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Privacy · updated September 2026
What we keep, why, and who can see it.
GameCoder is where kids make their own games with an AI helper, mostly at school. This page explains in plain words what we keep, what we do with it, who can see it, and the choices you have.
Privacy
The short version
- Kids' games start private.
- Kids can't message anyone on GameCoder.
- No ads, and we never sell anyone's information.
- We don't use kids' work to train AI models.
What we keep
Only what GameCoder needs to work and to keep kids safe.
Grown-ups' accounts
Kids' accounts
Kids get an account from a teacher's class or from a parent, never on their own and never with an email address. We keep a username, a password (stored securely by our sign-in service), a first and last name if the teacher or kid gave one, and which class they are in.
The games and how they were made
Each game's code and pictures, its saved versions, and the conversation with GameCoder's AI helper: what was typed and what the helper changed. We keep it so kids, and their teacher, can look back at how a game was built.
Safety reports
If someone types something that sounds like they might be hurt or in danger, the AI helper answers with a kind message and help lines, and we keep a safety report: what they typed, when, where, and which account and class it came from. GameCoder's administrator gets an email that it happened, without the words, and can read the message after signing in. Nobody else is told: not teachers, parents or other students. Safety reports are kept for 90 days, then deleted.
Records that keep things running
When the AI helper was used, which model answered and roughly what it cost (for usage limits), plus ordinary server logs such as IP address, browser and times. A support request keeps the name, email and message you send us.
How we use it
What it's for
- To run GameCoder: signing in, saving, building and sharing games.
- To keep kids safe: safety checks on what kids type, a safety report to GameCoder's administrator when a message sounds like someone might be hurt or in danger, and teacher and admin review of shared games.
- To keep things fair: usage limits on AI use, and stopping misuse.
- To fix problems and make GameCoder build better games.
- To answer you when you ask for help.
Never
What we never do
- We never sell anyone's information.
- There are no ads on GameCoder, and no ad trackers.
- We don't use kids' work to train AI models.
The AI helper, and the companies that help us
When someone asks GameCoder's AI helper to make or change a game, what they typed and the game's code are sent to an AI model provider (such as Google, OpenAI, DeepSeek or Cerebras), through Vercel's AI Gateway, to produce the answer. Before a kid's idea or change is built, an AI safety check reads it: TypeSafe AI's model, with OpenAI double-checking anything that sounds like a kid might be in danger. We ask the safety check not to keep what it reads. Vercel hosts GameCoder, Supabase stores its data and runs sign-in, and Resend sends its emails.
Who can see a kid's game
Who can see a kid's work
- The kid who made it.
- Their teacher, for games in the teacher's class, including a game the kid deleted, for 90 days after they delete it.
- Their classmates, if the kid shares the game with their class.
- Signed-in GameCoder students and teachers, if the kid publishes it to the Student Library. People who aren't signed in can't open it.
- GameCoder staff, only to run the service, fix problems, keep kids safe, and improve how GameCoder builds games.
Grown-ups trying GameCoder
Grown-ups' own games stay private
If you join to try GameCoder on your own rather than as a teacher, the games you make stay private to you. They never appear in a class, the Student Library or its search, and kids can't open them.
Deleting
Deleting a game, or everything
When a kid deletes a game, it disappears from everyone at once and comes down from anywhere it was shared. Their teacher can still look at it, read-only, for 90 days; after that nobody can open it in GameCoder. A parent, guardian or school can ask us to erase a kid's account and everything in it, and a grown-up can ask us to erase their own.
Questions
Ask us anything
To ask a question, get a copy of your information, or ask us to erase it, send a support request; you'll get a reference to follow up with. We'll update this page as GameCoder changes, and the date at the top says when it last did.