Direct Notice to Parents

FOUR STAR GROUP INC, which operates Rusty — a voice-based learning app for children roughly ages 6–10.

• Their first name or a nickname, so Rusty can talk to them naturally.
• Their age and grade, so lessons are at the right level.
• Their voice, while a session is running, so Rusty can hear their answers and reply out loud.
• What they practice — which activities they did and how they answered structured questions.
• Optional interests and learning preferences, only if you turn personalization on.

A child’s voice is personal information under COPPA, which is why we ask about it explicitly rather than burying it.

• To run the tutoring conversation and the activities inside it.
• To decide what to teach next, based on what your child actually demonstrated.
• To give you plain-language summaries of each session.
• To notice possible safety concerns and alert you.
• To keep the service secure and working.

We do not use your child’s information for advertising of any kind, and we do not sell it.

We use service providers to run Rusty. They may use this information only to provide services to us, under contracts that require them to protect it.

Google (Gemini on Google Cloud) — the AI tutor

Your child’s live speech, their name/age/grade, and (if enabled) their interests are sent to Google so the AI can understand them, speak back, and notice safety concerns. Google states it does not use this content to train its AI models.

Kids Web Services (Epic Games) — verifying you are an adult

KWS receives your email address to run the adult check. It does not receive your child’s information. Rusty never receives the ID, card, or identity details you give KWS.

Supabase — secure hosting and storage

Stores the family account, child profiles, and learning records in the United States.

The complete list is on our Service Providers page.

• No saved recordings of your child’s voice.
• No saved transcripts of what your child said.
• No free-text writing typed by a child.
• No photos, homework images, or camera access.
• No home address, phone number, school name, or precise location.
• No advertising identifiers and no child-facing third-party analytics.

1. 1. Prove you are an adult. Rusty sends you an email from Kids Web Services with a link. You complete the adult check on their secure page. This takes about a minute and Rusty never sees what you enter.
2. 2. Make your choices. Back in the app, you see each permission separately, with nothing pre-checked. You choose each one deliberately.
3. 3. Only then does Rusty ask for your child’s details and create their profile.

You may consent to some things and not others. Personalization and parent summaries are separate choices. If you do not consent to voice, Rusty’s spoken tutoring — the core of the app — will not run.

Nothing about your child is collected. If you do not respond within a reasonable time, we delete the contact information we collected from you for the purpose of seeking your consent, and we delete the incomplete verification record within 30 days.

You can review, correct, export, or delete your child’s information, and withdraw any consent, at any time in Parent Settings → Privacy & Data or by emailing privacy@userusty.com. Withdrawing consent stops the affected processing going forward. See our Contact & Privacy Rights page.

If we make a material change to what we collect or how we use it, we will send you a new direct notice and ask for your consent again.

The complete description of our practices is in our Privacy Policy, and the deletion timetable is on our Child Data Retention page.