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Comment by krisives | Hacker News Reader

Full disclosure: I work for a company called DnsLearning (although we are rebranding to StudyCity)

Our system is simple, you point your child's device at a DNS server then add various accounts to supported educational sites like Khan Academy, Duolingo, Prodigy Math, etc. Our server detects when your child earns points on these platforms and disables access to non-educational (junk) sites until they earn X points to unlock Y time. Most of our user-base has noticed their kids now fully understand the value of their time instead of being stuck in a zombie-like YouTube spell of watching 5 hours of minecraft videos recommended next.

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That is so cool! Love that idea...help parents to parent by teaching kids how to use things in moderation

I'd rather see this implemented in a way that didn't involve a third party collecting data about children.

We allow customers to decide how long their data is retained

Your company doesn't appear to have a privacy policy or anything similar on the website, assuming that site is at dnslearning.org. How are you monetizing this? What kind of data are you collecting, and what are you doing with it?

Just add /privacy to the url.

I can't include the full url here because my posts don't show up. I assume because I posted about it too much or some vast right/left wing conspiracy against my startup :)

That privacy policy tells me absolutely nothing about the data your service collects from the people who use it, and very little about anything else either for that matter.

It's also incomplete. No offense, but it honestly looks like someone tried to copy and paste a privacy policy from somewhere else, but didn't get the whole thing. It ends at "Security", with nothing beneath - not that any of what was above provided much information to begin with.

Good points, we will make it more clear. Feel free to email us to discuss in detail. I see from your comment history your concern about privacy and don't want to lose a user because of a misunderstanding about our intentions.

Note here is a post from way back when I asked if anyone did what I wanted for my child.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9299697

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