Privacy & Data Policy
Effective September 2026
Spot On! is a collection of visual-perception games — alignment, spacing, balance and formatting — used in Computer Science classes in Sumner County Schools. It was created, and is run, by Jake Wilson, a Sumner County Schools Computer Science teacher. This page explains what information Spot On! keeps about students, why, who can see it, how long it is kept, and how a parent or guardian can review it or have it deleted.
- Spot On! keeps very little: the initials a student chooses, their game scores, and — privately — their school email address, so the teacher knows whose scores are whose.
- No advertising. No data mining. No selling. Student information is never sold, rented, used for marketing, or used to build profiles.
- Leaderboards show only initials and scores. Only the site administrator can see a student's email address.
- After two years without play, a student's email is deleted and their scores become anonymous. Any student's information is deleted sooner on request.
Children's privacy (COPPA)
Many Spot On! players are under 13, so it is covered by the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This page is Spot On!'s notice under that law. Spot On! is used as part of classroom instruction with the approval of the school. Under COPPA, a school may consent on parents' behalf to an educational service that is used only for school purposes and never for commercial purposes; Spot On! is used only for the class, and the school provides that consent. Parents and guardians keep the rights described under Parents' and guardians' rights, below.
Tennessee's Student Online Personal Protection Act also applies, to students of every age. Spot On! follows it: no targeted advertising, no profiles built for non-school purposes, no sale of student information, reasonable security, and deletion when the school asks.
What we keep, and why
| Information | Why it is needed |
|---|---|
| Initials the student chooses (one to three letters) | To show the student's scores on the leaderboards |
| Game scores, which game, when the score was saved, and simple game statistics (such as rounds played) | For the leaderboards |
| An account ID (a random identifier created at sign-in) | To connect a student's scores to their account |
| School email address, from the student's school Google account, and the date they last saved a score — kept in a private record | So the teacher can tell whose scores are whose, and so old records can be removed on time |
Spot On! does not keep students' names or photos in its database, and does not collect home addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, audio or video, location, student ID numbers, or any health, disability or demographic information. Students never create a password on Spot On!.
Students sign in with their school Google account. Google's sign-in service, which Spot On! uses through Firebase, keeps its own sign-in record for each account, which includes the name, email and profile photo from the Google account. Spot On! does not copy the name or photo into its records, and does not show them to anyone else; a signed-in student sees their own name and photo in the corner of the game screen.
How information is used
Student information is used only to run the games for the class: to save scores and show the leaderboards. It is not used for advertising, is not analysed or "mined" for any other purpose, is not sold or rented, and is not shared with anyone for marketing. Spot On! uses no analytics or tracking services.
Who can see it
- Anyone who visits Spot On! can see the leaderboards: each score's initials, game and score. The information sent to their browser also includes the random account ID, which means nothing outside Spot On!. Leaderboards never include an email, a name or a photo.
- The site administrator can see everything, including which email address goes with which scores, in order to run the site.
- Nobody else can see a student's email address — not other students, and not other visitors.
These limits are enforced on Google's servers for every request, not just in the website, so they cannot be bypassed from a browser.
Other companies involved
| Service | What it receives | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Google Firebase (Google LLC) | The information described above, and the game pictures | Storing it securely, and signing students in with their school accounts |
| GitHub Pages (GitHub, Inc.) | The standard information any website receives when a page loads | Serving the website's pages |
These services are used only to run Spot On!. None of them receives student information for advertising. Spot On!'s fonts and page styles are served from Spot On! itself, so no other company is contacted when a page loads. Spot On!'s database is located in the United States.
Cookies and browser storage
Spot On! uses no advertising or tracking cookies. To keep a student signed in, Google's sign-in service stores a token in the browser. Spot On! saves nothing else in the browser.
Students who don't sign in
Anyone can play the games without signing in. Nothing about a player who hasn't signed in is saved; their scores are simply not recorded.
How long information is kept
A student's records are kept while they are playing. Once a student has not saved a score for 24 months, their email record is deleted and their scores become anonymous: the initials and scores stay on the leaderboards, but are no longer connected to any account or person. Sign-in accounts that have not been used for 24 months are deleted as well. These checks are done every quarter by the site administrator.
Computer Science is taught in nine-week rotations, so a student can go more than a year between one grade's class and the next; 24 months keeps a returning student's scores connected to them, while the records of students who have left are cleared.
Parents' and guardians' rights
A parent or guardian may at any time:
- review the information Spot On! holds about their child;
- ask for it to be deleted — all of it, including their child's scores and initials; and
- ask that no further information be collected from their child. Their child's sign-in account is then switched off: they can still play, but nothing is saved.
To make a request, email privacy@misterwilson.org, call (615) 379-7226, write to Jake Wilson, 4501 Charlotte Ave, PO Box 90096, Nashville, TN 37209, or contact your child's school. So that a child's information is only ever given to their own parent or guardian, we confirm the request through the school before acting on it. Requests are completed within 30 days.
How it is protected
Every request to the database is checked against security rules, all traffic is encrypted, students sign in with their school Google accounts (Spot On! never sees a password), and only the site administrator's accounts can change game content or see email addresses. The full written security program is published as Spot On!'s security program. If student information were ever accessed by someone who should not have it, the school would be told promptly.
Changes to this policy
If Spot On! ever starts collecting a new kind of information or using it in a new way, this page will be updated first and the school will be told. The date at the top shows when it last changed.
Contact
Questions about this policy, and requests to review or delete a student's information:
- Jake Wilson, operator of Spot On!
- Email: privacy@misterwilson.org
- Phone: (615) 379-7226
- Mail: Jake Wilson, 4501 Charlotte Ave, PO Box 90096, Nashville, TN 37209
- Or contact your child's school.