Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 11, 2025

Montessori Activity Finder ("us", "we", or "our") operates the montessoriactivities.com website (the "Service"). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

1. Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected:

a. Household Item Lists (for Activity Generation):

When you use our core feature, you provide a list of household items. This information is sent to our backend service, which utilizes the Gemini-2.0-flash language model, to generate activity suggestions.

• Usage: This data is used solely for the purpose of generating activity suggestions during your current session.
• Storage: We do not permanently store the specific list of items you provide. The information is processed in real-time and is not logged or retained by our direct systems beyond the scope of the immediate request to the language model. The language model provider (Google) may have its own data handling policies for the inputs it processes; we encourage you to review their terms.

b. Email Address (for Newsletter Subscription):

If you choose to subscribe to our newsletter, we will collect your email address.

• Usage: Your email address will be used to send you periodic updates, new activity ideas, and other information related to Montessori Activity Finder.
• Storage: Email addresses are stored securely with our email service provider.
• Consent: We will only collect your email address for newsletter purposes with your explicit consent, provided by submitting the email intake form.

c. Usage Data (Analytics):

We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

• Usage: This data helps us understand how our Service is being used, identify trends, and make improvements to the user experience.
• Anonymization: Where possible, this data is collected in an aggregated and anonymized form.

2. Data Use

Montessori Activity Finder uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service (e.g., generating activities based on your input).
• To notify you about changes to our Service.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so.
• To provide customer support.
• To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service.
• To monitor the usage of our Service.
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.
• To send you newsletters and updates, if you have subscribed.

3. Data Transfer

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Montessori Activity Finder will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

4. Disclosure of Data

Legal Requirements:

Montessori Activity Finder may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• To comply with a legal obligation.
• To protect and defend the rights or property of Montessori Activity Finder.
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service.
• To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public.
• To protect against legal liability.

5. Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

6. Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. This includes the Gemini-2.0-flash language model provided by Google for activity generation and potentially an email marketing platform for newsletters.

7. Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

8. Children's Privacy

Our Service does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 without parental consent. While the activities are designed for children, the use of the website to input data is intended for adults (parents/guardians). If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data without your consent, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

9. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain data protection rights, including:

• The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you.
• The right of rectification.
• The right to object.
• The right of restriction.
• The right to data portability.
• The right to withdraw consent (e.g., for newsletter subscriptions).

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• By email: hello@example.com