Privacy
Electron Lab is made by Version2 Apps (version2apps.com). It is built for children, so it is built to know as little about them as it can. This page says exactly what is stored and where.
If you use Electron Lab without an account
Nothing about you leaves your device. Your name (if you type one), your progress, your circuits, programs and robots are kept in your browser’s storage on that device only. Clearing your browser’s site data removes them.
What we count
We count anonymous visits to see how many people use Electron Lab: which page was opened, roughly which country, and the kind of device and browser. This uses no cookies and cannot identify you or follow you to other sites. There are no adverts and no advertising trackers.
If you have an account
Accounts are for parents, and for teachers at schools and robotics centres. They are being introduced gradually. An account stores:
- For the adult: an email address, a name, and a password. The password is stored only in scrambled form; we cannot read it. School accounts also store the school’s name and country.
- For each learner: a first name or nickname, a colour for their avatar, and their progress: missions and challenges finished, quiz scores, and the circuits, programs, projects and robots they have saved.
- For a school learner: also their class, and a four-picture secret they use to sign in. Their teachers can see the secret, so that a lost login card can be reprinted.
We do not ask for a child’s email address, surname, date of birth, photo, address or location, and Electron Lab has no chat or messaging.
Who can see it
- A parent sees the learners in their own family account.
- A teacher sees the learners in their own school: their names, sign-in pictures and progress.
- A school learner sees only their own work.
- Version2 Apps can access stored data when needed to keep the service running or to help you when you ask.
We do not sell or share this information, and we do not use it for advertising.
Where it is kept
Account data is stored with Supabase, a database provider, in the United States (US East). The site itself is served by Vercel. Both act only on our instructions.
Your choices
- See it: on the Account page, “Download a copy” gives you one file with everything saved in your account.
- Delete it: on the Account page, “Delete my account” removes the account, its learners and their progress from our database straight away. Copies in routine backups are overwritten as the backups expire.
- Remove one learner: a parent or teacher can remove a learner, which deletes that learner’s sign-in and progress.
Children
A child never creates an account themselves: a parent or a teacher adds them as a learner. Schools and centres are responsible for having whatever permission their own rules require before adding learners.
Changes and questions
If what we store changes, this page will change first, with a new date at the top. For any question, or to ask us to remove data, get in touch at version2apps.com.