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Privacy.

Plain English first. Then the full version below.

The short version

  1. We collect what’s needed to make Rika work for your child, and nothing else.
  2. We never sell your data, your email, or your child’s work.
  3. We never share with advertisers.
  4. We’re built to comply with COPPA (US children’s privacy) and follow FERPA-aligned practices for any school-shared data.
  5. You can delete everything, any time, from the Settings screen in the app.

If anything below contradicts those five things, the five things win.

The full version

Last updated: June 2026

Who we are

Rika is operated by Airavata LLC, reachable at hello@rikamath.com.

What we collect

  • Account information: your child’s first name or a nickname, grade level, and state (to identify curriculum). You may choose to provide the school district and school name too, but not providing it doesn’t impact how the app works.
  • Math work: handwritten solutions your child writes in the app and the metadata Rika generates from those (timing, stroke data, recognized equations, error types). Scanned worksheet photos are processed on-device to extract questions and are stored locally on the iPad. They are uploaded temporarily for AI evaluation and are not retained on our servers beyond 7 days.
  • Device information: device model, OS version, app version, and crash logs needed to diagnose problems.
  • Usage: which screens are visited, which features are used, errors encountered.

What we do not collect

  • We do not collect location data.
  • We do not access contacts, microphone, or camera (except when you take a worksheet photo, which is processed for the session and not retained beyond what’s needed for the session report).
  • We do not collect any data from devices that are signed out.

How we use it

To run the app: recognize the handwritten math work, generate relevant hints and guidance based on it, assess the work to generate and track development of mathematical mastery and mathematical cognitive profile, generate and email weekly reports and service emails, fix bugs, and improve Rika over time.

How we don’t use it

We do not sell or rent personal data. We do not use your data for advertising. We do not allow third-party trackers from advertising networks.

Children’s privacy (COPPA)

Rika is built for students to use directly. That’s the whole product. A parent creates and manages the account; the student is the day-to-day user. For students under 13, we follow COPPA and obtain verifiable parental consent before any personal information is collected from the child. The parent is the legal account holder, controls what data the child shares, and can review, export, or delete the child’s information at any time by emailing privacy@rikamath.com.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent. If you believe a child under 13 has been signed up without parental consent, email privacy@rikamath.com and we will delete the account.

Data sharing

We share data only with subprocessors who help us run Rika (cloud hosting, email delivery, analytics, AI model providers for handwriting and tutoring). Each subprocessor is bound by contract to use data only on our behalf. A current list of subprocessors is at /privacy/subprocessors.

Data retention

Account data is retained while your account is active. If you cancel or delete your account, we delete account-linked data within 30 days, unless legal obligations require otherwise.

Your rights

You can request access to, correction of, or deletion of your data at any time by emailing privacy@rikamath.com. Residents of California, the EU/UK, and certain other jurisdictions have additional rights under applicable law.

Security

We encrypt data in transit and at rest. We restrict employee access to production data on a need-to-know basis.

Changes

If we materially change this policy, we’ll email account holders at least 30 days before the change takes effect.

Contact

privacy@rikamath.com