Last updated November 12, 2026
Your homeschool is your family's business. RubyLou keeps only what it needs to plan your days and hold your records. We never sell it, never use it for advertising, and never use it to train AI.
This page describes what the app does today. When something changes, this page changes first.
About you: your name and email address, and a password, or your Google account if you choose Continue with Google. Your password is stored only in scrambled form, so no one at RubyLou can read it.
About your household: your state and 5-digit zip code, your time zone, how your family learns at home, your answers during setup, and the agreement you accept at setup.
About each child:
The records you keep: hours with your notes, checks and test results, work-sample titles and notes, lesson notes and week notes.
What we don't collect: full birth dates, photos or files you upload, a child's email address, or payment details. Children never have their own accounts. You, the parent, enter everything.
If you arrive from one of our links, like the QR code on a state checklist, we note which one, so we know which of our guides help families find us. It's never shared and never used for ads.
We never sell your information, share it with advertisers, or give it to anyone else to market to you.
Each one receives only what its job needs, and none may use your information for anything else. Write to us for the current list of companies.
RubyLou's free plan, Seed, sends nothing you enter to any AI service. When Bloom opens, this page will say exactly what it sends, and how children's names are kept out of it.
We never use the information you enter to train AI.
There are no ads, trackers or analytics tools inside the signed-in app.
Google Analytics runs only on our public website, described below, never inside the app.
We don't run reports on families' records. If we start looking at how RubyLou is used, we'll see totals only, never one family, and learning supports will never be counted. This page will say how before it starts.
The app uses a few cookies of its own, only to work:
There are no advertising cookies.
Our website, learnwithrubylou.com, is separate from the app. Nothing you enter on it goes into your RubyLou account.
Kaitlin, RubyLou's founder, reads every message sent to hello@learnwithrubylou.com and writes or approves every reply herself.
She uses an AI assistant, set so your messages are never used to train it, to help sort messages and draft replies.
Your records stay until you delete them. Nothing is deleted on a timer, so the records your state asks you to keep are there when you need them.
Export my records gives you a copy of your hours, checks, test results, work samples, lesson notes and week notes, labeled by child's name. It doesn't yet include birth months, grades, interests, learning supports or your setup answers.
Delete my data removes your account and everything in it from RubyLou's database right away. This can't be undone, so export first if you want a copy. Backups, our providers' logs and error reports clear on their own schedules.
If we ever change this page in a way that gives your information less protection, we'll email you at least 60 days before the change takes effect. Smaller changes, like a clearer sentence, update the date at the top.
Write to hello@learnwithrubylou.com. For how we keep RubyLou secure, see Security.
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