Schools trust us with their staff, their students and their time. This page answers the questions school leaders and IT teams ask before signing up, in plain English. The legal version lives in our Privacy Policy.
The platform is operated by teachers, school leaders and parents. Students do not need accounts to take part in a School of Play lesson: the teacher logs in, the class plays. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and nothing on the platform asks a student to sign up.
Everyone who delivers School of Play sessions in schools, from keynotes to FunShops to student workshops, holds a current Working With Children Check. If your school or department needs verification details before an event, ask and we will provide them.
A member account is a name, an email address and a school. Payments are processed by Stripe; card numbers never touch our servers. Site analytics are cookieless and aggregate (Plausible), and we load no advertising trackers by default. We do not sell data, full stop.
Where the platform invites contributions, like feedback notes, photos or videos on the Play Wall, every submission is held privately until a member of our team reviews and approves it. Contributors choose at the point of submission whether their note may be shared publicly, and anything involving students is only ever shared with that consent and our review. You can ask us to remove any published item at any time.
We deliberately keep the list short. Each provider receives only what it needs to do its job:
| Provider | What it does |
|---|---|
| Vercel | Website hosting and content delivery |
| Memberstack | Member accounts and login |
| Stripe | Payments (card details never touch our servers) |
| MailerLite / Resend | Email you have asked to receive |
| Plausible | Privacy-friendly, cookieless site analytics |
| Anthropic | AI lesson tools (content of your request only, not member records) |
Members can delete their account and its data from account settings, or by emailing us. Schools leaving the platform can request deletion of all associated member accounts and contributed content, and we will confirm in writing when it is done.
If your IT team, privacy officer or department has a security questionnaire, send it through: hello@theschoolofplay.co. We would rather answer twenty questions before you sign than one incident report after.
