Curie
Children's Privacy Notice
This notice explains, for parents and for children, how Curie handles a child's information. Version 2026-08-20 (last updated 20 August 2026).
For parents and guardians
A child can only use Curie through a profile created by an adult account holder, who confirms they are the child's parent or legal guardian and consents to this notice, to Curie's Privacy Notice, and to the Notice to Parents & Parental Permission on the child's behalf.
Curie collects only what is needed to run a child's profile: a first name or nickname (a full legal name is never required), an age or age band, chosen interests and subjects, an optional avatar, an optional 4-digit PIN (stored as a salted hash plus a separately encrypted, parent-recoverable copy — never in plain text), and — only if the adult switches it on — saved question history and voice audio processed during a spoken conversation. See the main Privacy Notice for the full list of processors and how information flows to them.
Curie does not knowingly collect more personal information from a child than is needed for the service to function, does not require a child to disclose more information than is necessary to use a feature, and does not condition a child's participation on providing unnecessary personal information. Curie does not ask a child for their email address, phone number, home address, school name, precise location, or photos of themselves.
Curie does not sell a child's personal information, does not use it for behavioural advertising or marketing profiling, does not create a public profile for a child, and does not email a child directly (all account and billing email goes to the adult).
A parent can access, correct, export or delete a child's information, turn voice or history off, and revoke previously given optional permissions, at any time from the Parent area. You can also contact us at support@curie-ai.co. See Contact & Data Requests for what to include so we can verify the request comes from the account holder.
Gentle parent awareness alerts (see AI & Safety) are a conservative, sometimes-wrong signal for a parent's attention — never a diagnosis or clinical assessment, and never shared outside the account.
For you, if you're the one using Curie
Hi! Here's the honest, straightforward version of this page, just for you.
- Curie is a computer program, not a person. A grown-up set up your Curie profile, and they can see and change your settings any time.
- When you ask Curie something, your question — and, if you're using voice, your spoken words — is sent to Curie's systems, and sometimes to another company that helps Curie come up with a good answer or read it out loud. That's how Curie gets a reply back to you.
- Curie tries hard to give true, kind, age-right answers, but it's a computer program — it can still get things wrong, so it's always okay to double-check with a grown-up.
- If a grown-up has turned "history" on, Curie saves a record of your past questions (not Curie's answers) so you can look back at what you've asked. If it's off, Curie doesn't add your question to that saved list — but the question or your spoken words still have to be sent off to get an answer, the same as always.
- Curie will never ask you for things like your home address, your school's name, your phone number, or photos of yourself — you don't need to share those to use Curie.
- If anything you see or read on Curie ever confuses, worries or upsets you, or if a question you ask brings up something serious, the best thing to do is go and tell a grown-up you trust straight away — a parent, carer or teacher, not Curie.
Note on US and UK children's privacy law
Curie is built with the intent of complying with the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the UK's Age Appropriate Design Code (the "Children's Code"). This notice is a good-faith description of our current practices; it is not a certification, seal or endorsement from any regulator, and Curie makes no claim of formal COPPA or Children's Code certification, approval or review by the FTC, the ICO, Apple, or anyone else.