers to the stamp check.At the end of a lesson, the text of the child's answers goes to an AI model (Anthropic's Claude, through Vercel) to check whether they explained the big idea. We don't store those answers.

A random browser ID.To give each browser one free talk a day, we set a cookie with a random ID that isn't tied to any person. We also count talks per home network using a scrambled (hashed) version of the IP address. We never store the address itself. Both are deleted after 7 days.

A parent's email, if you give it.After a free talk, a grown-up can leave an email and, if they like, their child's grade. We keep these until you ask us to delete them.

Usage counts.We count page visits and a few events, like a talk starting, with Vercel Web Analytics. It doesn't use cookies or track anyone across sites.

A setting on your device. The lesson player remembers whether you turned captions off. That stays in your browser and never reaches us.

Children under 13

We built Yorewind so kids can use it without giving us personal information. The voice in a talk is used only to understand what the child says, the way typing would be, and it isn't kept. The browser ID only keeps the free tool fair and safe. Only a grown-up should give us an email.

If you think your child shared personal information during a talk, email us at privacy@yorewind.comand we'll have it deleted.

Who helps us run Yorewind

ElevenLabs: the voices, and turning speech into text.
Anthropic, through the Vercel AI Gateway: the AI that writes answers and checks stamps. API data isn't used to train their models.
Supabase: our database (free-talk counts and parents' emails) and our audio files.
Vercel: hosting and usage counts.

They process data only to run Yorewind for us.

Limits on the free tool

Each browser gets one free talk a day, up to 4 minutes. The people you hear are AI voices playing figures from history. They can get things wrong.

Your choices

To see, fix, or delete anything we have about you or your child, email privacy@yorewind.com.
To clear the browser ID, clear this site's cookies in your browser.
Every email we send has a way to stop more.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use information we already have, we'll ask first.

Contact

Questions about privacy: privacy@yorewind.com.